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The influencing machine : Brooke Gladstone on the media / illustrated by Josh Neufeld ; with additional penciling by Randy Jones and Susann Ferris-Jones.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 170 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780393077797 (hbk.)
  • 0393077799 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.23 22
LOC classification:
  • PN4731 .G53 2011
Contents:
In the beginning -- The American exception -- Existential angst -- Canis journalisticus -- Birds on a wire -- News you can't use -- The great refusal -- Bias -- War -- Objectivity -- Disclosure -- The matrix in me -- The influencing machines -- Um, panic? -- I, robot -- I media.
Summary: The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN4731 .G53 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001182012

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170).

In the beginning -- The American exception -- Existential angst -- Canis journalisticus -- Birds on a wire -- News you can't use -- The great refusal -- Bias -- War -- Objectivity -- Disclosure -- The matrix in me -- The influencing machines -- Um, panic? -- I, robot -- I media.

The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today.

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