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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.

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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