TY - BOOK AU - Gladstone,Brooke AU - Neufeld,Josh AU - Jones,Randy AU - Jones,Susann TI - The influencing machine: Brooke Gladstone on the media SN - 9780393077797 (hbk.) AV - PN4731 .G53 2011 U1 - 302.23 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton KW - Gladstone, Brooke KW - Journalism KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - Broadcast journalism KW - Graphic novels N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -