It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mainstream Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News - Hardcover

Curtis, Drew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592402917 ISBN 13: 9781592402915

Publisher: Gotham Books, 2007

Synopsis

Have you ever found yourself noticing certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it's the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local 6 o'clock news ( Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day! EVERYBODY PANIC!), or the seasonal articles that appear year after year like clockwork ( Roads will be crowded this holiday season. Thanks AA.). IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S FARK is Drew Curtis' clever examination of the state of the media today and a hilarious look at the go-to stories mass media uses when there's just not enough hard news to fill a newspaper or a news broadcast. Who is to blame for non-news in the media? Is it the media, or the media consumer and their website-clicking habits? Or does the answer lie somewhere in between? IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S FARK takes a crack at why. Drew exposes eight stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little reporting is going on in the world of reporters today. Regardless of whether it's a slow news day, mainstream media still has to deliver. IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S FARK examines all the 'news' that was never fit for print in the first place, and promises to have you laughing (with the media, mind you, not at them...) along the way. Let the hilarity ensue.

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It's Not News, it's Fark From the creator of Fark, an exposé on the media gone awry, revealing the hysterical, often outrageous non-news that passes for newsworthy today Have you ever found yourself noticing certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps itÂ's the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local 6 oÂ'clock news (Â"Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!Â" EVERY... Full description

Review

"It's Not News, It's Fark" does more to advance the journalistic art than all the millions spent by the Poynter Institute, the Shorenstein Center, the Nieman Foundation, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the "Columbia Journalism Review" and the "American Journalism Review," the Committee of Concerned Journalists, the various Annenberg outposts, and the Freedom Forum, combined...Instead of urging journalists to raise their standards the typical tack taken by the press-guardian-industrial complex Curtis puts the onus on readers, insisting that they become better news consumers.
"Slate.com"

aA funny book, containing some of the siteas greatest hits, but itas also a sharp and well-deserved criticism of the news mediaaand life in a capitalistic, all-information, all-the-time world.a
aCNN.com
aDrew Curtis knows his crap. In "Itas Not News, Itas Fark," he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and space-filling fluff.a
a"Playboy"
aThe undisputed king of weird news online.a
a"Rolling Stone"

A funny book, containing some of the site s greatest hits, but it s also a sharp and well-deserved criticism of the news media and life in a capitalistic, all-information, all-the-time world.
CNN.com
Drew Curtis knows his crap. In "It s Not News, It s Fark", he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and space-filling fluff.
"Playboy"
The undisputed king of weird news online.
"Rolling Stone"

?A funny book, containing some of the site's greatest hits, but it's also a sharp and well-deserved criticism of the news media?and life in a capitalistic, all-information, all-the-time world.?
?CNN.com

?Drew Curtis knows his crap. In "It's Not News, It's Fark", he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and space-filling fluff.?
?"Playboy"

?The undisputed king of weird news online.?
?"Rolling Stone"

About this edition

• Publisher: Gotham Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1592402917
• ISBN 13: 9781592402915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288