It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News - Softcover

Curtis, Drew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592403662 ISBN 13: 9781592403660

Publisher: Avery, 2008

Synopsis

A hilarious exposé on the media gone awry, from the creator of the wildly popular Fark.com.

Have you ever noticed 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 six o’clock news (“Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!” Everybody panic!), or the seasonal articles that appear year after year (“Roads will be crowded this holiday season.” Thanks, AAA.). It’s Not News, It’s Fark is Drew Curtis’s 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. Drew exposes eight stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little reporting is going on in the world of reporters today. 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 along the way.

About this title

About the Author

Drew Curtis was born, raised, and still lives in scenic Lexington, KY, with his wife and two children but has yet to realize his lifelong dream of owning a herd of fainting goats. He spends his evenings playing soccer, drinking beer and bourbon (preferably not mixed together) and honing his culinary skills, which have improved over the past decade and are pretty decent but still nothing to write home about. Since 1999, he has read nearly 2,000 news articles a day, and is interviewed nationwide several times a week on radio, TV and in print.

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: Avery
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1592403662
• ISBN 13: 9781592403660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288