Title: Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Information in the Digital Age
Publisher: Unvarnished Press, The
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0615626475
ISBN 13: 9780615626475
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very good

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As professional journalism recedes and anything goes on cable, talk radio and the Web, it's becoming much more difficult to know what to trust. This guide will equip you to become an information detective. With simple, easy-to-remember rules of thumb, you can build your own BS (Bald Sophistry) meter to spot unreliable information conveyed by any source through any medium from face-to-face to FaceBook, Fox to NPR, and Daily Kos to Drudge. Learning to filter the digital deluge has become a necessary life skill because the value of reliable information -- particularly news -- has never been greater. News describes change, and technology is accelerating waves of change through every part of society -- politics, transportation, manufacturing, retail, privacy and personal health, even liberty, from how we learn to how much we earn. What hasn't changed, however, is the power conveyed by knowledge and the danger to self and society caused by ignorance and misinformation. Don't be fooled.

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John H. McManus researches and writes about news and its relationship to democracy. His two previous books about journalism have each won the annual research award from the Society of Professional Journalists in the year of their publication. A former journalist and communication professor, he founded GradeTheNews.org, a "Consumer Reports" style empirical evaluation of the quality of the most popular news media in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his doctorate at Stanford University.

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