News and How to Use It - What to Believe in a Fake News World
| Verlag | Canongate Books |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 336 |
| Format | 13,8 x 2,2 x 19,8 cm |
| Print PDF | |
| Gewicht | 237 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781838854430 |
| Bestell-Nr | 83885443UA |
A society that isn't sure what's true can't function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We're barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more?
At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information chaos, News and How to Use It shows us how. From Bias to Snopes, from Clickbait to TL;DR, and from Fact-Checkers to the Lamestream Media, here is a definitive user's guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.
Rezension:
Given that Rusbridger is, in my opinion, one of the two great newspaper editors of the past half-century (the other is the late Harry Evans), anything he writes about the press is going to be worth reading . . . Many of the mini-essays are useful distillations of his experience in, and knowledge of, the industry Guardian