Drew Curtis It's Not

Curtis, Drew: It's Not News, It's Fark How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News, Gotham 2007 ; fester Einband / hard cover
1592402917

1.1 x 8.35 x 5.75 Inches; 288 pages; <B>From the creator of Fark.com, an exposA© on the media gone awry, revealing the hysterical, often outrageous non-news that passes for newsworthy today</B> <BR><BR> 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!" <I>EVERYBODY PANIC</I>), or the seasonal articles that appear year after year like clockwork ("Roads will be crowded this holiday season." Thanks AAA.). <I>IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S FARK</I> 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? <I>IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S FARK</I> takes a crack at why <BR><BR> 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. <I>IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S FARK</I> 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. Hardcover

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Drew Curtis: It's Not News, it's Fark, STRAIGHTFORWARD GUIDES, August 2007 ISBN: 1592402917
aIt'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 a the typical tack taken by the press-guardian-industrial complex a Curtis puts the onus on readers, insisting that they become better news consumers.a aSlate.com

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Curtis, Drew: IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S FARK: How Mainstream Media Tries To Pass Off Crap As News (H) PUTNAM (cloth) ISBN: 1592402917
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Curtis, Drew: It's Not News, it's Fark How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap As News, 2007 New York Gotham Books ; weicher Einband / soft cover

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