Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Inf
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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Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Inf
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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Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Inf

Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Inf

by John McManus
Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Inf

Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Inf

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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.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940015594010
Publisher: The Unvarnished Press
Publication date: 09/21/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 231
File size: 876 KB

About the Author

A former journalist and communication professor, John H. McManus writes and lectures about changes in news media and their impact on democracy. His 1994 book,"Market-Driven Journalism: Let the Citizen Beware?," won the annual research award from the Society of Professional Journalists. So did his 2009 college textbook, "Detecting Bull: How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalismm in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web."

In 2000, he founded GradeTheNews.org. Using "Consumer Reports" as a model, the project scientifically sampled the most popular newspapers and newscasts in the San Francisco Bay Area and rated them head-to-head on seven yardsticks of journalism quality derived from the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists. Grade the News was funded by the Gerbode, Knight and Ford foundations. It recevied both national and regional awards. "Don't Be Fooled" is based on what was learned during the operation of Grade the News.

John McManus is a graduate of Holy Cross College (BA); the University of Michigan (MA) and Stanford University (PhD).
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