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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Preface : a utopia of division -- Beauty contest: press coverage of the 2016 election -- Ten rules of hate -- Church of averageness -- High priests of averageness, on the campaign trail -- More priests: the pollsters -- Invisible primary: or, how we decide elections before you decide them -- How the news media stole from pro wrestling -- How reading the news is like smoking -- Scare tactics: all the folk devils are here -- Media's great factual loophole -- Class taboo -- How we turned the news into sports -- Turn it off -- Scarlet letter club -- Why Russiagate is this generation's WMD -- Appendix 1: Why Rachel Maddow is on the cover of this book -- Appendix 2: An interview with Noam Chomsky. |
| Summary |
Provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, Taibbi reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business. In the Internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a taxonomic survey of American political journalism's dirty tricks. --From publisher description |
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Mass media -- Political aspects. |
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United States. |
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Mass media and public opinion -- United States.
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Mass media and public opinion. |
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Journalism -- Objectivity -- United States.
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Journalism -- Objectivity. |
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Press and politics -- United States.
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Press and politics. |
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Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Journalism -- Political aspects. |
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Polarization (Social sciences) -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Polarization (Social sciences) |
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Political culture -- United States.
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Political culture. |
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Why today's media makes us despise one another |
| ISBN |
9781682198018 (electronic book) |
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1682198014 (electronic book) |
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9781682192597 (electronic book) |
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1682192598 (electronic book) |
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9781682194072 |
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