- Paperback: 819 pages
- Publisher: Bedford Books; 4 edition (December 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312397844
- ISBN-13: 978-0312397845
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 19 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #450,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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What the media is up to...., Sep 21 2005
By Oliver C. Loson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers (Paperback)
There is a statement that is familiar amongst our society, especially those of us that are more liberal, and that is "to not always trust what the media offers as valid or true." This textbook is an attempt to characterize the ways that media manipulate or tangle the truth, and even goes as far as offering an explanation as to why they do it. Now this is where objectivity within a learning text can be lost because to offer opinion about why the media does such things is treacherously difficult to do without biasing a left or right view. Yet the book does offer many illuminating details about the workings of this incredibly powerful economic and political tool, and more importantly, it offers the reader tools for combating or deciphering the clouded messages it gives.I believe that this is a book that must be read by every human being (not to mention our pets who more and more become economic targets) so as to arm himself or herself against the incessant onslaught of "buy me! Buy me!" and "I can make you better because God knows you weren't made right!" However, the book loses power in being a textbook because some fluidity is lost, and it can be at times rather bland.
Nonetheless, it is a great tool to have and a tool that has now more recently become important to the human in his newest, superficial society.
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