unSpun by Brooks Jackson

unSpun by Brooks Jackson

Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media-once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic-are often too timid or distracted to identify these deceptions.

unSpun is the secret decoder ring for the twenty-first-century world of disinformation. Written by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the founders of the acclaimed website FactCheck.org, unSpun reveals the secrets of separating facts from disinformation, such as:

- the warning signs of spin, hype, and bogus news
- common tricks used to deceive us
- how to find trustworthy and objective sources of information

Telling fact from fiction shouldn't be a difficult task. With this book and a healthy dose of skepticism, anyone can cut through the haze of biased media reportage to be a savvier consumer and a better-informed citizen.

Read this book and you will not go unarmed into the political wars ahead of us. Jackson and Jamieson equip us to be our own truth squad, and that just might be the salvation of democracy.
-Bill Moyers

THE DEFINITIVE B.S. DETECTOR-AN ABSOLUTELY INVALUABLE GUIDEBOK.
-Mark Shields, syndicated columnist and political analyst, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

unSpun is an essential guide to cutting through the political fog. Just in time for the 2008 campaign, Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson have written a citizen's guide to avoiding the malarkey of partisan politics.
-Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent

The Internet may be a wildly effective means of communication and an invaluable source of knowledge, but it has also become a new virtual haven for scammers-financial, political, even personal. Better than anything written before, unSpun shows us how to recognize these scams and protect ourselves from them.
-Craig Newmark, founder and customer service representative, Craigslist.org

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is a communication professor and the dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She's written a number of books, including Presidential Debates, which she co-authored.

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ISBN 13	9781400065660
ISBN 10	1400065666
Title	unSpun
Author	Brooks Jackson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2007-04-24
Number of pages	208
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