- Title:
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News: And How To Use It
- Written by:
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Alan Rusbridger
- Read by:
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Piers Hampton
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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10
- Duration:
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12 hours 25 minutes
- Published:
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December 01 2020
- Available Date:
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December 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655687269
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Current Affairs & Politics
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Canongate audio
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A powerful and profound study of the news - how we read it, who controls it and why it matters – from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger.
Nothing in life works without facts.
A society that isn’t sure what’s true can’t function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates.
People everywhere feel ever more alienated from – and mistrustful of – news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of ‘information chaos’.
News: And How to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from Clickbait to Trolls (and more), here is the definitive user’s guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.
'[Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range … The brilliant Breaking News is essential – and entertaining.'
The Observer
'The book [Rusbridger] has written is eloquent in its argument for well-resourced journalism, and never better than in its central narrative of how an old profession struggled to cope with a new technology that threatened it with obsolescence.'
Guardian