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Synopsis
Why has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they've been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin and propaganda seem to work so well? True Enough explores leading controversies of national politics, foreign affairs, science, and business, explaining how Americans have begun to organize themselves into echo chambers that harbor diametrically different facts-not merely opinions-from those of the larger culture.
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* In 2005, Stephen Colbert catapulted the word "truthiness"--the quality of an idea "feeling" true without any backup evidence--into the public consciousness. Salon blogger Manjoo expands upon this concept in his perceptive analysis of the status of truth in the digital age, critiquing a Rashomon-like world in which competing versions of truth vie for our attention. Driven by research and study, the book relies on abstract psychological and sociological concepts, such as "selective exposure" and "peripheral processing," though these are fleshed out with examples from American history, politics and media. For example, Manjoo demonstrates how the Swift Boat Veterans' negative campaign derailed John Kerry's 2004 presidential run. He also points out that the sheer quantity of 9/11 imagery has engendered more conspiracy theories, not fewer--demonstrating, he says, the disjunction between truth and proof. Manjoo rounds out his analysis by examining the workings of "partisan news realities," and he points out that the first casualty in these truth wars is a basic human and civic need: trust. Though several of the author's ideas are repetitiously threaded through his narrative, Manjoo has produced an engaging, illustrative look at the dangers of living in an oversaturated media world. (Mar.) (Publishers Weekly, January 28, 2008)
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"The news media are supposed to help us understand the world, and faster, better, more varied commun–ication technologies are supposed to enrich that process of understanding. True Enough explains why things have so often worked in reverse and why Americans no longer disagree just about opinions and political values, but about basic factual realities. This problem of ′truthiness′ is depressingly familiar, but Farhad Manjoo adds useful information and insights about its origins, effects, and possible solutions."
James Fallows, National Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and author of Breaking the News
"Well worth reading. Make no mistake: this is no run–of–the–mill exposé of media bias, but a sophisticated analysis of the ways and means by which lies and distortions do so well in today′s fractured, cynical media world."
Todd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University, and author of The Bulldozer and the Big Tent
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