unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Language: English
Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
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The founders of FactCheck teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation. Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media is often too intimidated, too partisan, or too overworked to keep up with 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 ,unSpun reveals the secrets of separating facts from disinformation, such as: %u2022 the warning signs of spin %u2022 common tricks used to deceive the public %u2022 how to find trustworthy and objective sources of information Telling fact from fiction shouldn%u2019t be a difficult task. With this book and a healthy dose of skepticism, anyone can cut through the haze of political deception and biased eportage to become a savvier, more responsible citizen. Praise for unSpun %u201CRead 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.%u201D %u2014Bill Moyers %u201CThe definitive B.S. detector%u2014an absolutely invaluable guidebook.%u201D%u2014Mark Shields, syndicated columnist and political analyst, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer %u201CunSpun is an essential guide to cutting through the political fog.%u201D%u2014Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent %u201CThe 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%u2013financial, political, even personal. Better than anything written before, unSpun shows us how to recognize these scams and protect ourselves from them.%u201D%u2014Craig Newmark, founder and customer service representative, Craigslist Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.…
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- Title
- unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
- Author
- Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Book Type
- Ex-Library
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1400065666
- ISBN 13
- 9781400065660
Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media is often too intimidated, too partisan, or too overworked to keep up with 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
- common tricks used to deceive the public
- 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 political deception and biased eportage to become a savvier, more responsible citizen.
Praise for unSpun
"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 guidebook."--Mark Shields, syndicated columnist and political analyst, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
"unSpun is an essential guide to cutting through the political fog."--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
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About the Author
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written more than a dozen books, including Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy and Everything You Think You Know About Politics . . . and Why You're Wrong. Jamieson lives in Philadelphia.
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