Brooke Gladstone

Every week on the public radio show On the Media, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our perceptions of the world. Now, from her front-row perch on the day’s events, Gladstone brings her genius for making insightful, unexpected connections to help us understand what she calls—and what so many of us can acknowledge having—“trouble with reality.” Reality, as she shows us, was never what we thought it was—there is always a bubble, people are always subjective and prey to stereotypes. And that makes reality actually more vulnerable than we ever thought. Enter Donald J. Trump and his team of advisors. For them, as she writes, lying is the point. The more blatant the lie, the easier it is to hijack reality and assert power over the truth. Drawing on writers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Swift, she dissects this strategy, straight out of the authoritarian playbook, and shows how the Trump team mastered it, down to the five types of tweets that Trump uses to distort our notions of what’s real and what’s not. And she offers hope. There is meaningful action, a time-tested treatment for moral panic. And there is also the inevitable reckoning. History tells us we can count on it. Brief and bracing, The Trouble with Reality shows exactly why so many of us didn’t see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity.

A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time

The Trouble with Reality

Josh Neufeld

The cohost of NPR's On the Media narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today. 30,000 first printing.

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media

Brooke Gladstone on the Media

The Influencing Machine

A "mind-opening, thought-provoking and incredibly timely" (Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing) modern classic, updated for the social media age.

Armi di persuasione di massa. Abbiamo i media che ci meritiamo

New York Times Bestseller With a New Afterword “A comic book with zest and brains—one that just might help a reader understand the brave new world.” —The New Yorker A million listeners trust NPR’s Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the complexities of the modern media. Bursting onto the page in vivid comics by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld, this brilliant radio personality guides us through two millennia of media history, debunking the notion that “The Media” is an external force beyond our control and equipping us to be savvy consumers and shapers of the news. An invaluable introduction to how the media works from one of the acknowledged masters of the industry, this tenth anniversary edition brings the story up to date, with new illustrations and an afterword that offers a deep examination of the rise of social media and the public’s responsibility in a time of division and disinformation.

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (Updated Edition)

Pourquoi le chiffre de 50 000 victimes revient-il aussi souvent dans les médias américains ? Les journalistes devraient-ils annoncer leurs intentions de vote ? Internet radicalise-t-il nos opinions ? Ce sont quelques-unes des questions soulevées par Brooke Gladstone, journaliste spécialiste des médias pour la radio publique américaine NPR. Avec l'aide du dessinateur de bande dessinée documentaire Josh Neufeld, elle retrace dans La Machine à influencer l'évolution des médias d'information et des pratiques journalistiques. Des premières dérives de l'information sous l'Empire romain jusqu'aux errements des médias américains au moment de l'entrée en guerre contre l'Irak, Brooke Gladstone s'interroge et livre une grande leçon de journalisme.

Brooke Gladstone

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