Product Description:
It's Not News, it's Fark From the creator of Fark, an exposé on the media gone awry, revealing the hysterical, often outrageous non-news that passes for newsworthy today Have you ever found yourself noticing certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps itÂ's the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local 6 oÂ'clock news (Â"Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!Â" EVERY... Full description
Review:
"It's Not News, It's Fark" does more to advance the journalistic art than all the millions spent by the Poynter Institute, the Shorenstein Center, the Nieman Foundation, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the "Columbia Journalism Review" and the "American Journalism Review," the Committee of Concerned Journalists, the various Annenberg outposts, and the Freedom Forum, combined...Instead of urging journalists to raise their standards the typical tack taken by the press-guardian-industrial complex Curtis puts the onus on readers, insisting that they become better news consumers.
"Slate.com"
aA funny book, containing some of the siteas greatest hits, but itas also a sharp and well-deserved criticism of the news mediaaand life in a capitalistic, all-information, all-the-time world.a
aCNN.com
aDrew Curtis knows his crap. In "Itas Not News, Itas Fark," he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and space-filling fluff.a
a"Playboy"
aThe undisputed king of weird news online.a
a"Rolling Stone"
A funny book, containing some of the site s greatest hits, but it s also a sharp and well-deserved criticism of the news media and life in a capitalistic, all-information, all-the-time world.
CNN.com
Drew Curtis knows his crap. In "It s Not News, It s Fark", he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and space-filling fluff.
"Playboy"
The undisputed king of weird news online.
"Rolling Stone"
?A funny book, containing some of the site's greatest hits, but it's also a sharp and well-deserved criticism of the news media?and life in a capitalistic, all-information, all-the-time world.?
?CNN.com
?Drew Curtis knows his crap. In "It's Not News, It's Fark", he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and space-filling fluff.?
?"Playboy"
?The undisputed king of weird news online.?
?"Rolling Stone"
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