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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     De Botton, Alain.     Subjects     Journalism -- Social aspects.     Journalism -- Political aspects.     Mass media -- Social aspects.     Mass media -- Political aspects.     News audiences.     Browse Catalog     by author:      De Botton, Alain.       by title:      The news [large type...         MARC Display

The news [large type] : a user's manual / Alain De Botton. by De Botton, Alain. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014. Subjects Journalism -- Social aspects.   Journalism -- Political aspects.   Mass media -- Social aspects.   Mass media -- Political aspects.   News audiences. ISBN:  9781410470058 (large print : hardcover) 1410470059 (large print : hardcover) Series:  Thorndike Press large print peer picks. Description:  305 pages (large print) ; illustrations ; 23 cm. Edition:  Large Print edition. Contents:  Preface -- Politics -- World news -- Economics -- Celebrity -- Disaster -- Consumption -- Conclusion. Requests:  0 Summary:  The news is everywhere. We can't stop constantly checking it on our computes, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton, but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. Here, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories--including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal--and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping us navigate our news-soaked age. He raises such questions as: Why are disaster stories often so uplifting? What makes the love lives of celebrities so interesting? Why do we enjoy watching politicians being brought down? Why are upheavals in far-off lands often so boring? De Botton has written the ultimate guide for our frenzied era, certain to bring calm, understanding and a measure of sanity to our daily (perhaps even hourly) interactions with the news machine.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT 302.23 DE Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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