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The Influencing Machine, June 2011
Hardcover

THE INFLUENCING MACHINE
By: Brooke Gladstone

Brooke Gladstone on the Media

W. W. Norton & Company
June 2011
On Sale: May 23, 2011
195 pages
ISBN: 0393077799
EAN: 9780393077797
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

A visionary and opinionated work of graphic nonfiction on the media and its discontents.

Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern media. This brilliant radio personality now bursts onto the page as an illustrated character in vivid comics drawn by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld.

The cartoon of Brooke conducts the reader through two millennia of history-from the newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution and the manipulations of contemporary journalism. Gladstone's manifesto debunks the notion that "The Media" is an external force, outside of our control, since we've begun directly constructing, filtering, and responding to what we watch and read.

With fascinating digressions, sobering anecdotes, and brave analytical wit, The Influencing Machine equips us to be smart, savvy, informed consumers and shapers of the media. It shows that we have met the media and it is us. So now what?

Media Buzz

Colbert Report - July 26, 2011
Weekend Edition Sunday - May 22, 2011