unSpun
ISBN: 9781400065660 | 1400065666
Format: Trade PaperPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date: 4/24/2007
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Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media-once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic-are often too timid or distracted to identify 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 s... MORE
| Introduction: A World of Spin | p. vii |
| From Snake Oil to Emu Oil | p. 3 |
| A Bridesmaid's Bad Breath: Warning Signs of Trickery | p. 25 |
| "Tall" Coffees and Assault Weapons: Tricks of the Deception Trade | p. 43 |
| UFO Cults and Us: Why We Get Spun | p. 65 |
| Facts Can Save Your Life | p. 83 |
| The Great Crow Fallacy: Finding the Best Evidence | p. 103 |
| Osama, Ollie, and Al: The Interne... MORE | p. 127 |
| Was Clarence Darrow a Creationist?: How to Be Sure | p. 153 |
| Conclusion: Staying unSpun | p. 179 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 186 |
| Index | p. 189 |
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