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Issue: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2011
 
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Publisher: FlagW. W. Norton
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Indicia Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/23/2011
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Pages: 192
ISBN: 97803930777970393077799
UPC/EAN: 978039307779752395
Price: $28.00 CAD
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Content Items: 22 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Tom Mayer (editor); Neil Swaab (book design); Anna Oler (production manager)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Two Color
Dimensions: 7.3 " x 9.3 "
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Graphic Novel
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Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): Mark Melnick (cover design)
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone
Synopsis: Title pages, indicia, dedication
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Contents

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Genres: non-fiction
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; James Tilly Matthews; Victor Tausk; Natalija A.; Dorothy Gale (cameo); Toto (cameo); Cowardly Lion (camero); Tin Woodsman (cameo); Scarecrow of Oz (cameo)
Synopsis: Introduction to the concept and themes of the book. Mostly told in comic book panels, interspersed with a few typeset pages with illustrations. Within the introduction are separate stories: "Meet the Author," "Patient Zero," and "The Body Electric."
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In the Beginning

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Julius Caesar (cameo); John Milton (cameo)
Synopsis: The development of journalism and media, going back to the ancient world (Egypt, the Mayans, Greece, and Rome) and then the European Middle Ages.
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The American Exception

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): John Peter Zenger; Andrew Hamilton; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; Samuel Adams; George Washington (cameo)
First Line: In New York, printer John Peter Zenger is charged with seditious libel for publishing criticism of the King's governor.
Synopsis: The development of media in the United States.
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Existential Angst

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Genres: historical, non-fiction, war
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Abraham Lincoln; Woodrow Wilson; Martin Dies; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Joseph Welch; Edward R. Murrow; Lyndon Johnson; Walter Cronkite; Richard Nixon; Daniel Ellsberg; H.R. Haldeman; Ronald Ziegler; Anthony Russo; Justice Hugo Black; Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward; Senator Frank Church; George W. Bush; Barack Obama; Ronald Reagan (cameo); Mikhail Gorbachev (cameo); I.F. Stone (cameo); Thomas Jefferson (cameo)
First Line: "I quit, boys!"
Synopsis: A discussion of the First Amendment as it relates to journalism and the government.
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Canis Journalistic

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Genres: historical, humorous, non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Arthur Schopenhauer (cameo); Henrik Ibsen (cameo); William Butler Yeats (cameo); Bobby Fischer (cameo); Helen Thomas; Albert Camus; H.R. Haldeman; Ronald Reagan (cameo); Anderson Cooper (cameo); Senator Mary Landrieu (cameo); Michael Chertoff (cameo); Oprah Winfrey (cameo); Mayor Ray Nagin (cameo); Jim Caviezel (cameo); Jim Amoss (cameo)
First Line: "Journalists are like dogs -- whenever anything moves they begin to bark.
Synopsis: An overview of the changing performance and reputation of the news media.
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Birds on a Wire

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Bill O'Reilly (cameo); Barry McCaffrey (cameo); Helen Thomas (cameo)
First Line: Right after September 11, 2001, polls saw public trust in the media soar.
Synopsis: A warning to journalists to do their job, regardless of their popularity.
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News You CAN'T Use

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Chris Hansen; Alberto Gonzalez (cameo); Ken Lanning; Carl Bialik; Mark Twain; William Randolph Hearst; Frederic Remington;Lou Dobbs; Lesley Stahl (cameo); Claud Cockburn
First Line: But news consumers complain more about inaccuracy than cowardice.
Synopsis: A discussion of media accuracy, exaggeration, and the age of Yellow Journalism
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The Great Refusal

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; William Butler Yeats; John F. Kennedy (cameo)
First Line: Remember what W.B. Yeats said about journalists?
Synopsis: Discussion of whether journalists should — or need to — pick sides on issues that they cover.
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Bias

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Arthur Sulzberger Jr.; Rush Limbaugh; Andrew Cline; George W. Bush (cameo); Hillary Clinton (cameo); John Kerry (cameo); Barack Obama (cameo); Al Gore (cameo); John McCain; Tim Russert; John Rennie; Charles Darwin (cameo); Michael Crichton (cameo)
First Line: In a 2009 poll, 60% of respondents charged news organizations with bias, up from 45% in 1985.
Synopsis: A look at the various forms of actual bias that news consumers should be aware of: Commercial Bias, Bad News Bias, Status Quo Bias, Access Bias, Visual Bias, Narrative Bias, and Fairness Bias.
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War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: historical, non-fiction, war
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; William Howard Russell; Prince Albert (cameo); William T. Sherman (cameo); Horace Greeley (cameo); George Smalley (cameo); Joe Hooker (cameo); Hiram Johnson (cameo); Woodrow Wilson; George Creel (cameo); George Seldes; Paul von Hindenberg; General Pershing (cameo); Edward R. Murrow; Ernie Pyle; William Laurence; Wilfred Burchett (cameo); George Weller (cameo); John Hersey; Dan Rather (cameo); Morley Safe (cameo)r; Lyndon Johnson (cameo); Frank Stanton (cameo); Walter Cronkite (cameo); Ronald Reagan; Jack Shafer; John Burnett; Michael Herr;
First Line: Every media bias shows up in war reporting, in spades.
Synopsis: The issues confronted by journalists in covering American wars, from the Civil War onwards.
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Objectivity

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; James Gordon Bennett (cameo); Adolph Ochs; Tristan Tzara (cameo); Edward Burnays (cameo); Walter Lippmann; Walter Cronkite; Terry Shrunk (cameo); Senator W.J. Stone; Monica Lewinsky (cameo); Bill Clinton (cameo); Hillary Clinton (cameo); George Will (cameo); Cokie Roberts (cameo); Len Downie (cameo); Michael Kinsley; Ethan Bronner (cameo)
First Line: Objectivity emerges as a selling point in American journalism... when the price of a newspaper drops to a penny.
Synopsis: A discussion of the virtues and dangers of objectivity when it comes to covering the news.
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Disclosure

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Ida Tarbell (cameo); David Weinberger; Jeff Jarvis (cameo); James Poniewozik (cameo);
First Line: Thirty years ago, we didn't have so many options...
Synopsis: A discussion of the concept of transparency and openness in news reporting and analysis.
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The Matrix in Me

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Morpheus (the Matrix); Neo (the Matrix); Brooke Gladstone; Brendan Nyhan; Walt Whitman (cameo); Leon Festinger; Dorothy Martin; Donald Thomson; Sarah Palin (cameo); James Fitzjames Stephen (cameo)
First Line: You can see it when you look out your window... when you turn on your television... when you go to work.
Synopsis: A discussion of how our impulses and reactions are often driven by non-rational instincts.
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The Influencing Machines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Spock; Marx Brothers (cameo); Cass Sunstein (cameo); Nicholas Carr; Newton N. Minow (cameo); Neil Postman; Gutenberg; Barnaby Rich; Tibor Braun; Douglas Adams
First Line: So as we all stand on the mountain — which way do we go?
Synopsis: Discussion of the internet's tendency to create echo chambers, and whether it expands our world view or diminishes it. Also a look into whether our access to more information actually makes us smarter.
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... Um, Panic?

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Sheena Iyengar (cameo); Mark Lepper (cameo); Benjamin Scheibehenne (cameo); Clay Shirky; Lynn Smith-Lovin (cameo); Lee Rainie; Nicholas Carr; Kate Haynes
First Line: But why shouldn't I panic?
Synopsis: Further discussion of the internet's power to connect — or disconnect — people, and the question of information overload.
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I, Robot

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Adam Wilson (cameo); Marshall McLuhan (cameo); George Dyson (cameo); Ray Kurzweil; Jaron Lanier
First Line: On April 1, 2009, biomedical engineer Adam Wilson posted to Twitter by using a cap with sensors that could read his brainwaves.
Synopsis: A look at a possible future where technology is integrated into human biology.
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...I, Media

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Brooke Gladstonek
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Brooke Gladstone; Yochai Benkler (cameo); Robert Wright; Genghis Khan (cameo)
First Line: How can we ensure the our development as moral and social animals keeps pace with our rapidly evolving communications technology?
Synopsis: The book's final chapter considers the implications of an increasingly hi-tech media environment. The book ends with the statement, "We get the media we deserve."
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Acknowledgements

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Synopsis: Gladstone and Neufeld write their acknowledgements.
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Sources

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Synopsis: A chapter-by-chapter listing of sources.
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