The founders of FactCheck.org teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation. --Craig Newmark, founder and customer service representative, Craigslist.
Better than anything written before, unSpun shows us how to recognize these scams and protect ourselves from them. --Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent The Internet may be a wildly effective means of communication and an invaluable source of knowledge, but it has also become a new virtual haven for scammers-financial, political, even personal. --Mark Shields, syndicated columnist and political analyst, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer unSpun is an essential guide to cutting through the political fog. detector--an absolutely invaluable guidebook. --Bill Moyers The definitive B.
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Jackson and Jamieson equip us to be our own truth squad, and that just might be the salvation of democracy.
Praise for unSpun Read this book and you will not go unarmed into the political wars ahead of us.
With this book and a healthy dose of skepticism, anyone can cut through the haze of political deception and biased eportage to become a savvier, more responsible citizen.
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 signs of spin - common tricks used to deceive the public - how to find trustworthy and objective sources of information Telling fact from fiction shouldn\'t be a difficult task. unSpun is the secret decoder ring for the twenty-first-century World of disinformation.
The news media is often too intimidated, too partisan, or too overworked to keep up with these deceptions.
Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts.
The founders of FactCheck.org teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation
