It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News
Now in paperback, the hilarious exposé on the media gone awry, from the creator of the wildly popular Fark.com. \ \ Have you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it's the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local six o'clock news ("Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!" Everybody panic!), or the seasonal articles that appear year after year ("Roads will be crowded this holiday season." Thanks, AAA.) It's Not News, It's Fark is Drew...
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Have you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it's the blatant fearmongering on your local six o'clock news ("Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!" Everybody panic!) or the seasonal articles that appear year after year ("Roads will be crowded this holiday season." Thanks, AAA.). It's Not News, It's Fark is Drew Curtis's insightful, uproarious look at the go-to stories mass media uses when there's just not enough hard news to fill a daily paper or television broadcast.Drew identifies eight stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little actual reporting reporters do today. It's Not News, It's Fark exposes the "news" that was never fit to print, and promises to have you laughing along the way. CNN.com A funny book, containing some of the site's greatest hits, but it's also a sharp and well-deserved criticism of the news media—and life in a capitalistic, all-information, all-the-time world.
What Is Fark? 1Media Fearmongering 19Unpaid Placement Masquerading as Actual Article 59Headline Contradicted by Actual Article 97Equal Time for Nutjobs 111The Out-of-Context Celebrity Comment 135Seasonal Articles 157Media Fatigue 195Lesser Media Space Fillers 223Epilogue: What Should Mass Media Be Doing Instead? 251Acknowledgments 267Index 269
\ CNN.comA funny book, containing some of the site's greatest hits, but it's also a sharp and well-deserved criticism of the news media—and life in a capitalistic, all-information, all-the-time world.\ \ \ \ \ PlayboyDrew Curtis knows his crap. In It's Not News, It's Fark, he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and space-filling fluff.\ \ \ Rolling StoneThe undisputed king of weird news online.\ \
