Book Review: Biotechnology, Changing the Way Nature Works

1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 40-40
Author(s):  
Susan (And Bill) Workman
Keyword(s):  
The Way

Book Review: The Way of Jesus

2005 ◽  
Vol 116 (8) ◽  
pp. 281-282
Author(s):  
Andrew Clitherow
Keyword(s):  
The Way

Book Review: Hate, Inc.: Why today's media makes us despise one another by Matt Taibbi

2021 ◽  
pp. 193124312110648
Author(s):  
Philip S. Poe
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Way

Matt Taibbi's “Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise Each Other” (OR Books 2021) might make you angry, but it will make you think. Taibbi's takedown of commercial media, now updated in a post-election edition, offers a striking critique of the news media's slow but steady slide toward polarization “…skewed by a toxic mix of political and financial considerations” (20). Taibbi convincingly argues, using both historical and modern examples along with personal experience, that the press sells people on a simplified worldview where the two political parties are in a constant and perpetual conflict about everything. While Taibbi does offer some advice for independent-minded journalists seeking to navigate the current media landscape, audiences are left with little in the way of solutions, other than to stop reading (and watching) the news.

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