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A society that isn't sure what's true can't function, but
increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe.
We're barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda:
how do we even identify good journalism any more? At a moment of
existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information
chaos, News and How to Use It shows us how. From Bias to Snopes,
from Clickbait to TL;DR, and from Fact-Checkers to the Lamestream
Media, here is a definitive user's guide for how to stay informed,
tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the
modern age.
Nothing in life works without facts. A society that isn't sure
what's true can't function. Without facts there can be no
government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates. People
everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of -
news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what
to believe. We are living through a crisis of 'information chaos'.
News and How to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From
AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from Clickbait to
Trolls (and more), here is the definitive user's guide for how to
stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power
accountable in the modern age.
In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself
an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year,
Chopin's Ballade No. 1 - a piece that inspires dread in many
professional pianists. His timing could have been better. The next
twelve months were to witness the Arab Spring, the Japanese
tsunami, the English riots, and the Guardian's breaking of both
WikiLeaks and the News of the World hacking scandal. In the midst
of this he carved out twenty minutes' practice a day - even if that
meant practising in a Libyan hotel in the middle of a revolution as
well as gaining insights and advice from an array of legendary
pianists, theorists, historians and neuroscientists, and even
occasionally from secretaries of state. But was he able to play the
piece in time?
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to
overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has
created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now
competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of
journalism. So where can we look for reliable, verifiable sources
of news and information? What does all this mean for democracy? And
what will the future hold? Reflecting on his twenty years as editor
of the Guardian at a time of unprecedented digital disruption; and
his experience of breaking some of the most significant news
stories of our time, Alan Rusbridger answers these questions and
offers a stirring defence of why quality journalism matters now
more than ever.
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