It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News cover
It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News
by Drew Curtis
Description: It's Not News, It's Fark examines how mainstream media presents low-quality content as news, contrasting this with the approach taken by the website Fark.com, which highlights unusual real news stories with a humorous angle
ISBN: 1592403662
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protomyth · 2014-12-16 · Original thread
If you haven't read "It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News"[1] by Drew Curtis, then I highly recommend it to explain quite a lot of the process and thinking of the news. It might not be the most serious, and it is funny, but it digs into the truths of the beast.

1) http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-News-Fark-Media/dp/1592403662/