It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News
Drew Curtis, . . Gotham, $20 (288pp) ISBN 978-1-59240-291-5
The editorial principle behind Curtis's Web Site Fark.com is remarkably simple: readers submit news stories with their own wacky headlines, inviting snarky commentary from other readers. Here, he steps back to examine why "Mass Media" keeps churning out the sort of inane stories that are "supposed to look like news" that make the site so wildly popular. The critique is familiar—see Barry Glassner's
Reviewed on: 03/19/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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