PG13: Navigating the News: A Political Media User’s Guide

In this episode, Jay interviews Mike about his book Navigating the News: A Political Media User’s Guide. After nearly two decades of teaching college students about politics and the media, Mike decided that he wanted to write a book on the topic – something short and engaging that brought together the best of what he’d been recommending and using in his classes for years, most notably Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows, Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Farhad Manjoo’s True Enough.

In the interview, Mike and Jay discuss:
– If this is a new golden age for media.
– Whether the mainstream media has a liberal bias.
– Why you shouldn’t get your political news from TV.
– The challenges of filtering out bad political media.
– Why all media is biased, and what you can do about it.
– The Twinkies and broccoli of political media.
– Where to go for the best political information.

One thought on “PG13: Navigating the News: A Political Media User’s Guide”

  1. Especially in today’s political climate, it can be hard to find news delivered non objectively. I agree that TV probably isn’t the best source for political news as it delivers a lot of what people consider entertaining. This makes it hard to find the right kind of information about politics. http://civspace.com/

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