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With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the famous?
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Our lives are saturated with news. But how does it affect us? And how should we read it?Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as religion once did. But rarely do we consider how it touches us. Here, Alain de Botton examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a fresh perspective to ask intriguing questions- why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the famous? why smile when a politician falls from grace? In so doing, he brings clear sight and understanding to a force which, above all others, informs our view of reality.
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A Sunday Times top 10 bestseller in hardback examining the peculiar positions 'the news' occupies in our lives, investing in it an authority and importance we used to reserve for religion. Witty and global in reach. De Botton has 4,800 Twitter followers and is a frequent contributor to public debate
Author Biography
Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including The School of Life- An Emotional Education, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love. He is the founder of The School of Life (theschooloflife.com).
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One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture -- John Gray * New Statesman *De Botton's gift is to prompt us to think about how we live and how we might change things * The Times *
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One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture
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One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture
Details ISBN0241972698 Pages 272 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2015 ISBN-10 0241972698 ISBN-13 9780241972694 Format Paperback Publication Date 2015-02-26 Media Book Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Subtitle A User's Manual Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 302.2301 Short Title The News Language English UK Release Date 2015-02-26 Author Alain de Botton Alternative 9780241967386 Audience General NZ Release Date 2015-02-25 AU Release Date 2015-02-25 We've got this
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