Best Selling Books by Brooke Gladstone

New York Times Bestseller With a New Afterword “A comic book with zest and brains—one that just might help a reader understand the brave new world.” —The New Yorker A million listeners trust NPR’s Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the complexities of the modern media. Bursting onto the page in vivid comics by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld, this brilliant radio personality guides us through two millennia of media history, debunking the notion that “The Media” is an external force beyond our control and equipping us to be savvy consumers and shapers of the news. An invaluable introduction to how the media works from one of the acknowledged masters of the industry, this tenth anniversary edition brings the story up to date, with new illustrations and an afterword that offers a deep examination of the rise of social media and the public’s responsibility in a time of division and disinformation.

The award-winning host of WNYC’s On the Media explores disinformation in the age of Trump, with a look toward what we can do about it. From her front-row view of today’s events, journalist Brooke Gladstone shares her insights on what she calls our ever-growing “trouble with reality.” As Gladstone shows us, reality was never what we thought it was. There is always a bubble, people are always subjective, and we are all prey to stereotypes. That makes reality actually more vulnerable than we ever thought. But then came Donald J. Trump and his team of advisors. For them, as she Gladstone says, lying is the point. The more blatant the lie, the easier it is to hijack reality and assert power over the truth. Drawing on writers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Swift, Gladstone dissects this authoritarian strategy and shows how the Trump team mastered it, down to the five types of tweets that Trump uses to distort our notions of what’s real and what’s not. Thankfully, Gladstone also offers hope. There is a time-tested treatment for moral panic. And if history is a guide, there is also the inevitable reckoning. Brief and bracing, The Trouble with Reality shows exactly why so many of us didn’t see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity.

Un libro a fumetti che andrebbe regalato a tutti quelli che a vent’anni hanno rinunciato in partenza a credere nei media, a chi a sessanta non ci ha mai creduto (...), a quelli che vedono complotti sempre e dovunque, a chi è convinto di abitare in un romanzo di George Orwell, o in uno di Ray Bradbury (...) a chi le notizie le legge solo su Google, sul proprio Smartphone, mentre corre sul tapis roulant, a chi le notizie non le legge affatto, a chi definisce i media “la macchina che ci influenza” senza capire che è lui a influenzarla. — “Io Donna” Una guida indispensabile per chiunque speri di navigare tra i miraggi e le sabbie mobili del nostro deserto mediatico. I testi della Gladstone e i disegni di Neufeld si illuminano vicendevolmente con un’arguzia e un’intelligenza eccezionali. - Alison Bechdel, autrice di Fun Home e Sei tu mia madre? Spassoso, ma con la testa ben piantata sulle spalle: finalmente un graphic novel con pepe e cervello. Armi di persuasione di massa aiuterà i suoi lettori a capire questo mondo. — “The New Yorker” In qualche modo la Gladstone prende un argomento del quale la maggior parte di noi non sa assolutamente niente e ne crea qualcosa di assolutamente entusiasmante. — Ira Glass, This American Life “Art Spiegelman ha incontrato Marshall McLuhan.” — “The New York Observer”

Pourquoi le chiffre de 50 000 victimes revient-il aussi souvent dans les médias américains ? Les journalistes devraient-ils annoncer leurs intentions de vote ? Internet radicalise-t-il nos opinions ? Ce sont quelques-unes des questions soulevées par Brooke Gladstone, journaliste spécialiste des médias pour la radio publique américaine NPR. Avec l''aide du dessinateur de bande dessinée documentaire Josh Neufeld, elle retrace dans La Machine à influencer l''évolution des médias d''information et des pratiques journalistiques. Des premières dérives de l''information sous l''Empire romain jusqu''aux errements des médias américains au moment de l''entrée en guerre contre l''Irak, Brooke Gladstone s''interroge et livre une grande leçon de journalisme.