unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media?once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic?are often too timid or distracted to identify these deceptions.

unSpun is the secret decoder ring for the twenty-first-century world of disinformation. Written by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the founders of the acclaimed website FactCheck.org, unSpun reveals the secrets of separating facts from disinformation, such as:

? the warning signs of spin, hype, and bogus news
? common tricks used to deceive us
? how to find trustworthy and objective sources of information

Telling fact from fiction shouldn?t be a difficult task. With this book and a healthy dose of skepticism, anyone can cut through the haze of biased media reportage to be a savvier consumer and a better-informed citizen.

?Read this book and you will not go unarmed into the political wars ahead of us. Jackson and Jamieson equip us to be our own truth squad, and that just might be the salvation of democracy.?
?Bill Moyers

?THE DEFINITIVE B.S. DETECTOR?AN ABSOLUTELY INVALUABLE GUIDEBOOK.?
?Mark Shields, syndicated columnist and political analyst, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

?unSpun is an essential guide to cutting through the political fog. Just in time for the 2008 campaign, Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson have written a citizen?s guide to avoiding the malarkey of partisan politics.?
?Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent

?The Internet may be a wildly effective means of communication and an invaluable source of knowledge, but it has also become a new virtual haven for scammers?financial, political, even personal. Better than anything written before, unSpun shows us how to recognize these scams and protect ourselves from them.?
?Craig Newmark, founder and customer service representative, Craigslist.org more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-30-2009; Unspun is correct; This is an excellent source for gaining insight into the ways in which we are misled by the media whether it is in ads or politics. This explains how to recognize it so you can make better decisions. I would recommend this as required...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-05-2009; Unspun-student's point of view; I am a fourteen year old, freshman in high school, and I was assigned this book, UnSpun, to read for my Honors Literature class. When I first heard that we had to read this book, I was originally very skeptical and I just assumed that...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-18-2009; The truth hurts; Have you ever seen an advertisement and wondered how truthful it was? For example, does the leading toothpaste really fight cavities, gum disease and world poverty? Is your favorite politician's opponent actually planning to raise taxes...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-23-2008; Spin cycle; Nutshell review - This is a short but easy to read overview of several ways in which the media, politicians, marketers, etc can spin their story to advance their own agendas. It is a short book containing various spin techniques, actual...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-30-2009; Unspun is correct; This is an excellent source for gaining insight into the ways in which we are misled by the media whether it is in ads or politics. This explains how to recognize it so you can make better decisions. I would recommend this as required...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-23-2008; Spin cycle; Nutshell review - This is a short but easy to read overview of several ways in which the media, politicians, marketers, etc can spin their story to advance their own agendas. It is a short book containing various spin techniques, actual...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-16-2008; Disappointing. A glimpse into the obvious, nothing more.; This book purports to help the reader sift the wheat from the chaff in all aspects of public diinformation, which I can agree has become a pestilence. However, I bought the book after carefully reviewing the editorial and reader...; read full review | report as inappropriate