The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media

2011 • 172 pages

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The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today.

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I really liked this! A good history of the media imbued with both a healthy skepticism and hope.

It was on YALSA's best graphic novel collection & at first I wondered what teens would read this. But teenage Michael Moore-obsessed Renata probably would have dug it.

August 1, 2012