Detecting Bull : How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web

Detecting Bull: How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web. 272 pages. John H. McManus. Sunnyvale, CA: The Unvarnished Press. Copyright 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9840785-0-9.

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• Ch. 1 A Sea Change in American Journalism
  
• Ch. 2 Truth v. Truthiness
  
• Ch. 3 The Trouble with Truth
  
• Ch. 4 Personal Obstacles to Reporting the World as It Is
  
• Ch. 5 Institutional Obstacles to Reporting the World as It Is
  
• Ch. 6 If Not Objectivity, to What Standard Should We Hold News Providers?
  
• Ch. 7 How to Detect Bias in News and Opinion Articles
  
• Ch. 8 How to Map Patterns of Bias Among News Articles
  
• Ch. 9 How to Evaluate the Quality of News
  

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