Getting lost on the media

Getting lost on the media
By: Sabina Jansson

Brooke Gladstone ends the vignette of the first chapter in her book The influencing machine with the sentences “Media do not control you. They pander you.”. I think that this quote says a lot about how Ms. Gladstone views the media and her perspective while writing the book.

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Brooke Gladstone is an American journalist that works for NPR News Magazine. Ms. Gladstone has worked for NPR since 1987 and has been awarded with several prestigious awards for her work as a journalist.

I think that this is a book that you do not really need any beforehand information to be able to neither read nor understand since the society in many aspects are built on and dependent on information and information flow. Therefore I think that most persons who would come across this book would have enough knowledge to understand the content of it. 

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I think that the author manage to get across her point and the purpose of the book clearly. I think that the strength of the book is that it is written in an unconventional way. It breaks the rules on how a book should be written and instead focuses on the pedagogical aspect of the content. I personally find that the concept of the book distracting and it is not a concept that I prefer reading. I find that the illustrations makes me confused and I find the blue green color that is used on every single page in the illustrations distracting and not pleasant to view. However I think that the book overall is an thoughtful and interesting book