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# The News: A User's Manual Hardcover – February 11, 2014

**Brand:** alain de botton
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- **What is this?** The News: A User's Manual Hardcover – February 11, 2014 by alain de botton
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## Customer Reviews

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    A visit that will enrich you
  

*by G***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2015*

Reading De Botton is like visiting a monastery, the beautiful sentences flow gradually, the thoughtful and peaceful architecture of the book is revealed and the reader discovers all sorts of insights he never thought of. Having said this, I quickly add that I do not agree with many of De Botton's Utopian prescriptions for a more enlightening world of news. As long as he dissects why we spend so much time with the news, he is marvelous at revealing our foibles. When he becomes a philosopher who wishes that our daily ingestion of news serve to better us, to teach us the good life, to improve our awareness of the real world, his prescriptions are not good sociology. For example, when he suggests the news writer manipulate his material to make it more artistic and therefore more educative (page 82), he inadvertently tangos with a prescription for propaganda. So the central question of this review remains: should you read this book? By all means. De Botton is a very gifted writer, consequently  you always learn from him. Like your visit to a marvelously preserved monastery, you may not want to take the vows, but the visit enriches you.

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    Bias is not always a bad thing
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2015*

I have good news and I have bad news.  The bad news is you'll come away wondering if you should ever believe anything you read in the news again.  The good news is you'll be better prepared to interpret whatever news you choose to read.  There are subjects De Botton covers where you'll probably find yourself saying, "Eh, I don't know about that," but overall he shows how the various sections of newspapers/magazines; e.g., political, business are designed to convey their message.  One of the more interesting things to me personally was his statement that bias in reporting is not always a bad thing, that if you know the bias of a particular news organization, you can learn to interpret it and decide whether or not that bias is correct or not, depending on your own bias of course. <g>

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    It's changed how and why I consume news
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 18, 2014*

As someone that is suffering from “infoxication” on a daily basis, I picked up Alain’s book hoping to get both an explanation and a different perspective on why I’m more and more unable to care about the stream of information that hits me every hour. Now that I've finished reading, it has fulfilled my expectations completely, with the addition of providing some hints and advice on how the news should change in the way they deliver facts to us. I am now seeing things related to the news system from a slight different perspective than before, but that subtle change has greatly reduced the stress I was feeling before. Alain’s revision of how the news are deliver to us and his analysis of the flaws of that delivery has been very refreshing, in the sense that once you see some of his explanations it becomes evident why you felt like you did, and at the same time it’s been motivating to try and consume information in other ways and with different perspective than before. For some areas, it even has been a relief and a excuse why I shouldn’t be bothered to grasp what’s going on every hour or so.The book is divided in chapters which mirror the usual sections you find in a newspaper to group news together: Foreign Affaires, Celebrities, Economics, etc. In each, the author uses real life examples to make his point and ends with a recommendation on how news could be improved in that specific section. The language is sometimes so rich that it can be a bit hard to follow for a non-english person like me, so certain pieces need a second read. Apart from that, I’ve enjoyed the book very much and do recommend it to others interested in information consumption.

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