TBYN – Table of Contents
Book 1: Clearing away the rubble
- How to defend against poor journalism
- Inoculating against media failure
- Why care about journalism?
- How journalism dug us into a hole
- News is specific
- Media misuse words to substitute how they feel
- Media adjectives and adverbs editorialize
- Media labels push a political agenda
- Media descriptives and logical fallacies color reporting
- Media manufacture messages
- Media plant Improvised Editorial Devices (IEDs)
- Media confuse readers with jargon
- Media postmodernize word meanings
Evidence: Media sell opinion as news
- Media equivocate to register opinion
- Media push emotional opinion
- Media speculate, project and guess
- Media push unsubstantiated accusations
- Media let personal views interfere
Evidence: Media accentuate narratives
- Media focus their lens to affect stories
- Media maps lose accuracy when details are massaged
- Media manipulate context
- Media compress past and present to warp context
- Media preconceived narratives replace news
- Media push Agitprop as news
- Media fact-starved “fact-checking” isn’t news
- Media substitute Information for news
- Media use headlines to obscure
- Media misidentify content to avoid reporting
- Media engage in willful ignorance
- Media omit real news
- Media misdirect readers
- Media misdirect with innuendo
- Media warp with selectively reporting
- Media selectively misquote
- Media breaking news is often theater
- Media proffer noise as news
- Media replace news with noise
Book 2: How schools fail journalism
- Social Studies: To whom does an education belong?
- Social Studies: To educate or to school?
- Social Studies: A culture war
- Social Studies: Key understandings go beyond culture
- Social Studies: unencumbered with principles
- Social Studies: Irrelevant themes
- Social Studies: Specifications that misdirect
- Social Studies: Practices that obscure history
- Social Studies: The battle for individuals in society
- Social Studies: Social transformation is not education
Social Studies: In summary, bring on laughter
Book 3: Where news fits in society
- Educating Individuals
- Individuals create society
- Individuals relate to culture through society
- Individuals mature using dynamic processes
- Individuals were haphazardly taught character
- Individuals use experience to produce character
- How individual character blossoms
- Individuals validate character
- Individual principles matter
- Individuals validate governance
- Taking individual responsibility
- Individuals find meaning
- Individuals find their place in society
- Individuals prepare for the future