It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News by Drew Curtis

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Synopsis

Have you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it's the blatant fearmongering on your local six o'clock news ("Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!" Everybody panic!) or the seasonal articles that appear year after year ("Roads will be crowded this holiday season." Thanks, AAA.). It's Not News, It's Fark is Drew Curtis's insightful, uproarious look at the go-to stories mass media uses when there's just not enough hard news to fill a daily paper or television broadcast.

Drew identifies eight stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little actual reporting reporters do today. It's Not News, It's Fark exposes the "news" that was never fit to print, and promises to have you laughing along the way.

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Drew Curtis knows his crap. In It's Not News, It's Fark, he dissects this ubiquitous scaremongering and space-filling fluff.

Biography

Drew Curtis founded Fark.com after several beers one night in 1999. Today it averages 3.5 to 5 million visitors per month. Media corporations worldwide continue to use Fark as a resource to judge which stories are newsworthy. He has been featured in Time, The Washington Post, PC Magazine, Maxim, PHM, and Playboy; on hundreds of radio stations around the country; and was recently on the cover of Business 2.0 and named one of the "50 Most Important People on the Web" by PC World.