The News: A User's Manual

Copyright © 2014 by Alain de Botton

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House companies. Originally published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of the Penguin Group, London.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to New Directions Publishing Corp. and Carcanet Press Limited for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” by William Carlos Williams from The Collected Poems: Volume II, 1939–1962, copyright © 1944 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and Carcanet Press Limited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

De Botton, Alain.

The news : a user’s manual / Alain de Botton.

Pages cm

HC ISBN 978-0-307-37912-2. EBK ISBN 978-0-307-91172-8.

1. Journalism—Social aspects. 2. Journalism—Political aspects. 3. Mass media—Social aspects. 4. Mass media—Political aspects. 5. News audiences. I. Title.

PN4749.D43 2014 302.23—dc23 2013031206

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