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You Are What You Read
- Why Changing Your Media Diet Can Change the World
- Narrated by: Jodie Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
Do you ever feel overwhelmed and powerless after watching the news? Does it make you feel sad about the world, without much hope for its future? Take a breath. The world is not as bad as the headlines would have you believe!
In You Are What You Read, campaigner and researcher Jodie Jackson helps us understand how our current 24-hour news cycle is produced, who decides what stories are selected, why the news is mostly negative, and what effect this has on us, as individuals and as a society.
Combining the latest research from psychology, sociology, and the media, she builds a powerful case for including solutions into our news narrative as an antidote to the negativity bias. You Are What You Read is not just a book. It is a manifesto for a movement. It is not a call for us to ignore the negative but rather a call to not ignore the positive. It asks us to change the way we consume the news and shows us how, through our choices, we have the power to improve our media diet, our mental health, and just possibly the world.
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- Vic.C
- 30-10-19
Excellent
Narrated and written well, this is an area of study I recently started, so I found this really useful.
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- Rod Banner
- 26-02-23
A stellar investment for your mental health.
The news sucks - literally the joy out of your life. Avoid most of it. Be strenuously selective as to where you get your news and remember that on almost every measure, life on this planet is actually improving.
Jodie’s book is a well crafted explainer as to why the news industry is so broken and how we have become so addicted to sensational reporting about things over which we have no control.
Jodie is a clever, kind and eloquent woman whose dedication is making the world a better place. We are all extremely lucky to have her.
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- H_London90
- 24-11-19
Good idea, poor execution
The author is clearly passionate about the topic and her research sounds interesting. However the structure of the book feels pretty messy. It is very repetitive and there is a lot of padding. In my opinion she sharing her struggle while doing the research doesn’t bring anything to the reader other than adding extra pages... The topic is very timely, unfortunately the execution is poor. The final chapter is perhaps the most useful with practical advice and direction. But again this could have easily been a good essay instead of an average book.
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