A visionary and opinionated work of graphic nonfiction on the media and its discontents Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPRs Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern media This brilliant radio personality now bursts onto the page as an illustrated character in vivid comics drawn by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld The cartoon of Brooke conducts the reader through two millennia of history-from the newspapers in Caesars Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution and the manipulations of contemporary journalism Gladstones manifesto debunks the notion that The Media is an external force outside of our control since weve begun directly constructing filtering and responding to what we watch and read With fascinating digressions sobering anecdotes and brave analytical wit The Influencing Machine equips us to be smart savvy informed consumers and shapers of the media It shows that we have met the media and it is us So now what Two-color illustrations.
