Don't believe it!
Subtitle: how lies become news
By: Alexandra Kitty.
Publisher: Disinformation; Distributed in the USA by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York; St Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Journalism -- Objectivity; Journalistic ethics
Description: "In Don't Believe it!, accomplished journalist and academic Alexandra Kitty takes you on a guided tour of one hundred years of media hoaxes, propaganda and misinformation and shows you how to take apart a news story from the inside out to find the falsehoods lurking within."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-415)
Table of contents: title: Introduction to evaluating the news; title: Rumors and misinformation; title: Hoaxes; title: How to spot rumors and hoaxes; title: Manual of rumors and hoaxes.