· The News: A User's Manual broaches the problems of twenty-first century media outlets with de Botton's signature flourish. Offering itself as a guide to Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. In The News: A User's Manual, de Botton has written the ultimate guide for our frenzied era, certain to bring calm, understanding and a measure of sanity to our daily (perhaps even hourly) interactions with the news machine/5(). · A fascinating take on the modern news industry, The News: A User's Manual is Alain de Botton's latest success in applying philosophy to every day life in the time in which we now live. Taking inspiration from the term check the news, the aim for the author is to create 'an exercise in trying to make this ubiquitous and familiar habit seem a lot weirder and rather more hazardous than it does at /5.
The News: A User's Manual. Alain de Botton. Penguin Books Limited, Feb 6, - Philosophy - pages. The news is everywhere and we check it constantly - but what is it doing to our minds? The news occupies the same dominant position in modern society as religion once did, but we rarely consider its impact on us. In this dazzling new book, Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of Religion for Atheists, takes twenty-five archetypal news stories - from an aircrash to a murder, a celebrity. In The News: A User's Manual, de Botton has written the ultimate guide for our frenzied era, certain to bring calm, understanding and a measure of sanity to our daily (perhaps even hourly) interactions with the news machine.
The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton – review Alain de Botton's ideas about what constitutes the news are stimulating and infuriating in equal measure Alain de Botton: 'fizzing with ideas'. The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton – review. Apart from never quite deciding what news is, De Botton is also remarkably uninterested in who pays for its gathering and transmission. In The News: A User's Manual, de Botton has written the ultimate guide for our frenzied era, certain to bring calm, understanding and a measure of sanity to our daily (perhaps even hourly) interactions with the news machine.
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