Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer

by Peter Laufer

With this provocative and concise book, journalist Peter Laufer launches a Slow News movement, inviting us to question the value of the perpetual empty-calorie news that accompanies our daily lives. Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer examines the nature of news in the context of the increasingly frenetic pace of modern life in the twenty-first century. Taking a cue from the slow food movement, Laufer suggests that we step back from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870717340
• ISBN13: 9780870717345
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"