The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time

by Brooke Gladstone

Book Overview

Every week on the public radio show On the Media, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our perceptions of the world. Now, from her front-row perch on the day's events, Gladstone brings her genius for making insightful, unexpected connections to help us understand what she calls--and what so many of us can acknowledge having--"trouble with reality."

Reality, as she shows us, was never what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152350238X
• ISBN13: 9781523502387
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Not really about moral panics

I was looking for a book examining the phenomenon of moral panics, this book was not that. It is a brief, somewhat quippy, look at the post-Trump perception of reality. Not a bad read, but not what the title makes it out to seem. Also, the author tries to present both sides of the argument, but does so in a manner that comes off as equivocating.