The News

A User's Manual

By: Alain de Botton

Narrated by: Nicholas Bell

The news is everywhere. We can’t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds?

We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton (author of the best-selling The Architecture of Happiness), but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. In his dazzling new audiobook, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories - including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal - and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping us navigate our news-soaked age. He raises such questions as "Why are disaster stories often so uplifting?"; "What makes the love lives of celebrities so interesting?"; "Why do we enjoy watching politicians being brought down?"; "Why are upheavals in far-off lands often so boring?"

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.

©2014 Copyright © Alain de Botton 2014. (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Even when late ...

There is a way out !!!
Thank you Alain.

And now I an required to write seven more words ...
Reminds me of the 50 word statement accompanied by the 50 word counter statement being standard in foreign news.
Jolly Good ...

Ah, yes ... you need to consume this !!!
Now !!!

Eye opening book

It presents the news as a potential source for learning and growth. If done correctly, the news can make us wiser and more fulfilled citizens of the world.