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  • You Are What You Read

  • Why Changing Your Media Diet Can Change the World
  • By: Jodie Jackson
  • Narrated by: Jodie Jackson
  • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

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Publisher's Summary

Do you ever feel overwhelmed and powerless after watching the news? Does it make you feel sad about the world, without much hope for its future? Take a breath. The world is not as bad as the headlines would have you believe!

In You Are What You Read, campaigner and researcher Jodie Jackson helps us understand how our current 24-hour news cycle is produced, who decides what stories are selected, why the news is mostly negative, and what effect this has on us, as individuals and as a society. 

Combining the latest research from psychology, sociology, and the media, she builds a powerful case for including solutions into our news narrative as an antidote to the negativity bias. You Are What You Read is not just a book. It is a manifesto for a movement. It is not a call for us to ignore the negative but rather a call to not ignore the positive. It asks us to change the way we consume the news and shows us how, through our choices, we have the power to improve our media diet, our mental health, and just possibly the world.

©2019 Jodie Jackson (P)2019 Jodie Jackson

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