Reading:
Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld, The Influencing Machine, xi-56
Study Questions:
1. According to Gladstone, are the media an influencing machine? Read carefully.
2. Gladstone writes, "We slip back but we recover our footing. The media exposure corruption and build pressure for change -- but the government still has the loudest voice. So when seizing up White House assertions . . . Take the advice of the president who sized up Kremlin assertions . . . 'Trust but verify.' . . . embrace this truth from one of journalism's greatest skeptics. "All government's lie." . . . and accept that there's no free ride in democracy. 'The price of freedom is eternal vigilance'" (33). Use the material from pages 3-32 to support Gladstone's conclusions.
