Reading:
Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld, The Influencing Machine, 103-complete
Invention Exercises
Study Questions:
1. What is the difference between journalistic objectivity and journalistic disclosure? What caused these various journalistic styles to emerge?
2. At the end of the book, Gladstone tells us, "Our limits are purely human. Our enemies are not the digital bits that dance across our screens but the neural impulses that animate our lizard brains. We get the media we deserve" (155-6). What does she mean by this? Use evidence from earlier in today's reading to justify your answers.
