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College
Writing Resources
College Writing Book for Fall 2009:
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True Enough
by Farhad Manjoo
John Wiley & Sons |
Photo from Book Passage San Fransisco bookstore www.bookpassage.com. |
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Farhad Manjoo is the author of True Enough: Learning to Live in Post-Fact Society, which argues that modern communications technology has led to the cultural ascendance of belief over fact. Drawing on volumes of research in psychology and economics, Manjoo shows how the Web, talk radio, and cable TV have fragmented our national discussions -- and that now, our primary disagreements are over facts, not opinions. Manjoo is a staff writer for Slate Magazine, where he writes frequently about technology, the media, and politics. Prior to Slate, he wrote for Salon and Wired; he also writes frequently for The New York Times. Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. While there, he spent most of his time working at the Cornell Daily Sun, the college daily; he edited the paper during his senior year. Manjoo, who was born in South Africa, immigrated to the U.S. with his family in the late 1980s. He now lives in San Francisco.
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Letter to Students from the Department of Literature and the College Writing Program
Copies of the book are available on reserve at the Library at call numbers:
BJ1421 .M299 2008
Reviews of True Enough
Several reviews are available through Amazon.com.
Steven Johnson reviews True Enough at Slate.com
Selected Resources for Farhad Manjoo:
The Machinist blog on Salon.com (managed by Manjoo until July 2008)
Manjoo discusses True Enough on Fora.tv.
Interview with Jeff Bercovici, manager of the Mixed Media blog on Portfolio.
List of articles by Manjoo on Salon.com
List of Manjoo's Technology columns from Slate.com
Mentioned in the book:
- Swift Boat Veterans for Truth : website (from the Internet Archive, 8/2004) and advertisements (from YouTube)
- The Drudge Report
- Letsroll911.org (March 2004, courtesy of the Internet Archive)
- Zapruder film (from YouTube)
- Loose Change (various editions, from YouTube)
- In Plane Site website
- Pictures of Lance Cpl. Ted Boudreaux from article by Farhad Manjoo on Salon.com and full image from thesmokinggun.com
- "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from Rolling Stone, posted June 1, 2006
- Mark Blumenthall's response to Kennedy on Pollster.com, June 5, 2006
- "Evidence Mounts that Vote May Have Been Hacked," Common Dreams, Nov. 6, 2004, talking about Kathy Dopp's theory.
- Rebuttal to Dopp's theory by Walter Mebane, Jasjeet Sekhon, and Jonathan Wand.
Resources on the Media
Pew Research Center for the People & and Press: Independent research organization that studies public opinion relating to the media and politics.
Center for Media and Democracy: Independent, nonpartisan group whose mission is to expose spin and propaganda and promote accurate reporting.
American Journalism Review: Magazine that analyzes media coverage.
Columbia Journalism Review: Magazine encouraging excellence in the media. Based at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR): Media watchdog group with a liberal slant.
Accuracy in Media (AIM): Media watchdog group with a conservative slant.
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