Weird Ways of News: A user's guide to news values. Most of us who consume products of journalists--that is, nearly everybody--seldom consider how news is made. But news is a manufactured product. This book aims to help you understand and digest that product.
More than that, it aims to help you understand how to make your own news. And it aims to help you understand why so much of our news reaches beyond our verbal literacy, our ability to analyze words and their meanings. That's because so much of our news is visual. And we're generally not visually literate.
This book may complement a basic journalism text. But it also presumes everybody will become part of the news manufacturing process sometime in their lives. Most people who take a class, hold a job, lead a club, pursue some hobbies or just go about their everyday business will sooner or later interact with the news media. This guide to journalism will help you to understand those interactions.
