Now in paperback, the hilarious expos? on the media gone awry, from the creator of the wildly popular Fark.com Have you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps itβs the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local six oβclock news (βTsunami could
It's Not News, It's Fark
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2007
- Category
- Fiction
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