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Ever been left spluttering over some fatuous fib trying to pass itself off as information, even as fact? Of course you have. We all have. It''s bullshit, and as Laura Penny sees it, we''re drowning in the stuff. Your Call Is Important to Us is Penny''s brilliant take on the "all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness" that is our lives today. "We live in an era of unprecedented bullshit production," Penny says. While bullshit is not new, more money, more media, and more people at mics have led to a bullshit pandemic. Today, we are so used to exaggeration and obfuscation we rarely notice them any more.Thank goodness we have Penny as our witty, smart-aleck guide through the phoniness of advertising and public relations, the claptrap of big pharma, the gobbledygook of the media, and the poppycock of the service industry. Along the way, Penny takes direct aim at the major culprits and the insidious ways they distort reality. As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein, and as funny as Al Franken, Penny''s take on the bullshit factor in modern life is a page-turner. Penny has a cheeky riff on that revealing question: "If my call is so important," she asks, "why doesn''t anyone answer the damn phone?".
Ever been left spluttering over some fatuous fib trying to pass itself off as information, even as fact? Of course you have. We all have. It''s bullshit, and as Laura Penny sees it, we''re drowning in the stuff. Your Call Is Important to Us is Penny''s brilliant take on the "all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness" that is our lives today. "We live in an era of unprecedented bullshit production," Penny says. While bullshit is not new, more money, more media, and more people at mics have led to a bullshit pandemic. Today, we are so used to exaggeration and obfuscation we rarely notice them any more.Thank goodness we have Penny as our witty, smart-aleck guide through the phoniness of advertising and public relations, the claptrap of big pharma, the gobbledygook of the media, and the poppycock of the service industry. Along the way, Penny takes direct aim at the major culprits and the insidious ways they distort reality. As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein, and as funny as Al Franken, Penny''s take on the bullshit factor in modern life is a page-turner. Penny has a cheeky riff on that revealing question: "If my call is so important," she asks, "why doesn''t anyone answer the damn phone?".
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Laura Penny, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit, Ever been left spluttering over some fatuous fib trying to pass itself off as information, even as fact? Of course you have. We all have. It's bullshit, and as Laura Penny sees it, we're drowning in the stuff. Your Call Is Important to Us is Penny's brilliant take on the all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness that is our lives today. We live in an era of unprecedented bullshit production, Penny says. While bullshit is not new, more money, more media, and more people at mics have led to a bullshit pandemic. Today, we are so used to exaggeration and obfuscation we rarely notice them any more.Thank goodness we have Penny as our witty, smart-aleck guide through the phoniness of advertising and public relations, the claptrap of big pharma, the gobbledygook of the media, and the poppycock of the service industry. Along the way, Penny takes direct aim at the major culprits and the insidious ways they distort reality. As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein, and as funny as Al Franken, Penny's take on the bullshit factor in modern life is a page-turner. Penny has a cheeky riff on that revealing question: If my call is so important, she asks, why doesn't anyone answer the damn phone?
Laura Penny, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit, Ever been left spluttering over some fatuous fib trying to pass itself off as information, even as fact? Of course you have. We all have. It's bullshit, and as Laura Penny sees it, we're drowning in the stuff. Your Call Is Important to Us is Penny's brilliant take on the all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness that is our lives today. We live in an era of unprecedented bullshit production, Penny says. While bullshit is not new, more money, more media, and more people at mics have led to a bullshit pandemic. Today, we are so used to exaggeration and obfuscation we rarely notice them any more.Thank goodness we have Penny as our witty, smart-aleck guide through the phoniness of advertising and public relations, the claptrap of big pharma, the gobbledygook of the media, and the poppycock of the service industry. Along the way, Penny takes direct aim at the major culprits and the insidious ways they distort reality. As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein, and as funny as Al Franken, Penny's take on the bullshit factor in modern life is a page-turner. Penny has a cheeky riff on that revealing question: If my call is so important, she asks, why doesn't anyone answer the damn phone?
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Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit
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eBook, Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell while we're laughing like fiends. A book like this one. Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who's sick and tired of the twenty-first century's tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects no, disembowels the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.S. Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the "corporate bafflegab," scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where "every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you"; not Bush's White House, with its "wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering"; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its "gateway prescription drugs." Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as "the best-kept secret in outsourcing") and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally, with devastating precision, she demonstrates how our "all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness" not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. It's an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure. Laura Penny on Bullshit: There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin. The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit. "Your call is important to us" has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company's dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor. From the Hardcover edition.
eBook, Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell while we're laughing like fiends. A book like this one. Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who's sick and tired of the twenty-first century's tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects no, disembowels the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.S. Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the "corporate bafflegab," scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where "every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you"; not Bush's White House, with its "wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering"; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its "gateway prescription drugs." Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as "the best-kept secret in outsourcing") and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally, with devastating precision, she demonstrates how our "all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness" not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. It's an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure. Laura Penny on Bullshit: There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin. The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit. "Your call is important to us" has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company's dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor. From the Hardcover edition.
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accounting,accounting and finance,advertising,business,business and investing,business and professional,communication and media studies,essays,humor,humor and entertainment, Ever been left spluttering over some fatuous fib trying to pass itself off as information, even as fact? Of course you have. We all have. It's bullshit, and as Laura Penny sees it, we're drowning in the stuff. Your Call Is Important to Us is Penny's brilliant take on the "all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness" that is our lives today. "We live in an era of unprecedented bullshit production," Penny says. While bullshit is not new, more money, more media, and more people at mics have led to a bullshit pandemic. Today, we are so used to exaggeration and obfuscation we rarely notice them any more.Thank goodness we have Penny as our witty, smart-aleck guide through the phoniness of advertising and public relations, the claptrap of big pharma, the gobbledygook of the media, and the poppycock of the service industry. Along the way, Penny takes direct aim at the major culprits and the insidious ways they distort reality. As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein, and as funny as Al Franken, Penny's take on the bullshit factor in modern life is a page-turner. Penny has a cheeky riff on that revealing question: "If my call is so important," she asks, "why doesn't anyone answer the damn phone?
accounting,accounting and finance,advertising,business,business and investing,business and professional,communication and media studies,essays,humor,humor and entertainment, Ever been left spluttering over some fatuous fib trying to pass itself off as information, even as fact? Of course you have. We all have. It's bullshit, and as Laura Penny sees it, we're drowning in the stuff. Your Call Is Important to Us is Penny's brilliant take on the "all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness" that is our lives today. "We live in an era of unprecedented bullshit production," Penny says. While bullshit is not new, more money, more media, and more people at mics have led to a bullshit pandemic. Today, we are so used to exaggeration and obfuscation we rarely notice them any more.Thank goodness we have Penny as our witty, smart-aleck guide through the phoniness of advertising and public relations, the claptrap of big pharma, the gobbledygook of the media, and the poppycock of the service industry. Along the way, Penny takes direct aim at the major culprits and the insidious ways they distort reality. As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein, and as funny as Al Franken, Penny's take on the bullshit factor in modern life is a page-turner. Penny has a cheeky riff on that revealing question: "If my call is so important," she asks, "why doesn't anyone answer the damn phone?
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit (2005)
EN NW EB DLISBN: 9780307238368 bzw. 0307238369, in Englisch, 272 Seiten, Crown, neu, E-Book, elektronischer Download.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, E-Book zum Download.
Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell—while we’re laughing like fiends. A book like this one. Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first century’s tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.S. Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the “corporate bafflegab,” scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where “every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you”; not Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering”; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as “the best-kept secret in outsourcing”) and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally, with devastating precision, she demonstrates how our “all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness” not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. It’s an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure. Laura Penny on Bullshit: There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin. The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit. “Your call is important to us” has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company’s dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor. From the Hardcover edition., Kindle Edition, Format: Kindle eBook, Label: Crown, Crown, Produktgruppe: eBooks, Publiziert: 2005-07-12, Freigegeben: 2005-07-12, Studio: Crown.
Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell—while we’re laughing like fiends. A book like this one. Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first century’s tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.S. Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the “corporate bafflegab,” scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where “every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you”; not Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering”; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as “the best-kept secret in outsourcing”) and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally, with devastating precision, she demonstrates how our “all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness” not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. It’s an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure. Laura Penny on Bullshit: There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin. The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit. “Your call is important to us” has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company’s dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor. From the Hardcover edition., Kindle Edition, Format: Kindle eBook, Label: Crown, Crown, Produktgruppe: eBooks, Publiziert: 2005-07-12, Freigegeben: 2005-07-12, Studio: Crown.
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit
EN NW EB DLISBN: 9780307238368 bzw. 0307238369, in Englisch, Crown Publishing Group, Crown Publishing Group, Crown Publishing Group, neu, E-Book, elektronischer Download.
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In this world of spin doctors, focus groups, and corporate groupspeak, truth is often the first casualty. And the second; and the third; and the fourth. Laura Penny, who has been portrayed as "a bartender of cultural criticism," regards this deeply scripted double-dealing as emblematic of our times. In Your Call Is Important to Us, she traces the evolution of sanctioned dishonesty from wartime propaganda to the postwar rise of public relations, advertising, and marketing campaigns.
In this world of spin doctors, focus groups, and corporate groupspeak, truth is often the first casualty. And the second; and the third; and the fourth. Laura Penny, who has been portrayed as "a bartender of cultural criticism," regards this deeply scripted double-dealing as emblematic of our times. In Your Call Is Important to Us, she traces the evolution of sanctioned dishonesty from wartime propaganda to the postwar rise of public relations, advertising, and marketing campaigns.
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit
EN NW EB DLISBN: 9780307238368 bzw. 0307238369, in Englisch, Crown/Archetype, Crown/Archetype, neu, E-Book, elektronischer Download.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Free Shipping on eligible orders over $25.
In this world of spin doctors, focus groups, and corporate groupspeak, truth is often the first casualty. And the second; and the third; and the fourth. Laura Penny, who has been portrayed as "a bartender of cultural criticism," regards this deeply scripted double-dealing as emblematic of our times. In Your Call Is Important to Us, she traces the evolution of sanctioned dishonesty from wartime propaganda to the postwar rise of public relations, advertising, and marketing campaigns.
In this world of spin doctors, focus groups, and corporate groupspeak, truth is often the first casualty. And the second; and the third; and the fourth. Laura Penny, who has been portrayed as "a bartender of cultural criticism," regards this deeply scripted double-dealing as emblematic of our times. In Your Call Is Important to Us, she traces the evolution of sanctioned dishonesty from wartime propaganda to the postwar rise of public relations, advertising, and marketing campaigns.
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit (2006)
EN PB USISBN: 9781920769673 bzw. 1920769676, in Englisch, 272 Seiten, Broadway Books, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
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“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...” Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases •astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms •Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer) •increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things •kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution •the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us” •think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act •The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones, Paperback, Ausgabe: Reprint, Label: Broadway Books, Broadway Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-05-23, Freigegeben: 2006-05-23, Studio: Broadway Books, Verkaufsrang: 1251825.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Maggies and Mollies.
“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...” Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases •astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms •Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer) •increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things •kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution •the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us” •think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act •The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones, Paperback, Ausgabe: Reprint, Label: Broadway Books, Broadway Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-05-23, Freigegeben: 2006-05-23, Studio: Broadway Books, Verkaufsrang: 1251825.
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit (2006)
EN PB NWISBN: 9781920769673 bzw. 1920769676, in Englisch, 272 Seiten, Broadway Books, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Smartbuysclearancebooks.
“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...” Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases •astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms •Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer) •increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things •kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution •the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us” •think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act •The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones, Paperback, Ausgabe: Reprint, Label: Broadway Books, Broadway Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-05-23, Freigegeben: 2006-05-23, Studio: Broadway Books, Verkaufsrang: 1784248.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Smartbuysclearancebooks.
“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...” Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases •astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms •Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer) •increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things •kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution •the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us” •think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act •The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones, Paperback, Ausgabe: Reprint, Label: Broadway Books, Broadway Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-05-23, Freigegeben: 2006-05-23, Studio: Broadway Books, Verkaufsrang: 1784248.
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit (2006)
EN PB NWISBN: 9781920769673 bzw. 1920769676, in Englisch, 272 Seiten, Broadway Books, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Smartbuysclearancebooks.
“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...” Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases •astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms •Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer) •increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things •kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution •the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us” •think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act •The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones, Paperback, Ausgabe: Reprint, Label: Broadway Books, Broadway Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-05-23, Freigegeben: 2006-05-23, Studio: Broadway Books, Verkaufsrang: 698934.
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“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...” Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases •astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms •Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer) •increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things •kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution •the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us” •think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act •The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones, Paperback, Ausgabe: Reprint, Label: Broadway Books, Broadway Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-05-23, Freigegeben: 2006-05-23, Studio: Broadway Books, Verkaufsrang: 698934.
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