Unspinning the Spin

Résumé du livre

Unspinning the Spin combines eye-opening facts plus wit to help you decode the hype and say what you actually mean. Consumers and creators of media are the most obvious beneficiaries, but everyone can benefit from this timely guide on the background, current uses, accuracy, nonbiased alternatives, and best practices for choosing and de-coding commonly used words and phrases. This book goes beyond the scope of a dictionary or thesaurus. It mines a wide variety of fields for accurate, inclusive, creative, and clear words and phrases. As a compendium that is easy to consult, practical, informative-and funny-it is indispensable for everyday use.Unspinning the Spin is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary guide to words and phrases -- their meanings, sources, backgrounds, suggested uses, and nonsexist, nonracist alternatives. It's a guide for journalists and editors in the United States and other countries, for bloggers creating their own media and for government officials creating policy, for students and teachers at all levels, for activists, workers in communication fields, and for any reader who loves the English language. The guide is organized alphabetically for easy use, with cross-references to related words, phrases, and issues.Rosalie Maggio, a distinguished authority on language for more than 25 years, is the author of Unspinning the Spin. Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem wrote the preface. Morgan is an award-winning author of over 20 books, a feminist leader, political analyst, former editor in chief of Ms., and co-founder of The Women's Media Center. Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, activist, bestselling author, and co-founder of Ms. Magazine and The Women's Media Center. This book is the first publication of WMC Press, the publishing arm of The Women's Media Center.