Drugs
'Read All About It' Drugs is in the Franklin Watts series on social issues and is a move away from the just say no approach to drugs. Described as a newspaper-book, this title will appeal to younger teenagers.
Genetics
Here are two books, part of a previously seen series, which warn us (on the back cover, to protect the sensitive) that they are 'newspapers'.
Now, newspapers hide their best bits for days - weeks even - revealing them only when they're being used for their secondary purpose of cleaning windows, covering the carpet or travelling to the paper-bank. It is then that the truly engrossing and informative paragraphs leap out and stop you in your tracks. So, for me at least, the idea (not at all new) of dressing up a book as a newspaper and using the tabloid's blunt instrument technique to hammer home facts and evoke opinions is to induce a punch-drunk apathy. In these days when every information-orifice emits 'news' at a virtually inassimilable rate, surely the bandwagon is full to bursting.
Racism
Here are two books, part of a previously seen series, which warn us (on the back cover, to protect the sensitive) that they are 'newspapers'.
Now, newspapers hide their best bits for days - weeks even - revealing them only when they're being used for their secondary purpose of cleaning windows, covering the carpet or travelling to the paper-bank. It is then that the truly engrossing and informative paragraphs leap out and stop you in your tracks. So, for me at least, the idea (not at all new) of dressing up a book as a newspaper and using the tabloid's blunt instrument technique to hammer home facts and evoke opinions is to induce a punch-drunk apathy. In these days when every information-orifice emits 'news' at a virtually inassimilable rate, surely the bandwagon is full to bursting.