Mcmanus, John. Detecting Bull: How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast, and on the Wild Web (E-Book Review‪)‬

McManus, John. Detecting bull: How to identify and bias and junk journalism in print, broadcast, and on the wild web. (CD book). Pp. 272. Sunnyvale, CA: The Unvarnished Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9840785-0-9 (CD). $23.93. Available from http://www.detectingbull.com/online_buy_page2.htm. Aristotle never used the term "BS," but he might agree with John McManus' assertion that some journalism is simply that--Bald Sophistry. McManus' Detecting Bull is a book on compact disc that lays out basic propositions on the form and function of modern journalism in order to equip readers with tools to be more informed citizens--that is, to identify bald sophistry. He writes that journalism ought to "help as many people as possible make sense of issues and events that affect their lives" (Ch. 9, p. 2). The author, who is director of the San Jose State university-based Grade the News, carefully engages the reader in how journalism currently works in order to prepare them to identify BS.