The influencing machine

By Brooke Gladstone

Subjects: Journalismus, Hörfunk, nyt:hardcover-graphic-books=2011-06-26, Broadcast journalism, Comics & graphic novels, media tie-in, New York Times bestseller, Comic books, strips, Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, general, New York Times reviewed, Mass media, History, Journalism

Description: The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today.