The Influencing Machine: An Introduction

Most of the words spoken herein by actual people are drawn from historical documents, transcripts, or interviews. Ellipses are used to indicate both pauses and internal edits... Great care was taken to ensure that no remark was taken out of context. Copyright © 2011 by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld With additional penciling by Randy Jones and Susann Ferris-Jones All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact W. W. Norton Special Sales at specialsales@wwnorton.com or 800-233-4830 Manufacturing by Courier Westford Book design by Neil Swaab Production manager: Anna Oler Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gladstone, Brooke. The influencing machine : Brooke Gladstone on the media / illustrated by Josh Neufeld ; with additional penciling by Randy Jones and Susann Ferris-Jones. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-393-07779-7 (hardcover) 1. Journalism—Comic books, strips, etc. 2. Broadcast journalism—Comic books, strips, etc. 3. Gladstone, Brooke—Comic books, strips, etc. 4. Graphic novels. I. Neufeld, Josh. II. Jones, Randy, 1950– III. Jones, Susann. IV. Title. PN4731.G53 2011 302.23—dc22 2011009820 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 I am Brooke Gladstone, and I am a reporter. Hello, Brooke. I like to pry. I like people to tell me important stuff. Complicated stuff. Personal stuff, sometimes. I even kinda like it when they cry. I can’t help it. I’m a radio reporter. And then, if they let me, I tell everyone else. I have compulsions... Tell us about them, Brooke... First let me tell you about a dream this friend of mine had when he was in college. Okay. He’s dreaming that he hears a riot in the street. Some kind of demonstration. So he goes to the window, and leans out, and watches. That’s all. He just watches. That’s when he realized he was a reporter. Now he has a Pulitzer Prize. He likes to watch? xi Anna Quindlen* has a Pulitzer, too. She once said that “being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.” Not true for everyone, but... Well, I can’t really process things unless I’m reporting them, know what I mean? Not really... ...Compulsions? *Author, former New York Times columnist and contributor to Newsweek. Like when the Twin Towers fell -- my station was nearby. We had to evacuate. And my show was suspended for a week... ...so I couldn’t report it. Couldn’t explain it to other people. So I couldn’t explain it to myself. My head almost exploded. But when my mother died... And that was I recorded it. a relief. xii ... - tailieumienphi.vn