{"id":2191,"date":"2018-02-09T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2018-02-09T08:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:34:53","slug":"good-information-is-too-little-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"GOOD INFORMATION IS TOO LITTLE WITH US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is in a muddle at the moment, but what is one who cares to do?<\/p>\n<p>I am currently readIng <strong>Kurt Andersen\u2019s Fantasyland:How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History<\/strong> and <strong>Kevin Young\u2019s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbugs, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post Facts and Fake News<\/strong> to try to understand why people choose such wrong sources of information and <strong>Tali Sharot\u2019s The Influential Mind: What The Brain Reveals About Our Power To Change Others<\/strong> to figure out how\u00a0 librarians can help these people to want and choose better sources. Several years ago,I also liked a lot <strong>Farhad Manjoo\u2019s book, True Enough: Learning To Live In A Post Fact Society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I still firmly believe the world is one giant library, in dire need of the enlightened suggestions of\u00a0 librarians and the well-informed.\u00a0 Picky readers of the world, it is time to step up and speak out.\u00a0 Voting season is upon us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is in a muddle at the moment, but what is one who cares to do? I am currently readIng Kurt Andersen\u2019s Fantasyland:How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History and Kevin Young\u2019s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbugs, Plagiarists, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}