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sofiasilva commented on crybabybea's review of How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza
Damning, relevant, and likely to be relevant for years to come. How to Sell a Genocide has a very specific focus and it refuses to be distracted from it.
It's not about Israel's actions, it's not about conservatives gleefully supporting a genocide, it's about liberal media's complicity, cowardice, and hypocrisy. As the United States and Israel continue to commit genocide against people in West Asia and especially Palestine, and liberal pundits finally decide to admit that genocide is morally wrong, this book is going to be increasingly relevant as an incriminating historical archive of the post-October 7th media landscape in the US.
I especially loved this book's focus on language as a form of propaganda and how journalists are complicit in the way they tell stories. Passive vs. active language is something that interests me a lot, and there are a plethora of examples of that here as Johnson catalogs the ways that liberal media has used language to cover up the United States' and Israel's actions.
As much as it's imperative to talk about the physical violence used by the United States and Israel, the bombs and guns and military force, it's just as important to talk about the weaponization of language and propaganda. How to Sell a Genocide provides such an important companion to ongoing research into Israel's genocide, shining a spotlight on the way media has been captured and weaponized to manufacture consent for increasingly horrific atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The research in this book is immaculate and scathing. Every media outlet, every institution, every publication is complicit. The insight into the behind-the-scenes financial aspects of foundations like AIPAC and how they directly influenced the media landscape is eye-opening but not shocking, showcasing how those who should be the most dedicated to the objective truth have been the most swayed by capitalist interests.
Maybe one of the most important books about the genocide of Palestine to be released in our era.
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3sofiasilva commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
This is my first time using an app to catalogue my personal reading and I feel like Iām finally getting the hang of this app and logging my reading progress, but I wanted to ask what made others who have used other apps before (e.g. Goodread, fable, etc.) switch over to Pagebound? Also Hi everyone!
52sofiasilva commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum
The new app version, 1.1.92, is available on iOS and Android! This includes a host of bug fixes and improvements, which I will list for curious minds at the end of the post, but we have 4 major new product updates:
Audiobook rating: For any book for which you marked the format as "audiobook" or "tandem", there is a new Audiobook sub-rating, which also appears on the Book page. This is your rating for the audiobook experience, and can help you decide which books to read on audio! As we gather more audiobook rating data, we can do interesting things like suggest top audiobooks.
Add a book to the Pagebound database: The process for adding a new book to the PB database has changed due to some unexpected restrictions from Goodreads. We used to be able to add books simply by dropping in the book's Goodreads URL, but now we have a manual entry form. We always intended to have a manual entry option, as often Goodreads data isn't great and we now have the flexibility to add books that are not on Goodreads. When adding a new book, please take care to read the instructions!! This is very important to keep the integrity of our database.
Genre Tags: With this new "add book" process, we have also introduced a Tag system for books. Right now, we are collecting Main Type (fiction, non fiction), Book type (novella, novel, essay collection, etc), Audience (adult, ya, etc) and Main Genre (Fantasy, Biography, etc). These tags are already available on the book page, however we only have data for newly added books at the moment! We will be collecting this data and adding more robust tags for subgenre and themes in the coming weeks. Really excited about this!! We can do a lot of cool things once we have genre data, like show pages dedicated to each subgenre and have genre stats.
Librarian Program: With the new manual book entry system and our new ability to tag genres (and soon: series!!), we are rolling out a Librarian Program. Librarians will verify user-entered book data, help us collect genre and series data for existing books, clean up existing book entries, and help deduping efforts (where we have more than 1 listing for a single book). Soon, we will have a way for users to flag missing or incorrect book info, which Librarians will also respond to. This is a volunteer program and an integral part of building Pagebound -- if you are interested in becoming a volunteer, you can check out the application here!
Thank you for you patience and understanding as we roll out these new processes!
As for additional updates in this release:
- new image system that delivers & loads book cover images quicker
- more reliable comment posting / liking / upvoting when internet connection is weak on app
- new sorting options for follower/following lists
- Discuss page shows a review feed instead of the All Book Posts feed
- you can use markdown in List descriptions
- quite a few other small quality of life improvements, check out the Roadmap "released" section if you're curious!
Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy šš
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Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
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