# The News

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- Book: [The News](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-de-botton/the-news) ([The News.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-de-botton/the-news.md))
- Authors: [Alain de Botton](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-de-botton)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-269-4
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2015-02-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as religion once did. But rarely do we consider how it touches us. Here, Alain de Botton examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a fresh perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the famous? why smile when a politician falls from grace? In so doing, he brings clear sight and understanding to a force which, above all others, informs our view of reality.