Books, Arts & Manners: Good News Blues

The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong, by Ben J. Wattenberg (Simon & Schuster, 431 pp., $17.95)

Got that tired, run-down feeling? Can’t sleep nights for fretting over the economy, the environment, the population explosion, poverty, immigration, crime, women’s rights, you name it? Meet the rest of your fellow Americans—collective sufferers, says Ben J. Wattenberg, from the Bad News Blues. Which malady Wattenberg traces to the anopheles mosquitoes of the media, ever abuzz with negative reporting and chilling analysis.

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The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong, by Ben J. Wattenberg (Simon & Schuster, 431 pp., $17.95)

Got that tired, run-down feeling? Can’t sleep nights for fretting over the economy, the environment, the population explosion, poverty, immigration, crime, women’s rights, you name it? Meet the rest of your fellow Americans—collective sufferers, says Ben J. Wattenberg, from the Bad News Blues. Which malady Wattenberg traces to the anopheles mosquitoes of the media, ever abuzz with negative reporting and chilling analysis.