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Each chapter turns everyday online and broadcast noise into a sharp critique of what audiences accept without question. From fake news and spam to misleading adverts and absurd branding, the book argues that when information multiplies, sensemaking fails and attention collapses. The result is a fast, observational tour through digital distraction and public nonsense.","CONTENTS  \nCover  \nAbout the Book  \nAbout the Author Also by Dave Gorman Title Page  \nDedication Author ’s Note Epigraph  \n1 Too Much Information  \n2 What’s Not to Like About MyLikes?  \n3 If Everyone Checks the Internet for Everything Then What Happens When the Internet Gets It Wrong?  \n4 Whatever You Do, Don’t Look the Daily Express in the Eye  \n5 If It Isn’t One of Your Greatest Hits Don’t Put It on a Greatest Hits Album  \n6 ‘Music From & Inspired by the Motion Picture’ Can Sod Off Too  \n7 Some Things Can Be Put to a Public Vote …and Some Things Really Can’t  \n8 I Know They Make Make-Up But I Wonder How They Make Up the Things They Say Their Make-Up Can Do?  \n9 ‘Hey, BuzzFeed Seems to Work …Let’s Try and Be More Like BuzzFeed!’  \n10 If Spammers Were Better at Spamming They Wouldn’t Send Anywhere Near as Much Spam  \n11 Algorithm & Blues  \n12 Buying a Record Is Not a Form Of Protest  \n13 Why Do the Tweets You See in Smartphone Adverts Look Nothing Like the Tweets You See in Real Life?  \n14 Everyone Knows What an Apple Looks Like. Don’t They?  \n15 Rick Stivens Sends His Second Tweet  \n16 If I Was a Shopkeeper and Someone Asked Me for a Badger Glove Puppet I Wouldn’t Come Back Offering Them a Book  \n17 They’re So Concerned with Value My Supermarket’s Even Trying to Save on Vowels  \n18 If Ringo’s ‘Ringo’ Because He Called Himself Ringo, Why on Earth Would He Tell Us Not to Call Him Ringo?  \n19 What’s the Point of a Link If It Isn’t Actually Linked?  \n20 We Know Who You Are and We Know What You’ve Done. But Tell Us, Who Have You Seen at a Distance?  \n21 I Think Telling a News Story Takes More Than One Sentence. I Really Do  \n22 Does Jesus Have an IMDb Page?  \n23 If the Third and Fourth Words of Your Advert Are Lies, What Are We Supposed to Think of the Rest of It?  \n24 There’s No Need to Invent a New Word for Something Just Because It Happened on Twitter  \n25 Twitter Isn’t the Twolution for Twall of Life’s Twoblems  \n26 Why Doesn’t the Sun Trust Its Own Puns?  \n27 Can Television Please Stop Asking People,‘What Are You Going to Spend It on?’  \n28 Nobody Can Explain How They Know What a Trumpet Is. They Just Know  \n29 You Think They’d Ask Someone Who Recognises Movie Stars to Design the Posters for the Movies That Movie Stars Star in  \n30 It’s Almost as If They Don’t Know What the Word ‘Matching’Means. Almost  \n31 What Is the ‘Next Customer Please’ Sign Really a Sign of, Other Than Our Desire to Never Speak to One Another?  \n32 I Thought the Point of Advertising Was to Try and Persuade People to Buy Your Product  \n33 Kids Will Be Kids Will Be Spammers  \n34 Why Do the Phones In HTC’s Adverts All Show the Same Time?  \n35 If You’re Going to Pretend You’re a Proper Magazine at Least Make an Effort  \n36 Start Your Ad Wrong  \n37 Just Because You Can Con a Computer It Doesn’t Mean That You Should  \n38 When Nobody Bats an Eye at an Advert for an Advert, Something Somewhere Must Be Wrong  \n39 If We’re Supposed to Believe in Pretend People, We Have to Let  \nPretend People Live in the Real World  \n40 TMI  \nEpilogue  \nAcknowledgements  \nSneak Preview  \nCopyright  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAbout the Book  \nNowadays, the world is full of people trying to tell us things. So much so that we have taught our brains not to pay much attention. After all, click the mouse, tap the screen, flick the channel and it’s on to the next thing. But Dave Gorman thinks it’s time to have a closer look, to find out how much nonsense we tacitly accept.  \nSuspicious adverts, baffling newspaper headlines, fake Twitter, endless cat videos, insane TV shows where the presenters ask the same questions over and over...  \nCan we even hear ourselves think over the rising din? Or is there just too much information?  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAbout the Author  \nDave Gorman is an award-winning comedian, storyteller and writer. He has numerous TV writing credits and was part of the double BAFTA-winning team behind The Mrs Merton Show. 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