Community Apprentice
by Graydon “Dee” Hubbard
Style: Literary Fiction / Satire
ISBN: 9798891322240
Print Size: 322 pages
Writer: Environment Press
Reviewed by Chelsey Tucker
Community Apprentice deftly balances the absurd nature of politics with the human want for nature and our need for untainted fact.
Julie Anders is an apprentice on the new community MRABC. She offers information analysis for the community reveals together with the Dan Panders’ Present. Dan Panders is the most well liked new host in speak tv and with Julie’s numbers-driven analysis, they attempt to expose deceptive media protection and Congressional coverups. The overlords throughout the community are extraordinarily “ratings-driven and rabidly-biased” which sparks drama when Julie and Dan don’t pander to their political ideology and concentrate on the reality that the numbers reveal.
The important thing to Julie’s power within the face of despair stems from her bond along with her father. Their bond has been deep since she was in highschool they usually shared a run-in with an outdated grizzly bear named Lop Ear. After Lop Ear ate all their meals whereas within the backcountry of Yellowstone, Julie and her father survived off trout they caught and the one surviving meals merchandise: peanut butter. They had been rescued by the Ranger and a father-son duo, Mark and Jason-Jerrold Jennings.
Years later, shortly after graduating with a Grasp’s diploma from Colorado College, Julie runs into Jason-Jerrold exterior a Patagonia retailer, the spark to their new romance. Simply as their relationship started, JJ’s work introduced him to Chile for 3 months. Throughout this time, Julie threw herself into her work on the solely community that supplied her a job after commencement. Community Apprentice continues to observe Julie as she navigates her private {and professional} life, each stained with demise and disagreements. Julie should proceed pursuing a fulfilled profession outlined by integrity and targeted on the numbers.
Hubbard makes use of Julie as a lens to look at the chaos inside American politics and media protection throughout the final couple of a long time. The satirical nature of this novel oozes out by her questions: “Is politics even a career? Or has it advanced to only a playground for power-seekers?”
As a result of nature of Julie’s place, the novel generally turns into overly saturated with info and makes it really feel dense. Nevertheless, there’s a degree of self-awareness within the character’s means to hold forth and trigger these moments of knowledge overload. “Beware the pontifications. You’ll be accused of parroting the type of these you criticize.”
This novel is past related. Anybody fascinated by political science or the character of speak tv will achieve a lot from Community Apprentice, an attractive, statistical-driven exploration and critique of contemporary community information and the up to date points they select to cowl or to not cowl. This fictionalized account of broadcast journalism well highlights the misrepresented and untold truths inside American media and the necessity to pander to a community’s political ideology as a substitute of offering unbiased statistical information and drawing logical rational conclusions as a substitute of fear-mongering.
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