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A review by beeshep
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
4.0
What an interesting read - 4 out of 5 stars because I genuinely think it so necessary to open. After reading this book, I do not browse the internet like I used to - I had noticed all of the articles on yahoo and such being smaller and not as helpful but I did not realize that the whole purpose of that was just to receive my click and nothing more. The fact that our news is more than fake news - it is unreal news just written to get as many clicks per minute as possible, is just unreal.
I never got over the shock of discovering that it was basically impossible to burn a blog. No matter how many time I had been caught leaking bad info, spinning, spamming, manufacturing news, it never changed anything. The same bloggers continued to cover my stories and bite when I created the news. They don't mind be deceived, not at all. In fact, it often made for a bonus story behind how we got the story wrong post.