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Ryan Holiday
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October 11 - October 19, 2023
Our opinions aren’t opinions; they are emotions that f...
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Our information isn’t information; it’s just hastily ...
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The narrator of Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men, a brilliant, powerful media manipulator, says that his story is the story of a man who lived in the world and to him the world looked one way for a long time and then it looked another and very different way. The change did not happen all at once. Many things happened and that man did not know when he had any responsibility for them and when he did not.
Fake news. I don’t mean fake news in the Fox News sense. I mean the fake news that clogs up most newspapers and most news websites, for that matter. The new initiative will go nowhere. The new policy isn’t new at all. . . . The product isn’t revolutionary. And journalists pretend that these official statements and company press releases actually constitute news. . . . Fake news, manufactured, hyped, rehashed, retracted—until at the end of the week you know no more than at the beginning. You really might as well wait for a weekly like the Economist to tell you what the net position is at the
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The dominant cultural medium, Postman understood, determines culture itself.
“One cannot feel more helpless than in a place and time when slander settles everything.”*
As Ed Wallace, the Businessweek writer, reminds us: “The first job of the journalist is to ask, ‘Is this information true?’”
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well.
learn to love the hard work,
To borrow from Budd Schulberg’s description of a media manipulator in his classic novel The Harder They Fall, too many of us, whether we’re in media or marketing or just sharing stories on our social accounts, are indulging
“in the illusions that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.”
