The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (Updated Edition)

by Brooke Gladstone

Eventually, they had to confront the fact that reality had an inescapable anti-war bias. So they rejected the official progress reports and reported what they saw, but that did not turn the public against the war.

Digital media companies could help us to be better than we are, instead of worse, but then we wouldn’t be worth as much to them.

when there is an endless supply of what we do not demand, effective marketers find ways to make us demand it.

was reminded that a narrative was crucial for graphic nonfiction