Trust Me, I'm Lying_ Confessions of a Me - Holiday, Ryan by Holiday Ryan

Author:Holiday, Ryan [Holiday, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi

BOOK TWO

THE MONSTER ATTACKS

WHAT BLOGS MEAN

XIII

IRIN CARMON, THE DAILY SHOW, AND ME

THE PERFECT STORM OF HOW TOXIC BLOGGING CAN BE

IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS BOOK YOU SAW THE INSIDE on how to manipulate blogs. There are fatal flaws in the blogging medium that create opportunities for influence over the media—and, ultimately, culture itself. If I were writing this book two or three years ago, it would have ended there.

I did not fully understand the dangers of that world. The costs of the cheap power I had in it were hidden, but once revealed, I could not shake them. I had used my tactics to sell T-shirts and books, but others, I found, used them more expertly and to more ominous ends. They sold everything from presidential

candidates to distractions they hoped would placate the public—and made (or destroyed) millions in the

process.

Realizing all this changed me. It made it impossible for me to continue down the path that I was on. The second half of this book explains why. It is an investigation not in how the dark arts of media manipulation work but of their consequences.

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