The second book is about how the news cycle is broken. A lot about write-first, verify later. Or manufactured outrage. Or straight up falsehoods.
It’s a good book, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The first book is almost a specific case of it…Hulk Hogans sex tape scandal, and the people who bankrolled his lawsuit against Gawker because of a completely unrelated personal grudge.
Gonna leave this here. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, by Ryan Holiday.
Tangentially, same author, Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Tbh, didn’t click into either of your links here, but enough to state the following…
Gonna leave this here. [“I’m a professional liar, and you, personally, are stupid for listening to anything I say”]
Tangentially, the same author, [“Buy my book, I’m now going to tell you the truth”]
The second book is about how the news cycle is broken. A lot about write-first, verify later. Or manufactured outrage. Or straight up falsehoods.
It’s a good book, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The first book is almost a specific case of it…Hulk Hogans sex tape scandal, and the people who bankrolled his lawsuit against Gawker because of a completely unrelated personal grudge.