Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

3.5.

It was great, and really took the lid off of how/why social and digital media generally operates. How the blogs we get are a product of the medium, a medium which prioritises page-views over anything else.

Got a bit repetitive toward the end, and I found myself saying ‘Yada yada yada' a lot whilst I skimmed (lots of repetition - we get it, blogs are dogs). But really important. ESP. The quick summary in the chapter ‘how to read a blog'

‘You can't have your news instantly and for it to be high quality and truthful' (or something along those lines)

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