Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Raoul Pal and Trevor Ncube
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Trust Me, I'm Lying reads like a whistleblower's confessional crossed with a marketer's playbook: terse, anecdote-driven chapters that walk through stunts used to seed and amplify stories across blogs and aggregators. It's useful if you want vivid, concrete examples of how attention markets prize speed and outrage over accuracy and how that distorts news cycles. Its main limitation is a boastful, self-assured tone and heavy reliance on anecdotes rather than independent sourcing, so readers after balanced, evidence-rich analysis will likely feel unsatisfied.
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You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don't know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usually, someone like me.I'm a media manipulator. In a ...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Marketing, Most Recommended Books, and Politics.
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