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It's described as one of the podcast host's all-time favorite books about media, dealing with similar themes of information spread and manipulation.
It's what Optin Sinclair was talking about over a hundred years in the Brass Check, which is one of my all time favorite books about media.
— Episode: The New Age of Media Manipulation | René...
Episode: The New Age of Media Manipulation | Renée DiResta
It's described as one of the podcast host's all-time favorite books about media, dealing with similar themes of information spread and manipulation.
It's what Optin Sinclair was talking about over a hundred years in the Brass Check, which is one of my all time favorite books about media.
Episode: Attention Wars: How Lies Spread Online Have Real-W...
Ryan Holiday mentioned reading this non-fiction book by Upton Sinclair, which is an expos of early 20th-century media practices. He drew parallels between Sinclair's observations and contemporary media challenges.
Then I read this book by Upton Sinclair. He wrote a book called The Brass Check in the early 1900s. After he wrote The Jungle, he wrote an expose of how the media system worked.
So after he wrote The Jungle, he wrote this like a similar book. It's nonfiction instead of fiction, I guess. But he basically writes an expose of early 20th century media.
He writes this huge because he's now this very famous figure and he's extremely left wing. So he's and at that time, newspapers were very sort of puppets of capitalists, right? It was like part it was its own industry.
And so he's kind of doing this book about what it's like to be covered by the media and how inaccuracies about him are spreading. And there's all the problems.
But I remember just reading that book and going, oh, this is this is the same thing. Like we've always had these problems.
Episode: Finding Purpose In An Abandoned Ghost Town | Brent...
Reading this book inspired Ryan to write his first book; it was described as a unique expos of the media and how the system works.
I read this book by Uptons and Claire called the brass check and and it was like just a different it was just this unique book that was I was like oh she's doing like an expose of the media of how the system works and I was like I have an similar experience of this other world like I could do a book like that
Episode: No One Can Hold Anything Over You | Keeping “The N...
This book, an expos of the news industry, was recommended because almost nothing has changed in the industry since its writing.
then the other book which inspired my book trust me I'm lying if you read the jungle as a kid in high school or whatever Eptan Sinclair's expose of the meat packing industry then I strongly suggest you read his book The Brass Check which is actually an expose of the news industry around the same time and sadly almost nothing has changed.
Episode: There Needs To Be Outlets | Keeping “The News” In...
This book, an expos of the news industry, was mentioned as a follow-up to "The Jungle", highlighting the similarities between manipulation in different industries and the lack of change over time.
if you read the jungle as a kid in high school or whatever eptanson clears expose of the meat packing industry then i strongly suggest you read his book the brass check which is actually an expose of the news industry around the same time and sadly almost nothing this changed
Episode: You’d Be A Fool To Not Do This
It was mentioned as one of many books that Mark Zuckerberg should read; the context suggests it's a book offering insightful commentary.
By the way there are plenty of books at Suckerberg ought to read these days in that vein, including amusing ourselves to death, the storm before the storm, the brass check, the filter bubble and trust me online.
Episode: Leaders Are Made Not Born | Keeping “The News” In...
This book, an expos of the news industry, was recommended as a follow-up to *The Jungle*, highlighting the unchanging nature of news manipulation.
if you read The Jungle as a kid in in high school or whatever epton Sinclair's expose of the meatpacking industry then I strongly suggest you read his book The Brass Check which is actually an expose of the news industry around the same time and sadly almost nothing has changed