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  • Confessions of a Media Manipulator
  • Written by: Ryan Holiday
  • Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
  • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (78 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

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 world where blogs control and distort the news, my job is to control blogs - as much as any one person can.

In today’s culture...

  1. Blogs like Gawker, Buzzfeed, and the Huffington Post drive the media agenda.
  2. Bloggers are slaves to money, technology, and deadlines.
  3. Manipulators wield these levers to shape everything you read, see, and watch - online and off.

Why am I giving away these secrets? Because I’m tired of a world where blogs take indirect bribes, marketers help write the news, reckless journalists spread lies, and no one is accountable for any of it. I’m pulling back the curtain because I don’t want anyone else to get blindsided.

I’m going to explain exactly how the media really works. What you choose to do with this information is up to you.

©2012 Ryan Holiday (P)2019 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

“A playbook for the dark arts of exploiting the media.” (Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power)

“Ryan Holiday's brilliant exposé of the unreality of the Internet should be required reading for every thinker in America.” (Edward Jay Epstein, author of The Big Picture)

"[Like] Upton Sinclair on the blogosphere." (Tyler Cowen, MarginalRevolution.com; author of An Economist Gets Lunch)

“The strategies Ryan created to exploit blogs drove sales of millions of my books and made me an internationally known name.” (Tucker Max, number-one New York Times best-selling author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell)

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Great eye opening book

Lots of great learning. The only thing that shucked was the reading by Ryan holiday. His voice and tempo change constantly, reflecting this was read over multiple days, and copy pasted in between. Just hard to follow along as there is little intonatonation. Nonetheless the content is great!

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Very enlightening, really enjoyed the book

Certainly fleshed out Ryan and his prior roles in industry. I’d definitely recommend this for an insightful, in depth deep dive into media and it’s use in marketing manipulation and social controls.

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Eye opener

This should be basic education this book has changed my views on the news.

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Must read/listen for everyone.

Tells you how media is malicious and using you for clicks. Absolutely amazing read.

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and yet...

so many things are out in the open now thanks to this book. Yet, many rest untold. Hoping for a 2nd Volume.

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