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Pros & Cons
Pros
Holiday's book is a guide to the broken blogging system. It also exposes the problem of reporters using wikipedia as a source.
This book is ryan holiday's mea culpa. Just get it online first. If you work in media - this is the book for you.
A real eye opener. It makes me feel a little uneasy. Thank you for your honesty.
Through a screen darkly is a book about how the media works. The author, john bayles, says it's important to test the media. He says the public will hold the media accountable if they are truthful.
Cons
This is a man with an overpriced product to sell' 'he consistently lives up the regrettable characteristics that he so fervently exorcises in his blog posts' 'the tone of this book is almost as if this guy is the god of the blogging industry.
Like upton sinclair on the blogosphere? The entire book can be summed up in a few blogs are what make the news. Pr pitchmen are very deceptive and they love to corral the attention of bloggers.
Ryan holiday comes from the world of bad flacks. Holiday provides the illusion that he is a brash, highly coveted innovator in the art of gaining traffic. Holiday sloppily applies his methods of praising your own circle by consistently dropping the sa... Read More
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Quality
It explains a great deal about what is wrong with the advertising world and why and how it came to be this way
The content is often laboriously repetitious and feels out of date in places even with the update
My gripe with the author is that there is more than a little repetition
The mad men of the 1950s madison avenue would be very proud
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great, online, good, most and fake. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 1,382 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 24 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Sort of confirms your worst fears about the state of the medi and the news cycle
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It was horrifying to discover how easy it is to create fake news
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As other reviewers have mentioned parts of the book are repetitive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As holiday remarked “my job is to lie to the media so they can lie to you
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I cheat bribe and connive for bestselling authors and billiondollar brands and abuse my understanding of the internet to do it
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But before any of this he first confessed to his own sins
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