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

from publiusdb

This book is Ryan Holiday's mea culpa. He's a media manipulator or was at one time, and after a pang of conscience over the effects of his actions, he's coming clean. As one friend put it when I described the book to him, the techniques Holiday describes and decries in "Trust Me, I'm Lying" feel ...

from Darwa

Ryan Holiday writes just like you would imagine he talks, and he sounds just like the fun but scheming kid that everyone knew in highschool. The one who was smart enough to do his own Geometry homework, but stopped by your house every afternoon to try and talk you into letting him copy yours -- a...

from publiusdb

This book is Ryan Holiday's mea culpa. He's a media manipulator or was at one time, and after a pang of conscience over the effects of his actions, he's coming clean. As one friend put it when I described the book to him, the techniques Holiday describes and decries in "Trust Me, I'm Lying" feel ...

from RhodesDavis

Ryan Holiday exposes the ease with which online news organizations and blogs can be easily manipulated, based on his experience using the system to promote his projects, clients, and American Apparel. He provides great insight into the blurring of the lines between blogging and journalism and how...

from gereon

Interesting eye-opener about media manipulation but a bit incoherent and unstructured at times. Personal attacks always reduces credability of authors.