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“And then I read this book—did you read Upton Sinclair’s book, The Brass Check?”
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“And in the Upton Sinclair book, he’s talking about basically it’s like journalism was considered a low profession, so it didn’t have like a social structure, it didn’t have ethics, it didn’t have like institutions that gave awards to it; it was just like it was kind of a low-ass profession and so people just did whatever they could to”
Speaker The Daily Stoic The New Age of Media Manipulation | Renée DiResta 2024-08-31 Listen at 11:39
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“there's another book called the brass check which was written in i don't know 1910 1912 1930 anyways upton sinclair who wrote the jungle”
Speaker The Joe Rogan Experience Joe Rogan Experience #1836 - Ryan Holiday 2024-06-27 Listen at 1:01:53
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“It's like that expression from Upton Sinclair, who wrote sort of very critically about journalism in one of his great books called The Brass Check, he was saying like it's impossible to get someone to understand something that their salary depends on them not understanding.”