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Trust Me, I'm Lying
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Podcasts that mention Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
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Episode: Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism
Published on November 18, 2023
Well, I I actually, this is the epigraph—is to trust, me, lying is the James Agy quote where it’s basically saying that fundamentally journalism is a form of lying because you’re taking disparate events and coordinating them to tell a story that you want to tell. And you’re leaving things out, and then there’s that famous, what’s her name, the journalist Janet Malcolm thing about how fundamentally journalism is also this act of aggression and hostility.
The guest references the epigraph of 'Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator' and discusses how journalism can manipulate the truth by selectively coordinating events to fit a narrative.
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