Trust Me, We Can Fix the Media System Trust Me, I’m Lying is a fascinating book on the current corrupt state of Internet blogs and online news, the dangers surrounding media manipulation, and strategies on how to efficiently and successfully manipulate the media. The author, Ryan Holiday, has proclaimed himself to be one of the best in the field when it comes to deceiving blogs and online sources into promoting his clients and/or advancing his message to the public for little to no cost at all, while the source he uses thinks they’ve just obtained a hot new topic to write about and gain pageviews off of. This apparent win-win situation is actually quite horrible for the online community and society as a whole. While the blog writer makes …show more content…
The reader is fed information that is very likely to be fabricated, unsupported by evidence, or exaggerated simply to provoke emotional response and neglect the intellectual content of a news story. Nowadays, the majority of people in America have access to the Internet so I find the assumption to be accurate that we have all fallen victim to misinformation and unsupported online blogs. I’m sure we’ve even been baited into clicking on a story or video that seems very interesting, but is actually about or contains something completely different. This makes us frustrated and leaves us feeling as though we’ve been used in some way and left with nothing to show for it. The problem is that consumers of the media aren’t being supplied with high quality and accurate information in our news, we’re constantly given rushed stories lacking any form of validation. We deserve better than what we are putting up with right now, fortunately, there is hope for online media and there are strategies and solutions to curing the diseased media system as it stands today. The economy that supports the publishers and writers, the culture that allows the media to thrive within it, and the lack of awareness on the problem are strong places to start