
Aug 21 • 16M
15 Minutes In Hell - Episode 3 - Taylor Lorenz, The Washington Post
15 Minutes In Hell is a quickfire interview podcast focusing on the big issues in tech and its interaction with society, featuring the smartest people in the industry interviewed by PR CEO and Author Ed Zitron.
Welcome to episode three of 15 Minutes In Hell.
Today’s guest is Taylor Lorenz, columnist at The Washington Post and author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet, available for preorder now.
We talked about how modern news organizations have failed to keep up with the progress of internet culture, how exploitative online fame has become, and how now more than ever we need to be aware of how much internet content can be used to manipulate others.
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15 Minutes In Hell - Episode 3 - Taylor Lorenz, The Washington Post
The state of the news media today really puts paid to the notion that unregulated free markets produce more innovation and better outcomes. As the media has become increasingly unregulated, competitive, and profit-oriented over the past few decades, it has not resulted in a better informed public or more oversight of government but an endless sludge of clickbait, sensationalism, ideological propaganda, and lazy journalism. No one could possibly argue with a straight face that individuals and society overall are better off today than they were 40 year ago when news provision was primarily seen as a public service.
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