Interview with a Media Manipulator

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Published on Jul 19, 2012 by rebellioustruths

This cranial smashing, world imploding Underground Interview with Ryan Holiday and Rebellious Truths is about the rise of online media manipulation and its devastating consequences. Holiday is the Director of Marketing for American Apparel and author of the new book Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator/dp/159184553X). WATCH THE TRAILER HERE (http://youtu.be/q1e44JsecbE).

In his book and this interview, Holiday undoes the curtain of how online news and blogs are manipulated by people like him at the expense of the people. Many consider the internet to be the new great frontier of freedom for information, an oasis amidst a toxic sea of corporate media propaganda. But is it? Holiday blows forth a storm of insider info and shines a spotlight on how political candidates are manufactured online, human psychology is manipulated for page views, and how honest and integrity are all but lost in this digital debacle. No worries, it's not all gloom and doom as he provides many solutions and alternatives to get educated and stop the manipulation from happening to YOU!

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The same is true for snack chips

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This reminds me of the talk I heard twenty years ago by a former worker for a snack chip company. The research team knew how to trigger appetite and saliva production with salty/acid taste. The fat in a chip is something the human body can't register and send the full signal. (Only carbohydrate and protein signal-'full'). The mouth 'drama' of a chip being crunch and dissolving with a few chews is actually a positive reinforcer to eat more chips. Betcha can't eat just one is a scientifically designed chip that is made deliberately to get people to eat more by triggering all of the pleasures of eating possible and bypassing all of the body's ability to say 'I have had enough'. The company puts the well-being of its consumers aside, and hijacks their psychology and biology of eating, for a profit.