Exposing the Racket: A Simple Stunt Reveals How Blogs Will Print Anything for Pageviews It doesn’t take Noam Chomsky to see that the state of media is bad. But in 2011, I had the sense that most people didn’t fully grasp the absurd lows the system was spiraling toward. So I set out to illustrate it. And in the process surprised even myself. When I sold my first book of media criticism to Portfolio/Penguin, I decided to use the launch itself as an experiment. I even wrote some of ...
July 2, 2013 - The New York Observer