Description: As blogs control the news, the job of a media manipulator, like Holiday, is to control blogsNas much as any one person can. Tired of a world where blogs take indirect bribes, marketers help write the news, and reckless journalists spread lies, he explains exactly how the media really works.
Review Quotes: "Holiday effectively maps the news media landscape. . . . Media students and bloggers would do well to heed Holiday's informative, timely, and provocative advice."
-- Publishers Weekly
"This book will make online media giants very, very uncomfortable."
-- Drew Curtis, founder, Fark.com
-- Edward Jay Epstein, author of How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
"[Like] Upton Sinclair on the blogosphere."
-- Tyler Cowen, MarginalRevolution.com, author of Average Is Over
"Ryan Holiday is the internet's sociopathic id."
-- Dan Mitchell, SF Weekly
"Ryan Holiday is a media genius who promotes, inflates, and hacks some of the biggest names and brands in the world."
-- Chase Jarvis, founder and CEO, CreativeLive "Ryan has a truly unique perspective on the seedy underbelly of digital culture."
-- Matt Mason, former director of marketing, BitTorrent "While the observation that the internet favors speed over accuracy is hardly new, Holiday lays out how easily it is to twist it toward any end. . . . Trust Me, I'm Lying provides valuable food for thought regarding how we receive-- and perceive-- information."
-- New York Post