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Gone Is The Gonzo
Hunter, Steadman, and where the really good writing might have gone.
David Pennington • 5 cards
veriest tyro
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Discourses over his right shoulder as he describes his personal war against Gawker in
Ryan Holiday • Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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conscious awareness, it had already completed its speedy media arc from psychiatric wonder drug to counterculture sacrament to destroyer of young minds.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
People who begin to threaten the ruling class will not be celebrated in billionaire-owned media.
J. P. Hill • Greta's Growth
But an outlandish mind was a valuable asset,
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
James Fennimore Cooper presciently observed in the nineteenth century, “If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.”