It’s funny you said that, because it’s precisely why I wrote the book.
I realize that if people like me could do what I did to see innocent
things like books and t-shirts (which I felt were quality products)
than what could people with billions of dollars or REAL power at stake
do? What would they be willing to do to get and keep those things? I
dug way into the history of it and what I saw was not pretty.

I’m not trying to profit from this, I’m trying to expose it.

I responded asking what he planned to do with the profits from the book. His response:

Anyway, no one gets into writing books to be rich. My view is that
whatever I end up making on this book will just barely make up for the
many years of income I gave up when I exposed all my trade secrets and
tricks

Nice blog btw — @ajmcafe

The reference was to the valuation of Facebook, which was so absurdly pricey and greedy — not actually criminal — that the comparison was made.

the more fundamental shift in the new journalism revolves around the relationship between reader and writer; between the news subject and the news collector; between source and reporter

very much agreed – and our work to make those connections simpler and more rewarding continues

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