Despite the fact that I did not enjoy the first 25 pages of Manjoo’s True Enough, the rest of the book was not too bad. The message put forth in the book; truth and reality can be greatly influenced and directed, proved to be very relevant to class. The public sphere holds a tremendous amount of power, influencing individuals in many different fashions.
One example of this power was seen on page 115 where Manjoo speaks of the “Dr. Fox effect”, in which “the suggestion that a person’s speaking style could so strongly seduce an audience - that the way you said something might be more important than what you’d actually said – really makes you think twice about how the public evaluates so-called experts.” This truly reminds me of our modern day media and the topics that they decide are important. A lot of what we see in the news today has to do with the lives of celebrities, facebook or some other trendy subject. The media can allow us to forget what is truly important in life.
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