Outrage, Inc. audiobook

A great book. That said, if you're not coming from a generally right of center political view point you might find it harder to enjoy. As someone who does come from that part of the spectrum I was grateful to hear some new ways of looking at things. A challenge to those who see themselves as more liberal/progressive. Read the book and argue! More speech for all!

Timely account of how “progressives” have damaged academia and journalism with their manufactured outrage and misguided attempts at “social justice”. The book has stories aplenty, many are quite funny, but is lacking in solutions.

Fantastic book and a must read.Only complaint I have is where they pull out the 97% of all scientist claim on global warming...uh, climate change.The claim actually comes from a collection of ~12,000 scientific papers. Two-thirds of the papers came to no conclusion on what caused climate change. One-third of papers concluded there was a cause. Of those papers that determined a cause (1/3) 97% found it was man.That's 32% of the original ~12,000 papers said it was man. BUT that doesn't scare people, so we say it's 97% of scientists.You can see this manipulation in the CNN report linked. The reporter answers it factually, with the info above, but neglects to point out the real number is 32% of the reports.I guess it just further validates the book main theme.https://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/20...

Eye opening read about how the news is a lot more opinion and a lot less of facts. While I was already cautious about where I get my news, I'll be doing a lot more source checking. If you believe what you hear because CNN or the NY Times said so - you really shouldn't.

I need to pay closer attention to Hunter's columns. Yes, this book was at some level a bit over the top regarding the pit into which liberalism has thrown journalism, but not by too much. He doesn't really couch this descent into conspiracy terms, but he does make it sound as though many of the steps leading to Journalism's end are very purposeful on the part of some liberals - mostly because it serves those liberal's ends. He does demand that we should stand up to the mob when the opportunity arises. As I was finishing the book I stumbled across a video clip of Stephen Crowder confronting, in a respectful but forceful way, a leftist college professor of logic who claimed, with essentially no evidence, that Crowder had made death threats against the professor's son and called him a Nazi. This pillar of education refused to confront Crowder meaningfully, and remained insistent on his false claims. That seems to be where we are.

Just popping in my notes where the author decimates the "CONSENSUS" on Climate change. There is the idea around that "98% of scientists agree that climate change is caused by human beings." It is a FALSE STATEMENT. They ONLY took answers of 77 Scientists to get that statistic! This came from a 2 Question online survey sent to 10,257 Earth scientists. About 3,000 responded. QUESTION 1: "When Compared with previous 1800 levels do you think that mean global temperatures have risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant?" QUESTION 2: "Do you think Human Activity is a Significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?" 82% responded YES. GUESS WHAT? They DROPPED 2,923 respondent answers. Only 77 responses were considered in the Survey Statistic!! So, on Question 2, 98% of all scientists was actually only 75 out of 77 scientists.

This book is well-documented and full of names, dates, actual quotes, etc. It's not just a bunch of broad vitriol hurled at the Left. My biggest problem is that the author repeatedly resorts to very juvenile sorts of insults, like "...figures can lie like Bill Clinton caught with his pants around his ankles in the intern housing". He refers repeatedly to unwashed, body-pierced drum circle types. These sorts of petty insults detract from his message, and may well have the affect of alienating open-mind liberals who might have picked up his book with the desire to learn something.

since 98 college costs double, MU decline 12%, were it not for double standards liberals would have none, when you choose the unit of measurement you can always win the question, 5 mass extinctions to date, no citing unpopularity of liberals, take back america conf of 06 and 07 Obama spoke at, propaganda spreads like, Moore hypocrisy what is a documentary and fake, don't make decisions based on lies, source from as many as possible, leave comfort zone, question the presumption assumption bias.

Fun read. Lots of good quotes.

Interesting ReadSome revelations were startling to me. Just the right mix of sarcasm and interesting information to make it fun. Kind of important gossip. Not overly partisan. I enjoyed it. Easy read

It's amazing how quickly I read books that just reconfirm political stuff that makes me angry. I might need to start mixing some Nicholas Sparks books into my "Currently Reading" list. Just kidding.....

Would have given it one less star for blatant right-wing bias but it makes up for it by being funny. Get the audiobook edition read by the author for his hilarious impersonations when quoting people.

I loved this! Pretty much everything in it is quotable, so many bits I liked, these are the parts I liked most: - “There is an amazing phenomenon that occur in some human beings when things are going well, they actively seek something to be upset about…. Something in our reptilian brains won’t let us accept how good we have it, how safe we are. We seek out threats, create problems, because it’s easier to blame something external for our difficulties than it is to accept blame for our bad decisions or realize that, for lack of a better phrase, shit happens…. The concept of intersectionality allows literally anything to blamed on someone else, didn’t get a job you wanted? intersectionality has you covered. It was because you were X, Y, or Z, got pulled over for speeding? same rules apply. There’s nothing for which blame can’t be attributed to an external force or entity under the umbrella of intersectionality…. It truly is evil to absolve people of their responsibility and assign it to an external nebulas force beyond their control. Everyone has failures and disappointments but they should serve as learning experiences, those experiences lead to improvement and better outcomes in the future. But people who are told they’re victims of society’s bias many times will be discouraged by a few simple failures.”- “You wouldn’t accept as Gospel medical advice from a plumber nor would you take the word of a pediatrician on car maintenance, yet every single day millions of people take the advice of people who have zero experience or first hand knowledge about the subjects they’re so assertively speaking of simply because they’re on television."- “Media bias is more than just how a story is reported, it is which stories are reported. The power to ignore, the power to pick and chose is the most pernicious power journalists have, and they exercise it regularly.”- “There lives an incredible arrogance behind nothing but a job title, journalist. A good rule of thumb in life is always be weary of anyone who appoints himself an arbiter of truth. Truth isn’t really in need of a referee, one need only point it out and there it is, yet a trend exists in media to assign someone to be the minister of truth, the decider of what is and is not in the world of politics.-“(John) Oliver becomes someone daring enough to “speak truth to power,” Kardashian becomes someone worth listening to because the outlets that are supposed to tell us who is worth listening to say so. The most pernicious power the media has is the power to ignore, but the second arrow in its quiver is to elevate to a level of influence and importance that which should be ignored.”- “When celebrities act as political pundits all presses are stopped yet again and their declarations, usually in the form of tweets, are tweeted as though they were carved into stone tablets by a burning bush..... The opinions of celebrities, both real and manufactured, are as valid as your average man on the street interview, only they get attention."- “The worst thing ever to happen to journalism wasn’t social media or cable news, though both played their part in its demise. It was Watergate, the most celebrated moment in journalistic history, celebrated again at the 2017 white house correspondents dinner, it created the concept of the reporter as celebrity, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein made an untold fortune, were played in a movie by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, were showered awards and sent many journalists running down the path of fame, rather than truth. And fame is the only thing heroine gets addicted to. The thing was Woodward and Bernstein were real journalists, they reported a real story of corruption, worked sources, uncovered information, checked their facts and got their story right. In other words they earned their accolades. Today, too many journalists aren’t interested in doing the work, they just want the rewards. For a journalist or a pundit to achieve some level of fame all he or she has to do is get on tv, and the bar for entry to that has been lowered to the point that you’d need a shovel to get under it.”- "Study and experience are what makes them experts, and then there are people who excel at being good on TV, Neil deGrasse Tyson is undoubtedly a smart man in the field of astrophysics, if you want to know about deep space and distant planets he’s your guy. Yet his input is not limited to his area of expertise, in fact it is nearly unlimited. The media themselves so love Neil deGrasse Tyson that people magazine named him ‘sexiest astrophysicist in 2000’ quick name a second astrophysicist! but why does it have one so well known that the media seeks his input on everything from climate change to politics in the first place? Because Tyson is engaging on tv."