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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis cover image

The Alex Kogan Experience

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

CHAPTER

The Crowd Can Do the Job for Free

The new york times printed a bunch of stories on the front page by a reporter named jason blair. He later confessed that he just made up quotes and entire scenes they printed saying that sadam hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction when he didn't. There was this belief in the air that the crowd could do the job. And why pay a genuinely independent news referee when you could get the crowd to do the job for free? Do you ever read it? Does aything ever cause a story to smell for you, ygo ther's something wrongwa kind of thing that if i were there inmy job, i'd be getting y males about. You can see those coming

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