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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

Why Does It Seem Like Everybody Hates Everything?

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

You're All Your Own Publicist

There used to be this relationship between fame and positivity, but that some time in the last 20, 30 years, fame became more synonymous with familiarity. The fastest route to publicity in the inernet age is not just by praising things, but by finding the right way to be critical of what's happening. People are more interested in bad news than good information because it's jus how it is. So i don't lofe you if i got any of that just utterly wrong that you can comment on it.

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