The Myopia of Influence

Trevor Noah: Traditional media has this view that the American public are these mindless blank slates who will do whatever the media they're consuming tells them to. He says what social media is doing is less influencing people in new ways, but more just exposing the pluralism of influence and the relative lack of concentrated influence. Noah: In a middle chapter of my book, I really take aim at the idea of,. you know, that it's spreading addiction and anxiety and and oh, and right there can convince you to buy things and you know, scary.