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02-20-2017 9:32 PM


On The Media - How To Counter Milo's Trolling Playbook
Yes, I'm posting this here and have previously posted same message at the "Fake polls, fake news" topic. I was intending the message for this topic, but it also became equally relevant at the other topic.
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The index page for the entire hour:
See You In Court | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The ending 10 minute segment:
How To Counter Milo's Trolling Playbook | On the Media | WNYC
There is an audio link, a text summary, and a complete text transcript available via the second above link.
The summary:
quote:
Ryan Holiday literally wrote the book on how to generate attention by stoking controversy -- it's called Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. And now, Holiday says he recognizes those tactics being used by Milo Yiannopoulos, the alt-right icon and blogger who has been courting protest and outrage on a college tour (and with a book deal).
Most recently, Yiannopoulos's speaking engagement at the University of California Berkeley led to massive protests, and his speech was cancelled. Holiday says the protests and outrage are exactly what Yiannopoulos wants, and he talks with Bob about how to effectively respond to speech intended to provoke.
Holiday's column for The Observer this week is called "I Helped Create the Milo Trolling Playbook. You Should Stop Playing Right Into It".
The main points I remember from listening a couple of weeks ago:
The best thing for the protesters to do, would have been to totally ignore him.
News coverage will focus in on the bad. They cite two examples:
1) A large peaceful gathering (such as the incident in question) where one or a few do destruction.
2) A large Tea Party gathering where one or a few are carrying racist or otherwise stupid signs.
Ryan Holiday also comments on where, in the past, he personally did an act of vandalism to make a peaceful crowd look bad. I think it is a real possibility that the destructive acts in question might have been done by Milo supporters.
Feel free to listen yourself, or read the transcript(s) of one or more segment of the hour.
Moose

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