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“As CNN broadcasts my message to millions of Americans, I realize my job isn’t to manipulate public opinion. My job is to get gatekeepers like CNN to do it for me. Once you have ink, your story becomes real. A conversation starts that didn’t exist moments before, a conversation nobody would think to have if you hadn’t started it. The public begins to accept something you created out of nothing.”
― All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
― All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
“In the PR business, we try to convert a villain into a vindicator or a victim as fast as possible.”
― All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
― All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
“It isn't so easy, is it, to change who we are by changing where we are? The past has a nasty habit of following us around. I believe it's called regret.”
― The Last Lifeboat
― The Last Lifeboat
“And I see Vati's newspaper, finally, for what it is. Not news, but manipulation of thought and mind.”
― Daughter of the Reich
― Daughter of the Reich
“Only when information is combined with belief does it become knowledge, and only knowledge leads to action.”
― The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
― The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
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