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Interesting claims:
• Ad-funded journalism is less polarizing than membership or subscription-funded journalism.

• "The reader revenue the news media now seeks is not a payment for news; it is actually more of a validation fee."

• "The media relying on ad revenue makes the world look pleasant. The media relying on reader revenue makes the world look grim."

I have read all of the segments on Paul

Good book on Branding. Some concepts and facts seem a bit outdated though. I should read the newest addition.

I skipped the chapter on race and politics for now. The chapter on race and intelligence was too interesting to wait.

Great book on the effects of culture and how it has spread. It challenges the view that groups are shaped by their immediate circumstances and posits that groups have their own internal cultural patterns that antedate the environment they currently find themselves in.