I wonder whether this book is less accurate than average, or whether this review is finding only the typical level of inaccuracy.
I wonder whether this book is less accurate than average, or whether this review is finding only the typical level of inaccuracy.
Everything else she says is subjective. She thinks Stone portrayed Amazon as a cutthroat, sinister culture; she tries to re-frame it as an Edenic workplace. The truth is probably somewhere in between, but her version is certainly not a fact.
I am sure most of these thoughts and feelings attributed to Bezos are fictional.
How long before you either () stop being shocked by the stories you understand, or () stop assuming the journalist is telling you the truth in stories you don't? A sentence like this makes more sense in the past tense...
When I was small, my parents taught me that if it appeared on TV, it wasn't true (they were mostly thinking of commercials, but news programs were offenders too). It may be sad, but those seem more and more like words to live by, and extend to other media.
Someone I know calls it 'The Glowing Box of Lies', which seems as good a description as any.