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Norman Lear offered a terrific take on fake news in The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

Among the points he made:

  • False stories were more likely than real news articles to go viral on social media
  • We’re more likely to pay attention to the final source of an article — the person who calls it to our attention — than to the original source.

The answer, Lear claims: “There is an urgent need for more and better civics education in our schools, and that must be joined by efforts to foster media literacy and critical thinking.”

There in lies the rub — to quote a source whose authenticity is still in doubt.

People are not all rational human beings like Mr. Lear is. Humans are selfish, greedy and needy. We believe what we want to believe, what makes us comfortable and what is believed by the

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2-22-11 post

Your perfect prospect has people picking at their attention all day long. What’re you gonna do to stand out?

Hey You,

It’s Lewis aka Nerd #2.

Today I’m gonna share with you amazing guide for what I believe to be one of the most effective, fastest and cheapest ways to get a relationship started with a person you want to make some money with on a joint venture, affiliate, a consulting contract, or a copywriting project… using only one 100-200 word email.

This email method puts an end to your fear of picking up the damn phone and cold calling a hit list of ice cold prospects who you’d love to work with.

And if you ask anyone who’s hit the big leagues with their business and had it start making serious money, it was the meeting of and connecting with, one person who got the ball rolling and gave them the momentum they needed to really make a name for themselves.

But how you do you introduce yourself to an established authority or your ideal prospect with one tiny email without looking like a total pussy begging for help or an arrogant douche canoe know-it-all? Great question. There’s an art to finding just the right balance, but first you have to realize…

This Is Different Than Email Marketing, a Salesletter, or a Follow-Up Auto-responder

Email marketing consists of you having a list of people who’ve given you the green light to email them your newsletter or other announcements from you. And you might blast the same exact message out to dozens or even thousands of people.

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EXCERPTED FROM: The Comics Journal

It’s my understanding that venerable industry news and criticism magazine The Comics Journal let the world know today that Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel will be taking over the magazine’s web iteration.

Hodler and Nadel are best known as an editorial team in terms of their work on the magazines The Ganzfeld and Comics Comics. Nadel has also written two lauded books for Abrams collecting artists that worked in mainstream comics that might have been alternative creators in modern times, and is the driving force behind the art comics publisher PictureBox.

Tim and Dan are among my favorite writers about comics and favorite comics people generally. I look forward to what they bring to the Journal, and I greatly look forward to their long overdue attention to a proper on-line archive.

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People will believe anything they read on the internet.  Don’t believe me?  Then you must not have email, Facebook or Twitter.

The latest and greatest is the endangered tree octopus — a hoax that’s been around since 1998.  It got new life this week and is being used to show that the interent is at fault for dumbing down our children.

Children?

And I would welcome a debate on whether the Internet is more insidious than Fox News at dumbing down our population.

Oh yeah — and CNN and ABC and NBC and CBS and MSNBC and …..

American media.

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