Matt Drudge: Let’s Return to the Principle of Journalism
Matt Drudge, born in October 28, 1966, is an American political commentator and creator of a news aggregator that he edits himself called the Drudge Report. Matt Drudge also wrote the book Drudge Manifesto in 2000 which reached the New York Times Bestseller List after it spoke out against the journalistic machine that exists today. Drudge is a very outspoken, yet controversial reporter that has caught the attention of many people over the country due to what he has to say about the corruption of media and lack of tenets of journalists.
His book takes a look at the media’s relentless assault on the American conscience. He exposes journalistic compromise from all possible angles, pointing out the unfair, unbalanced news coverage of the media. He blows the lid off the techniques of the liberal press, in which he reveals blatant partisanships. In his book, he attempts to put an end to the bias in the news coverage found in the media and to return to the principle of journalism. His book represents his ideology on the corruption of the influence that the media has on society. He breaks down the walls of communication and reports the truth; Drudge uses the internet to break the media apart. He is a throwback of the traditional reporter, he says the truth with lack of influence by others.
He acknowledges and attempts to put an end to the bias in news coverage found in the media.
Jeff Bezos: The Truth of Amazon
Brad Stone, born in 1971, is an American journalist and author of two books. One of the books that he authored and caught a lot of attention was his book titled The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of the Amazon which discusses the rise of the Amazon company and the CEO behind it, Mr. Jeff Bezos. In his book, Stone describes a business culture where partners are expendable and the work is painful as some describe it.
In his book, Stone gives the reader an insight in the world of the Amazon company, especially by describing the cooperation of Jeff Bezos in the growth of the company. He describes Bezos as a man of many contradictions. He also describes that it’s quite difficult to work for Bezos because even though he is a billionaire, he still requires employers to pay for valet parking and other minimal things. No one is more aware of the potentially damaging features of Amazon’s culture and beliefs than Jeff Bezos himself. Bezos is described as a sponge in terms of adhering information; a hard inquisitor.
The book makes people feel icky for how much they enjoy buying things at Amazon. Amazon figured out early on how to create software that scours the web for price information from the competition and to automatically match the lowest available price. For years it avoided collecting sales taxes.
Mr. Stone does an agile job of describing the company’s evolution within the technological revolution that’s remaking the world at the turn of the millennium.
