People to roam and be generalist and go wherever they find interesting stories and something i found interesting at the time was what the internet was doing there was as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political in my mind at that time but it was what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know its true or important versus irrelevant and out to spend her time so i was looking at this as a tech story and business story and i was looking at quick bait forms and how they get you to click on things and wister died and money from that and then in the middle of 2015 they was a big bronze conference at trump tower and tromping down the escalator and suddenly these forces have been looking at about how informational architecture online is treated as is a political story as well. From then it was off to the races. Host you generally grouped your book into two groups of people, if i understand it correctly. You have a group called t
The hospital, we abandoned our symptom, and we behaved the way we usually behave. The question was, would anyone detect we were sane . The answer was, no. Host your new book, the great pretender, centers around the story of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just played, called on being sane in insane places. Just has he has described, he and seven other people reportedly went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the nature of diagnosis and see if their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. I had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Originally bipolar disorder and then schizoaffective disorder. After that book came out, i was inundated by
At cspan. Org coronavirus. Host joining us on the communicators is Andrew Marantz, a writer for the new yorker magazine, also the author of the book antisocial online extremists, technoutopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thanks for joining us try to thanks for having me. Host if i understand correctly the book grew and reporting you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Guest yes. Around 2014, 2015 i was writing for the new yorker and its magazine that allows people to kind of rome and the generalists and go wherever they find interesting stories. Something else find it interesting time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt fully political in my mind at that time. It was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know whats true or whats important versus irrelevant or how to spend th
Joining us on the communicators is Andrew Marantz, a writer for the new yorker and the author of the book, easy social online extremist in the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having. The book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker, can you excite network and how it led to the genesis of the book . Guest around 2014, 2015 i was writing for the new yorker and its a magazine that allows people to roam and be generalists and go wherever they find interesting stories and something that i was finding interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political, and my mind at that time, it was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know what is true or important versus irrelevant or how to spend their time and so i was looking at this as a tech story and a business story and i was looking
To the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States than that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological change. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closest together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the other side were saying. There is that, there is also just the fact that it is a story of america. It takes place in the same cities we know today. Sometimes even in the same