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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMatthew Flamm: I'm the reporter Fox News conned
Crain's New York Business:There are six steps to perpetrating a classic con, according to the 1923 book Confessions of a Confidence Man. My favoritethe one that best summarizes how in 2008 Fox News duped me in order to discredit my reportingis the third in the list, known as the "Build-up."
That's where the con artist (in this case the Fox News publicity department) introduces the scheme to the sucker (that would be me) by "rousing his greed, showing him the chance of profit and filling him so full of anticipation and cupidity that his judgment is warped and his caution thrown away."
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In any case, there is no benefit in admitting to having been played for a mark, but the story is out there in the new book Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires by NPR reporter David Folkenflik, and in Erik Wemple's column in The Washington Post.
I write now because not all the details of that elaborate ruse have come to light. My hope is that it will prove instructive to hear how one gets conned, even if the reaction of most readersthe reaction I'm sure I would have hadis likely to be: Oh, that would never happen to me.
That's where the con artist (in this case the Fox News publicity department) introduces the scheme to the sucker (that would be me) by "rousing his greed, showing him the chance of profit and filling him so full of anticipation and cupidity that his judgment is warped and his caution thrown away."
...snip...
In any case, there is no benefit in admitting to having been played for a mark, but the story is out there in the new book Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires by NPR reporter David Folkenflik, and in Erik Wemple's column in The Washington Post.
I write now because not all the details of that elaborate ruse have come to light. My hope is that it will prove instructive to hear how one gets conned, even if the reaction of most readersthe reaction I'm sure I would have hadis likely to be: Oh, that would never happen to me.
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Matthew Flamm: I'm the reporter Fox News conned (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2013
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Squinch
(50,956 posts)1. Those people are so slimy! How do they sleep?
xfundy
(5,105 posts)2. Upside down, with their little claws digging into the rafters.