NPR doesn’t exist to promote books by Fox News hosts, but they’re an easy mark for MSNBC personalities. Rachel Maddow has counted on it. On January 27, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep awarded seven minutes to All In host Chris Hayes to promote his new book The Sirens’ Call, mourning “the assault of attention capitalism.”
The favorable New York Times book review called it “An ambitious analysis of how the trivial amusements offered by online life have degraded not only ourselves but also our politics.” Degraded by Donald Trump, that is.
Hayes, they asserted, argues “this particular stage of capitalism is fueled by a fracking of our minds. It’s not as if Trump is keen to regulate any extraction industry, let alone the one that helped bring him to the White House.”
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