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Douglas Rushkoff is a writer and filmmaker on media, technology and popular culture, and winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public
by BMc2020 4y ago
Douglas Rushkoff is a writer and filmmaker on media, technology and popular culture, and winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. He teaches media studies at NYU and the New School University and serves as technology columnist for the Daily Beast. His most recent documentary is Digital Nation, and his most recent book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age.
- choko 4y agoAnd? How does this make their opinion more or less valid? This is a classic example of appeal to authority.
- denton-scratch 4y agoIt's not an argument, and so it's not an appeal to authority, nor any other fallacious argument. It's just the blurb you see if you click on the author's byline at the head of the article. I clicked on it, because I wanted to know who the author was.
- RunSet 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
- choko 4y agoWhen the only argument is fallacious, you actually need to provide something non- fallacious or you are left with no argument and your premise fails, as is the case here. I find it condescending that your only reply was a link and no text. Peak intellectual laziness.
- yallneedtogetit 4y agoAh, so he's entirely unqualified to write on the topic, and also not in the list of the first 10,000 people this "elite group of billionaires" would reach out to to talk about their super secret prepper plans. 100% fake article.