EXCERPT:
MADDOW: "And in the news environment, like, for what we, you and I do as a living, to make a living, we have to choose what we are going to talk about. That is the most powerful part of our job. For me, it is the most intellectually stimulating and rewarding part of our job. But that is absolutely the competition in which all Americans are engaged in terms of what you look at, what you believe is true, what is worth spending time with. And I feel like it’s more scientific. Like, we sort of feel like it’s stuff that we encounter and it’s stuff that we see and it’s stuff that scrolled by. I feel like the thing that your book taught me is how much this is a professional science of getting us to turn our head and getting us to stop paying attention to one thing and start paying attention to another. It makes me feel like we’re being experimented on by scientists who didn’t get our consent."