Jon Ronson Concepts

Lost at Sea

by Jon Ronson · 1 Oct 2012 · 375pp · 106,536 words

ALSO BY JON RONSON Them: Adventures with Extremists The Men Who Stare at Goats The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry RIVERHEAD BOOKS Published by the Penguin

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a Solar?” (US GQ, March 2011); “The Chosen Ones” (Guardian, August 5, 2006); “A Message from God” (Guardian, October 21, 2000); “The Name’s Ronson, Jon Ronson” (Guardian, May 10, 2008); “I Looked into That Camera. And I Just Said It” (Guardian, October 2, 2010); “I’m Loving Aliens Instead” (Guardian, April

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His Kitchen” (Guardian, February 3, 2012); “Lost at Sea” (Guardian, November 11, 2011) ISBN 978-1-101-61242-2 To Sarah Vowell Contents Also by Jon Ronson Title Page Copyright Dedication PART ONE THE STRANGE THINGS WE’RE WILLING TO BELIEVE Have You Ever Stood Next to an Elephant, My Friend? Doesn

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’t Everyone Have a Solar? The Chosen Ones A Message from God PART TWO HIGH-FLYING LIVES The Name’s Ronson, Jon Ronson I Looked into That Camera. And I Just Said It I’m Loving Aliens Instead First Contact Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes PART THREE EVERYDAY DIFFICULTY

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get to know Nicky, to understand how he does it, was to enroll in Alpha. “Hi!” says a woman wearing a name tag. “You’re . . . ?” “Jon Ronson.” “Jon. Let’s see. Great!” She ticks off my name and laughs. “I know it feels strange on the first night, but don’t be

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. PART TWO HIGH-FLYING LIVES “Their eyes met and exchanged a flurry of masculine/feminine master/slave signals.” —Ian Fleming, Goldfinger The Name’s Ronson, Jon Ronson This is the centenary month of Ian Fleming’s birth. There’s an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum dedicated to Bond aesthetics. It’s

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impromptu apology for me to read out in the documentary. “It would be great,” Roland said, “if you could say something like, ‘Hello, I’m Jon Ronson. I really must apologize for my article. I said this . . . Blah blah blah . . . It was wrong. And I guess I’ve been doing it for

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market. He wrote, “Louis EVERYWHERE . . . but who on earth would want to cover the Hamiltons, famous for doing NOTHING. Still, I do hope The Real Jon Ronson will have the balls, courage and integrity to take up the crusade (whatever the outcome) that it is GROSSLY unfair for the accused person/people

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. They all loved her. You’d think Disney would give something back. They owe it to her to find out what happened.” ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jon Ronson’s books include the New York Times best seller The Psychopath Test, as well as Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at

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Men Who Stare at Goats was adapted as a major motion picture, released in 2009 and starring George Clooney. Ronson lives in London. ALSO BY JON RONSON Them: Adventures with Extremists The Men Who Stare at Goats The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

by Jon Ronson · 9 Mar 2015 · 229pp · 67,869 words

Bibliography and Acknowledgements 1 BRAVEHEART This story begins in early January 2012 when I noticed that another Jon Ronson had started posting on Twitter. His photograph was a photograph of my face. His Twitter name was @jon_ronson. His most recent tweet, which appeared as I stared in surprise at his timeline, read: ‘Going

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plate of celeriac, grouper and sour cream kebab with lemongrass #foodie,’ he tweeted. I didn’t know what to do. The next morning I checked @jon_ronson’s timeline before I checked my own. In the night he had tweeted, ‘I’m dreaming something about #time and #cock.’ He had twenty followers

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a short video I had made about spambots. ‘We’ve built Jon his very own infomorph,’ he wrote. ‘You can follow him on Twitter here: @jon_ronson.’ ‘Oh, so it’s some kind of spambot,’ I thought. ‘OK. This will be fine. Luke Robert Mason must have thought I would like the

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. ‘#woohoo damn, I’m in the mood for a tidy plate of onion grill with crusty bread. #foodie,‘ @jon_ronson tweeted. I was at war with a robot version of myself. A month passed. @jon_ronson was tweeting twenty times a day about its whirlwind of social engagements, its ‘soirees’ and wide circle of

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take it down you’re, Oh it’s not a spambot, it’s an infomorph.’ Dan nodded. He leaned forward. ‘There must be lots of Jon Ronsons out there?’ he began. ‘People with your name? Yes?’ I looked suspiciously at him. ‘I’m sure there are people with my name,’ I replied

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even though they come from respectable universities and give TEDx talks.’ Dan let out a long-suffering sigh. ‘You’re saying, “There is only one Jon Ronson,”’ he said. ‘You’re proposing yourself as the real McCoy, as it were, and you want to maintain that integrity and authenticity. Yes?’ I stared

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, ‘because we’re not quite persuaded by that. We think there’s already a layer of artifice and it’s your online personality - the brand Jon Ronson - you’re trying to protect. Yeah?’ ‘NO, IT’S JUST ME TWEETING,’ I yelled. ‘The Internet is not the real world,’ said Dan. ‘I write

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left-side bald cunt. And especially quiet cunt. Then piss on their corpses,’ read the next comment. I won. Within days the academics took down @jon_ronson. They had been shamed into acquiescence. Their public shaming had been like the button that restores factory settings. Something was out of kilter. The community

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middle of it. I’d investigate it close up and chronicle how efficient it was in righting wrongs. I didn’t have to wait long. @jon_ronson was put to death on 2 April 2012. Just twelve weeks later, in the middle of the night on 4 July, a man lying on

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you do that?’ ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘I think I could. And I think that would mean I’d survive better than you.’ ‘So what would Jon Ronson’s apology speech be?’ Jonah said. ‘What would you say?’ ‘Right,’ I said. ‘I’d say … OK … I … Hello. I’m

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Jon Ronson and I want to apologize for …’ I trailed off. What would I say? I cleared my throat. ‘I just want everyone to know that I’

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for ‘secondary processing’ (there was a Mafioso hit-man on the run at the time with a name that apparently sounded quite a lot like Jon Ronson). I was taken into a packed holding room and told to wait. There are signs everywhere saying: ‘The use of cell phones is strictly prohibited

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back and googled myself, that would be my new reality.’ I suddenly remembered how weirdly tarnished I felt when the spambot men created their fake Jon Ronson, getting my character traits all wrong, turning me into some horrific garrulous foodie, and strangers believed it was me, and there was nothing I could

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open to it. Just don’t make me seem any goofier than I already am. Maybe that’s what could humiliate a porn star - a Jon Ronson essay?’ I frowned. Conner’s emails got me interested in journeying into the porn world. Was it really populated by people who had learned how

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engines were only interested in how many times a particular keyword appeared within a page. To be the number-one Jon Ronson search term on AltaVista or HotBot you just had to write Jon Ronson over and over again. Which for me would be the most fantastic website to chance upon, but for everyone

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some of the most traumatic moments of their lives. Some of them took a lot of convincing, and I hope they think it was worthwhile. Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie

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with Extremists. His first fictional screenplay, Frank, co-written with Peter Straughan, starred Michael Fassbender. He lives in London and New York City. ALSO BY JON RONSON Them: Adventures with Extremists The Men Who Stare at Goats Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness What I Do: More True Tales

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of Everyday Craziness The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie First published 2015 by Picador This electronic edition published 2015 by Picador an imprint of Pan

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Them: Adventures With Extremists

by Jon Ronson · 1 Jan 2001 · 341pp · 87,268 words

THEM Adventures with Extremists Jon Ronson PICADOR For Joel ‘I think it bodes well for world peace that Friends is a success everywhere in the world.’ Lisa Kudrow ‘When I was

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itself a fanatical, depraved belief system. I like it when they say this because it makes me feel as if I have a belief system. Jon Ronson October 2001 1. A Semi-Detached Ayatollah It was a balmy Saturday afternoon in Trafalgar Square in the summertime, and Omar Bakri Mohammed was declaring

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RUNNING, AND GENOCIDE. YOU KNOW THE FATHER NOW MEET THE SON. NATO LEADERS CONTROLLED BY BILDERBERG. BILDERBERG SUMMIT CLOSES IN PORTUGAL UNDER MASSIVE SECURITY . . . Reporter Jon Ronson was understandably disturbed by the experience of being trailed by security men in a green Lancia K throughout Wednesday. According to Ronson, the British Embassy

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told him not to provoke any incidents and that his fate was in his own hands . . . WHY WAS THE SPOTLIGHT’S JIM TUCKER AND REPORTER JON RONSON CHASED BY BILDERBERG SECURITY IN PORTUGAL? Perhaps the whole reason was just so Tucker could write an outlandish article about it that nobody would believe

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world’ Sunday Telegraph ‘This is an investigation where comedy is married to a stomach-churning potential for violence . . . Ronson weaves his tale like a master . . . Jon Ronson has proved, with an often hilarious account that does to world domination what Bill Bryson has done so exhaustively to travel, that Picador is no

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fellow faux naïf Louis Theroux – who cites Ronson as a major inspiration . . . the result takes no prisoners in its droll dissection of fanaticism’ Q Magazine Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of two bestsellers, Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare At

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: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True of Everyday Craziness. He lives in London. An extract from The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. Is your boss a psychopath? Take the test here: www.picador.com/test 2 THE MAN WHO FAKED MADNESS DSM-IV-TR is an 886

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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

by Jon Ronson · 12 May 2011 · 274pp · 70,481 words

SHAYLER Chapter 9. - AIMING A BIT HIGH Chapter 10. - THE AVOIDABLE DEATH OF REBECCA RILEY Chapter 11. - GOOD LUCK NOTES/SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ALSO BY JON RONSON Them: Adventures with Extremists The Men Who Stare at Goats RIVERHEAD BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New

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: © Teri Pengilley p. 272: © Barney Poole Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ronson, Jon, date. The psychopath test : a journey through the madness industry / Jon Ronson. p. cm. eISBN : 978-1-101-51516-7 1. Psychopaths. I. Title. HV33.R66 2011 2011003133 616.85’82—dc22 While the author has made

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be tenacious and intrigued enough to engage with the mystery? They went through a few names. And then Deborah’s friend James said, “What about Jon Ronson?” On the day I received Deborah’s e-mail inviting me to the Costa Coffee I was in the midst of quite a bad anxiety

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, in another part of London, I happened to be looking myself up on Google when I came across a lengthy and animated discussion thread entitled Jon Ronson: Shill or Stupid? It was in response to something I’d written about how I didn’t believe 9/11 was an inside job. The

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me to Michael Shermer, Joel Dimmock, Paul Zak, and Ali Arik. Thanks to Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs, producers on my BBC Radio 4 series Jon Ronson On . . . for help with the David Shayler story, and Merope Mills and Liese Spencer at Guardian Weekend for help with Paul Britton. The Colin Stagg

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ideologues whose love of polemics and distrust of psychiatry blind them to the very real suffering of people with unusual mental health symptoms. ALSO BY JON RONSON Them: Adventures with Extremists The Men Who Stare at Goats

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson · 8 Mar 2022 · 574pp · 148,233 words

multiple places, and then received a severe beating himself as retribution. Jones has called most of this story, first reported by Welsh author and filmmaker Jon Ronson, “horse crap.” But the participants confirmed it.[4] Jones did not dispute that his father, David, paid the injured teenager’s hospital and neurologist bills

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, Mike Hanson, on a trip to infiltrate Bohemian Grove, an annual summer glamping retreat for international business and political leaders, near Monte Rio, California. Author Jon Ronson accompanied Jones to Bohemian Grove, a trip that became a chapter in Ronson’s book Them, about his travels with extremists. In the book Ronson

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at the time, and an up-and-comer in conspiracy circles. A native of Sheffield, England, he learned about Jones when he was eighteen, watching Jon Ronson’s miniseries The Secret Rulers of the World. Ronson called Jones out as a huckster in the series. But he inspired Watson to start his

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’s Austin house, conspiracy broadcasters “were boring men in public access TV studios dissecting the all-seeing eye on the back of a dollar bill,” Jon Ronson, the author and filmmaker who accompanied Alex to Bohemian Grove, told me. “People were yearning for somebody who would be funny and eloquent.” In that

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surreal notions of plots hatched by an ever-shifting cast of shadowy powerful figures. Kelly recalled their 2000 trip to California’s Bohemian Grove with Jon Ronson, the author and filmmaker, describing it as “Alex’s breakthrough moment.” “Alex snuck in there with this ridiculous giant briefcase camera that I rigged up

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other outlets informs this book, as the endnotes attest. Kara Swisher, Cecilia Kang, Jim Rutenberg, Jack Nicas, Dai Wakabayashi, Kashmir Hill, Mark Walker, Charlie Warzel, Jon Ronson, Will Sommer, Liz Wahl, and many other reporters and friends, thank you for your contributions, brilliant insights, and navigational help. A special thanks to Kristin

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Oklahoman, December 20, 1999, https://www.oklahoman.com/article/2679266/from-the-ashes-volunteers-rebuilding-davidians-church. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3 Ira Glass and Jon Ronson, “Beware the Jabberwock,” This American Life, podcast audio, March 15, 2019, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/670/beware-the-jabberwock. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4 Sam

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24, 2017, https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-sandy-hook-denier-harrassment-0225-20170224-story.html. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3 Ira Glass and Jon Ronson, “Beware the Jabberwock,” This American Life, podcast audio, March 15, 2019, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/670/beware-the-jabberwock. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4 Alexis

The Twittering Machine

by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words

somebody that’s so broken and so grieving.’ That brokenness is exactly what the trolls were seeking to punish. ‘We are a mass of vulnerabilities’, Jon Ronson writes in his book on public shaming, ‘and who knows what will trigger them?’5 Trolls know. They are experts on vulnerability. Yet members of

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Talmudic saying has it that to ‘shame another in public’ is a sin ‘akin to murder’. As if shame was something like a death sentence. Jon Ronson mentions the startling finding that 91 per cent of men and 84 per cent of women can recall at least one vivid fantasy of murdering

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online posts known as RIP trolling add to Tinley Park family’s grief’, Chicago Tribune, 12 August 2013. 5. ‘We are a mass of vulnerabilities’ . . . Jon Ronson, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Pan Macmillan: London, 2015, p. 273. 6. Whitney Phillips, author of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice

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safety gap’, Salon (www.salon.com), 23 October 2014; Danielle Keats Citron, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 2014, p. 14. 34. Jon Ronson mentions . . . Ronson, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, p. 243. 35. In 2006, a thirty-one-year-old Neapolitan woman . . . Stephanie Kirchgaessner, ‘Tiziana Cantone: seeking

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

16, 2010, https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/bieber-s-baby-breaks-youtube-record-1.933329. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT all Twitter traffic: Jon Ronson, “Justin Bieber: One Day with the Most Googled Name on the Planet,” Guardian, November 12, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/13/justin

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

by Jonathan Rauch · 21 Jun 2021 · 446pp · 109,157 words

of an international shaming campaign. She was an ordinary person, not a prominent CEO, but now ordinary people were in the crosshairs. When the journalist Jon Ronson interviewed people who had been targets of shaming campaigns, he found “everyday people pilloried brutally, most often for posting some poorly considered joke on social

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), p. 94. 5. Ibid., p. 31. 6. Rick Sobey, “Harvard Student Government Sides with Anti-ICE Protesters against Newspaper,” Boston Herald, November 11, 2019. 7. Jon Ronson, “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life,” New York Times, February 12, 2015. 8. Ali Vingiano, “This Is How a Woman’s

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hate speech reduces hatred, see Nadine Strossen’s excellent Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press, 2018). 40. Jon Ronson, “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life,” New York Times Magazine, February 12, 2015. 41. Jonathan Chait, “The Still-Vital Case for

Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side

by Simon McCarthy-Jones · 12 Apr 2021

to be brought down. Yet it also threatens to pull down the industrious, the innovative, and the generous. The punishment can exceed the crime. As Jon Ronson, author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, notes in relation to online backlashes, a disconnect has developed “between the severity of the crime and

IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives

by Chris Stedman · 19 Oct 2020 · 307pp · 101,998 words

made me hesitant to express things important to me, and I don’t want to feel reluctant to speak out about things that matter. In Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, he recounts something monologist Mike Daisey—who was revealed to have fabricated details in a story, for which

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world where people only share safe, focus-group-friendly opinions. “Let’s not turn [social media] into a world where the smartest way to survive,” Jon Ronson writes in So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, “is to go back to being voiceless.” Of course, it’s essential to ask ourselves who benefits