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His first fictional screenplay, frank, cowritten with peter straughan, starred michael fassbender. Most of all, i suppose, i write about mysterious worlds. Adventures with extremists and the men who stare at goats, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring george clooney, ewan mcgregor, kevin spacey and jeff bridges. So youve been publicly shamed by jon ronson overdrive. As a statesanctioned punishment, public shaming was popular in colonial america. Both the series and book detail ronson s encounters following theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and. Starting with his own infuriating but hilarious efforts to get rid of a fake jon ronsonbot on twitter, it springboards to look at the public disgraces of justine sacco, max mosely and indeed the salem witches and why these shamings are now so fast, and so thorough. The true story that inspired the movie, lost at sea. Jon ronson born 10 may 1967 is a welshamerican journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include the men who stare at goats 2004, them. The men who stare at goats by jon ronson 20120105 jan 1, 1800.
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