For me this was the key moment for Amy Chozick as author of "Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth."
Chozick writes:
"She thinks if she’d spent more time quietly working on her inventions and less time on a stage promoting the company, she would have revolutionized health care by now."
That Holmes still believes she could transform health care tells us she is nowhere in her recognition of reality, which in turn means the con goes on. And that— 1/2
#journalism #science #nytimes
... should have been the central theme of the story, not the two people she is said to be. As Chozick writes, "she truly believes that she could have — and, in fact, she still could — change the world."
There's no two people. Just the one Holmes who has yet to meet the reality of what she did— and who she is.
Here's a gift link for the New York Times story. Should be no paywall. Hopefully it will work. 2/2
https://t.co/9a0NyIbXqZ
@jayrosen_nyu A few years ago I was gifted Chozick's book about following Hilary around on the campaign. I thought it might be interesting to hear some insights about what she was really like.
I never really got to find out, because I gave up after the first three chapters filled with Chozick's obsessive focus on herself, her dating life, her relationship with the Clinton staffers etc.
Ive never read anyone with less of an understanding of where the focus of a story should be.
@jayrosen_nyu Seems like this is more of the same.
More than any of the specifics in the book, I was struck by just the sheer shallowness of the worldview it contained..
not particularly interested in the substance of politics, the mechanisms of change, processes, policies or movements.
But absolutely fascinated by the lives of, and interactions between, reporters, politicians and political insiders.
It ends up being quite an insight, in an unintentional, indirect way into the mindset of the kind of people who get assigned to do 'profile' type pieces...
the circles they swim in, the things they value, what they find interesting and thus ultimately...what they think the AUDIENCE will find interesting.
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