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Jon Ronson

出生: May 10, 1967 – Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author who explores psychology, extremism, power, and public humiliation through immersive reportage. He is best known for The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test, and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed; The Men Who Stare at Goats was adapted into a major film.

传记与作者历程

Jon Ronson grew up in Cardiff and later studied at the Polytechnic of Central London, the institution now known as the University of Westminster. A decisive early detour came when he left his course to play keyboards in Frank Sidebottom’s band, an experience that would much later feed into the film Frank. Around the same period he found a model for the kind of journalist he wanted to become in Nick Broomfield’s self-aware documentary style: inquisitive, present in the story, and unafraid of awkwardness. He began building that voice at Time Out before extending it into the Guardian, BBC radio and television, and eventually a wider transatlantic career in magazines, books and audio documentaries. ((https://www.abc.net.au/news/104614796))

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名言

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Well, I think I have a precarious sense of self anyway, but I'm also sane enough to notice when it's slipping
-TED Speaker Profile
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He’s a grey area in a world that doesn’t like grey areas
-Don’t define people by their maddest edges
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Yet that’s where you find the complexity, the humanity, the truth
-Don’t define people by their maddest edges
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I’ve always been anti-polemical
-The complexities of the psychopath test
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But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible
-The complexities of the psychopath test
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People much prefer to read about the outermost aspects of people’s personalities
-The complexities of the psychopath test
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A society that stops caring about facts is a society where anything can happen
-Things Fell Apart interview
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Time and again on Twitter we act like the thing we purport to hate
-Guardian interview on shame and Twitter
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We’re not very forgiving of transgressions any more
-Frank video interview

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"A diligent investigator and a wry, funny writer, Ronson manages to be at once academic and entertaining"

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