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'It's not the people who are bad, it's the culture.' 'Friends
turned on me, on my wife.' 'This job involves in some part selling
your soul for a good salary.' 'You're sitting there, and you may
have just made the decision that destroyed the world.' Winner of
the NS Public Prize for Book of the Year 2015 Joris Luyendijk, an
investigative journalist, knew almost nothing about banking until
he was assigned to investigate the financial sector. Over two years
he spoke to more than 200 people - from the competitive investment
bankers and elite hedge fund managers to downtrodden back office
staff and those made redundant in regular 'culls'. They opened up
about what they actually do, about the toxic hiring and firing
culture and about the overwhelming technological and mathematical
opacity of their work. They admitted that in the crash of 2008,
they hoarded food, put their money in gold and prepared to evacuate
their children to the countryside. And they agreed that nothing had
changed since then.
In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris
Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the
Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he
speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors,
victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of
dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the
less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the
yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and what is later
reported in the media. As a correspondent he is privy to the
multitude of narratives with conflicting implications, yet again
and again the media favours those stories that will confirm and
reinforce the oversimplified beliefs of the West.Hello Everybody!
Is a story of disillusionment and enlightenment, by turns hilarious
and despairing, but most importantly it is a powerful wake up call
to the way the media gives us a filtered and manipulated version of
reality in the Middle East.
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