Eric Schlosser is an investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestsellers Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013). He was executive producer and co-writer on the 2006 film Fast Food Nationdirected by Richard Linklater.
“The Truth”: An Anti-Manifesto for Artists
Artistic manifestos, including Werner Herzog’s Minnesota Declaration, contain “hot air and bullshit,” writes Eric Schlosser, who notes that “stylistic choices of artists pale in importance beside the lies and deliberate misinformation being spread every single day for power, control, and profit.”