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I'm not sure I can recommend it highly enough * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eA work of original, inspired journalism, it considers the complex dynamics between those who shame and those who are shamed, both of whom can become the focus of social media's grotesque, disproportionate judgments -- Laurence Scott * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003esuperb and terrifying\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eSo You've Been Publicly Shamed\u003c\/i\u003e brings together all of Ronson's virtues as a writer, to a more serious purpose than hitherto . . . Ronson is a true virtuoso of the faux-naive style. He is so good at it that it's not irritating . . . Ronson has beautiful comic-prose skills . . . but Ronson's self-description as a \"humorous journalist\" is not the whole story. Comedy is his disguise and also his weapon. He is a moralist. 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