Media's Investments in Untruths

Micky Lee is a Professor of Media Studies at the Communication, Journalism, and Media Department at Suffolk University, Boston. Her research areas are feminist political economy; finance, information and technologies; and Asian popular culture. She has published more than ten books, and over 40 journal articles, book chapters, and essays. Her book, Bubbles and Machines (2019), examines the gender nature of financial crisis by analyzing Hollywood and documentary films, popular fictions, and historical texts. She has published three journal articles and one book chapter about gender and finance in popular media.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Bernie Madoff: “It’s all just one big lie”.- 3. Anna Sorokin: “The true story of a complete fake”.- 4. Elizabeth Holmes: “The worst possible thing is to have someone who doesn’t believe in you”.- 5. Sam Bankman-Fried “There are a lot of ways to do good in the world”.- 6. Conclusion.