Dan Ilic and Tiff Stevenson join host Alice Fraser for episode 132 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.

All of the news, none of the politics!

 Influencer tourism

 Teens love LinkedIn

 ChatGPT ghostwriters

 Fake kidnapping

 Reviews

Story 1:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/vermont-town-banning-influencers-tourists-visiting-fall-foliage-rcna117413

Story 2: https://www.thecut.com/article/why-teenagers-love-linkedin.html

Story 3: https://thewalrus.ca/chatgpt-ghost-writers/

Story 4: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/28/australia/australia-man-fake-kidnap-meet-mistress-intl-hnk/index.html

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CONTENTS

00:00 Start

02:03 Front cover

02:13 Satirical cartoon

03:40 Story 1: Why Vermont town is banning influencers and tourists from visiting its fall foliage 

11:30 Ads

13:38 Story 2: Why teenagers love LinkedIn 

20:59 Reviews

23:29 Story 3: How ChatGPT is putting ghostwriters out of work 

29:26 Story 4: Man who faked his own kidnapping to spend time with mistress ordered to pay police 

34:16 Bye / Anything to plug?

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