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Learning not to trust the All-In podcast

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460 points paulpauper | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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cryptozeus ◴[06 Nov 24 18:25 UTC] No.42066847[source]▶
If you make investment decisions based on podcast called all-in then yes you should not watch it. It is a entertainment/ news podcast, treat it as such.
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llamaimperative ◴[06 Nov 24 20:19 UTC] No.42068705[source]▶
No, it's actually a bad idea to expose your brain to pathologically dishonest people.
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1. science4sail ◴[07 Nov 24 20:39 UTC] No.42080715[source]▶
What does this mean for journalists and historians then? Both are professionally obligated to expose themselves to power brokers (either in person or through textual records), many of whom are pathologically dishonest. Any serious biographer will tell you that self-recollections and memoirs are at best deeply flawed.

I think that it's more important to cultivate media literacy and critically examine "what is the author doing", not just "what is the author saying".