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Normalizing catastrophes and catastrophizing normalcy (with Mike Pesca)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Role of Paltoring in Storytelling

Paltoring is when you cherry pick facts so as to try to persuade someone towards a false conclusion. It basically is the motive operation of opinion journalism, right? I would think, I mean, sure, some of the worst exemplars of that don't even care about the truth. The question is, how often does that make the news versus something that can also be plausibly called newsworthy?

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