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Doom of the Public (LIVE w/ Niall Ferguson & Martin Gurri)

Uncertain Things

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The Lab League Is Interesting

The average news story has a three week lifespan. We just have such an a short attention span that it'd be impossible to do anything like Watergate now. It's not just that established media seems incapable of moving on because they were so attached to the idea that the lab league is nothing but a conspiracy theory. But still, people who you would expect to show a modicum of curiosity seem to be actively looking for ways to resist and reject any kind of evidence that supports the hypothesis. The total lack of curiosity from people in the media industry also shows up with people in the entertainment industry like Colbert and the Daily Show.

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