Episode 500: Caitlin Dickerson
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How Do You Approach Zero Tolerance as a Reporter?
Reporter describes how a policy filters up from low level staffers, o researchers who know a lot about the topic. People above them progressively know less and less about the topic till it reaches the person who will probably ultimately become the face of the policy. "It makes sense that principles get to make decisions based on briefings that come from successive layers of expertise below them"
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