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#396 w/ Chris Stirewalt "Fired by Fox, Fixing the News, Eating a McRib"

The Fifth Column

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Why You Shouldn't Say These Things to People You Don't Like

Roxanne Jones: I tend to think that the brief fad for so-called explanatory journalism, which was the alleged reason for the season of Vox when it first started, and this is idea that we're just looking for technocratic truths out there. It didn't turn out to be the explanations of truth or like, here's the tools from which you could arrive at your own truth," she says. "I recommend people look at the last few days of Nate Silver's Twitter feed, the 538 guy. He's been going on a bit of a rampage about this with the lab leak stuff"

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