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295. A Conversation with Piers Morgan

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Journalism and the Adversarial Relationship

I think there is a need for that adversarial conduct on the journalistic front if part of the role of journalism is to keep dishonest narcissists as honest as possible. When I blew up at CNN, against the NRA, for example, it came from a position of real raw emotion. So, I hoped to genuinely affect change, but I couldn't stop being over-emotional in my interviews with some of these pro-gun people coming on the show. And I ended up shouting at them, losing my temper with them, slightly straying into performative art and perhaps even straying into a dash of narcissism. It's all very intoxicating; you start to believe your own hype

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