
165: Outrage Machine (w/Tobias Rose-Stockwell)
Conspirituality
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The Importance of Admitting Your Mistakes
The fourth C core agenda being able to admit when you're wrong, which you hinted at before. Studies show that there tends to be less appeal and interest in fact checking amongst conservative listeners and viewers than there is on people on the left. If you want to understand where Donald Trump's appeal comes from, you can draw a straight line back from him to a small regional shock doc who started a radio station that ended up being the Rush Limbaugh show. He created a new type of opinion, punditry that turned into the most profitable kind of platform for entertainment. And I wish people would understand the differences between those.
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