There are hordes of thoughtful journalists... [I]t is just that prominent media journalism is a thoughtless… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are hordes of thoughtful journalists... [I]t is just that prominent media journalism is a thoughtless process of providing the noise that captures people's attention and there exists no mechanism for separating the two.
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