#399 - Rob Orchard - Terrible Journalism & Interesting Statistics
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Rob Orchard is a journalist and the co-founder and editor of Delayed Gratification Magazine.
Journalism isn't working. Media outlets are more concerned with being first than being right and stories are built to create outrage rather than insight. Customers aren't happy with this setup, so Rob and his team began a Slow Journalism project which focuses on finding signal from the noise, rather than speedy delivery. Then he found a ton of fascinating statistics about the world.
Expect to learn what the most popular crossbreed of dog was in 2020, how the Amanda Knox story shows how modern journalism is totally broken, what you should statistically do if you want to win an Oscar, why the 2010's was a terrible year for original cinema, why there's 2 golf balls on the moon and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:03.1 | My guest today is Rob Orchard. |
| 0:05.0 | He's a journalist and the co-founder and editor of Delayed gratification magazine. |
| 0:09.8 | Journalism isn't working. |
| 0:11.9 | Media outlets are more concerned with being first than being right, and stories are built |
| 0:16.6 | to create outrage rather than insight. |
| 0:19.6 | Customers aren't happy with this setup, so Rob and his team began a slow journalism |
| 0:24.6 | project, which focuses on finding signal from the noise rather than speedy delivery. |
| 0:30.4 | Then he found a turn of fascinating statistics about the world, and today we get to talk about |
| 0:35.0 | both. |
| 0:36.0 | Expect to learn what the most popular crossbreed of dog was in 2020, how the Amanda Nock |
| 0:41.9 | story shows how modern journalism is totally broken, what you should statistically do, if |
| 0:47.6 | you want to win an Oscar, why the 2010s was a terrible year for original cinema, why |
| 0:52.7 | there's two golf balls on the moon, and much more. |
| 0:56.8 | Rob's call, Rob is a very cool British guy who is just doing something different with |
| 1:01.7 | a small team that's a bit sort of contrarian and going a bit against the grain. |
| 1:07.8 | And I think it's interesting. |
| 1:08.9 | You can check out what he's doing if you go to slow-journalism.com and if you want to |
| 1:13.6 | pick up his book and answer for everything, it is linked in the show notes below. |
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| 1:28.3 | CBD can help to relax your mind and soothe your body. |
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