A Tension Deficit with James Harding

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Where do we find the truth? As the business of news has become, well, a business…it seems to have become more and more difficult to actually find the truth. Even search engines are no help. So I called James Harding, former Director of BBC News and the founder and editor-in-chief of Tortoise, a new news service, to uncover the truth about the truth. This is …A Bit of Optimism. YouTube: http://youtube.com/simonsinek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/simonsinek Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/simonsinek Instagram: https://instagram.com/simonsinek Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonsinek Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/officialsimonsinek

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0:00.0	Over these past months of coronavirus, I like many others have been fixated on the news.
0:13.3	And if you live in the United States,
0:15.1	last year we went through a presidential election
0:17.5	and many of us were obsessed with the news.
0:21.0	But there's this one nagging question, this thing that gnawed at me, which is can I trust the news?
0:27.0	I call James Harding, he's the founder and editor-in-chief of Tortoise, a new news organization, and the former head of the news for the BBC,
0:37.0	to sit down and talk to me about what the news could be,
0:40.0	about what the future of news must be.
0:43.0	This is a bit of optimism.
0:50.0	James, I can't tell you what a treat it is to see you.
0:52.0	It's been a while since I've... James, I can't tell you what a treat it is to see you.
0:52.6	It's been a while since I've sat down and talked to you.
0:56.0	Yeah, and it's been a while since we've seen any other humans.
0:58.7	It's been a while since we've seen in other humans, that too, yeah.
1:01.1	Yeah.
1:01.8	I think we've learned a lot during COVID, a lot has been revealed to us,
1:04.8	the importance of space, the importance of gratitude and value, you know, our relationships.
1:09.9	But the other thing that has confounded me over COVID is who and what to believe.
1:16.6	And I try and get my news from multiple sources and I try and get my news from sources that
1:22.2	are on opposite sides of the political spectrum
1:24.4	because I'm always curious how things are being reported from both sides
1:29.2	and then I try and sort of make my own determination as to what reality is. But the question I have for you as a career
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