If you like the gist, I think you do. I think you'll also like Risky Business, a podcast hosted by

Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova. You know them. They're journalists who moonlight as high stakes

poker players, though that might be misstating where their incomes primarily come from. I think it's

to poker. They talk about odds, incentives, and outcomes, and they talk about democracy.

You know, in politics, every moves of calculation, and sometimes our leaders can make bad

bets, and sometimes we as citizens suffer bad beats.

Check out risky business available in your favorite podcast app.

It's Monday, October 27th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the Gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

And we have to gist.

We are journalists.

We perform journalism.

That is a fun fact.

We're journalists.

But we're also journalism critics.

And so often criticism is like it should be in the formal sense, saying the good, saying the bad,

but so often it's the common definition of criticism, the barbs, the brickbats,

or even some words not rooted in a Walter Winchell column from the 1950s.

So I want to give you two great examples of really good journalism

and not anything that's going to win a Pulitzer or some example of a 12-month investigation,

just doing the job the right way. The first is from The Daily's coverage of the hole in the White

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