Fighting the 2 Pitfalls that Killed Modern Day Journalism

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Spy, Learning, Spies, Thinking, Human, Cia, Intelligence, Espionage, Education, Lifehack, Social Sciences, Advantage, Edge, Unfair, Science, How To, Humint, Secret, Growth, Business

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Journalism has been slowing dying under pressure from social media, 24 hour cable news, and internet-based competitors like blogs and podcasts. But it has also fallen prey to two very important shortcuts in the human mind. In this episode, Andrew and Jihi explain how your attention is being hijacked without you even realizing it and what you can do to take back control.

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom! freedom freedom
0:23.7	I'm so excited to be in the middle of this briefing sequence where we are digging in to how to
0:34.3	dominate information and a big piece of why I'm so excited to talk about this
0:38.1	is because I don't have to talk about this alone. I get a chance to include one of the most
0:44.0	respected voices, another former officer, that I loved working with in the field, and now I get
0:49.5	to love working with every day of our life because she's my wife. So Ghee, welcome back. I'm super
0:55.0	excited to have you here for the team spy, the first team spy briefing that we're having in
1:00.4	this information season. I'm happy to be here. Thanks for that very romantic introduction.
1:06.7	So I just spent the last two episodes introducing folks not only to our
1:13.7	our rotation, our briefing rotation, which is what we always did when we were on deployment,
1:17.8	but also this idea that we can find the truth even when we're surrounded by noise
1:24.5	and even when information is thrown at us by information peddlers and people who have a voice but shouldn't have a voice or have a voice should have a voice, should have a voice, but then don't necessarily respect the information that they're throwing at us. And then we also talked about this concept of fallacies and biases where fallacies are flaws in logic that come from arguments that are thrown at us,
1:46.0	and biases are flaws in logical thinking that actually exist within us.
1:51.0	But let's talk about what we're going to cover today.
1:54.0	Where do you want to take this first team spy?
1:56.0	So I wanted to delve into one specific fallacy and one specific bias that correspond to each other.
2:02.5	And it's something we see every single day. It's something we experience ourselves every single
2:07.8	day. And it's particularly important right now is tons of information is being thrown at us.
2:12.8	And in this day and age where lots of divisive information is being thrown at us.
2:16.4	In the middle of an election sequence, a season where a new president is being chosen, as well as in the middle of a global
2:22.2	pandemic. Right. So you have very divided opinions on both sides about everything from the virus to
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