SCOOP: "The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword"
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A familiar quote helped inspire a new member of our SmartHER News family - SCOOP members get an exclusive "introduction."
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The famous saying also resonates this week as we reflect on two big news stories - an exclusive by The Wall Street Journal on new revelations about the pandemic (and the waterfall of words from U.S. officials on China) as well as a new policy penned by the Biden Administration proposed for the U.S. Southern border. Both stories raise the question: Why now? What's at stake?
Plus a personal reflection about entrepreneurship. We look forward to your thoughts on a recent chapter in the adventures of becoming...SmartHER.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to this week's scoop. As many of you know, we have been celebrating |
| 0:09.4 | five years at Smarter News, five years, providing quick, concise, nonpartisan information, |
| 0:15.4 | except sometimes we tend to be a little bit long-winded for topics that really matter. |
| 0:22.3 | And I was thinking about our five-year anniversary. We have so many different thoughts about it because there's been so many |
| 0:25.6 | lessons that we've learned. I've learned over the years. And I really want to share them in the right |
| 0:30.4 | way. What keeps me from doing that on a regular basis is one of my pet peeves is when news anchors |
| 0:36.3 | just start talking about themselves, |
| 0:38.0 | you know, instead of talking about the news. And you're like, can we just get to the news for |
| 0:42.7 | goodness sake? So I always want to stay focused on that. However, I did have this experience |
| 0:48.4 | over the last week or so. And I thought to myself, you know what, I'd really like to share |
| 0:53.1 | that with the scoop audience |
| 0:54.3 | because there's a lesson here, not only as an entrepreneur, but also as a journalist, also as a |
| 1:00.2 | consumer of news. And I think we can actually weave them all together. So here's what happened. |
| 1:06.3 | Do you know this term muscle memory? Have you ever heard that term? It's used a lot in sports. |
| 1:11.2 | You know, if you played basketball as a little kid, suddenly someone passes you a basketball as an adult |
| 1:16.3 | and you're able to dribble almost exactly, almost exactly as you did many, many years ago. |
| 1:21.0 | Or you can get on a bike after not riding a bike in a long time. And it's muscle memory. Your body sort of goes back to what it knows, |
| 1:35.6 | to all those years of habit, for lack of a better term. And so, for example, smarter news, I want to create something different than a 24-hour news cycle. However, all I've ever known |
| 1:40.0 | my entire life is a 24-hour news cycle. So I have to fight against that because sometimes |
| 1:44.5 | it's easy to just get drawn back into what you know. So this happened to me last week. I had |
| 1:50.4 | this really exciting meeting set up, really exciting about a potential partnership that would |
| 1:55.7 | really help the smarter news audience and potentially our podcast, which is podcasting is something I haven't |
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