“First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.”
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.