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Why is this written like a gossip-column rag? Is this just the style of this series of articles, or something else? This is separate from the content but it's
by forgingahead 5y ago
Why is this written like a gossip-column rag? Is this just the style of this series of articles, or something else?
This is separate from the content but it's hard to read with mental red flags popping up questioning everything in it given this style.
- smnrchrds 5y agoIt's a podcast/radio show. You should listen to it. The text is secondary. I don't know how much attention, if any, it gets.
- schoen 5y agoI think it's a kind of journalism hack (not to be confused with hack journalism!) because people literally have a psychological impetus to gossip (at least, this is what I learned from Joseph Henrichs and Paul Bloom, who seem to explain gossip as helping communities enforce social norms). So if you have some seemingly juicy gossip about a historical figure, maybe people will feel unaccountably grateful to you or unaccountably eager to share with friends? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip#Evolutionary_view https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip#Evolutionary_view
- jamiek88 5y agoIt’s a transcript, Dr Freud.
- mig39 5y agoIt's a radio show and podcast. This is the transcript.