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This might also apply to NPR Planet Money. Seems to plague the softer/human sciences like economics, psychology and anthropology more than physics/chemistry/ma
by someperson 13y ago
This might also apply to NPR Planet Money.
Seems to plague the softer/human sciences like economics, psychology and anthropology more than physics/chemistry/maths (though these fields have there own poor journalism)
- valleyer 13y ago> This might also apply to NPR Planet Money You think so? Planet Money routinely brings on actual economists to explain things in plain language. And when they don't, they're just describing not-very-technical but interesting things (e.g., how the music industry works, what those complex securities that ruined the economy were, etc.). They don't often (ever, that I can recall) come up with new phenomena.
- dcre 13y agoI worry about this when I listen, but in general I agree with the other commenter that they do pretty well at giving a voice to real experts.