Perspective: Podcasts are the perfect antidote to our poisonous news environment
A podcast producer works on collecting data and recording. By Mike Pesca Mike Pesca is host of Slate’s daily podcast The Gist and editor of"Upon Further Review: the Greatest What-ifs in Sports History." May 2 at 10:48 AM We live in an age of informational excess.
Podcasts, both by design and by accident, tend toward a more elevated — or at least focused — discourse and a more nourishing experience than many of the other news formats that bombard us. Most of broadcast media is governed by the fear that if a segment drags, is too challenging or offends a viewer’s understanding of the world, the audience will change to another channel. Podcasts are different.
Twitter, that great engine of virality, actually rose from the rubble of a failed podcasting platform Odeo. But while tweets grab your attention, podcasts burrow into your consciousness. That may be because they tend to offer conversational environments: Twitter is a place where users get trolled, dunked on, owned and canceled. By contrast, the two major roles on a podcast are host and guest, a format that encourages dialogue, even in the face of disagreement.
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