Jordan Harbinger on who's Hijacking Media, Fifth State Journalism and The Importance of Education

This week on The Divided States of Media, Dan sits down with fellow Michiganian and Wall Street lawyer-turned-podcast interviewer, Jordan Harbinger. As a podcaster who’s interviewed everyone from Kobe Bryant to Ray Dalio, Jordan has a strong word of caution to the media system as it stands, and a warning to all if we don’t turn things around soon.

Highlights:

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• 14:09 – Jordan on “Virtue Signaling”
• 18:34 – The importance of journalism and podcasting right now
• 31:42 – The challenge of the media self-censoring
• 39:59 – Extremism – “Talk to anybody on the extreme left or the extreme right, have a clue what the other side actually wants or thinks. They’ve never given it any modicum of thought.”
• 51:36 – This week in “Unsolicited Advice”
• 56:53 –  Jordan on “Cancel Culture” – “It’s unequivocally a bad thing.”
• 1:07:00 – How do we get back on track? “Education, education, education.”