The CNN Osoulivan correspondent is retreating against progressive critics who tear journalists for the “platform” and “human character” to Donald Trump and believers in conspiracy theories.
Osolivan said that complaints from the left about the human character gave these individuals to miss this point and that he is tired of the reverse reaction he receives from some liberal viewers.
“The thing that I get a lot-a question always comes from the left online-” why are you human?
“I find it … just … really … annoying!”
He also rejected the idea that refusing to give air to wrong ideas had done anything to stop their spread.
“The platform's argument is just false because all these things happen in any case,” he said.
The joining of the discussion was the CNN Ale Reef correspondent, who also spent years covering margins and misleading movements.
Reef agreed with Osoulivan's frustration with the “platform” discussion and said that criticism is morally misleading and disappointing.
She said, “I am there, my shout! It is like, it is angry.” “Because one of them, it is clear-clear-at the highest level. We are all human. The abstraction of humanity is bad. But they do not work. I lost. Look at the world. The idea that if you ignore it, it completely failed. The incomplete concept has completely failed.
Osolivan said that approaching interviews with the aim of changing their minds or proving that their mistake is not only ineffective – it ends the conversation before it begins.
He said: “If I want to have a constructive conversation … I must only accept that they do not believe that the 2020 elections were fair. I must accept that sometimes they believe that the Covid vaccine is a permanent chip under your skin.”
And if you are attached to that, if I say, well, no, you are wrong and for this reason and I will change your opinion, “This is the end of the conversation.”
Instead of facing wrong information face to face in the interviews, Osolivan said his approach is to understand the ecosystem that allows him to prosper.
He said: “I have always been more interested in wrong information from the point of view of phenomena – how it spreads, and why people think that, and how people earn money.”
“This is how I dealt with. I think many of my colleagues in this field want to correct the record. He bother them that people think things are wrong.”
For the first time in the three-part Osoulvan podcasts, “persuadable”, and explores how people-and sometimes change their beliefs in the era of chaos.
