News Anchors and Game Theory
People on TV tend to be very opinionated. Sure, many of those guys are idiots, but is it also a problem created by the restrictions of the forum? What Tim Kreider described as: “…in a thousand-word essay you can’t include every qualification or second thought that occurs to you or you’d expend your allotted space refuting your own argument instead of making it.” Replace “thousand-word essay” with “30 second voice clip” and the point would hold good again. And then there are the news anchors who yell, interrupt and talk garbage. (There’s that Facebook joke that asks “What is common between Google and Arnab Goswamy?” Answer: Neither lets you finish your sentence!) Is there any reason for that insanity beyond the obvious one that they are morons? Or is Kreidman right when he says: “The one thing no editorialist or commentator in any media is ever supposed to say is I don’t know: that they’re too ignorant about the science of climate change to have an informed opinion; that the...