#108 Your Media Diet Is Training You

About this episode

Jim Detjen discusses how your media diet influences your thinking and the importance of understanding the impact of the information you consume.

Send Jim a Topic to Explore People keep asking which voices to trust. Cable news. Podcast hosts. Influencers. X accounts. Fox. CNN. Rogan. Tucker. Hannity. Maddow. Shapiro. But that’s not the real question. In this episode, Jim breaks down what actually matters: not who you listen to — but what listening is doing to you. Because your media diet isn’t neutral. It’s training you. This episode explores: Why even true information can distort your thinkingHow emotional conditioning replaces discer...

People in this episode

Host: Jim Detjen

Topics covered

• media diet
• trust in media
• emotional conditioning
• information distortion
• listening habits

Keywords

• media
• trust
• influencers
• cable news
• podcasts
• emotional conditioning
• information distortion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fox, CNN

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