Last night I caught AC's Radio 4 program on teaching economics after the financial crisis. It's a great story, well told. But, it is just that. In its totality, a distorting dramatisation, on account of allowing multiple silly, uninformed critiques to go unchallenged in the program. Yet presented as a reasonable, impartial take on what is going on in economics. If this were an op-ed in a newspaper, it would be forgivable. Most people know that when they read comment that they are getting selective advocacy. But I think a lot of listeners think of Radio 4 as a station they can trust to explain things how they really are. This program reveals that sometimes the editors slip up.
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Last night I caught AC's Radio 4 program on teaching economics after the financial crisis. It's a great story, well told. But, it is just that. In its totality, a distorting dramatisation, on account of allowing multiple silly, uninformed critiques to go unchallenged in the program. Yet presented as a reasonable, impartial take on what is going on in economics. If this were an op-ed in a newspaper, it would be forgivable. Most people know that when they read comment that they are getting selective advocacy. But I think a lot of listeners think of Radio 4 as a station they can trust to explain things how they really are. This program reveals that sometimes the editors slip up.