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Helen Walters

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TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

Very nuts and bolts.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

What is the way that internally you share information so that you guys are all kind of keeping each other in the loop as things are happening, as news stories are breaking, as things are developing?

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

What is your system internally?

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

Yeah, it's so interesting.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

It reminds me of the morning meetings that newspapers and media organizations often have, too.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

But it also relates to the idea, and I think maybe the answer is in there, of like, how do you know what not to track?

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

There's so much going on.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

There's like 60 conflicts happening around the world at this moment.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

And you can, you know, that, how do you know, or how do you manage not to treat everything as burning and urgent?

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

No, I thought that was incredibly insightful.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

So thank you.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

I'm also interested in your tips.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

So obviously you're in this, your team is in this.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

You have a kind of a nose for understanding what is, as you say, bullshit and in other people's terms, they may call misinformation, disinformation.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

It depends on the kind of intent of some of that information.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

But what is your advice for someone who is smart, who is interested, who is curious and who doesn't work in this world, but wants to understand what

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

what to take on and what to ignore.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

I love that answer.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

And I should say that this very show that we have concocted together, which is always more than 45 minutes and does incredibly well for us.

TED Talks Daily
How to be smarter about the news | Ian Bremmer

So I think that the kind of the myth that everybody can, everyone's attention span has become 25 seconds or less is just not being proven out by the data at all.