The ability to admit being wrong is one of the most important virtues, and it is extremely difficult. It should be emphasized in families and schools alongside standard virtues like honesty, sharing, and kindness, starting as young as possible.
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Basically, if you never, ever admit that you are wrong, and express your views with overweening confidence, justified or not, you'll find yourself on more TV and radio gigs, because the conflict and arguing are what the producers are after, not a nuanced discussion.
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Basically, what I'm saying is that the media models and rewards certainty coupled with a refusal ever to admit error, and people naturally pick up on that. The whole media landscape has become The McLaughlin Group.
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