Dave Pell on the Maddening Hell That Was the 2020 News Cycle

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Dave Pell on the Maddening Hell That Was the 2020 News Cycle

Andrew Keen

Feb 06, 2022

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Dave Pell, the author of “Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year That Wouldn’t End”.

Dave Pell is the writer of the Nextdraft newsletter. Each morning he visits about 75 news sites, and from that swirling nightmare of information quicksand, Dave plucks the top ten most fascinating items of the day, which he delivers with a fast, pithy wit that will make your computer device vibrate with delight. No bots. No computer algorithms.

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