Steven Pinker says journalism needs historical context

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If journalism isn’t accompanied by historical context — that is, not just what’s bad now but how bad it was in the past — then our intuitions can be systematically distorted by the news," says cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. Watch the full interview tonight at 10:00pm on The World.

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