The cognitive bias which influenced the mainstream media reporting

In this excerpt of the first part of Gaurav’s interview on Targeted, host Zach Abramowitz and Victoria Katoka discuss the cognitive bias which was built-in to the story by the time it had reached mainstream media such as the FT and WSJ. The shiny, sexy story which Niles Troost had to tell made for compelling reading.

As Victoria says “It is masterful, it is extremely well resourced… The animous and the resources brought to bear to do this were extraordinary, and terrifying!”

Zach “Terrifying is right. The WSJ and FT articles seem so one-sided and skewed - when I go back and look at the article I’m like ‘How in writing this are they not seeing this?’ And as you pointed out it’s not you’re talking about some saint here. We’re talking about someone [Niels Troost] who is trading in Russian oil ata time when Russia must be the most unpopular country in the West.”