On National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Scott Simon interviews Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption.
SS: You actually recommended an information diet that is kind of the equivalent to Michael Pollan’s famous food diet, which is: eat food not too much, mostly plants.
CJ: That’s right. It’s, you know, seek not too much, mostly facts. Right? Eat low on these sorts of information food chain and stick close to sources. If it’s an article on a bill in Congress or even, you know, a statehouse somewhere, going deep and actually trying to read the bill itself is really, I think, advantageous.
And it takes a little bit of time to pick up. Bills are not, you know, House resolutions are not the most entertaining things to read for most people. But getting to know what our legislative language is helps us, I think, become better citizens.
