MSNBC host Chris Hayes has a new book out, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. The blurb: “From the New York Times-bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society.”
Sounds like a natural fit for a fawning interview on public television, and Amanpour & Co. followed NPR in conducting one, with Amanpour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan after an enthusiastic set-up by host Christiane Amanpour. Together, they advanced a shocking, neo-puritanical proposal — to limit online screen time in the name of preserving our attention.
Hari Sreenivasan: What you point out with the book is really, I see so many parallels to the ultra-processed food industry and how…
