Combatting Peak Bullsh*t | Evan Davis | Talks at Google

We were joined in London by journalist and economist Evan Davis, discussing the low-level dishonesty, selective use of facts and economy with the truth all around us, across both US and UK politics and more generally in the world of business. How did we get to a place where bullshit is apparently so effective that it's become the communications strategy of our times?

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** About Evan Davis **
Evan Davis is a presenter of the BBC2 current affairs programme Newsnight, a role he began in September 2014. From April 2008 up to then he was a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He is also well-known as the presenter of the BBC2 business reality show Dragons Den. And on Radio 4, he hosts a weekly business discussion programme The Bottom Line. Prior to the Today programme he was the Economics Editor of the BBC, the most senior economics reporter in the corporation. Evan Davis was the Political Studies Association broadcaster of the Year; he won a bronze Sony award as Speech Broadcaster of the Year and the Made in Britain programme won the Harold Wincott Foundation Business Television Programme of the Year award.

Event moderated by Peter Barron.