Business journalism systematically sidesteps the genuinely interesting reality of how people work, reporting instead on management changes and share-price movements, which represents a missed opportunity to illuminate the working world.

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Alain de Botton

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I was amazed by business journalism that reports on amazing areas of the way people are working and it just sidestepped the interest just a report on on the share price

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Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work 09/13/2010EconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 7:00:39 PM

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