The Fight for Your Attention with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes

MSNBC host Chris Hayes discusses his book The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, and reckons with his own culpability in the corruption and commercialization of our attention. 

Thanks to “Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso” for sharing this interview with us. 

“Question Everything” is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory.

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