Big Boss Interview

Consistently baiting the guests and playing devil’s advocate on the side of the devil, the host believes he is practicing “journalism” but instead shows himself to be morally bankrupt. Kudos to the guests for often pushing back and standing up to him but it’s exhausting for the listener.

I have been a listener for years and while it’s been a great podcast to hear current events and viewpoints, recently it’s been very clear the host Roger Hearing isn’t preparing himself accurately or well before hosting. He continuously have been asking guests questions with assumptions instead of knowing what actually occurred or what policies were written yet, repeats it with authority and as fact. It’s gotten so bad in past months that guests have had to continuously correct him on the same point. After 9 years of listening, I’m unsubscribing from Biz Matters until Mr. Hearing improves or is replaced. It’s becoming a problem and derailing what should be good policy discussions. Very disappointed.

I applaud BBC World Service’s attempt to diversify their broadcasting staff but Devina is just not up to the task. Her accent and extremely error prone English are unintelligible most of the time. It’s painful to hear her struggle to keep the conversation across interviewees and the two guest contributors interesting and on track. She would do better in a news reading segment which requires much less impromptu/ extemporaneous commentary and hosting. I don’t listen to the episodes hosted by her.

Relentless pursuit of connecting all the geo-political, environmental & social dots impacting the present & future of economy, globally with entertaining expert observation & analysis. Perhaps at times it could improve by giving a more in-depth analysis of the economical impact by key technological trends such as Generative Automated Intelligence (GAI). In covering the entertaining show of Musk being interviewed by the UK PM for example, the decoding of ‘In the future, people won’t need to work due to AI’ should be heard as: In the near future, where GDP growth is solely driven by systems & machines to process, plan, produce & profit, billionaires and corporations will NOT have a need for human employees to exponentially grow their wealth! What would be the new definitions for productivity and labor that could leads us through the necessary evolution/revolution of the present economical models & metrics???

Well presented