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EP38: Democracy Dies in Snarkness (ft. Michael Tracey & Robert McChesney)
EP38: Democracy Dies in Snarkness (ft. Michael Tracey & Robert McChesney)
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Oct 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
You can’t have a functioning democracy without a trusted media. That fact explains the state of U.S. democracy, at least in part. The United States has the lowest rate of media trust in the industrialized world, with just under a third of respondents in a 2020 Reuters poll saying they trust the media they consume. But whose fault is it? And, is the media even trustworthy? A string of failures suggest otherwise: weapons of mass destruction, the global financial crisis, Brexit, Russiagate, and plenty more. This week on Darts and Letters, we talk to two media critics about the shortcomings of the fourth estate.
Released:
Oct 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (99)
EP4.1: Auditing the Auditors: Our last episode, “the Conquest of Bread,” was about McKinsey and Co. encroaching on higher education. In this bonus episode, we put these developments in a wider context. That context: audit culture. Put simply, it’s governing by numbers. by Darts and Letters