Christian Paz, senior politics reporter at Vox, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the social media platform’s influence on voting habits, how stylized and highly emotional political videos grab attention, and how users end up in an echo chamber that doesn’t challenge their views.
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Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies joins us to discuss ethics in an ever-polarized media landscape.
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Washington Post humorist and columnist Alexandra Petri joins us to add her brand of humor to the discord and irony to our current events.
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Tom Mueller joins us to talk about the calculations that whistleblowers go through when they decide to raise an issue – and about what’s ahead for the person who called foul on the President.
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Jeffrey Gottfried joins us to talk about why some Americans are better than others at interpreting the news.
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Brooke Gladstone joins us to talk about how our perception of even basic facts has changed of late.
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We’ll talk about the line between news and entertainment – and if the nightly news is still relevant – with Charles Ponce de Leon, author of That’s the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America.
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One of the pillars of a democracy is an informed public. But what happens when the news media lets the public down?
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