Media Critic Jay Rosen on the Challenges of Covering Politics in a Post-Truth Era
Mina Kim talks to media critic and professor Jay Rosen about how the press should respond when one party is actively supporting the false claim that the November 2020 election was stolen.
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Show Notes
Covering politics has never been easy, but since the Jan. 6 insurrection, the landscape has become particularly difficult for the press. How does the country create costs and accountability for lying and shamelessness in politics? And following four years of Donald Trump, have the rules for press coverage permanently changed? Media critic and New York University professor Jay Rosen joins us to discuss how the press should respond when one party is actively supporting the “Big Lie” -- the false claim that the November 2020 election was stolen.
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