The economics of outrage
Does journalism still report the facts or has it been hijacked by opinion?
The Media Show · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
A global pandemic, the US election, Brexit negotiations, climate change - the news has never been busier, but how good a job are journalists doing at making sense of everything? Or have some journalists had their brains hijacked by social media opinion?
Presenter: Amol Rajan
Guests: Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic and former deputy editor of the New Statesman and Piers Morgan, journalist and author of Wake Up.
Producer: Richard Hooper