152: Finding Truth as a Journalist ft. Kara Dixon
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The past couple of weeks have taught us more than ever that the media plays a fundamental role in our screwed-up society. Love 'em or hate 'em or somewhere-in-between-'em-because-they-are-varied-humans, reporters are still very much a gatekeeper in between the public and what's going on in the world. Sure, anyone can take a video on their phone and throw it up on Twitter, but journalists are the people who help us contextualize and verify truth.
Or at least...they should be. But some outlets have very much broken the American people's trust. I wanted to talk to an actual journalist about the ups and downs of trying to find the truth in a world that likes to play hard and loose with the facts.
In today's episode, journalist Kara Dixon breaks down where to look for news if you're concerned about bias, the hardest parts of being a journalist in a world where #fakenews is a hashtag, what it's been like to be reporting COVID-19.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 152. Today we're talking all |
| 0:06.3 | about finding the truth in a world that's kind of lost sight of what that is. |
| 0:11.1 | Today's episode is brought to you by Select International Tours. |
| 0:15.7 | To learn about their pilgrimages for 2021 and beyond, |
| 0:19.0 | had to Select International Tours.com slash Feminist. Today's episode is also brought to you by the |
| 0:24.8 | classic learning test. Head to CLT exam.com to learn more about this |
| 0:29.8 | ACT SAT alternative. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, inspired, and |
| 0:40.0 | intentional. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad about our conversation today because I'm talking to |
| 1:01.3 | Kara Dixon who is a journalist. |
| 1:04.0 | Some of you may know that I actually studied journalism in college. |
| 1:08.0 | I always wanted to be a writer but in high school I had a few well-intentioned but completely incorrect. People tell me that studying |
| 1:17.7 | English was going to be a complete waste of time and that I should find a way to make money writing that looked like things other than trying to write a children's book. |
| 1:27.0 | So I thought, you know what, I'll study journalism, I'll go become a White House correspondent until I get a children's book deal. That was truly my line of |
| 1:35.2 | thinking. I also used to be way more into politics than I am now. I'm still interested in political |
| 1:42.2 | thought and I still follow the news closely but it's not as |
| 1:45.0 | all-consuming as I used to allow it to be. |
| 1:47.9 | So I was a polyside journalism major and I totally thought that I was going to be the next I don't know name a journalist |
| 1:54.7 | Megan Kelly Rachel Maddow not really sure if you consider either of those people |
| 1:58.7 | journalists but I wanted to be that person who who reports the truth of what's going on and as I've grown |
| 2:05.4 | older and as our news and commentary has changed it's really been interesting to |
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