#342: How to Tell If the News Is Reliable

The Daily Signal

Government, Daily News, News, Politics

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🗓️ 18 November 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On today’s show, we’ll feature an interview with the founders of NewsGuard, a journalism project that applies nutrition labels to media outlets. Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, the co-CEOs of NewsGuard, speak to The Daily Signal about the mission of NewsGuard and how their rating system works. Earlier this year, NewsGuard gave The Daily Signal a rare perfect rating.The two veteran journalists and news entrepreneurs also share their advice for journalists and discuss the impact social media companies have had on misinformation circulating today. Listen to the full interview below.Also on today’s show:• Your letters to the editor. Don’t forget, your letter could be featured on our show; write us at letters@dailysignal.com or call 202-608-6205.• We’ll also share your letters, and heartwarming story about a veteran in Tennessee.The Daily Signal podcast is available on the Ricochet Audio Network. You also can listen on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts.If you like what you hear, please leave a review or give us feedback. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, November 19th.
0:08.8	I'm Rob Lewy, Editor-in-Chief.
0:10.6	And I'm Jenny Molzubano.
0:12.1	On today's show, we'll feature an interview with the founders of News Guard, a journalism
0:16.2	project that applies nutrition labels to media outlets.
0:20.0	We'll also share your letters and a heartwarming story about a veteran in Tennessee.
0:29.7	We're joined on today's show by Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz. They're both veteran
0:33.8	journalists, news entrepreneurs, and the co-ceeos of Newsgarde. Steve and
0:38.8	Gordon, thanks for speaking to the Daily Signal. Thank you. It's good to be
0:41.6	here. It's our pleasure. Now Steve you founded the Daily Signal. Thank you. It's good to be here. It's our pleasure.
0:43.0	Now, Steve, you founded the American Lawyer, Court TV, the Yale Journalism Initiative, and Gordon, you've
0:49.1	been publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and also a columnist for the paper. What inspired you to create
0:54.6	Newsgard? Well I think we saw that there was a lot of garbage online and the
1:02.1	issue is that the average person looking at a Google search or a Facebook
1:06.2	news feed or a Twitter feed can't tell the difference between the garbage and the good stuff,
1:12.1	just to put it as simply as that because what you see is a
1:15.5	headline and you know the first sentence of a story and if it's a really
1:20.7	intriguing or even wild or crazy headline you attempted to
1:24.3	click on it and you forget or you never know in the first place what the
1:28.7	source is so if you see something let's say from from, you know, the National Review, which is a very high quality publication, or the Nation magazine also a high quality publication, but that takes the opposite view of the National view and then you see something from the Denver
1:46.0	Guardian which is a phony publication that doesn't actually exist but it's just there to, you know,
1:51.3	to pedal this stuff. You don't know where you are.
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