The very tenants and roots of journalism are about holding truth to power and having an informed

and engaged electorate and populace.

And so right now there are great forces including one of our two political parties in America that want to undermine all of that and they frankly want people to be misinformed or not

popular.

and so the problem though is that we have a media that needs to survive

based on clicks and controversy and serving the most engaged people.

So they both sides the issues, right?

They lift up facts and lies as equivalent in order to claim no bias, but that in itself is a bias because it gives

more oxygen to the lies and the disinformation that is really dangerous to our society and we are living

through the impacts of those errors and not malpractice done by media in America and

so we need to build different models and new precedence for what it means to be really transparent and pro-democracy and really focused on what the mission of journalism and media has and should always be which is to inform the public

with the facts so they can make educated informed decisions about who they vote

for who they want to represent them,

where they stand on issues that affect their lives and their communities,

and frankly, what kind of government we want to have in this country. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's

get into it. The media lets us down every day from the never-ending horse-raised

Biden Trump poll numbers to the constant talk of Taylor Swift,

to the previously trusted news sources like the New York Times in Washington Post,

posting deceptive clickbates or giving op-eds to liars because they know it'll sell, something has gone really wrong.

We used to say that journalism was the fourth estate, the final check holding the rich and powerful

accountable, but that's all been shattered by this profit-making entertainment paradigm, the influx of fake news, and the consolidation of our media owners.

And we're all suffering because of it.

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