Listen to support it, WNYC in New York, this is America Are We Ready.

Hello everyone, I'm Brian Lehrer from WNYC.

I'm Brooke Gladstone. I'm Michael Loeinger

Brooke and I co-host on the media. And we're here for the next two hours. The

basic questions we're putting on the table in this hour are do you trust the professional news media

more less or about the same as you did when Donald Trump first hit the presidential

campaign scene in 2015 and how do you think they're doing it covering

Trump versus his opponents this year? So Brooke let's talk about misinformation

and disinformation that professional news media organizations have to keep playing

whack-a-mole with more than in past generations I think and let's start with some basic

definitions what's the difference between misinformation and disinformation?

Misinformation is false information that is spread regardless of whether or not there's intent to mislead and

disinformation is quote deliberately misleading or offering biased

information manipulating narratives or facts, which is propaganda, and we've

seen a whole lot of both over the last few months.

So you got any most high profile most egregious miss or disinformation narratives we've

been hearing in the run up to the election some examples oh yeah I mean how

far back do you want to go I mean we can go all the way back to

Kamala not being sure if she's black or not or but more recently you have the lies around FEMA workers stealing money from the people who

need it in the wake of Hurricane Helene and giving them to migrants.

Can you imagine such a thing?

Well, obviously it's total BS.

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