Hey guys, welcome to Talk Nurdy. It's Monday January 23rd, and as always I'm your

host Kara Santa Maria. I'm really pumped to be able to talk this week with Michael

Marshall of the Merseys Skeptic Society. He has some really special insights into a topic that is especially relevant.

We recorded this prior to all of the news what Kelly Ann Conway was referring to Sean

Spicer saying during a White House press event when he used quote-unquote

alternative facts and of course as we know fake news and

now these quote alternative facts aka lies have been a big topic of conversation lately in American politics but

also at large.

So Marsh is going to really kind of explain some of the unholy alliance, the really unethical

relationship that currently exists between reporters or larger media outlets, even smaller ones, I suppose,

and public relations companies and exactly how we actually get the news that we get.

It's just fascinating.

But before we dive into that,

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