Can American Democracy Survive Fox “News”?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Democracy is based on the will of the people - and that is a function of the information to which citizens have access. Can America rescue our nation’s currently polluted streams of information and news?
Plus Thom reads from "The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump" by Michiko Kakutani, and from "The Water Defender" by Robin Broad, John Cavanagh.
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| 0:42.6 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:47.0 | Lots to talk about today. |
| 0:48.0 | Can American democracy survive Fox News? |
| 0:51.6 | How can a democratic republic balance the need for a free and independent press |
| 0:57.0 | with the pressure of fascism loving billionaires buying and controlling large chunks of that sector |
| 1:03.4 | of the media sector? |
| 1:05.6 | I mean, we are in the midst. |
| 1:08.1 | It appears of a genuine renewal in America. |
| 1:12.4 | We are recovering from three years of a pandemic. |
| 1:15.6 | Our middle class has been staggering for 42 years under Reagan's neoliberalism and we're |
| 1:22.0 | recovering from that. |
| 1:24.0 | We're rejecting the efforts of a republican neo-fascist and the mold of Donald Trump. |
| 1:29.5 | It looks like we're on the edge of a egalitarian, a small D democratic renaissance. |
| 1:35.1 | And some of the more well-known observers of the cycles of history agree. |
| 1:41.7 | Neil Howe has a new book coming out. |
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