Is the Public Square Gone?

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🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

After a news week that’s felt more like a news month, Matt Thompson sits down with two experienced editors to ask how people manage to make and consume news in today’s environment. Adrienne LaFrance is the editor of TheAtlantic.com. Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of World Without Mind. Links - “The Death of the Public Square” (Franklin Foer, July 6, 2018) - “The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a Damn” (Adrienne LaFrance, August 8, 2018) - “Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism” (Adrienne LaFrance, May 1, 2018) - “The Era of Fake Video Begins” (Franklin Foer, May 2018 Issue) - “When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism” (Franklin Foer, September 2017 Issue) - “It’s Time to Regulate the Internet” (Franklin Foer, March 21, 2018) - “Social Media in 1857” (Adrienne LaFrance, November 1, 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's what they call an evergreen tweet. This is a crazy newsweek.
0:07.0	From a Monday morning hurricane of misinformation over Rod Rosenberg's position at the Department of Justice
0:12.2	to Thursday's momentous Senate hearings
0:14.0	concerning Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, knowing what's
0:17.5	actually true at any given moment is getting harder and harder. What role
0:22.4	are politics, business, and technology playing? harder and how can the public get to it
0:23.0	politics business and technology playing in obfuscating the truth
0:27.0	and how can the public get to it?
0:30.0	This is Radio Atlantic.
0:49.4	I am delighted to be joined in studio today by Adrian LaFrance
0:53.0	the editor of the Atlantic.com.
0:54.6	Hello Adrian.
0:55.4	Hi.
0:56.4	Thank you for joining us.
0:57.3	Thanks for having me.
0:58.1	Of course.
0:59.4	We are also joined by the Atlantic Staff Raider Franklin for Frank. Thank you for joining us this
1:07.1	morning. My pleasure you're taking me away. We're taping Thursday, Thursday,
1:12.1	wait, shit, what are we taping?
1:14.4	This is Thursday morning.
1:15.7	Okay.
1:16.7	I already just screwed it up, right?
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