Am I a propagandist?

A truth teller.

An influencer?

There's probably no more contested profession in the world today than mine, journalism.

I'm Brian Reed, and on my show, Question Everything, we dive head first into the conflicts we're all facing over truth and who gets to tell it.

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Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Trump says he wants to provide aid

to U.S. farmers hurt by his current trade war with China. High Chinese tariffs on U.S.

goods are threatening farmers who rely on buyers. The NPR's

Daniel Kurtz-Labor reports Trump also bailed out farmers in his first term. In a social media post,

Trump wrote about how the government spent $28 billion to buoy farmers hurt by a trade war with China

in his first term. He finished by declaring, the USA will protect our farmers. Trump has imposed 145% tariffs on

Chinese goods. In turn, China is tariffing U.S. goods at 125%. Both of those levels are much

higher than during Trump's first term. That makes U.S. goods more expensive in China, hurting sales

of ag exports, especially soybeans, by far the

biggest agricultural export to China. U.S. soybean exports to China still have not recovered

from Trump's first-term trade war. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.

It's something but face off between two major powers, the President of the United States,

and the nation's oldest and richest university, Harvard.

Unlike other institutions, Harvard now says it will defy the Trump administration's orders to limit activism on campus under the guise of ending anti-Semitism.

The Trump administration responded by saying it's freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and is called on the university to

apologize. Harvard describes the demands as a threat to not only the school, but also to the

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