Rumors and Lies, the American Version

Civics 101

NHPR

History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this double feature of two of our favorite episodes we cover misinformation, disinformation and propaganda -- three tricky truth-benders that come at you from every angle in American life. Our guides include Samantha Lai of the Brookings Institute, Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project, John Maxwell Hamilton (professor and author of Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda and Jennifer Mercieca, professor and author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Hannah here.
0:05.0	Guess what I have on my head right this moment.
0:09.0	A Civics 101 baseball hat, yeah.
0:12.0	Guess where I want to see this baseball hat in every state in America.
0:16.0	Do you believe this is possible? Because I believe anything is possible in a land of civic
0:21.2	participation and true democracy.
0:23.0	Help me to help you keep that dream alive all while looking incredibly cool.
0:28.0	This hat is black with Civics 101 written in white.
0:31.0	It is everything I have ever wanted in a hat just understated
0:35.0	support for the show that wants nothing more than to keep the promise of participatory democracy
0:39.8	and constitutional freedoms alive for this nation's inhabitants. I would wear this
0:44.0	anywhere and I hope you wear it everywhere. You can snag it when you make a
0:48.0	contribution of five bucks a month at civics 101 podcast.org and guess what that gift will be matched
0:55.0	matched dollar for dollar so get a hat wear a hat keep this show alive both
1:00.3	literally and sartorially speaking.
1:03.0	Also keep our life-giving but powerful sun out of your precious eyes and face.
1:07.0	Again, five bucks a month at Civics 101 podcast.org
1:11.0	wear the hat, tell the world you're fighting the good fight. I either have a cold or this is a really bad deep fake.
1:27.0	I'm Anna McCarthy.
1:30.0	Do you know it genuinely chills me?
1:36.0	Maybe I fervently believe something that is not true.
1:40.0	And I probably do. I'm probably guilty of that and I don't even know it.
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