S8 E1: The Myth of the Echo Chamber
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Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
4.9 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Americans have access to a flood of news, and yet we're in a deep information crisis. What's really wrong with the news media? Is it what we think it is? And what about news consumers? Most of us don't trust the media, but can we trust ourselves?
By John Biewen with co-host Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews: Ethan Jordan, Dannagal Young, and others.
Story editor: Diane Hodson. Assistant Producer, Arlene Arevalo. Fact-checking by Anna Pujol Mazzini. Music by Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, Michelle Osis, Lili Haydn, Alex Weston, James Nathan Jones, Goodnight Lucas, and Jason Hill. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're rolling. |
| 0:03.8 | Good sir. |
| 0:05.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:06.0 | Asian markets are mostly down today. |
| 0:09.0 | Dangerous flash flooding, ripping through parts of Milwaukee. |
| 0:13.0 | This is a box news alert. |
| 0:14.0 | This is our camera angle from our... |
| 0:16.0 | Americans, if we want to be, are inundated with news from countless sources. |
| 0:22.6 | From the New York Times, I'm Michael O'Law. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome back to One American News. |
| 0:26.6 | And at the same time, we're stuck in a deep information crisis. |
| 0:34.6 | It seems like we're helpless to solve our problems. |
| 0:38.3 | It doesn't help that we have no shared narrative and few shared facts. |
| 0:43.3 | What is happening right now in the world and what just happened to my friend Charlie Kirk |
| 0:48.3 | is a battle of sheer evil versus goodness. |
| 0:53.3 | To me, Fox News just not, they don't tell the whole story. |
| 0:56.6 | I consider myself a centrist. I'm not particularly interested in MSNBC. |
| 1:01.1 | What I'm saying is, don't do me. Don't try me today, Scotty. What I'm saying to you is that, |
| 1:06.1 | you know, buy and a lot of us. On big questions, a whole lot of New York Post. Yo, ain't worth the paper and print it on. On big questions, a whole lot of us don't know what's true. Or we firmly believe and will fight you over things that are not true. Let's get rid of these voting machines. There's a half a dozen people, whether it's the House or Senate, Larry, that are up here as we speak, |
| 1:28.5 | that did not get elected. It was all bogus. Just so people understand, wind and solar only work |
| 1:34.6 | when there's wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar. |
| 1:39.6 | So if you make yourself... I'm very disappointed in the mainstream media. that's all I'll say about that. |
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