“What Is Truth?”
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week's edition of "This is Fine" kicks off with a close analysis of an increasingly common phenomenon in mainstream media: supplanting objectivity with personal experience and identity. From Watergate to a recent viral WaPo op-ed, they uncover the fables the press tells itself as copium. Plus: the editors discuss where they turn to for reliable news, the tragic killing of Tyre Nichols, and their favorite stories on TAM this week. For a list of articles referenced in this episode, visit americanmind.org/audio/.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of The Round Table. |
| 0:03.0 | One just anecdote about the train. |
| 0:05.5 | So of course in California, |
| 0:07.2 | we're still building a bullet train. |
| 0:09.3 | Now the first segment of it, |
| 0:10.9 | I think originally was supposed to go |
| 0:12.4 | from Modesto to Baker's Field. |
| 0:14.8 | I have heard now that actually the first open segment |
| 0:18.0 | will not, will actually go from Modesto |
| 0:19.9 | to pretty much know where it won't even make it |
| 0:21.8 | to Baker's Field, |
| 0:23.1 | or maybe with Baker's Field won't make it to Modesto. |
| 0:25.3 | I don't know, who cares? |
| 0:26.8 | But one of our supporters who's an engineer, |
| 0:29.4 | was an engineering firm that he started with his brother |
| 0:32.3 | out here in Greater Los Angeles. |
| 0:34.4 | He went, he reported to me a couple weeks ago. |
| 0:37.8 | He went to one of these kind of public, |
| 0:40.4 | you know, here's our update on the train, |
| 0:43.1 | on the bullet train from a couple of reps |
| 0:45.6 | and spokespeople for the whole project. |
| 0:47.3 | And that's where he learned that. |
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