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The Emily Maitlis MacTaggart Lecture

The News Agents

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Is News Night Fake News?

Sebastian gorker used his time on air as an effective conduit to sell a key populist message that the mainstreet media could be dismissed as fake. He kicked down belief in a trusted source of news and made the audience doubt what they are seeing, he says. None of this has anything to do with policy; it's why populous parties can shapeshift between the right and left attract votes of traditional parties or none. It is a means to achieve and retain power. And i speak from experience when i say that it took us too long to recognize it for what it was and to find the journalistic tools needed to deal with iti.

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