John Sutter: It's so easy to villanize and raise money. But there was a difference back then when we had villains, he says. The people reading those articles knew that that was from ben franklin, the tory. So they already knew the point of view of that news. They were, they did not believe that news was somehow accurate. And the time in america, the walter cronkite period, was really an aberration in history.
Most Americans support climate action, but you wouldn’t know it from Congress or the courts – or from most of the media. People on both the left and the right experience the same devastating floods, the same life-threatening heatwaves and the same catastrophic wildfires. Yet individuals tend to socialize within insulated political tribes, operate in completely different information bubbles and see the problems and solutions through different lenses. How can we learn to bridge ideological divides, develop trust, and find the common ground needed to rebuild respectful civil discourse?
Guests:
Chloe Maxmin, Maine State Senator
Joan Blades, Co-founder, LivingRoomConversations.org
John Gable, Co-founder, AllSides.com
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