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The Emily Maitlis MacTaggart Lecture

The News Agents

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We're Getting It Wrong

We presented this unequal effort to our audience as if it was balance. We fell into what we might call the patrick minford paradine. The way popularism works on us as journalists is to somehow seek to divide us from the public. That those in power are the only ones that can understand normal folk, and that we, the media, are getting in the way of that relationship between the people and their government. Back to panyevsky, who writes this failure is framed as the media’s grand conspiracy against the populace, as the representative of the people.

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