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#570 - Helen Lewis - Investigating The World Of Modern Gurus

Modern Wisdom

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Is It a Problem on the Left?

I see almost on what seems to be a very regular basis, some insane titled thing talking about how the calories on the back of a bar of chocolate are homophobic. So it doesn't seem like mainstream media is protected by the rules and procedures necessarily. That's funny. You would pick two left wing examples because I would actually say that's a bigger problem on the right, the problem of disinformation. But, you know, they are kind of narrative machines as much as their deliveries of facts. so I don't think it's a unique problem on the left at all.

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