This chapter explores the changes in media conversations over time, emphasizing the challenges of moderating debates with diverse viewpoints and the impact of friendship on dialogue across ideologies. It delves into the transformation of American journalism, focusing on NPR's shift in representation and the polarization of media. The discussion extends to the lack of ethnic diversity in traditional media audiences and contrasts reporting styles between print and radio journalism.
Yascha Mounk and Mike Pesca discuss what real balance ought to look like in reporting hotly contested issues.
Mike Pesca is a journalist and the host of "The Gist", the longest running daily news podcast in history. He spent a decade as a correspondent for NPR, guest hosting “All Things Considered” and “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.”
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Mike Pesca discuss why many news organizations have discarded objectivity in favor of “moral clarity” in recent years; the recent internal upheaval at NPR and the limits to giving every side equal coverage; and whether journalists, academics and other experts ought to consider themselves “defenders of democracy.”
This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
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