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The Emily Maitlis MacTaggart Lecture

The News Agents

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The Other Side of the Covid Pandemic?

Broadcasters desire to be seen as neutral agents paradoxically enables populists to further spread the claim that we are not. We were offering a platform to the very people trying o tell the public to distrust our news. Sometimes we tie ourselves in knots over the both sides and balance. I just wanted to knw what it felt like for this archetypal new yorker to see the city and its people so bereft.

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