Apple News In Conversation

Something is deeply broken in American news. Can it be fixed?

Oct 29, 2022

26:51

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Episode guests

Margaret Sullivan

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Is Climate Change Caused by Human Behavior?

01:20

How the Media Flocked Its Big Moment of Reckoning

00:51

Media Literacy

02:09

The Failures of the Media

01:59

Introduction

2min

Media Critics: Newsroom Confidential, Lessons and Worries From an Inksdained Life

2min

The Failures of the Media

2min

The Impact of Fox News on Reality-Based Media

2min

Is There a Catch-22?

2min

Do You Think the Mueller Report Exonerates Trump?

2min

Getting Tripped Up by False Objectiveity

2min

Is It Raining Outside? Literally?

2min

Do You Have a Media Diet?

2min

10.

What Do You Think Media Organizations Should Do Differently?

3min

11.

Is There a Law That Says There Can Only Be Factual Reporting?

2min

12.

Media Literacy

2min

13.

You've Exited Journalism?

2min

A recent study by the Reuters Institute found that only 29% of Americans say they trust the news most of the time. Where has the press gone wrong — and how can it change to better serve the public? Longtime media critic Margaret Sullivan explores these questions in her new book, Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) From an Ink-Stained Life. Below are excerpts from her interview with Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu.

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