Keynote speaker Jeet Heer questions the position of fact-checking in an more and more distrusting society on the Reimagining Political Journalism convention at Carleton College on Nov. 15, 2024.
(Natasha Baldin)
For this week’s podcast, I’m posting a chat I gave at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, earlier this November on how the disaster of democracy is expounded to the disaster of journalism. Within the discuss, I argue that we live in an age the place the salient political divide isn’t a lot left/proper as system/anti-system. Liberals have tried to struggle anti-system politicians like Donald Trump by doubling down on fact-checking.
However I preserve that this technique is deeply flawed, since voters who reply to anti-system arguments are additionally skeptical of establishments that declare to verify details. The discuss tries to put out a method for partaking with anti-system anger in a extra productive approach.
