Jul 21, 2020
What are the forces driving the breakdown in our media system?
How do media polarization, hyperpartisanship, and disinformation
threaten our values and democracy? And what can we do about
it??
Ciaran O'Connor talks to the leaders of two organizations working
to free people from filter bubbles so they can better understand
the world, surmount the business model challenges that have driven
the news media towards hyperpartisanship, and help Americans forge
a shared reality in which to understand and analyze our nation's
most important issues.
John Gable is the Cofounder and CEO of AllSides, which provides
daily news and issues from all perspectives -- left, center, right,
and everything in between, to provide a fuller picture of what is
really going on.
Nathaniel Barling is the Cofounder and CEO of Knowhere, a news
organization dedicated to establishing the facts as they are, on
the global, national, and local stories that matter, and
integrating machine learning deeply into the newsroom.