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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Tyranny’s Most Dangerous Foe
Description: María Teresa Ronderos champions honest, smart journalism as essential to combating misinformation and strengthening democracy in the digital age.
Winston Churchill is alleged to have written that "A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.” Thus, it should be no surprise that at a time when clear majorities of people in most democracies don’t trust their governments or their politicians, they also don’t trust their media or the journalists that produce it. Literally, you can’t have one without the other—and today m...