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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Faking it: How dodgy news took over the world
Description: Donald Trump took over the phrase fake news – but dodgy journalism was an issue long before him. Has the media always been misleading? And how do we tell the difference between bad and fake journalism? Jacob Jarvis is joined by Andie Tucher, author of Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History, to discover the 300-year-old roots of fake news and why some journalists can’t admit it when they mess up.
“Journalists make mistakes all the time – the reporting on Iraq being a key example.”
“Sin of omissions can be as consequentia...