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Podcast: Heard Tell
Episode: Keeping Proper Media Perspective, Primary Results, Congress, Autism, Heard/Depp, guest Eric Garcia
Description: Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, 18 May, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting the information we need regarding the latest round of primary voting as some high profile races in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and others go to the voters in this midterm election cycle. We discuss how media and social media tend to focus on the outliers and extremes, and how unworthy schemers try to convince us those outliers and extremes are actually the whole story, how that starts the process of otherizing, and distorts our perception of what is really going on in the world. Guest Eric Garcia...