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Is "opinion" doing more harm than good?
FromThe Minefield
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Opinion writing plays a disproportionate role in our media eco-system: it drives online traffic, fuels emotion, feeds the forces of polarisation, and promotes an incapacity to understand one another. But is there a different way to think about opinion?
Released:
Dec 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
What if the greatest threat to a free media was from within?: Our lives are saturated with 'news'; but far from creating informed citizens, this is producing forgetful, inattentive citizens. Megan Le Masurier joins us to discuss whether "slow journalism" could help us remember what matters. by The Minefield