Use Your Words

News in 2024 Is Just Plain Bad

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Episode notes

This week - we are joined by the monkey of chaos himself - and talk about why news in 2024 is just plain bad - and how we as a collective whole have great big blind spots in how we view our news on a daily basis. And what can we do to maybe correct some of these blind spots?

• Mother Jones | No There Were Not 355 Mass Shootings This Year
• Trusted News Initiative - Wikipedia
• Washington Times Article On Shadow Cabale
• The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | TIME
• When Americans Lost Faith in the News | The New Yorker
• What is "Fake News"? - "Fake News," Lies and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction - Research Guides at University of Michigan Library
• Why the News Is Not the Truth
• Twitter Example 2
• Twitter Example 1
• Aaron Rodgers Returns to Pat McAfee Show 1 Day After Host Said He's Done
• Pat McAfee Wants to 'Avoid' Controversy on ESPN Show amid Rodgers-Kimmel Feud

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