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Fake news, social media and a new news order

Hosted by Warren Olney Nov. 09, 2017 National

From broadcasting to cable news to Facebook, Twitter, websites and bloggers. We hear how technology has changed journalism since this program first went on the air in the year 2000.

From this Episode:

In China, Trump tries a charm offensive

President Trump is in China, a country he accused of economic abuse during last year's campaign. Today in Beijing, the president called the economic playing field "very...

6 min, 29 sec

The news media and a crisis of credibility

When To the Point went on the air in the year 2000, the Y2K scare had turned out to be "fake news." The big story was the disputed presidential election. Cable news was...

33 min

US watching from sidelines of global climate conference

In Bonn, Germany, negotiators are trying to sharpen the fine points of the Paris Climate Accord, and US diplomats are in attendance. But they have limitations, given that...

8 min, 9 sec

Credits

Host:
Warren Olney

Producers:
Sáša Woodruff, Gideon Brower, Devan Schwartz

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