News Narratives in a Post-Factual Era

How does news and truth survive, when trust in what is fact has suffered and people live in bubbles of isolated realities fed by polarized and fragmented media sources? What is the role of narrative storytelling in this new media landscape? Thomas Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard Kennedy School, and the author of the recent book "How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason that is Crippling America." He talks with former Shorenstein Center Fellow and Filmmaker-in-Residence Gabriel London, whose paper titled "Hanging by a Thread: Serialized Narratives in a Post-Factual Era" was just published at ShorensteinCenter.org.

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News Narratives in a Post-Factual Era is an episode from Shorenstein Center Media and Politics Podcast by Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy.

This episode is 38:45 long.

This episode was published on Mar 11, 2020.

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