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Aryan Khanna
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Future of Media in a Post-Truth Age.
Hello everyone and welcome to the press panel on the Future of Media in a Post-Truth Age. For today's session, the speakers are- Jeremy O'Grady: Editor-in-Chief of The Week, Robert Guest: Foreign Editor of The Economist and Jim White: Telegraph columnist, writer, and broadcaster.
3:25
After a brief introduction, Robert Guest starts by throwing light on surge in fake news. He says,
"We live in the era of fake news," To elucidate the current condition, he adds inferences from 16th century media and compares the current state to it.
3:27
3:33
"I have been in Journalism for a very long time," says Jim White. He focuses on the recent revolution in the media industry. He talks about how mobile phones have made the industry more inclusive and increased the audience.
3:35
If you want news that’s true, someone has to pay for it, says Robert Guest.
3:46
On being asked about where does the onus lie to counteract fake narratives, Jim replied, "America just announced best subscription in terms of internet readership,"
He also talked about how "opposition to Trump" has increased the "retreat to traditional methodologies."
3:48
"You can create a new world via this new technology," says Jim White.
3:50
3:52
Robert Guest: "Being highly intelligent doesn't protect us against fake or cooked up stories,"
3:54
Robert mentions his days from Oxford, where people believed in made-up stories. He further emphasizes on how social media platforms can be used to manipulate people and reinforce ideas.
3:57
Jeremy O'Grady starts by answering the question- what is true and what is not? Keeping into consideration bi-partisan on the rise.
4:00
Agreeing to Robert's proposition that we are "instinctively tribal human beings,"  he adds, "to a certain extent this follows the trajectory of the religious collapse in Europe."
4:04
"You're not sure whether you are reading the news or reading someone's comments on the news," says Jeremy, keeping the current abominable condition in mind.  He adds," Figures of trust on the press on an all time low."
4:08
Jeremy places importance on the use of numbers. "The way newspapers present them is definitely a subject to debate," he added.
4:10
Answering the question by Anushka, Robert mentions  the Beijing Olympics and how the facts were twisted which can't be done in a free country.
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Jeremy O'Grady: "Deep need of epistemic vigilance of where the news is coming out." He further explains the danger of giving this responsibility to not us but the platforms and how the platforms have become the "vigilantes of truth."
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4:19
After the concluding marks by the renowned panelists, the session ended by the panel mutually agreeing that fake news is one of the biggest hindrances to journalism. Notwithstanding, the subjectivity under the post truth, the media personnel should not let the personal bias affect the reportage.
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