JotCast | Press Panel: Future of Media in a Post-Truth Age

Press Panel: Future of Media in a Post-Truth Age

K.S. Swati

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5:45

Hello and welcome to Press Panel: The Future of Media in a Post-Truth Age. The panellists 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.

5:53

Jeremy says, “Our problem with fake news is with the mainstream media and not with the people”

5:59

He adds on to the discussion by saying that lack of trust in mainstream media is the most disturbing aspect.

6:01

Jeremy continues by saying, “There is a polarization of the news. In Britain, news has become more entangled with comment - so it’s hard to differentiate if you are listening to a report of news or someone’s opinion about the news”

6:03

While talking about objective reporting, he says, “The whole idea of objective reporting as an ideal is under threat now, because we as consumers are losing trust in the press.”

6:04

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6:12

Robert says,"Era of fake news is not a new one. In the 16th century, nonsensical stories used to be published because they sold best. In 1835 New York "Sun" started running a series of stories about a man who saw modern telescope saw fantastical stuff. At least the man and the telescope was real but they had to concoct more juice out of it which wasn't true, to sell it. Later it was caught and the New York 'Sun' credibility was questioned."

6:13

He continues to say,"Eventually things changed and in the era of newspapers there was ethical news-telling to a great extent and lot of truth used to be sent out there. Now, we seem to have shifted back to the old times, during the era of pamphlets when fake news was the silent rule. Through Facebook, fake news can be perpetuated even by a 14 year old teenager."

6:14

He asserts on the fact that gathering accurate news costs money. Writing fake news is not because to find things out you need to travel, pay for someone else's travel etc.

6:15

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6:17

While talking to the host, Jeremy chips in and says, “They should teach kids about - 'epistemic vigilance’ and we as citizens should not give the whole responsibility of providing true news to the platforms but should take the responsibility on us.”

6:18

Talking about how news platforms take responsibility in their hands, Jeremy adds,“It will require extreme vigilance to make sure that - platforms do not take control of themselves.”

6:19

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6:20

On reading of newspapers by the public, Jim White answers by saying, “It’s revolutionary that independent no longer prints a newspaper and it is entirely online.”

Talking about his mobile phone, he adds, “Here in our pocket is the opportunity to be a journalist and have the opportunity to deliver our sense of opinions, our sense of the world.”

6:22

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Talking in light of fake news, he says, “There are lots of dangers - dangers of what we can believe. You should create a world via the new technology”

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6:26

Jim adds on by citing an example. He says, “I went to Russia, where I met people for UK who blamed the media and said that Russia is a really nice place but media shows that it’s a horrible one. This is how fake news works.”

6:27

Robert adds on by saying,"Media has a responsibility to represent the truth and that cannot be compromised in any regard. Even if you state the truth your competitors will have a different version of the truth so people might not agree with you. It is the duty of the citizen to get an all round perspective of the incident by reading about it from different sources."

6:28

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6:33

A spur of fake news arose after Trump became the President. On this, White says, “Trump’s presidency has become a center of skepticism, they have rather become a center of opposition - they say every news is a fake news.”

6:38

When host asked why are people in spite of being educated and intelligent give in to fake news?

6:39

For this Robert says from his personal experience, "I noticed in Oxford that a kid was telling me about astrology which was nonsense so what intelligent people say is not necessarily wise. Facebook helps people to perpetuate mediocre content. It is not just about sharing or writing of information but also affirming to the same news once another person share that and that eventually becomes the truth. The Russians have tried to undermine the west. Back in the 80s the Russian intelligence planted the idea to try Africans that the HIV was planted by the CIA. I was in Lithuania. They have spent generations under the Russians and have learnt that they don't have any help from them. Lithuanians can distinguish between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources and that's what need to learn to do."

6:40

This brings to the end of discussion. Thank you for joining.

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