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Civic Culture

SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/30/2023

America's Lost Faith in the News

by Louis Menand

Politicians' success in demonizing and discrediting unfriendly news media threatens to undermine "the facts" as a shared social reality. Is anyone prepared to live in that world?

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Civic Culture

America's Lost Faith in the News

by Louis Menand