S2 E9 - Should Journalists Counter Hate & Lies?

It Matters How We Treat One Another

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Season 2, Episode 9, Guest: Angie Chuang, Topic: Should journalists counter hate and lies? This episode is a follow-up to Season 2, Episode 6 on countering hate. In this episode, Matthew interviews media scholar Angie Chuang on whether or not journalists should make a practice of actively countering hate and lies.

Angie Chuang is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. Before entering academia, she was a staff writer for several regional daily newspapers for 13 years, including The Oregonian and the Los Angeles Times. She’s finishing a book called American Otherness in Journalism, due out this fall on Routledge.

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