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Radio 4,14 Oct 2020,27 mins

The economics of outrage

The Media Show

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A global pandemic, the US election, Brexit negotiations, climate change - the news has never been busier, but how good a job are journalists doing at making sense of everything? Or have some journalists had their brains hijacked by social media opinion? Presenter: Amol Rajan Guests: Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic and former deputy editor of the New Statesman and Piers Morgan, journalist and author of Wake Up. Producer: Richard Hooper

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