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What’s Politics 12# - Rethinking the Media
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Guest: Peter Beattie, Political Economist, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
For there to be a proper functioning democracy, we need a proper functioning media system – one that’s focused on the democratisation of ideas and robust debate between various viewpoints. However, the hyper-commercial media landscape today couldn’t be further from that. Fake news, half-truths, narrow perspectives, playing to the gallery and rage-baiting culture wars have greatly contributed to the polarisation we see across the world.
Peter Beattie, who’s a regular guest on this show, wrote a book titled Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy which focuses on problems with the media landscape today and what needs to be done to make it better. We unpack his book in this episode.
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Presenter: Dashran Yohan
Producer: Dashran Yohan
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fake news
democracy
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What’s Politics 12# - Rethinking the Media
42 mins
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14:00, 13 Mar 2024
Guest: Peter Beattie, Political Economist, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
For there to be a proper functioning democracy, we need a proper functioning media system – one that’s focused on the democratisation of ideas and robust debate between various viewpoints. However, the hyper-commercial media landscape today couldn’t be further from that. Fake news, half-truths, narrow perspectives, playing to the gallery and rage-baiting culture wars have greatly contributed to the polarisation we see across the world.
Peter Beattie, who’s a regular guest on this show, wrote a book titled Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy which focuses on problems with the media landscape today and what needs to be done to make it better. We unpack his book in this episode.
Image credit: Shutterstock
Presenter: Dashran Yohan
Producer: Dashran Yohan
functioning media system
commercial media
the bigger picture
beyond the ballot box
what's politics
media
fake news
democracy
clickbait
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