{"id":50,"date":"2020-10-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go.southernct.edu\/realtalk\/captivate-podcast\/fake-news"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:40:26","slug":"fake-news","status":"publish","type":"captivate_podcast","link":"https:\/\/go.southernct.edu\/realtalk\/episodes-list\/fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism, Objectivity, and Fake News: Dr. Frank Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfm-player-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow:hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/9c6b3514-b521-4964-ac30-561962f6954e\"><\/iframe><\/div><p>The role of journalism as a non-partisan checkpoint has been largely called into question during the rise of social media and accusations of fake news, with conversations often curving back to the question of, \u201cWho gets to own the truth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Frank Harris, III, joins us this week to discuss how this criticism is affecting conversations on diversity, and the ability of news media to be seen as arbiters of objective truth. 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