In this week’s podcast Sam Sawyer, S.J., talks to Kerry Weber and Matt Malone, S.J., about why and how fake news came to dominate the media landscape. Several callers pitch in to describe their interactions with fake news.
Journalism
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis: The media needs to avoid the sin of spreading fake news
To bring someone’s past into public view “is a sin and does harm,” the pope said.
Posted inIn All Things, Magazine
Why a Jesuit perspective on the news will really matter in 2017
Please help America Media continue to bring breaking coverage and analysis to issues you care about most.
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Of Many Things
For 107 years America magazine has led the conversation about faith and culture in the United States.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
It’s time to admit: our tech is not value neutral.
Claiming to be a tech company should not provide blanket absolution from responsibility.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
What does free speech really mean?
The pervasiveness of the internet has changed the game and made issues of free speech far more complex than they have ever been.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
These are the journalists who died reporting the news you didn’t read
Where we choose to click and what we choose to read matters. Collecting these stories cost some people their lives. Why not honor that sacrifice?
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
The Pallium Lecture tackles challenges facing Catholic media
The challenges facing Catholic journalists covering the church and the secular world are explored by America’s Matt Malone, S.J., and NBC’s Anne Thompson.