Matthew Sheffield's Twitter bio reads: "I built conservative media and am now working to help free people from it." Sheffield is a journalist who got his start as a conservative blogger and co-founded the right-wing site Newsbusters, now a notable force in the conservative mediasphere, before moving on to write for the Washington Examiner. These days, he spends his energy trying to reveal that world's mechanisms to people both inside and outside of its hold with his podcast "Theory of Change" and an upcoming online magazine called Flux. In this interview, Sheffield tells Brooke about what he sees as the fundamental problems with the way conservative media operates. The problem begins, he argues, because "U.S. conservatives do not understand the purpose of journalism" and "most people who run right-dominated media outlets see it as their DUTY to be unfair and to favor Republicans because doing so would some how counteract perceived liberal bias."
This is a segment from our November 13th, 2020 program, Another World Entirely.
Sheffield has a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/mattsheffield
Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies
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