From a federal courtroom this week, truth still matters. Thats what a prosecutor from trumps doj said in the closing arguments of roger stones trial. He said, quote, i know we live in a world where twitter, tweet, social media, where you can find any political view you want. However in our institutions of self government, courts of law, committee hearings, where people under oath have to testify, truth still matters. Truth still matters. And the jury agreed. And end ed up convicting trump political adviser. In the news, in the impeachment hearings, three of them, three government officials testified, many more coming up in the days ahead. Right now there are competing narratives about impeachment. Dueling echo chambers, axios says, divergent worlds the Washington Post says. Narratives are not equally true, not equally valid. There are facts over here, like transcripts. And then theres some elaborate fictions. One narrative is grounded in witnesses, testimony under oath, transcripts, re
Nicole carol about what we need to preserve and protect while so much of media is changing. Lets take a big picture view as we begin this hour. This was the decade of streams and screams and the shared notion of truth. To see what has changed, look at some of the words that have been added to the Merriam Webster dictionary in the past ten years. There is bingable. Thats a new one. Screen time. Cyber safety. Also airplane mode. Plus click bait, emoji, meme. Thats a new one in the past ten years. And deep state, truther, alt right, idiocracy. Think back to 2010 before any of those words hit our lexicon. It was the year the ipad launched and the year instagram started. In 201135 of adults owned a smartphone now that number is up to 81 and still rising. You wake up and if youre anything like me, you wake up and we start scrolling. All day long our phone addictions have taken hold. These addictions start at a young age. New platforms keep popping up changing the way we communicate and chang
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