Is objective news an illusion? | John Lloyd, Hilary Lawson, Jonathan Calvert

Philosophy For Our Times

English - November 22, 2016 00:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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We want news to accurately reflect the real world. But in an age when competing channels with different perspectives are instantly available should we recognise this goal as an illusion? Should we accept that journalists set the world's agenda with their own fictions and fantasies, or is there a framework of objectivity we should require and demand?

Editor of The Sunday Times Insight Jonathan Calvert, founder of the Reuters Journalism Institute John Lloyd and philosopher and former editor of The World This Week Hilary Lawson examine truth in news.

In Association with Huffington Post UK.

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