Episode 55: Grandstanding

Journalists are talking about the importance of truth telling. But what they’re saying conflicts with what their news agencies are doing. Today, Josh digs into this growing problem. When one speaker at a journalism awards dinner said something critical about the media, it ended up exposing the media’s propensity for grandstanding.

Plus, CBS platformed a Russian official in a long interview, and did not mention democracy. Even worse, CBS indicated that it took a piece of guidance from the Russian government. What?!

Meanwhile, a leader of Columbia University’s vicious antisemitic mobs has changed his story yet again. Josh explains. Read more about Mohsen Mahdawi’s Collapsing Web of Lies in the newsletter, and in Josh’s column for The Times of Israel: Is Mohsen Mahdawi the new George Santos?

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