Jimmy Wales: Is our news making us ill?

Is our news diet making us ill? As the mainstream print media retrenches and new kinds of partisan,
“activist”, corporate and fact-free “alternative” media fill the vacuum, the media we consume is full of
more hidden additives than ever. What can be done about it? Is it enough to check facts, or is the
increasing overpopulation of factoids, and think tanks and activist groups or fact-checking their
enemies, part of the problem?

Jimmy Wales came to the CIJ to think about how to fix our broken news industry.

Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.

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