On Media with Roy Greenslade

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In this episode we speak to Roy Greenslade, a renowned journalist with a career spanning over 40 years. He was the media commentator for the Guardian newspaper for 28 years and ex-editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper. He is also an author, historian and former professor of journalism at City University London where he has had an influence on the next generation of journalists. Despite his frequent criticism of the press, Roy continues to hold a sympathy for the values of traditional media and a concern for what its loss of influence means in our culture.

Together we explore legacy vs social media. In particular:

• Benefits of citizen journalism
• Accountability of the traditional editorial model
• Media manipulation by powerful elites
• Post trust and post truth
• The virality of narratives which provide simplistic answers
• Versus: nuanced discussion asking complicated questions
• Proliferation of ‘angertainment’ through algorithms

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