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Common Ground with Jane Whitney
Is The World Getting Worse – Or Better
Explore the schism between the way we are and how we think of the world.
Is Social Media The End of Civilization?
This 12-episode series features deep-dive conversations with the nation’s leading thinkers, leaders and experts around the nation’s most important issues. It explores national public affairs issues from government and politics to the environment and global affairs, with a mission to inform and inspire communities through shared dialogue and providing thought-provoking suggestions and solutions.
Is Social Media The End of Civilization?
Season 2 Episode 205 | 56m 46s | CC
Ben Franklin always told us “never argue with anyone who buys ink by the barrel.” But in the age of computers, social media gives everyone a bottomless inkwell and the nuttier the idea, the more currency it garners. In the fifth program of the season, we examine how the democratization of media ironically has become a threat to democracy and the pressing clash between free speech and social peace.
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