Please join us on Wednesday, May 22, at 1:00pm Eastern Time for what promises to be a fascinating and valuable conversation with Anat Saragusti, who runs Press Freedom for the Union of Journalists in Israel.
“The media” has come to mean many different things– broadcasters, social media, a euphemistic descriptor for spreaders of misinformation, or simply the news. But in the haze of war in Gaza and protests in the U.S., the media has itself become a source of polarization and debate. To analyze why coverage seems to slant one way or another politically, how nationalism and government disinformation find their way into the newsroom, and how journalists source their reports, we’re talking to one of Israel’s foremost media experts.