Fate of Fact

4.5 (81)
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Pulitzer-Prize winning and best-selling historian Jon Meacham and esteemed guests explore the history and origins of the strong grip misinformation and disinformation have on our politics. Meacham will trace the roots of America’s prevailing culture of polarization, with an emphasis on why the right has chosen to break with a governing consensus that, however imperfect, was once embodied by the figurative conversation between Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Fate of Fact offers a historically grounded perspective on the forces that led to the presidency of Donald Trump and the insurrection of January 6, 2021—an attack on the Capitol and on democracy as grave as any American moment since the Civil War. Fate of Fact is an Audacy original presented in partnership with Shining City Audio.

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Welcome to Fate of Fact

Welcome to a new audio documentary, Fate of Fact, a presentation of Shining City Audio, a C13Originals and Jon Meacham studio. Throughout the course of five episodes in season one, Pulitzer-Prize winning and best-selling historian, Jon Meacham and esteemed guests, will explore the question of how fear conquered truth, the history and origins of the strong grip misinformation and disinformation have on our politics , and how we got here today. Meacham will trace the roots of America’s prevailing culture of polarization, with an emphasis on why the right has chosen to break with a governing consensus that, however imperfect, was once embodied by the figurative conversation between Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Fate of Fact offers a historically grounded perspective on the forces that led to the presidency of Donald Trump and the insurrection of January 6—an attack on the Capitol and on democracy as grave as any American moment since the Civil War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4 min

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81 Ratings

Hopeful.

12/28/2023

Juke rn

As ever, Jon is brilliant, insightful and in this case, courageous. Thank you for explaining the inexplicable. I miss my friends. I miss my family. They’re still in there. Sometimes I can see their beautiful souls peeking through.
Woke

01/16/2024

Jfhbcfjvdv

This guy is way too far left to believe anything he has to say.
Awesome

11/28/2022

NewFanOfStoics

Insightful and timely. Shows how fallible we are as humans and how fragile are our systems.
Overlooking a much bigger threat

12/26/2022

Jerdpaul

The spread of misinformation is a problem and it’s helping to divide a nation but the bigger and more chilling problem (that you’ve chosen to overlook because you’re a partisan hack) is govt suppressing important facts that could sway an election such as the Hunter Biden laptop. We now know clearly that the FBI pressured Twitter Facebook and other to suppress the story and even called it “Russian disinformation” to help a flawed candidate get elected. that was a blatant lie. The US Gov and social media are colluding and to control the narrative. The bigger “threat to our democracy” is Suppression or free speech and the first amendment

Pulitzer-Prize winning and best-selling historian Jon Meacham and esteemed guests explore the history and origins of the strong grip misinformation and disinformation have on our politics. Meacham will trace the roots of America’s prevailing culture of polarization, with an emphasis on why the right has chosen to break with a governing consensus that, however imperfect, was once embodied by the figurative conversation between Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Fate of Fact offers a historically grounded perspective on the forces that led to the presidency of Donald Trump and the insurrection of January 6, 2021—an attack on the Capitol and on democracy as grave as any American moment since the Civil War. Fate of Fact is an Audacy original presented in partnership with Shining City Audio.