{"id":21607,"date":"2019-12-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=525f4d196135f14a5f5fca88d890af0c"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:00:00","slug":"does-economics-have-a-media-problem-with-matt-gertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/12\/10\/does-economics-have-a-media-problem-with-matt-gertz\/","title":{"rendered":"Does economics have a media problem? (with Matt Gertz)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Most people understand the economy through the news\u2014how it\u2019s doing, what the new laws are, and what experts predict for the future. For better or for worse, that means journalists largely dictate our common knowledge of economics issues. What\u2019s the media\u2019s responsibility as they cover the economy? Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz joins Steph and Paul to ponder the question: does economics have a media problem?<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Matt Gertz is a senior fellow at Media Matters, a progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Matt\u2019s work focuses on the relationship between Fox News and the Trump administration, news coverage of politics and elections, and media ethics. His writing on the Trump-Fox feedback loop has appeared in The Daily Beast, HuffPost, and Politico Magazine, and he has discussed his analysis on MSNBC, NPR, and Comedy Central.<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattGertz?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@MattGertz<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Further reading:\u00a0<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Media Matters website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/\">https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/<\/a><\/p><p>Who Fact-Checks the Fact-Checkers? <a href=\"https:\/\/civicskunk.works\/who-fact-checks-the-fact-checkers-da45dc63e00c\">https:\/\/civicskunk.works\/who-fact-checks-the-fact-checkers-da45dc63e00c<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>How local \u2018fake news\u2019 websites spread \u2018conservative propaganda\u2019 in the US: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/19\/locality-labs-fake-news-local-sites-newspapers\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/19\/locality-labs-fake-news-local-sites-newspapers<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Study: Major media outlets show improvement at debunking Trump misinformation on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/donald-trump\/study-major-media-outlets-show-improvement-debunking-trump-misinformation-twitter\">https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/donald-trump\/study-major-media-outlets-show-improvement-debunking-trump-misinformation-twitter<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/\">http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/<\/a><\/p><p>Our twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchforkEcon\">@PitchforkEcon<\/a><\/p><p>Our instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pitchforkeconomics\/?hl=en\">@pitchforkeconomics<\/a><\/p><p>Nick\u2019s twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickhanauer?lang=en\">@NickHanauer<\/a><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Most people understand the economy through the news\u2014how it\u2019s doing, what the new laws are, and what experts predict for the future. For better or for worse, that means journalists largely dictate our common knowledge of economics issues. What\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21608,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21607\/revisions\/21608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}