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The Age Of Wiggly Reality, Examined

Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56560359

"Facts are facts."  "You can argue about the meaning, but not about the facts."  Insert your favorite phrase on facts and reality here. 

Telling the truth seems to be taking a beating in today's world. 

Brooke Gladstone gets to watch the process in her role as co-host of "On The Media," heard on JPR. 

She gives us some off-air thoughts in her small book The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time.  We put the panic on hold and visit with Brooke.

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.