Book launch with Brian Winston and Matthew Winston

03/18/21

Contributed by Raza Rumi Ahmad

FLEFF and PCIM present the launch of a new book The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism by Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. The discussion will be moderated by Raza Rumi, Director Park Center for Independent Media.

Winston and Winston will discuss their recently published book, The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. The book argues that ‘fake news’ is not a problem caused by the power of the internet, or by the failure of good journalism to assert itself. Rather, it is within the news’s ideological foundations – professionalism, neutrality, and most especially objectivity – that the true roots of the current ‘crisis’ are to be found.

Speakers:

Brian Winston is The Lincoln Professor at the University of Lincoln in the UK
Matthew Winston teaches in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester
Raza Rumi, Director of the Park Center for Independent Media, will conduct the interview