Fake News and Health
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's topic, interesting one. Of course, all our topics are interesting, but this one, fake news. And it's a good follow-up to our last show when we talked about health and politics. So we should see how this one plays out. We've got a great, great crew who I love to recognize. Maddie Levine-Wolf, who's helping us today doing the recording. Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, Matthew Campbell, Sharon and Nygaard are all second to none and really, really help to make Health Chatter successful. Clarence Jones and I do these shows together. Great colleague. And Clarence is involved with his community organization, Human Partnership, who sponsors Health Chatter. And we greatly appreciate that. You can check them out at humanpartnership.org.
And you can check us, Health Chatter, out at healthchatterpodcast.com for all the different shows. And you can check in on all the research that's done for all of our shows as well. Check us out. Today, fake news. So it's going to be Clarence and I and Maddie are going to be discussing this topic. Boy, I'll tell you, I don't even know when the concept, Clarence, of fake news hit the scene. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think it came out of the political arena or what. I don't know, but it's really disconcerting. But do you have a sense when it started or when it came about?
You know, I think a while ago. Yeah. Well, I think that when the Internet became popular.
Yeah.
Realize that they could they could submit a. A story without necessarily being identified. You know, that's when a lot of people decide that, you know, they are going to add their opinions to whatever the topic was. And so, yeah, I just think that people now with the use of technology, everybody has an opinion. It doesn't matter. You know, you're going to express your opinion. And there's going to be somebody out there that's going to believe what you believe. You know what I mean? But I think, Sam, when I saw this, when we were going to do this, a couple of things came to my mind. First of all, who really benefits from fake news? Yeah. Good question. And what is the real impact of fake news upon us as a society? I mean, those are the two things that happened for me.
So, you know, who would have benefits from fake news? I mean, you know, if it's not real, what is it?
Yeah, and who makes the judgment? Whether... And it's just kind of overwhelming when you think about it. It's just like when, certainly when I was growing up, and it's you too, it's like when you think about this, it's like news. You think of news as being accurate and factual and truthful. But now it's kind of like this standard deviation away from that where then we as the public have to make judgments about accuracy and whether it's truthful or whether it's verifiable. It puts kind of the onus on us where It doesn't seem like that that was the focus of what news was all about, whether it be in newspapers or in the social media world, etc.
Yeah, you know what? When I was growing up, I remember people like Walter Cronkite. Yeah, and that's the way it was. Yeah, David and Huntley, whoever.
Huntley and Brinkley.
Huntley and Brinkley, right. And then we jumped up to Jerry Springer. Right, right. You know, there was, I mean, so it was like this switch where, you know, Jerry Springer was, well, he was a mayor of a major city, but, you know, he was talking about some stuff and people were like, I couldn't, I didn't really realize how many people went to his audience. I mean, they just, they loved that, whatever that drama was. And I think that for some folks now, it is about the drama But again, the reality is this, is if you're involved with fake news, who really benefits from it? Does it give you a sense of power? I think a lot of people are doing it for the fact that, at least, again, these are my opinions. I'm not expressing for anybody else.
I think people enjoy the fact that they are in the middle of stuff. And that's why we get fake news.
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