Trash Talk (w/ Jeffrey M. Berry)
Episode 43 · June 24th, 2019 · 30 mins 8 secs
About this Episode
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Political scientist Jeffrey M. Berry and sociologist Sarah Sobieraj co-authored the book The Outrage Industry, which examines media efforts to provoke outrage in audiences (including efforts that play fast and loose with the facts), as well as the conditions that have encouraged and rewarded such efforts. Berry joined me for a conversation about incivility, outrage rhetoric, and more.
LINKS
--Tufts University profile for Jeffrey Berry
--Tufts University profile for Sarah Sobieraj
--The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility, by Berry and Sobieraj (Amazon)
--"Anger is a business" (by Berry and Sobieraj, for Vox's Mischiefs of Faction)
--"New Republic: Rush Limbaugh's morality lesson" (by Jonathan Cohn, for National Public Radio)
--Forbes: The world's highest-paid celebrites
--"The caning of Charles Sumner" (from the United States Senate website)
--"Clear Channel renames itself iHeartMedia in nod to digital" (by Ben Sisario, for the New York Times)
--"Congress is more bipartisan than you think" (by Laurel Harbridge-Yong, for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage)