Bahamas: Hurricane Irma Update And Fake News: A Lesson From The Past
By Worldview Staff
Bahamas: Hurricane Irma Update And Fake News: A Lesson From The Past
By Worldview Staff
WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
Sign up for our newsletters
to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
On today’s show:
- In the wake of Hurricane Irma’s destruction in the Caribbean, WBEZ digital producer Gabrielle Wright, whose family is from the Bahamas, shares information coming from the hardest hit parts of the country and comments from Michael Fountain, honorary consul of the Bahamas to Chicago.
- Archivist Nigel Colley, great-nephew of journalist Gareth Jones who reported on the rise of Nazi Germany and was publicly shunned by a biased reporter who was a Stalin confidante, discussed what he calls “the first case of fake news in modern journalism.”