When did we stop trusting the news? Was there ever really a golden age — or have we been romanticizing something that was always more complicated?

Dr. Aimee Edmondson, Associate Dean of the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University, spent a dozen years in newsrooms before dedicating her career to studying how the powerful have tried to silence the press.

In this episode, Aimee takes us on a journey from the partisan press of the 1790s through the Fairness Doctrine, the rise of cable news, and into the algorithmic present — revealing that the crisis we're living through has deeper roots than most of us realize. We talk about what we've lost (shared sources of truth), what's at stake (corporate pressure on editorial independence), and what gives her hope (a generation of young journalists she calls "truth tellers").

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