Gov. Cuomo's Budget; Facebook Overhauls Its News Feed (Again); Bridging East and West
Coming up on today's show:
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Margaret Sullivan, media columnist with The Washington Post, discusses President Trump's "Fake News Awards" and Arizona Senator Jeff Flake's speech in which he criticized President Trump's reference to fake news and "alternative facts."
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Facing a $4.4B deficit, Governor Cuomo presented his budget plan this week. Karen DeWitt, Capitol bureau chief for New York State Public Radio and Fred Mogul, WNYC Albany reporter talk and offer analysis.
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Kurt Wagner, senior editor, social media for Recode, explains the changes Facebook is making to its News Feed, plus how these changes will affect what users see, why the company is doing this and whether the fake news stories that popped up during the 2016 election have anything to do with this.
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Gish Jen, novelist and author of The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap (Knopf, 2017), offers her take on the perennial question of what takes precedence, the community or the individual.
