The Chaos Machine: Wrathful Lord

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Art by Qieer Wang.

Qieer Wang for NPR

It's one of the biggest beefs in our country these days: Who gets to own the truth? What happens when someone spots bias in the mainstream news and decides to revolt? In Part 2 of "The Chaos Machine" series, Yowei meets the man behind 209 Times, talks to Stockton's very own "deep throat," and encounters a critique of the mainstream media she doesn't have a good answer for.

Additional Information:

Lewis Ravin Wallace

• "Journalism With A Purpose"
• "Objectivity is dead, and I'm okay with it"
• The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
• "The View from Somewhere" podcast

Journalist Objectivity

• The Debate Over Objectivity in Journalism, on 1A with Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, and Morgan Givens
• Just the Facts: How "Objectivity" Came to Define American Journalism by David T.Z. Mindich
• "The Fall, Rise, and Fall of Media Trust" by Michael Schudson for Columbia Journalism Review
• American Conspiracy Theories by Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent 
• "Cautionary Notes on Disinformation and the Origins of Distrust" by Yochai Benkler on Mediawell
• "Q&A: How Pew Research Center evaluated Americans' trust in 30 news sources" by John Gramlich with Amy Mitchell

Special thanks to the following musicians:

• Infinity Knives
• Yung Kartz