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(Airs 08/08/25 @ 3 p.m. & 08/10/25 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and David Guistina, Media Project Producer, Morning Edition Anchor, and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy and David talk about whether journalists can be neutral, the fact that you might realize crime has been going down for years because of how media cover it, and much more.

The New York State Writers Institute is having their sixth "Telling the Truth in a Post Truth World" event today. Two panels will convene at Page Hall in Albany, New York "The future of the Democratic Party" at 5:30 p.m. and "The future of the Republican Party at 7 p.m." NBC's Chuck Todd will participate in the Democratic Party panel and he joins us.

The new book “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past” by Steve Benen is an investigation of the Republican Party’s dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time.

Kirsten Powers - a CNN senior political analyst and USA Today columnist - offers a path to navigating the toxic division in our culture in her new book "Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts." (Convergent Books)

Later today, CNN anchor Jake Tapper will be our guest on “The Book Show,” to discuss his new thriller, "The Devil May Dance." In that interview, we focus…

In President Trump's campaign against what he calls "Fake News," CNN Chief White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta, is public enemy number one. From the…

"The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump" is a new book from public…

Peter Pomerantsev is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, an author and TV producer. He studies…

David McCraw is the top newsroom lawyer for the New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations. In short: if you've read a…

A new, single volume of history sets out to explore the experiment in government that is the United States. Award-winning Harvard historian Jill Lepore,…