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Dec 2016
37m 11s

A new age of language and truth

Financial Times
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Journalist and television anchor Joe Weisenthal joins Cardiff Garcia to discuss the way social media has heralded a new era for language that resembles Homeric Greece more than the age of enlightenment.

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