{"podcast":{"title":"The Bulletin","slug":"the-bulletin-5801357","podcast_index_feed_id":5801357,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/thebulletin","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/64d0c8ee-517d-11ed-aaa2-13f947ab154e/image/241e9457c5df7d18a2eb054fa51c6498.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Christianity Today","episode_count":290,"summary":"The Bulletin is a podcast for Christians seeking insights into the events, questions, and people that are shaping their world. Each episode will help Christians consider the intersection of faith, culture and spiritual formation. Subscribe today!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T22:19:48.199700+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bulletin-5801357"},"episode":{"title":"Truth in Media","slug":"truth-in-media","published_at":"2026-06-05T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bulletin-5801357/truth-in-media","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bulletin-5801357","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY2433224602.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY2433224602.mp3","summary":"As we continue our summer programming around a specific theme in the headlines, this week we’re focusing on the subject of truth in media with previous Bulletin guests Chris Stirewalt, Francis Haugen, Renee DiResta, and Francis Collins. This episode of The Bulletin weaves together three distinct conversations exploring the death of local reporting, the rise of algorithmic echo chambers, and a practical blueprint for how Christians can navigate the news with wisdom and discernment. GO DEEPER WITH THE BULLETIN: Join the conversation at our Substack. Find us on YouTube. Rate and review the show in your podcast app of choice. ABOUT THE GUESTS: Chris Stirewalt is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he focuses on American politics, voting trends, public opinion, and the media. He is concurrently a contributing editor and weekly columnist for The Dispatch, and the host of The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt on NewsNation. A well-known political commentator, Mr. Stirewalt is the author of Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back. Francis Collins, MD, PhD, served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden. Prior to that, he led the Human Genome Project at NIH, coordinating a consortium of laboratories to produce the first ever complete sequence of human DNA in 2003. Collins’s research has led to landmark discoveries of disease genes and helped pioneer a multitude of therapies for many diseases. Renee DiResta is a professor, writer and former research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory. DiResta has written about pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, terrorism, and state-sponsored information warfare. Frances Haugen is an American data scientist and product manage…","meta_description":"As we continue our summer programming around a specific theme in the headlines, this week we’re focusing on the subject of truth in media with previous Bu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2328,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-bulletin-5801357/episodes/truth-in-media/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bulletin-5801357/truth-in-media.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}