Podcast: Talking to Graham Majin

Publication Date: 19/12/2025

Publisher: Martin Burckhardt

Abstract:

Graham Majin delivers a provocative critique of how baby boomers fundamentally transformed journalism from fact-based reporting to narrative-driven activism. This fascinating conversation explores the decline of truth in media through BBC's John Birt's revolutionary "mission to explain" - reversing journalism's traditional arrow from facts-to-opinion to narrative-first reporting. The discussion takes a dark turn as Majin argues we're witnessing the end of Enlightenment values, replaced by tribal "truthophobia" where journalists have become "journocrats" dictating stories from above rather than discovering them.

https://youtu.be/IM7WdzazbpY?si=wRAqqVut2aE4XPtW

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