A morning with Patrick Radden Keefe

Today, as George Orwell warned in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the boundary between what is true and what is false is increasingly thin, and the fabrication of lies is used daily as a powerful tool of social control. How is the truth currently concealed? What are the dangers of disinformation? As part of the week that the CCCB is dedicating to Orwell’s legacy, the prestigious journalist and non-fiction writer Patrick Radden Keefe will reflect on the crucial role of investigative journalism in our society and in upholding democracy.

Behind every story published by the award-winning staff writer of The New Yorker, be it about the pharmaceutical family that patented and marketed the painkillers that have turned millions of Americans into drug addicts, or the conflict in Northern Ireland, there’s a long and painstaking research process with dozens of interviews and the review of documentary sources. His work highlights the importance and also the difficulties of uncovering and telling the truth.

The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) so that the students can work on the contents beforehand in the classroom and thus make the most out of the lecture.