Russell Brand spoke on an episode of his podcast recently about the idea that MSNBC is the moral high ground in major media, offering up some pointed, scathing even, criticism, saying major media is not ethically serving the public.

Subramaniam Vincent is the director of the Journalism and Media Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, at Santa Clara University, and he talks to Communication Intelligence about Brand’s commentary.

Tucker Carlson recently said in an interview that he lies. That admittance didn’t seem to bother him much as he moved on to discussing another topic.

Carlson has been granted a voice, authority to speak his mind, connect with millions of devoted viewers and listeners and hold the power of persuasion.

Is this combination potentially harmful and if so, why?

Subramaniam Vincent is Director of the Media and Journalism Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

As you might imagine, he shakes his head at what he sees. He converses in depth about the problems that lying, deception and creating scapegoats in ‘newstainment,’ social media and politics creates, how it affects society and what partial remedy might prove beneficial.