When the president of the United States labels you the enemy of the people, what’s a young, aspiring journalist supposed to think? While recognizing that journalism is in a crisis, Christina Bellantoni, a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California and a former editor of Roll Call and at the Los Angeles Times, says the era of fake news is actually bringing out the real value of journalism and helping to motivate the next generation to seek the truth. “It’s more important now than ever that we earn back the trust that people used to place in their media,” she says on the latest Political Theater Podcast. “They actually take the fake news thing on as a challenge.”