{"id":100575,"date":"2026-08-26T03:44:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/get-real-with-david-desrosiers-the-information-state-with-jacob-siegel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:44:03","slug":"get-real-with-david-desrosiers-the-information-state-with-jacob-siegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/get-real-with-david-desrosiers-the-information-state-with-jacob-siegel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Get Real&#8221; with David DesRosiers: The Information State with Jacob Siegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> This week, Get Real devotes the entire hour to a question that touches every American: who controls the information we see, hear, and believe?   Hosted by David DesRosiers, publisher of RealClearPolitics, the program takes a deep dive into the new book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Information-State-Politics-Total-Control\/dp\/1250363128\">&#8216;The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control&#8217;<\/a>  Author Jacob Siegel joins David for the full hour to examine how government, technology, media, and powerful institutions can shape public perception &#8211; and what that means for free speech, democracy, and individual freedom. It&#8217;s a conversation about the new battlefield of American politics: not just who controls government, but who controls information.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/24\/get_real_with_david_desrosiers_the_information_state_with_jacob_siegel.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Get Real devotes the entire hour to a question that touches every American: who controls the information we see, hear, and believe? Hosted by David DesRosiers, publisher of RealClearPolitics, the program takes a deep dive into the new book: &#8216;The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control&#8217; Author Jacob Siegel joins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2564,26086,3892,7254,127,28765,2464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}