Erie Reader: Solutions Journalism, a conversation with Wendell Potter, founder of Tarbell.org

Questions of motivation and transparency loom large in politics as they do in life, but it seems to take on ever more importance during an era in which black-and-white media and the delegitimization of institutions have become the norm rather than the exception.

“I want people to understand how their thoughts are being manipulated in ways that they just never take into consideration,” says Wendell Potter, who spoke before a crowd of nearly 100 people at the Jefferson Educational …