#1689 The Media and the Moguls: Corporate Media is not equipped for Trump
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/7/2025
Trump came in with a plan to subdue the media and large swaths of the media came in with a plan to acquiesce. But it's important to understand why because it's not a conspiracy or people wanting to do harm, it's structural to the system.
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KEY POINTS
KP 3: Trump SECRET Meeting with Media before Payoff EXPOSED - The MeidasTouch Podcast - Air Date 12-16-24
KP 4: Mickey Huff The Mainstream Media is [CENSORED] - The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow - Air Date 1-11-25
KP 5: Why Is Mainstream Media Still So Bad At This - The Majority Report - Air Date 2-2-25
KP 6: Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again) - On the Media - Air Date 1-10-25
KP 7: Attention pays (with Chris Hayes) - The Gray Area with Sean Illing - Air Date 1-27-25
(53:40) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
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DEEPER DIVES
(1:00:23) SECTION A: MONEY
(1:20:46) SECTION B: ATTENTION
(1:34:24) SECTION C: FREE PRESS
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. Trump came in with a plan to subdue the media, and large swaths of the media came in with a plan to acquiesce. But it's important to understand why, because it's not a conspiracy or people wanting to do harm. |
| 0:22.9 | It's structural to the system. |
| 0:37.5 | For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today includes the readout, on the media, Midas Touch, the Zero Hour, the Majority Report, the Gray Area, and the Dean Obadiah show. |
| 0:41.9 | Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in three sections. |
| 0:47.9 | Section A, money, section B, attention, and section C, the free press. |
| 1:00.0 | Donald Trump ran for president for one reason and one reason only to make all of his legal problems, poof, go away. |
| 1:03.3 | And for the most part, he was successful with one exception. |
| 1:10.6 | Yesterday, the New York judge who presided over Trump's hush money trial denied his bid to toss out his guilty verdict, meaning Trump will have to live with the |
| 1:13.3 | infamy of being the first convicted felon president. And yes, Maga, you are still a convicted |
| 1:20.2 | felon before you are sentenced. That's how it works. But that isn't stopping Trump from trying |
| 1:26.7 | to hit the delete button on every other |
| 1:28.5 | bad headline ever printed about him, going so far as to sue Iowa pollster and Seltzer |
| 1:34.1 | and the Des Moines Register saying he's seeking accountability for brazen election interference |
| 1:39.8 | over a November poll that showed Kamala Harris up 3% in Iowa. |
| 1:48.8 | Never mind the fact that Trump won the election and won the state of Iowa by double digits. |
| 1:57.1 | He's clearly feeling emboldened by ABC News agreeing to pay a $15 million settlement in a defamation lawsuit. |
| 2:00.1 | Nearly every legal expert said that they would have won. And as others in the media |
| 2:01.9 | show they are increasingly willing to comply in advance. Like the owner of the LA Times, Patrick |
| 2:06.8 | Sun Xiang, who Oliver Darcy is reporting, requested that the newspaper's editorial board |
| 2:12.2 | outright take a break from writing about Trump and balance any critical editorials or articles with positive |
| 2:19.1 | ones. Yeah, but here's the thing. These CEOs who are thinking, let me just give him what he wants |
| 2:25.5 | this one time and he'll leave me alone. He won't hurt me or my company or he'll give me goodies like |
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