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Hear the Bern

17 - Beat the Press (w/ Katie Halper & Sam Seder)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Briahna dives into mainstream media's anti-Bernie habit with the help of Katie Halper of the Katie Halper Show and Sam Seder of the Majority Report. The Katie Halper Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-katie-halper-show/id1020563127 The Majority Report with Sam Seder: https://majorityreportradio.com

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The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.

0:05.0

More or more than some media on the media.

0:08.0

The Polish-dated stories is that we are true without checking facts first.

0:12.0

Unfortunately, some members in the

0:14.0

who use their platforms to push their own personal bias

0:18.0

and agenda to control them what people think

0:21.0

and this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

0:24.0

Media, the fourth estate. The watchdog of democracy. Our tool for understanding not only what is happening in the world, but why it matters.

0:37.0

You probably don't need someone to tell you that U.S. media outlets are in a deep crisis.

0:42.0

According to the Pew Research Center, U.S. media outlets are in a deep crisis.

0:43.0

According to the Pew Research Center, circulation for daily newspapers has been on the decline

0:47.8

for the past three decades.

0:50.9

In 2016, ad revenue for the industry was just one-third of what it was a decade earlier.

0:57.0

While high-profile outlets, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, have boasted about soaring subscriptions in the age of Trump.

1:04.4

The story for the industry as a whole has been one of consolidation, layoffs, buyouts, and decline.

1:12.4

The winners in this new media climate, Google, Facebook and

1:17.2

Twitter, which are the new primary targets for ad revenue. Look, the industry it's terrible right now. That's Ari

1:26.2

Robin Hoft, our chief of staff talking on a recent episode of our live streaming show

1:30.8

for the campaign called the 99.

1:34.1

When I traveled in 2004 during the general election with the campaign, with John Kerry's campaign in

1:40.0

2004, there were reporters for the magazines who would go out on the road and have to file once a week stories.

1:47.0

There were photographers who were shooting on LICA cameras on film, who would leave the road to develop their film to get on the to get the

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