178. Uncovered: News Media Insider on CNN, Fox and a Broken Industry
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Eye-opening inside reflections from journalist and media critic Steve Krakauer, formerly of CNN, Fox and more. His new book is "Uncovered."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Today, a fascinating insider interview with a journalist who's worked at CNN, Fox News, |
| 0:18.4 | and Beyond has seen the radical changes in News Media firsthand and has a lot to say about all of it |
| 0:24.5 | that you'll want to hear. |
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| 1:12.0 | thinker. You're probably interested in the evolution of the news media and that pretty much guarantees |
| 1:17.9 | you're going to love today's interview with journalist and media critic Steve Krakauer. |
| 1:22.8 | His new book is Uncovered and we'll let him take it from here. |
| 1:28.2 | So I really started my career. I was an NBC page for a little bit like for anyone who's ever |
| 1:33.9 | watched 30 Rock. I was one of those ones with the peacock tie and doing the tours and the very |
| 1:40.0 | bottom of the rung of the ladder there in New York City at 30 Rock there. But really, you know, |
| 1:45.0 | I got my start in the media working TV news and then media covering the media industry reporting |
| 1:50.1 | about the media and specifically about kind of TV news. I then worked over at CNN actually before |
| 1:57.6 | that also I worked at Fox and I worked at CNN for several years originally working on Peers Morgan |
| 2:03.7 | show there and then overseeing basically how television lives online. So how does live on the website, |
| 2:10.3 | how does live on social media. That was 2010 to 2013. I worked at the Blaze, moved over there, |
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