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The Thought Police

38: The power of influence

The Thought Police

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5861 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Mike capture the zeitgeist of modern journalism as they discuss the importance of free speech, the potential purchase of the Telegraph and what it might mean, the challenges of tackling tricky issues as a media savant, the influence of social media vs. newspapers on the upcoming election and of course there are a few tangents via Fleet Street as well!

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0:00.0

The The Oh, Welcome to another additional thought police. We are still in election territory because we're still watching with some interest how it's all going to pan out because nobody really knows

0:57.2

Even the pollsters have no idea

0:59.2

Clouless but we've talked before about the effort this week about the influence of newspapers

1:05.1

yeah and the influence I suppose you'd have to say the interests of social media is going to be

1:08.4

more important in this election maybe even than the last one because with

1:11.8

every kind of for me with every election that's been since about 2012, 2010 around

1:17.7

then, you know, social media has become the medium of communication, isn't it? Yes. But I suppose on that front you the media

1:23.0

but I suppose on that front you have to say that only includes people up to a certain age

1:28.0

I guess so well except to say that Facebook now is an old person site isn't it? That's what they say.

1:33.3

And the kids, the kids don't really want to be on Facebook.

1:36.6

They're on Instagram or Insta or IG.

1:39.5

Yes.

1:40.5

As they say, or SNAP, formerly known as Snapchat. chat yeah i don't understand tick talk have you heard a tick to talk

1:46.0

i think i've heard my daughter is mad about a very bad concert isn't that the one where there's a

1:50.2

little grooming going on isn't that you want to watch that oh god i don don't think so. Yeah I think this is the one where they make little

1:55.5

videos set to music. Yes I think that's the one you want to check that out just to see what's been written about it. But the other thing that I found fascinated this week

2:04.0

was this news story.

2:05.0

You know how we, I think we might too far last week,

2:07.0

the Telegraph group made me up for sale

2:09.0

because the Bartley brothers

2:10.0

have finally had enough

2:12.0

and they're not going to

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