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On the Media

A Failure of Imagination

On the Media

WNYC Studios

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The media loves the Trump-Putin narrative. But is it true? Plus: a guide to news about migration, both in the US and abroad. And how Germany's media laws could affect Syrian migrants.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:04.6

Bob Garfield's Way, I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:07.7

This week, the Democratic National Convention acted to distinguish its tone from the doom and gloom of last week's R&C.

0:15.2

In her historic speech Thursday night, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton pushed back against the idea that America

0:22.7

is a country on the brink of chaos, suggesting instead that it is a country where all our children

0:30.8

can dream and those dreams are within reach, where families are strong, communities are safe, and yes, where love, trumps

0:41.4

hate. Despite images of harmony at the closing gavel, the press informed us throughout the

0:48.0

week that all was not well in Philadelphia. There was an unruly element that threatened to burn

0:53.9

right through the love.

0:55.0

Drama with a capital D.

0:57.0

The capital D.

0:58.0

Sanders supporters booing every mention of Clinton's name.

1:02.0

People are booing, people are chanting Hillary.

1:05.0

Late night comics seemed fixed on the tears of the thwarted opposition, fixed but unmoved.

1:12.6

There were so many white women crying. I thought Pinterest had died.

1:15.6

I have not seen that many crying women since Bernie opened for the Beatles.

1:21.6

But as the comics and the pundits analyzed the agony and acrimony of the Bernie Battalion, the speakers at the podium were

1:29.5

focused on a more existent threat. The richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy.

1:36.4

Hand over your money, your jobs, your children's future, and the great Trump hot air machine

1:41.5

will reveal all the answers. He's trying to tell us he cares about the middle class.

1:47.5

Give me a break.

1:49.0

That's a bunch of malarkey.

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