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The Gist

BEST OF THE GIST: NewsGuard Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we replay something from the past week. This weekend, we listen back to Mike’s April 2023 interview with NewsGuard founder Steven Brill about the business of issuing nutrition labels for news. Then we listen back to this past Tuesday’s Spiel about the role for NewsGuard in our current political moment.    Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at [email protected]  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike’s Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.2

Hi, it's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. And not on Saturday, but in fact, it was before Thanksgiving.

0:36.1

I read Ken White, who's the Pope Hat.

0:38.8

He's a very good lawyer.

0:40.2

And he, I don't actually, I don't know if he's a very good lawyer.

0:42.1

He's a successful lawyer.

0:43.5

He's a very good podcaster and writer about the law.

0:46.8

And he was writing about the Trump administration and the First Amendment.

0:50.9

And he warned us.

0:51.9

Trump's team has announced an aggressive agenda to do exactly what his

0:55.7

critics called for. Use the power of government to attack expression they think is false,

1:00.1

misleading, disloyal or otherwise bad. The Trumpists want the FCC to assert more power over cable

1:05.7

in the internet and use that power to punish enemies. They want the government to use its power

1:10.3

to attack journalists they hate.

1:11.9

They want to protect protesters they agree with, however violent but use state force

1:16.1

and deportation to suppress protests they don't agree with.

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