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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Best of the Media Buzz Meter: Disney Settled Trump's ABC Suit to Avoid Damaging Its Family Brand-And Fear of Losing

MEDIA BUZZmeter

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Society & Culture, News, Tv & Film

4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This 'Media Buzz Meter' first aired December 18th, 2024 ... Howie Kurtz on how Trump and ABC came to a $15million settlement in defamation lawsuit, Trump saying Liz Cheney 'could be in trouble' over Jan. 6th committee and Ukraine saying they assassinated top Russian general. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

0:05.0

The Iowa pollster Ann Selzer is in the news because of Donald Trump's suit yesterday against her and the Des Moines Register.

0:16.0

And I know everything in the online world is like, get it up, get it up, get it up, beat the other guy by five minutes, 20 minutes, whatever it is.

0:24.6

But a little tough love for mediate.

0:28.0

And by the way, we all make mistakes.

0:30.0

If it's an unusual spelling of a name or something, sometimes you don't double check.

0:34.3

But if the main person in the story has the name misspelled, it kind of

0:42.0

undercuts the story. So Mediite had it as Anne Seltzer, the kind you would order at a soda

0:48.6

fountain counter. And, you know, with today's tech, I mean, it takes literally five seconds to do a search.

0:59.3

You write an AN, SEL, and it fills it in for you. You don't even have to go to the actual article.

1:05.2

And so if maybe you made that mistake in a rush, although the name was in there several times,

1:10.3

like somebody

1:11.0

should go back after it's posted and say, oh, we got this wrong. We ought to correct it.

1:17.0

So I'm sure Anne was teased about her name as a younger person. And of course, the suit against

1:25.9

the register is part of a blizzard of lawsuits by Donald Trump.

1:32.3

Which brings me to story number one.

1:34.3

Now, I'm not exactly thrilled by this, but I think Trump is back to beaten up on the quote corrupt media.

1:47.0

And I think this was something of a victory lap after beating ABC and George Stephanopoulos.

1:51.2

We'll come back to a behind-the-scenes story on that case.

1:56.6

And so also he's saying he's going to move against 60 minutes for that, you know, unbelievably bad blunder,

2:05.3

almost everyone in journalism agrees, of having a different Kamala Harris answer than the question to a different answer to a different question.

2:16.4

And there's his suit against Simon and Schuster and Bob Woodward

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