For decades, Americans have been epidemic voyeurs. But now, for the first time, we're facing the

probability that we will not just be witnessing, we'll be experiencing. And then we'll find out,

what is the medal of Americans? From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

The CDC says, it's not so much a question of if this will happen

anymore, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people will have

severe illness. The president says he hopes for a miracle and mussels the CDC. Meanwhile,

pundits worry that progressive candidates turn off swing voters.

Are they missing half the picture?

They're thinking of white people who swing from voting Republican to voting Democrat.

I talk about what I call the other swing voters who swing from voting Democrat to not voting at all or voting third party.

It's all coming up after this.

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

Bob Garfield is out this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

After Donald Trump's presidential campaign... We have large Arab populations, they were cheering

as the World Trade Center came down, and inauguration. We had the biggest audience in the history

of inaugural speeches. There already was a widespread understanding across the political spectrum and

certainly in the mainstream media. Oh, I called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are.

They are the enemy of the people.

That the inner life of Donald J. Trump was provisional and largely untethered to reality,

except when it served his interests.

This, of course, was disquieting to say the least, but only became truly

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