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The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The media in the United States is broken. Most journalists and media organisations dismissed the possibility of Trump Presidency. Many backed Hillary Clinton to win. It has left them in a precarious position with serious questions about their credibility, fuelled by the president and his inner circle who have branded them ‘enemies of the state’. Kyle Pope, editor of the Columbia Journalism Review asks how the media should respond to a hostile administration and more importantly how can they gain the trust of the vast numbers of people who think they are hopelessly biased.

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0:00.0	The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous
0:12.0	disservice to the American people.
0:14.8	Tremendous to service.
0:15.9	We have to talk about it to find out what's going on because the press honestly is out of control.
0:20.6	The level of dishonesty is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. As Donald Trump says
0:26.6	we need to talk about this. I am Kyle Pope, editor-in-chief of the
0:31.8	Columbia Journalism Review and this is breaking news on the BBC
0:35.2	World Service.
0:36.8	How is a relationship between the President and the media reach such aloe?
0:40.8	Even more importantly, how is the trust in the media fallen so dramatically?
0:45.0	The dishonesty of the New York Times is unbelievable.
0:49.2	The dishonesty of the Washington Post is unbelievable. The dishonesty of all of those cameras, so many of them, not all of them, is unbelievable.
1:00.0	With Donald Trump now in the White House, journalism has reached a moment of reckoning.
1:05.1	Journalists fail to foresee the outcome of the election and miss the political views of a big chunk of the country.
1:11.5	And the problem is, many people think he's right. The media is hopelessly
1:16.2	biased. What do they do now to restore trust?
1:20.4	If you want to understand how bad the relationship between the media and the White House
1:27.5	has become, listen to this story from Elizabeth Bue Miller, Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Times.
1:36.2	One Friday at the end of last month, two times reporters, Glenn Thrush and Michael Grinbaum,
1:42.0	were writing a story about President Trump.
1:45.0	We had a story about Trump's relationship with the press.
1:49.0	And it was about how Trump was a master of the New York press and Thrush to try to get in touch with Sean
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