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Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Cable News is DYING, and Here's WHY feat. Laurye Blackford

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.9692 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Meghan and her longtime confidant Laurye Blackford have a conversation about legacy media's last gasps. Let's face it, most of us get our news from social media and podcasts... not newspapers and TV, right? Both Meghan and Laurye have worked in traditional and new media and talk about why they think cable news is dying.

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0:00.0

Megan McCain has entered the chat.

0:12.8

Hi everyone. I hope you had a good Memorial Day weekend. I am currently still on a trip with my family.

0:19.0

So here is a little disclaimer. We recorded this episode a little bit ago, but we still really wanted to post it because

0:25.0

it is a very good show.

0:26.9

With that being said, please enjoy.

0:29.0

It's a really fun one, and I hope you have a great week.

0:36.3

I was asked to find someone who's very smart and beautiful and intelligent and wonderful.

0:42.1

And I thought of my very good friend, Lori Blackford, who is kind of like a friend and a mentor.

0:48.1

And we met when I was like 21 or 22, not to age both of us, when she was hired to be an advisor on my dad's campaign,

0:57.0

and we just got along really well. And your background is that you're a journalist and a producer

1:03.0

used to work for ABC News and Good Morning America and Diane Sawyer, and you most recently produced

1:09.3

the Showtime show, The Circus, with wonderful people

1:13.3

and politics. Is that a good rundown of your career? It is a good rundown of my career, yes.

1:18.7

The funny thing is, is that Mark McKinnon, who was one of the, who was the original sort of

1:23.3

creator and thought person behind the circus, I actually met on your father's campaign.

1:29.5

So the question that we want to tackle today, which I feel like you and I talk about offline

1:34.6

a lot, is basically why I'm interviewing you on YouTube instead of on cable news and in network

1:41.0

television, like the death of cable news. Don Lemon, who was the host of a CNN primetime show, who was fired because he said some very

1:48.6

incendiary comments about women having expiration dates.

1:52.0

He said it about Nikki Haley, basically saying that, you know, we're just irrelevant,

1:56.2

dried up husks with no purpose after 40.

1:58.5

It's a wildly sexist thing to say, and he was let go because of it. But he got

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