Charlotte Alter on why millennial politicians are "The Ones We've Been Waiting For"

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Time national correspondent Charlotte Alter is the author of "The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America." She shares insights about millennial politicians like Pete Buttigieg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She also identifies some media myths and stereotypes surrounding this often-misunderstood generation. "A lot of the coverage is determined by people who are baby boomers," she points out. She discusses social movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, highlighting blind spots in coverage.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are millennials the ones we've been waiting for? And do journalists do a fair job of portraying this generation?
0:10.0	Those are some of the questions here on this week's reliable sources podcast.
0:15.0	I'm Brian Stelter as you know this is our weekly podcast in between our Sunday television program
0:20.0	where we can talk more in-depth with media leaders and newsmakers about how the news gets made and how all of us can hopefully help make it better.
0:28.0	There are a lot of millennials in journalism and they are starting to change the business, starting to change the
0:35.1	way the business works and functions.
0:38.0	And the same thing is starting to happen in politics.
0:40.9	That's the subject of a new book by Time National Correspondent Charlotte Altar.
0:45.0	The title is, as I kind of mentioned just a moment ago, The Ones We've been waiting for,
0:49.7	how a new generation of leaders will transform America.
0:53.6	Now I've been waiting for this book for a while, so Charlotte,
0:56.1	I'm so glad we get to talk about it.
0:57.2	Thank you so much for having me.
0:58.5	I'm so excited.
0:59.2	I've been really interested in this,
1:00.6	as you've been doing your reporting,
1:02.4	about millennial politicians.
1:05.0	Let's just define our terms first.
1:07.0	Like what is that generation? What are the ages we're talking about?
1:10.0	So, yes, great question.
1:12.0	So I had some very specific parameters for writing this book I was looking for I only wrote about people born between
1:20.1	1980 and 1997 that means unfortunately people like Iana Presley and Stacy Abrams and you know and Josh
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