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Checks and Balance from The Economist

Checks and Balance: Bias beware

Checks and Balance from The Economist

The Economist

News, United States, News & Politics, Politics

4.51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Impartiality in political journalism is under scrutiny as never before. President Trump took a trademark pop at the “fakers” when he resumed his campaign rallies in Tulsa. Meanwhile the White House has begun decapitating state-funded global news agencies like Voice of America. Can fair-minded reporting survive hyper-partisan politics?


John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, hosts with Charlotte Howard, New York bureau chief, and Washington correspondent Jon Fasman. 


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0:00.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

Only two of the top 100 newspapers in the country endorsed Donald Trump in 2016.

0:28.0

57 endorsed his opponent Hillary Clinton. It was the first time the Arizona Republic

0:34.4

backed a Democrat for president in its 126 year history. But disapproval from

0:41.0

established media didn't stop Donald Trump becoming president.

0:45.0

On the contrary, his antipathy with reporters has become a badge of pride for the president

0:50.0

and his supporters.

0:52.0

Journalists are used to thinking of themselves as impartial watchdogs of American democracy,

0:57.6

but have they too fallen into hyper-partisanship?

1:01.6

With 129 days to go, this is checks and balance.

1:05.0

I'm John Prado, the Economist's U.S. editor,

1:12.0

and this is a podcast about the 2020 elections.

1:15.1

Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.

1:21.3

Today, is the era of media impartiality over? President Trump began a new chapter in his torrid relationship with the media

1:38.0

when he returned to the campaign trail in Tulsa last weekend. In his rambling speech reporters became simply the fakers.

1:46.0

Mr Trump's antagonism has poured fuel on a fire already raging through newsrooms

1:51.0

as digital media upends business models.

1:54.9

Journalistic impartiality is under scrutiny as never before.

1:59.5

How has the Trump presidency changed the media?

2:02.3

And can he ride the outrage rocket to re-election? With me as ever to discuss all of this are Charlotte Howard, the economists New York Bureau Chief

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