Coastal Bias

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, Moderate, Politics, Independent, News, Nonpartisan, Libertarian

5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Media trust is on the decline, but what’s causing it? If it’s bias, what accounts for the perceived increase?

Steve Krakauer is a long-time journalist from NBC, Fox, Mediate, CNN, The Blaze, and now the producer of the Megyn Kelley show.

He's the author of the new book "Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People."

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0:00.0	And According to the latest Gallup poll, Americans trust in mass media remains abysmally low and only scarcely higher than it's all time low.
0:26.1	Fully 38% of U.S. adults say they have little or no confidence in the media.
0:31.2	The first time ever that Americans with no trust at all on media are greater
0:35.2	than those who have high or partial trust.
0:38.3	Meanwhile in a totally unrelated story hillbillies in flyover states once again voted against their own interests,
0:44.8	presumably due to a combination of anti-science homeschooling fundamentalism and the near lethal
0:49.6	levels of preservatives found in prepackaged Yocal Gas Station Chow.
0:54.3	More on that totally unrelated story after the break.
0:57.1	But first, let's watch a montage of politicians we suddenly like, smiling and shaking hands
1:02.2	and flattering light, interspersed against pictures of politicians
1:05.2	we don't like brooding or appearing to cackle at evil headlines. Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.
1:23.1	I'm your host Andrew Heaton.
1:25.1	Today we're going to talk to veteran journalist Steve Crackhauer
1:28.3	about why trust in media is teeteringly low,
1:31.8	how to restore that trust, and what happens if it. is The political orphanage is made possible by its own listeners and you can join
1:47.7	them by going to Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton. You know here at the orphanage we run our newspaper the old-fashioned way with
1:57.0	handmade locally sourced journalists every day we wake up at the crack of dawn
2:02.4	walk into the newsroom, and milk those journalists.
2:07.0	Then we bottle up that news, smash it into physical newspapers using a Gutenberg press and pass those papers out via adorable
2:15.4	cockney orphans who sell them to passing citizens on streetcars.
2:20.5	We know that's not as lucrative as the way they do it with big city news
2:24.4	outfits that rely on mass-produced news formula and slave labor, but we love it all
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