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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Did the Media Fail the Trump Years?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2015, Farai Chideya was a senior writer covering politics at FiveThirtyEight. Her time there was instructive in understanding how the media failed to take Trump’s presidential candidacy seriously. Now that she has her own show, she’s speaking up about how journalists -- and the news outlets that employ them -- could better serve the public.  Guest: Farai Chideya, host of Our Body Politic. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Contitions and exclations apply.

1:01.8

There's this video clip that to me has become a kind of shorthand for the way Donald Trump

1:10.7

walloped American media, catching so many people, blindly unaware. It's from 2015, an

1:18.5

old episode of this week with George Stephanopoulos.

1:22.5

I want to say is that anybody from the Democratic side of the fence who thinks that who's

1:28.9

terrified of the possibility of a president Trump better vote, better get active, better

1:34.1

get involved because this man has got some momentum.

1:37.9

This is then Congressman Keith Ellison talking to a roundtable of guests, including Maggie

1:43.4

Haberman from the New York Times.

1:45.9

And we better be ready for the fact that he might be leading the Republican ticket.

1:49.5

Next.

1:50.5

I know you don't believe that, but I want to go on.

1:55.5

Six years later, this clip continues to fascinate me. First, they're the visuals.

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