Hey guys I'm Annie one of the producers here. We're putting together an episode that's going to come out in a few weeks about the cost of prescription drugs in the United States.

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14 15% of Republicans will say that they trust the press.

Some of that is no doubt because now the President of the United States

goes out and says that the media is fake news and the journalists are the enemy of the

people. You'd think that there would be a mirroring from the media and wanting to cover stories and issues that people care about.

We're not talking about, you know, fake news or disinformation campaigns.

These are just human beings.

We all sort of need each other to remind us what the important things are.

From the offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle,

this is Pitch Fork Economics with Nick Hanauer,

a conversation about how capitalism actually works. I'm Stephanie Ervin. I run a lot of our advocacy and campaign work here at Civic Ventures.

I'm Paul Constant. I'm a writer at Civic Ventures and relevant to this episode before I worked here at

Civic Ventures I was a reporter at The Stranger which is an alternative weekly

here in Seattle. So Paul, when you got into this work of being in the sort of like advocacy space,

you're now officially an advocate instead of just a journalist?

I would say I was an advocacy journalist before, but now I'm full on in the advocate space,

yes.

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