Election ’24: The US media failed. Here’s why

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Falling circulations, trivial stories, shrinking budgets, squandered trust? It’s worse than that, says US media analyst and academic Jeff Jarvis. A combination of self-seeking billionaire owners and complacent, outdated reporting meant that papers and TV failed to alert Americans to Trump’s real threat: the advent of actual fascism in the USA. He tells Andrew Harrison how the US press “sanewashes” Trump’s demented edicts, how the Republicans hack the news to their advantage, and what needs to happen to save real journalism. • Order Jeff Jarvis’s The Gutenberg Parenthesis and pre-order The Web We Weave. You’ll help fund The Bunker by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. • Follow American Friction for the best analysis of the US Presidential Election up to and beyond the vote. • We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Produced by Liam Tait. Audio production by Simon Williams. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.0	Search for Adobe Express to find out more. Hello and welcome back to the bunker updating you on news and politics every weekday. I'm Andrew Harrison. And it is a pretty weird weekday today.
0:40.2	As we record, it is Tuesday the 5th of November, US presidential election day. In-person voting
0:46.1	opened at 5 a.m. Eastern Time and tens of millions of people have already voted by post. Polling is
0:52.0	unclear, contradictory and baffling. Few believe we'll get a clear
0:56.0	result this week. But what we can think about is how this intense and bitter high-stakes campaign
1:02.6	has been reflected through America's equally fractured media. Often, it's looked like legacy
1:07.6	printing TV have lagged behind increasingly feral social media,
1:11.9	taking the cues from the antics of Trump and surrogates like Elon Musk.
1:15.8	Has the US media had a good or bad presidential election campaign?
1:19.7	Has it got the big cause right?
1:21.8	And does it all depend on who wins?
1:24.2	Here with me on this strange day when we're all biting our nails
1:26.8	is American media
1:28.2	commentator, professor and consultant, authoritative media blog, buzzmachine.com, and media
1:34.5	creator with too much on his CV to list. My favorite is he was the creator and founding
1:38.2	editor of Entertainment Weekly, one of my favorite magazines, is Jeff Jarvis. Jeff Jarvis, welcome
1:43.7	to the bunker.
1:44.8	How are you?
1:45.5	Pardon me if I leave for a moment for nervous puking.
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