From the Archives: Jodi Kantor - January 4, 2018
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:03.0 | Please welcome, Jody Canter. |
| 0:06.0 | APPLAUSE |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the show. Thank you. |
| 0:21.0 | Thank you for coming out in the snow. |
| 0:23.0 | And thank you for reporting a story |
| 0:25.0 | which is probably one of the most impactful stories |
| 0:28.0 | our society has ever, ever seen. |
| 0:31.0 | When you were working on the Harvey Weinstein story, |
| 0:34.0 | this took you months. Did you think it would have the impact that it's had? |
| 0:38.0 | No, my partner, Megan Tuey and I really were not sure. |
| 0:42.0 | And as one of our editors pointed out, |
| 0:44.0 | Harvey Weinstein was really not that famous. |
| 0:47.0 | A lot of people outside of New York and LA |
| 0:49.0 | and even in those cities had never even heard of him. |
| 0:52.0 | So when you're reporting this story, |
| 0:54.0 | you think to yourself, this is Harvey Weinstein. |
| 0:56.0 | People may be on the coasts, know him, people in New York, |
| 0:59.0 | people in Hollywood. |
| 1:00.0 | But you don't think this will blow up as a story. |
| 1:03.0 | Why do you think it got so big then? |
| 1:06.0 | We've talked about that a lot at the newspaper |
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