Has US media surrendered to Trump already?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s first term might have been a political nightmare, but at least it was a golden age for truth-telling journalism. But this time, news outlets from the Washington Post to CNN have bent the knee to MAGA with indecent, craven haste – while papers like the New York Times have retreated, terrified, into euphemism. What do the news oligarchs think they’ll get from Trump? And will there be anything left of a free media when he is done with them? “Our incumbent media are failing us terribly,” US media analyst Jeff Jarvis tells Gavin Esler, “and we are in the middle of a coup… It’s business interests über alles.” • “Liberal America is enraged by the liberal press and is turning away from it.” • Support us on Patreon for early episodes and more . • We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.9	On the Beach. minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people at all protected. Hello and welcome to The Bunker- Gavin Esler. Rule number one of journalism and the traditional
1:31.4	news business is to get the facts right. Rule two is to try to tell both sides of a story,
1:37.0	public policy debate or any difficult subject. Some call this balance or impartiality.
1:43.1	But it's never possible to balance truth with lies or fact with
1:47.2	fiction. And yet from the very first day of the very first Donald Trump presidency eight years ago
1:53.4	in January 2017, journalists were told that enormous crowds attended his inauguration when
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