How Fox News and Trump Are Melting Our Brains

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Has Donald Trump broken our minds, and is it possible to tune him out? Longtime White House correspondent Jessica Yellin joins Nick to discuss the 2020 horse race, why so much of the media sucks (on both sides), and how our collective obsession with Trump has destroyed our ability to make sense of what matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.8	A thrilling! Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. So this week I'm very very
0:41.3	excited to welcome Jessica Yellen to the show.
0:45.0	Jessica is a journalist who has been the chief White House correspondent for CNN.
0:50.0	She has covered politics all across the United States for many many years,
0:55.4	interviewed presidents, you name them, she's interviewed them, Bill Clinton, George
0:59.4	Bush, First Ladies. She has been the White House correspondent, the Capitol Hill correspondent.
1:05.0	Jessica's been in journalism covering politics for longer than most people.
1:10.0	Have been listening to the show, just kidding for a lot longer than that.
1:13.6	So I invited her on the show this week she's got a new book out which I'm really excited to talk
1:17.4	about.
1:18.4	She has a new form of journalism she's doing which I'm also very excited to talk about and of
1:21.9	course we're going to get to a little bit
1:23.9	about what's going on with the Trump fake news attacks that he still continues to do and
1:29.7	what that's all about if the media is at fault for any of this and what to expect for
1:34.8	2020 especially when it comes to how the media should really be covering the
1:39.3	Trump White House. So without further ado, I present Jessica Yellen.
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