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On the Media

How Not to Cover the Trump Trials. Plus, the Latest Push To Defund NPR

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why the law won't fix the Trump's lawlessness; and a former NPR editor's essay puts a spotlight on the public radio network.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're looking at live pictures in New York City of Donald Trump's motorcate.

0:03.6

It's about a 20 minute drive between Trump Tower and the court building.

0:07.8

A historic week of Trump trials has inspired more breathless coverage.

0:12.6

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media,

0:15.6

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:16.9

And I'm Michael Loeinger.

0:18.7

All the trial drama is entertaining.

0:21.6

Competition contests, good guys, bad guys, oopsie moments.

0:26.0

My question is whether it really surfaces what the stakes are

0:29.9

of no legal accountability for Donald Trump.

0:32.3

Plus, one former NPR editor's grievances

0:35.8

continue to reverberate.

0:37.6

He implies wokeness is ruining the place.

0:40.6

There is a version of what wokeness is that marginalized people are storming the barricades

0:48.3

and dictating that this story happens and this story gets killed and we're going to use this language and not use that

0:54.9

language.

0:55.9

It's not what I saw.

0:57.3

It's all coming up after this. Listener supported, WNYC Studios.

1:10.5

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:14.8

And I'm Michael Lohanger.

1:16.3

This has been a historic week in Trumpian jurisprudence.

1:20.3

The US Supreme Court heard arguments over whether Trump should be immune from prosecution

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