I'm more famous than Anderson Cooper (Cenk Uygur, CEO, The Young Turks)

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Young Turks CEO Cenk Uygur talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about running an online media company for young left-wingers. Uygur says the Washington establishment is just now waking up to the power of the internet, but he and his colleagues have been broadcasting live video over the internet since 2005. Cable news is overrated, he explains, because it's on in the background of stores and press rooms and congressional offices — but, he argues, it's also to blame for the rise of Donald Trump and the defeat of Bernie Sanders. Plus: Uygur bets Kafka $100 that, if Sanders runs again he will win the presidency in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.1	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
1:18.9	That's me. I am part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:22.0	I'm here at Vox Headquarters in New York City with Jank Yugar, CEO of Young Turks. The Young Turks. I got the title right.
1:30.2	Did they get your name right? Yeah, perfect.
1:31.8	Hooray! Interview is over. Welcome.
1:34.2	That is usually the hardest part. We're on smooth sailing from here.
1:37.1	I think of you guys as the YouTube network for progressives, lefties, that gets talked about a bunch, but somehow it doesn't get to the
1:46.5	same conversation level as some other media companies with similar aims.
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