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🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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"Matter of Fact" host Soledad O'Brien talks about what the news media has gotten wrong in its election coverage, the problem with access journalism and her podcast "Very Opinionated."
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0:04.6 | Hip-hop is always called out to inequalities in America. |
0:07.6 | But even within it, nothing's ever been equal. |
0:10.2 | This season, a lot of the Nariya podcast is tackling sexism, homophobia, |
0:15.0 | and all the unwritten rules that hold the entire culture back. |
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0:23.6 | So, little Dr. Bryan, welcome to the Daily Social Listening Show. |
0:27.4 | Thank you, thanks for having me. |
0:29.8 | You're one of my favorite people to talk to about this topic in particular, |
0:33.4 | because you've worked in TV journalism, TV news for what, three decades now, |
0:38.4 | everybody from CNN to MSNBC, etc. |
0:41.4 | You've also been very critical of how the media has handled not just the election, |
0:46.8 | but news in general. |
0:48.4 | Let's start with the election and talk about that. |
0:50.4 | What do you think the news and the media have gotten wrong in covering the election? |
0:55.4 | I think it's always a mistake to platform lies. |
0:58.2 | And I think the mistake that's been made is to uncritically quote or tweet quote, |
1:03.0 | the president who is lying. |
1:04.8 | We know he's lying. |
1:05.6 | We count, actually, the thousands of lies that he, you know, tweets and says every single day. |
1:11.2 | And so to just quote the president and give him a platform for something that we all agree, |
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