Is Trump's campaign threatening journalistic integrity?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump's presidential campaign is like no other in recent history. His demonstrable lies pose a special challenge to the rules of political coverage. But is "fair and balanced" already a thing of the past?
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| 0:00.0 | Here Be Monsters is a show that invites you to explore fear and the unknown. |
| 0:04.6 | I saw her face change. I saw her see where I'd pulled my hair out. |
| 0:10.0 | Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks. |
| 0:15.5 | On the count of three, we're literally going to step out of our body. |
| 0:19.8 | Step out. |
| 0:23.2 | You can find Here Be Monsters Now at KCRW.com or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.3 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International. This is To the Point. |
| 0:38.8 | Trump versus the media. |
| 0:40.6 | Can either side win? |
| 0:45.2 | Hello again. I'm Aronalmi, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:49.4 | Every politician battles the media, including Hillary Clinton, but her toxic relations with reporters |
| 0:54.4 | are nothing like Donald Trump's. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm not running against crooked Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm running against the crooked media. |
| 1:03.0 | After boosting Trump's campaign with $2 billion worth of free airtime, are the media |
| 1:07.7 | turning against him? |
| 1:09.1 | Even one right-wing talk show host says we've created a monster. |
| 1:13.1 | Mainstream reporters insist Trump's contradictions and outright falsehoods are changing the rules. |
| 1:18.3 | But others say Clinton's getting a free pass. |
| 1:20.9 | Is media credibility already too compromised to survive this year's campaign? |
| 1:25.8 | Today's Talking point campaign economics, |
| 1:28.2 | Paul Krugman does the math. |
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