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The Good Fight

Jeff Jarvis

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Jeff Jarvis about the reasons social media might deepen democracy, whether regulation of tech will do more good or ill, and what the internet of the future might look like.   Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org Twitter:@Yascha_Mounk This podcast was made in collaboration with New America.  Podcast production by John T. Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Barclays, we're here for every goal.

0:06.3

We're here for the Premier League,

0:08.9

and the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:12.0

We're here for the football charts and for giving more girls a chance.

0:16.8

We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:27.6

Barclays, here for every goal.

0:32.0

We and media, and I speak as journalists. We caused much of this. We polarized our

0:36.5

nations. We had a business model built on clickbait which led to cats and

0:41.4

Kardashians and ultimately to Donald Trump.

0:44.0

Donald Trump is the ultimate clickmate.

0:45.4

The heads of CBS and CNN news said that Donald Trump may be bad for the country but good for business.

0:50.5

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:54.0

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be

0:58.4

for a town populist like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:05.0

There was a really bitter election in Turkey about a week ago.

1:09.4

Rezaib Erdogan installed himself as a president with practically unlimited power with 53% of a vote but make no mistake

1:17.7

this was no fair fight over the last years Erdogan has imprisoned over 300 journalists, booted over 100,000 civil servants out of their jobs.

1:27.0

In this election, protesters had often been beaten up.

1:31.0

One opposition candidate was campaigning from prison and there was widespread

1:36.3

reports of electoral irregularities. Now I think there's a few interesting things that we can learn from what happened in Turkey.

1:45.0

There's many differences between the United States and Turkey, between Italy and Turkey,

1:50.0

but there's a few things that we should keep in mind.

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