Journalists reevaluate covering a Trump presidency
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Mainstream pollsters, reporters and pundits are taking heat for "getting it wrong" when it comes to the presidential election. Donald Trump doesn't need news conferences or the White House press corps. Does traditional journalism still have a future?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.1 | Truth, lies, the media, and Donald Trump. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello again, I'm all in Alney, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:17.4 | One lesson from Donald Trump's upset victory is that the mainstream media's conventional |
| 0:21.8 | wisdom has lost credibility. Trump was covered more as a celebrity than a real candidate, and he's |
| 0:27.0 | still getting massive attention for tweets, even when they're not based on reality. But the media now |
| 0:32.7 | are so diverse, it's hard to find any consensus on what's real and what's not. So what's next for traditional journalism? |
| 0:40.0 | We'll talk with reporters from inside and outside the bi-coastal mainstream bubble. |
| 0:45.0 | How do you cover a president who has direct access to the American public? |
| 0:49.4 | Later on today's talking point, who got the best of the deal? Donald Trump or carrier air conditioning? First, |
| 0:56.4 | here's the news. |
| 1:02.3 | Check out KCRW's All News Channel, News 24. Programming from KCRW, NPR, NPR, BBC, and more, 24 hours a day. |
| 1:11.6 | Go to kCRW.com slash News24 or listen on KCRW's app. |
| 1:26.9 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:34.4 | Hello again, Mormon, Al-Nalny, back with To the Point. |
| 1:36.5 | Mainstream pollsters, reporters, and pundits are taking heat for getting it wrong when it comes to the presidential election. |
| 1:43.1 | Donald Trump doesn't need news conferences or the White House press corps. |
| 1:46.6 | Does traditional journalism still have a future? |
| 1:49.6 | Later on today's talking point, the president-elect and Mike Pence are celebrating their deal with carrier air conditioner. |
| 1:55.3 | 1,000 jobs won't be going to Mexico after all, but Carrier and its parent company will send |
| 2:01.0 | 1,300 out of Indiana while getting a state tax break. |
| 2:05.4 | First is news update in a speech to the nation today. |
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