Kara Swisher reviews the media, 2017 edition

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Recode's Kara Swisher returns to the podcast to talk with Peter Kafka about how the media and Silicon Valley have fared in the year-plus since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Swisher says tech companies are still abrogating their share of the responsibility over the content that appears on their platforms and says she's tired of a perpetual-victim mentality among "the richest and most powerful people in the world." She also talks about how Susan Fowler's blog post took down Uber, whether there's a Harvey Weinstein-style predator in tech and why she's reconsidering a run for mayor of San Francisco. Plus: A guest appearance by Recode Editor in Chief Dan Frommer, who explains why we made a list of the 100 most important people in tech this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	Recode Media. This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That's me and that's Kara Swisher.
0:36.1	Hi. I'm in in the background. We are part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. I am talking to you from the lovely San Francisco office. I can see the view. That's beautiful. Big money for that view. Yep, not too much longer, but yes, indeed. I'm here with Kara Swisher. Who is Kara Swisher? You know who Kara Swisher is. That's why you're listening to this podcast. She's, what's your title? Executive editor. Boss lady.
0:56.6	Boss lady is what you call me. Who is Kara Swisher? You know who Caras Swisher is. That's why you're listening to this podcast. She's, what's your title?
0:55.3	Executive Editor.
1:10.3	Boss Lady. Boss lady is what you call me. But now we're partners. We are. We are co-producing. The Code Conference. Yes. We're partners in life. It's great. We did this a year ago. I'm a senior partner. I know. It's like that suits.
1:11.1	It's like suits.
1:12.9	You're the guy who doesn't have the law degree.
1:31.4	You know, the second person to reference suits in the last day. Well, that's because she's marrying the other star of his marrying the Prince of England. I was unaware that she was a suits person. Oh my God, of course. Why else would you know her? She's from suits. She's great on suits. Okay. No longer, but she was great on suits. We're just doing an hour on suits?
1:31.4	No, I could. What network was suits on? I don't know. USA? I don't know. USA.
1:35.6	It seems like a USA show.
1:36.5	USA, yeah.
1:37.4	Okay, if you're still listening to us,
1:39.9	Karen and I talked a year ago about tech and media and Carrie's life story.
1:44.5	And it was a good interview.
1:45.8	So we thought we would run it back.
1:47.6	We don't need to go over. Kara and I talked a year ago about tech and media and CARES Life story.
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