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On the Media

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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Impeachment coverage, the “Afghanistan papers,” and the story of a radical TV news archivist.

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0:00.0

The same media who've crushed it on impeachment coverage have lately taken to a special kind of pandering.

0:06.6

It's called Both Sidesism.

0:08.6

There was a story last weekend in the New York Times framing a hearing about impeachment as a partisan brawl.

0:14.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

0:19.0

Also this week, the Afghan war cluster fail. Cluster fail is a good word and

0:24.3

people in the military use a version of that a lot. The explosive Afghanistan papers, like

0:29.7

the Pentagon papers before them, is a trove documenting government confusion and lies.

0:34.7

We didn't know what we were doing. Were all those lives lost in vain?

0:39.8

Plus a different kind of trove, this one videotapes born of a decades-long obsession to record

0:45.4

TV news. Networks were discarding their archives. So she had the impulse to capture everything

0:51.5

because she knew that in a sense archives create futures.

0:56.2

It's all coming up after this.

1:01.6

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:05.6

Brooke Gladstone is off. I'm Bob Garfield.

1:10.7

This week for the American political press, it has been all impeachment all the time.

1:16.9

You'd expect no less for only the third presidential impeachment in U.S. history.

1:22.0

And as has been so for three months since reports of an emergent whistleblower first

1:26.6

appeared, news consumers

1:28.2

have been blessed with diligent documentation, incisive analysis, revealing investigations

1:34.0

of ongoing mischief, and methodical debunking of both fresh lies and the zombie lies that

1:40.7

will not die. You know, journalism. Or as the president and the congressional Republican

1:46.9

caucus call it, bias. After an 11-hour debate last night, the House ultimately voted to impeach

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