Mainstream Media is Failing Democracy
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
There’s a new progressive newsletter whose very mission is to call out the media and prod them into doing their job. Something we really need to save our democracy. He also wants to encourage healthy debate inside the Democratic Party and the Progressive Movement. The newsletter is called Off Message, and it's written by a man who knows his way around the media world. Before launching Off Message, Brian Beutler was senior congressional reporter for T P M, senior Editor for the New Republic and Editor in Chief for Crooked Media. You can subscribe to Off Message at OffMessage.net.
Here’s a quick summary of the conversation: Bill and Brian discuss the mainstream media's reluctance to tell the truth about congressional Republicans and Donald Trump. Beutler criticizes the media's coverage of the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, arguing that it's being treated as a legitimate impeachment despite being meritless. He also discusses the media's responsibility to report on Donald Trump's outrageous statements and actions, and criticizes Democrats for their messaging, suggesting they need to be more loud and more definitive to get attention for their agenda.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you again and welcome back to another edition of the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, I don't have to tell you about my frustration with the mainstream media today. |
| 0:17.7 | You've heard me rant many times about their cowardice, their two-sidism, their reluctance |
| 0:23.5 | to tell the truth about congressional Republicans, and especially about Donald Trump. So I was |
| 0:30.7 | excited to learn about a new progressive newsletter whose very mission is to call out the media |
| 0:36.7 | and prod them into doing their job. |
| 0:40.0 | The newsletter is called Off Message, and it's written by a man who knows his way around |
| 0:45.6 | the media world. Before launching Off Message, Brian Boytler was senior congressional reporter |
| 0:51.7 | for TPM, senior editor for the New Republic republic and editor-in-chief for crooked media |
| 0:58.0 | well we're very excited to help brian launch off message by welcoming him today to our podcast to talk about |
| 1:06.4 | media coverage of today's big news stories brymitler, welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:12.5 | It's good to talk to you again. |
| 1:14.4 | It's great to be back. |
| 1:16.1 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:17.9 | God, there's so much going on that we've got to talk about. |
| 1:21.5 | Let's start with some of the big events of the last few days, Brian. |
| 1:26.1 | So Monday this week, for the first time, by the way, |
| 1:30.9 | probably not the last time this year, Americans have seen something I've never seen before, |
| 1:37.2 | a former president of the United States sitting in a courtroom surrounded by his attorneys, |
| 1:43.2 | one on each side, actually charged with |
| 1:46.5 | fraud. And on the way into the courtroom, Donald Trump called the whole trial a witch hunt. |
| 1:53.2 | He accused the judge of being sort of a puppet of special counsel, Jack Smith, and he accused |
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