Media Grapples, Once Again, With How to Cover Trump

KQED's Forum

KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Former president Trump has been saying very inflammatory things in public speeches and posts lately. He’s advocated violence, praised autocratic leaders and called his political opponents “vermin” that need to be “rooted out”. We’ll analyze Trump’s recent campaign rhetoric and discuss how the press and social media platforms are handling it all. We talk with experts about what we have learned from past mistakes in covering Trump and rooting out fake news, and how we can do better. Guests: Lyna Bentahar, reporter, New York Times; co-author, article "Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign, in His Own Menacing Words" Ian Prasad Philbrick, reporter, New York Times; co-author, article "Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign, in His Own Menacing Words" Emily Dreyfuss, director, Shorenstein Center News Lab; co-author, "Meme Wars: the Untold Stories of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.6	From KQED.
1:13.2	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:21.6	Donald Trump, you may have heard, has been saying some increasingly anti-democratic, violent, and authoritarian things on the campaign trail.
1:28.6	Meanwhile, new reporting suggests his retinue of advisors has been coming up with new plans, too, on how to use the levers of power to go after Trump's longtime targets, his political opponents as well as immigrants.
1:34.8	Going into the 2024 election, how should the media and technology platforms deal with Trump's
1:40.5	most incendiary and divisive statements? Just about everyone thinks it's been done incorrectly in elections past.
1:47.8	So what needs to happen this time around?
1:50.0	That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum.
2:03.5	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:05.4	This is Donald Trump on the campaign trail.
2:08.0	And we will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft.
2:11.6	Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store.
2:20.0	Shot.
2:22.4	There has been no politician like him in modern American political history.
2:27.4	Trump is running on the idea that he alone can fix America.
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