News Brief - Reconciliation Bill Negotiations: A Media Autopsy

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this News Brief, we recapped how, in the face of a once in a generation opportunity to relieve poverty and address curb climate change, US media largely gave us personality, Horse Race coverage, and defensive snark–– aiding conservatives efforts to winnow down the bill to a fraction of its original size.

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0:00.0	Welcome to A Cytations Needed News Brief.
0:06.0	I am Nima Shirazi.
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0:19.1	We do these newsrees in between our regularly scheduled episodes.
0:22.6	Oftentimes they are for our patrons.
0:24.2	We do patron-only news briefs.
0:25.8	And some like this one are public and for everyone to enjoy.
0:30.2	We hope everyone enjoys all of them.
0:31.6	But because we really wanted to talk in between our regularly scheduled episodes about what
0:36.1	is going on with the reconciliation bill.
0:39.1	The large, I guess, in part building back better?
0:41.7	Yeah, the reconciliation to the building back better bill.
0:44.7	Yeah.
0:45.7	Started off at 7.5 trillion.
0:46.7	Then went to 3.5 trillion.
0:48.9	Then went to 2 trillion.
0:50.6	Then went to 1.75 trillion.
0:52.6	Yeah, pretty soon it's going to be like 15 bucks.
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