Not the New Normal: How the Media Should Cover the Trump Presidency (Live Edition)
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.0 | From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. |
| 0:10.4 | We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries. |
| 0:15.2 | This American carnage stops right here and stops right now. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. |
| 0:30.0 | The show about the man whose chief strategist is telling the media to keep its mouth shut. |
| 0:36.7 | Donald Trump. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Jacob Weisberg. |
| 0:40.2 | That's what Steve Bannon said in an interview yesterday that the media should be |
| 0:44.5 | embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while. |
| 0:50.1 | That the media is the opposition party that they don't understand the country |
| 0:54.7 | and that they still don't understand why Donald Trump is president of the United States. |
| 1:00.8 | Earlier this week, I had a chance to talk to the media critic Jay Rosen about how the |
| 1:05.6 | press should deal with this new administration. |
| 1:08.6 | An administration that isn't just hostile to the press, but that has distinguished itself |
| 1:13.4 | after a week in office by the brazenness and ubiquity of its lying. |
| 1:19.4 | Later that night, after I talked to Jay on the show, I had a chance to talk with some |
| 1:23.6 | other colleagues at an event hosted by New York University. |
| 1:27.6 | We talked about whether we really are at war with Trump and what our duties as journalists |
| 1:31.9 | are going forward. |
| 1:33.9 | We're donating the profits from the ticket sales to the committee to protect journalists, |
| 1:38.2 | which is the most important organization defending the press from both physical dangers |
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