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Not the New Normal: How the Media Should Cover the Trump Presidency (Live Edition)

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Live from the Skirball Center at New York University – A handful of New York's top editors talk about how journalists and the media at large can play a bigger role in making sure that fact prevails over fiction in the coming months and years under a Trump administration. This conversation was moderated by CNN's Brian Stelter. And the panel included: Jacob Weisberg, Chairman of The Slate Group and host/creator of Trumpcast, Lydia Polgreen, Huffington Post Borja Echevarría, VP and Editor in Chief, Univision Digital and David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker Profits from this event went to benefit the Committee to Protect Journalists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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