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Channels with Peter Kafka

NYU's Jay Rosen says 2020's political journalism will be even worse than 2016's

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about the problematic state of the political media in the Trump era. In this episode: Why 2020 will be even worse for the political press than 2016; alternatives to "horse race" political coverage; how the Democrats' takeover of the House of Representatives is encouraging the media's worst habits; media outlets that anger liberal audiences; the state of Trump journalism; Rosen grades the different roles of the press; the repeated failure of the press to reflect on its own failings; should the press always carry a televised address from the president?; and an alternative model for journalism, The Correspondent, that is launching soon in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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this is recode media the peter kovgavette is me i'm here in new york it's very cold i'm in

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vox headquarters we do the thanks normally at the end of the. In case you're not going to listen all the way through,

1:45.3

I want to give special thanks to Jalani Carter and Goldarthur, who trekked up here from very far away. They live in outer boroughs, bridges and tunnels. It's extraordinarily cold, and it's their day off. So thank you guys for making this happen. All right, and thanks to you guys for listening. We're here with Jay Rosen, NYU professor, three-time guest on the Recode Media podcast, a record. Yeah. That makes you like the Steve Martin or the Alec Baldwin. Not only that, I've produced a Recode podcast for you with my interview with Jack Dorsey. So we're going to catch you as a four-time guest. Yeah. You're awesome. Every year we have you come on and you talk to us about Trump and political discourse and journalism and how they all work together and how they may be fundamentally broken. We will talk about all of that. But you've queued me up for this conversation with a new topic. There's a Twitter moment, which you can go by Googling Jay's name, searching for them on Twitter, title election coverage in 2020 is on track to be even worse than 2016.

2:38.4

Do you diagnose the problem, and then you also have a solution here?

2:41.7

Let's start with the problem first.

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Okay.

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Let's start with the premise.

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Yeah.

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Beyond the fact that everyone seemed to be surprised by Trump's victory in the immediate aftermath.

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What was so bad about the 2016 election coverage?

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