Poor Judgment

On the Media

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The truth behind poll oversampling; debunking media assumptions about Trump voters; and a Breaking News Consumer's Handbook for poverty news.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.
0:08.1	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. A heated exchange between Fox News host Megan Kelly and former House
0:14.2	Speaker current Donald Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich went viral this week, mainly for this
0:20.6	charge about media bias.
0:22.9	I will tell you the polls.
0:23.8	I want to use the words.
0:24.5	I want to hear you your words, Bill Clinton's sexual predator.
0:26.9	I dare you.
0:27.5	Say Bill Clinton's sexual predator.
0:29.3	Where Newt makes use of the classic, I'm Rubber, your glue trope.
0:33.6	But rewind the tape of Kelly and Gingrich a little further, and you'll hear them discussing the latest polls,
0:40.3	which Kelly cites as being in favor of Hillary Clinton.
0:43.3	These are nonpartisan outlets that are just trying to call the electoral board.
0:47.3	They're not nonpartisan outlets.
0:48.3	Every outlet you described as part of the establishment.
0:51.3	Fox News, really? Are we? I don't think so.
0:53.3	And they all, every state they've moved, they've moved it to the left towards Hillary.
0:58.0	And you tell me whether that's all made up.
1:01.0	No, I think they're two alternative universes.
1:03.0	In this respect, Gingrich may be right.
1:05.0	One universe sees polls showing the GOP nominee lagging in key states.
1:10.0	The other believes this. When the polls are even lagging in key states, the other believes this.
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