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🗓️ 23 April 2020
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0:00.0 | There's a way that journalism is perceived sometimes currently that says there's two sides to everything and that balance requires covering both sides equally, which, you know, obscures instances when there are in fact facts like climate change is real. |
0:18.0 | The sun rises in the east that you don't need to have two experts to kind of |
0:23.0 | opine on an equal measure. And similarly, when you're talking about policy, there was some |
0:28.7 | objective truth about what our policies would and would not do, how much they were possible |
0:33.2 | versus not, and how much other candidates' policies were able to offer along the same metrics. |
0:39.3 | And so you got unending conversations, for example, about how will we pay for it? |
0:43.7 | And this idea that if you like your health care, you can keep it, which never once was |
0:49.0 | challenged by anybody in the media elite, even once. And now we're in the middle of a global pandemic where we |
0:55.5 | have historic unemployment rates until this moment. Pete Buttigieg is going on the view and |
1:00.9 | going on mainstream media news outlets. And not once has he been asked, have you revised your |
1:07.1 | opinion that an employer-based health care model protects the interests of Americans sufficiently. |
1:14.2 | Do you think that it is responsible for you to have characterized an employer-based health care |
1:19.5 | system as to somehow a guarantee of health care choice when, in fact, it is completely |
1:25.6 | contingent on jobs, which have to be clear for many communities |
1:29.7 | like African Americans, employment has always been significantly higher than it has for the rest of |
1:34.6 | the population for a, you know, myriad historical reasons and discriminatory reason. |
1:38.5 | So, you know, that's just one example. And we all saw myriad banners, uh, kairons that were misrepresentative. We saw an entire |
1:47.2 | cycle the summer where Bernie Sanders, when he was moved into second place, which is left out of |
1:52.4 | all accounts. And you would see stories about another candidate moving into third and so-and-so being |
1:57.5 | in first and just the second place person being out of there. But a strong force, I think, was one of the... |
2:03.5 | Yeah, you saw Bernie Sanders being admitted wholesale from articles about events that all of the |
2:09.3 | candidates attended. You saw concern trolling about Bernie support among African-Americans |
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