Quick Take: Having Better Conversations in the Social Media Age

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This is an excerpt from the episode "The Art of Debate: With Mehdi Hasan."

Mehdi Hasan speaks with Michael Steele about the art of debate. The pair discuss the importance of knowing your audience, showing receipts and coming prepared. They also discuss Twitter, Elon and free speech.

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0:00.0	Hey, Michael Steel Podcast listeners, Michael Steel here with another quick take from the
0:12.5	Michael Steel Podcast.
0:14.3	Check out what's going on right now.
0:16.9	Welcome back everybody to the Michael Steel Podcast on Michael Steel and having great
0:20.9	conversation.
0:21.9	A lot of fun with my brother here, many has some colleague and friend at MSNBC.
0:29.2	Right now we're focusing on his best selling book, When Every Argument, the Art of Debating,
0:35.4	Persuading and Public Speaking.
0:39.0	There are so many lessons that we can take from your book and apply to our politics today
0:47.8	from everything to how candidates communicate to TikTok and the impact that it has as a
0:58.5	source, an influencer if you will, a system that sort of takes communication to a whole
1:04.5	nother level.
1:05.5	How do you, when you're looking at this environment, we talked a little bit about social media
1:11.5	before the break, when you're looking at this environment more broadly and you're seeing
1:17.1	the, in hearing these conversations out there, what's your general takeaway about how
1:25.1	we communicate in this country generally speaking?
1:28.9	Is it less fact-based?
1:30.6	Is it more emotional?
1:32.2	Is it, what is, because everyone's not involved in professional debating, right?
1:36.3	So we're not doing this as part, you know, as someone like yourself or even, you know,
1:41.2	myself have done.
1:42.7	We're just communicating.
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