Recode Decode: NBC's Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson (Live)

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this live interview recorded in Washington, D.C., Recode's Kara Swisher talks with three NBC and MSNBC journalists — Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson — about social media, politics in the Trump era and how the media is changing. In this episode: (04:57) The impact of social media; (09:19) What mistakes did TV media make in 2016?; (15:19) How covering politics has changed in the Trump era; (27:48) What NBC News and MSNBC are doing differently now; (34:13) Covering the 2020 presidential election; (46:10) The responsibility of (social) media companies; (56:06) Who's running in 2020?; (1:05:38) What's good about tech?; (1:09:56) The battle between the White House and Jim Acosta; (1:12:21) Getting back to a set of shared facts; (1:15:40) Would "accelerating" Trump's rhetoric undermine him?; (1:19:15) Is social media good for democracy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:19.0	Thank you so much.
0:23.0	Thank you.
0:24.0	I'm so glad to be here in the studio at Theatre.
0:28.0	I actually, besides working for the city paper, which I got fired from by Jack Schaefer.
0:33.4	Thank you, Jack.
0:34.4	You helped my career immensely.
0:37.0	You remember him.
0:38.0	He's still around.
0:39.2	I worked for John McLaughlin, too.
0:41.3	The TV shows I've worked in television.
0:43.8	I am so glad he's dead, as I've always said.
0:47.6	But I worked, I wrote for that show, the McLaughlin group, which I think really ruined it.
0:52.1	I created a modern cable.
0:53.5	It was the beginning of hateful speech online and on television.
0:58.5	So I learned at the foot of the master.
1:01.9	But I'm glad to be back in Washington, work for the Washington Post.
1:03.9	I actually delivered mail for the Washington Post and later people who I delivered mail
1:07.7	for, work for me, which was kind of interesting.
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