Hello, friends, happy new year and welcome to this first new podcast of the new year.

And we start the new year with a look at the state of America's media today.

You know, the job of a reporter has never been easy, but Donald Trump has made it

practically impossible. I mean, how do you cover a president who calls you the enemy of the people?

How do you cover a president who never tells the truth? How do you cover a president who still

insists he won an election that he actually lost by 7 million votes.

Apparently, even Fox News isn't conservative enough for Donald Trump anymore.

He now gets his rocks off on Newsmax and One American News.

Nobody tracks the media better than our friends at Media Matters.

Think of it this way. They watch Fox News,

so we don't have to. And nobody at Media Matters drives Fox News crazier than today's guest.

You hear him often on our podcast roundtable, senior Media Matters fellow Matt Gertz.

Hello, Matt Gertz. Good to talk again. Nice to see you. Good to see you, too. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year to you. Right. So, look, we've talked about this a long time, even back in the days of the old Bill Press radio show, when you used to spend a lot of time watching Fox and Friends in the morning and then

watching Donald Trump's tweets and did a whole report on the connection between Donald Trump's

tweets and Fox and Friends, you know, like it was like one and the same. But it seems now

that Donald Trump's medium diet has changed somewhat, that

there are some new voices that he's watching on the extreme right, namely one American network

and newsmax, right? Yes. Generally, I would say that it's a good idea to take in news from a lot of different sources.

Somehow, the president has managed to find some of the only news outlets that are less credible than the people who are already telling them what to do.

Well, who are these two networks?

Sure.

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