So long 2024!
KCRW's Left, Right & Center
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🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this month, Disney reached a settlement with President-elect Donald Trump’s defamation case against ABC News. ABC News will pay $15 million to Trump after anchor George Stephanopolous made an on air claim that Trump had been found civilly liable for rape. Trump was in actuality, found liable for sexual abuse. Shortly after, Trump also sued a local Iowa newspaper and pollster Ann Selzer for reporting Kamala Harris had a large lead in the days leading up to the election. Trump’s back to back lawsuits raise concern over free press under his second term administration. Could these cases open the door for more lawsuits against media in the future?
With 2025 right around the corner, the Left, Right, and Center panel takes a retrospective at the biggest stories of 2024. Believe it or not, there was an election in November! The electorate swung right. There are drones over New Jersey. The divisions between the elites and working class grew larger. Governments across the globe turned against incumbents. What’s on the horizon for 2025?
As an end-of-the year treat, the panel opens up the podcast floor for listener questions. David, Mo, and Sarah answer your burning questions about what 2025 might politically have in store. Plus, David confesses his musical adoration for a soft rock superstar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to left, right, and center. I'm David Green. This is our final show of 2024, and I am with both Sarah Isker and Mo Al-Athe here in Washington, D.C. Always great to be in person with both of you. I prefer this. |
| 0:17.9 | It's much more fun mocking you in person than it is over Zoom. |
| 0:21.3 | That's great. |
| 0:21.8 | Though it's harder to be on my phone because, like, you guys can see that I'm not listening to you. |
| 0:25.8 | We indeed can. |
| 0:27.4 | I want to talk about Donald Trump and his relationship with the media because one thing that made major headlines not so long ago is the defamation case that Trump |
| 0:41.6 | brought against ABC News. |
| 0:44.4 | ABC has now agreed to pay out $15 million to the president-elect in a settlement. |
| 0:50.8 | This comes after George Stephanopoulos said in a segment that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping the writer E. Gene Carroll. |
| 1:01.5 | Trump, in fact, was found liable for sexual abuse by a New York jury. |
| 1:06.9 | Stephanopoulos repeated the word rape many times during the interview. |
| 1:11.7 | And before we dig into this and sort of the larger questions around it, Sarah, I just want to honor the fact that you actually have to be careful here because you were on the episode on ABC that sparked this lawsuit, right? |
| 1:24.0 | I was. |
| 1:24.3 | I was on the roundtable that Sunday. |
| 1:26.0 | On that show. |
| 1:26.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.9 | Okay. |
| 1:27.3 | Well, anything you're not able to say or for legal reasons, we understand. |
| 1:31.5 | And I also just wanted our listeners to know that you were there that day. So I guess I'm, I think about a lot of things here. |
| 1:41.8 | A lot of people are saying that that this is an example of how Donald Trump |
| 1:46.4 | can threaten and intimidate news organizations. I actually want to talk a little bit about |
| 1:54.4 | journalists and reporters being careful with their words. But let's start with this image of Donald Trump as, you know, |
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