The Cold Shoulder
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Former president Donald Trump is trying to bury the January 6th committee’s findings, but his old allies aren’t helping. Meanwhile, we take a look at the governor of Florida’s polarizing press strategy, and why reporters think presidential hopefuls are no longer returning their calls.
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David Folkenflik [@davidfolkenflik], media correspondent for NPR, on the resurgence of Trump-related news. Listen.
David Freedlander [@freedlander], freelance political journalist, on why he thinks Republicans are no longer speaking to the press. Listen.
Dexter Filkins, staff writer at The New Yorker, on Ron DeSantis’ press strategy and where politicians' relationship with the press went wrong. Listen.
Kate Kelly [@Kate_Kelly_Esq], human rights attorney, on the importance of the the Equal Rights Amendment and how it can protect abortion rights. Listen.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Trump putting his toe in and showing some interest in the 2024 race now is in part just |
| 0:06.7 | to change what's being written about. |
| 0:08.7 | In the wake of the January 6th Committee hearings, headlines generated by and about the former |
| 0:14.3 | president are omnipresence. |
| 0:17.1 | Also on this week's show, why some reporters are finding it harder to get Republican legislators |
| 0:22.0 | on the record. |
| 0:23.0 | They've spent so much time poisoning in their voters minds the idea of the mainstream |
| 0:30.4 | press that to sort of be interviewed by the mainstream press would be sort of seen as |
| 0:34.5 | concerning with the enemy. |
| 0:36.2 | Plus, the equal rights amendment might be the solution to abortion access, but it's |
| 0:40.6 | been lingering in legal purgatory for decades. |
| 0:44.0 | This is the maybe the only thing I don't disagree on with Village Lafay. |
| 0:48.0 | I believe that it absolutely will be a path to cementing and finalizing abortion rights. |
| 0:54.2 | It's all coming up after this. |
| 1:02.1 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
| 1:05.1 | Brick Gladstone is out this week. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm OTM correspondent Michael Lohinger. |
| 1:11.2 | After weeks of heated coverage around the January 6th select committee hearings, and now news |
| 1:16.5 | that the Department of Justice is investigating Donald Trump in a criminal probe, the former |
| 1:21.4 | president has turned to the old playbook of flooding the zone with alternate news. |
| 1:26.4 | Former president Donald Trump back in Washington. |
| 1:29.6 | We had made America great again. |
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