The decline of the right wing troll with CNN’s Oliver Darcy

Channels with Peter Kafka

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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CNN Senior media reporter Oliver Darcy chats with Recode’s Peter Kafka about Fox News, Breitbart, The Drudge Report and the current state of attack politics in right-wing media. Darcy also outlines his own path into media from a conservative writer for Glenn Beck’s The Blaze to his current role covering the media at CNN. Featuring:CNN Senior media reporter Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) Host:Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox:Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:38.0	That is me coming to you live on tape here with the man who runs CNN, Oliver Darcy.
1:42.6	Welcome, Oliver.
1:43.4	Very generous.
1:44.5	I'm only half joking. You are one of the star reporters there. You cover media.
1:49.4	You are filling in right now for Ryan Stelter, who's on maternity leafs.
1:53.7	So are you doing all of Brian's work, although I see Brian tweeting and writing a lot still anyway.
1:58.2	I think it's impossible to totally remove them from the
2:00.9	matrix, but this is as much I've seen him removed ever. Which is not very. True. It's basically
2:08.2	he's an average person now, average journalist now, right? Thank you for coming. You are literally
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