The Likeability Illusion

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, news networks should do us a favor and not air Trump’s prime-time speech on Tuesday night. In the interview, Greg Sargent is an indispensable voice for anyone looking to grasp the inner workings of American democracy. In his new book, he argues that compromise is possible even on issues as stark as voter suppression (the implementers are all Republican on this one, folks). Sargent’s book is An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics. In the Spiel, likability in 2020? It’s overrated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This program may contain explicit language.
0:03.0	Also, we have a newsletter coming out.
0:05.6	It's at slate.com slash just news.
0:08.8	Now on with the possibly filthy show.
0:15.4	It's Monday, January 7th, 2019, from slate.
0:18.3	It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:20.2	President Trump has requested time from the networks.
0:23.3	The filthy, dirty, lying networks.
0:26.0	Thank you for your airwaves, please.
0:28.3	This network's earned quite a position.
0:30.0	As one TV executive told CNN media reporter Brian Stelter,
0:34.2	quote,
0:35.0	if we give him the time, he'll deliver a fact-free
0:38.1	screen without rebuttal.
0:39.9	And if we don't give him the time,
0:41.9	he'll call every network partisan.
0:44.5	So we're damned if we do and damned if we don't.
0:48.0	That is the worst example of a double edged sword I've ever heard.
0:51.7	There is one edge, the other edge hardly has an edge.
0:55.4	What you're saying is you'll either allow Trump to use your platform
1:00.0	to lie to the public or else he will use his platform
1:04.4	to lie to the public about you.
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