The Media Helped Elect Trump in 2016. Are they Doing it Again?
Deconstructed
The Intercept
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🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The president’s nightly Coronavirus Task Force briefings are increasingly coming to resemble campaign rallies without the crowds: excuses for Trump to showboat in front of TV cameras, praise his own managerial brilliance, and gratuitously insult reporters. So why are they still being taken seriously by cable news? Veteran broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss whether the media are repeating the mistakes of 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | You're both running a kairan that says, |
| 0:02.5 | Hey, this is propaganda, but also running the propaganda. |
| 0:06.5 | Like, that's a basic fail. |
| 0:08.8 | You clearly understand that this is bad information. |
| 0:12.2 | Why would you possibly air it? |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to Deconstructed. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Mayor the Hasan coming to you still from my home |
| 0:24.4 | as the coronavirus lockdown here in the DC metro area continues. |
| 0:28.5 | On today's show. |
| 0:29.8 | White House correspondents are frequently just unable to break out of the bowl that they're in. |
| 0:34.9 | They can't think about how could we do this differently? |
| 0:37.9 | That's my guess. |
| 0:38.8 | The award-winning journalist former news anchor and now Twitter star, |
| 0:42.2 | Soledad O'Brien, who, like me, thinks the US media have really dropped the ball. |
| 0:46.7 | When it comes to the Trump administration, in general, |
| 0:49.7 | and this mismanaged coronavirus crisis in particular. |
| 0:53.1 | So in this election year of all years, |
| 0:55.4 | is there a way to help make media coverage |
| 0:57.8 | of this uniquely awful president any better? |
| 1:01.0 | Or is it just too late? |
| 1:07.4 | The only thing perhaps more depressing, |
| 1:09.0 | more frustrating than getting the daily US death toll from the coronavirus, |
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