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So we're talking about keeping your eyes open, keeping your eyes closed, lies of context

that make it hard for us to see. Steve Crackauer has written a new book called Uncovered,

How the Media Got Cozy With Power, Abandoned Principles, and Lost the People, a story about how

we lost the news media and how they've been using that, the news media to create a context

in which their lies make more sense than they should.

Steve has been a journalist and media executive for 15 years.

He's been at CNN, the Blaze, Media Iten. He's the author of this book, Steve.

Thank you so much for coming on.

Thank you so much for having me. Appreciate it.

So you're a guy who's watched this firsthand and you've seen this transition because I was in

the news media back in the 1980s and it really was not like this. What happened?

Yeah, I look, I was a CNN executive back as late as 2013, the end of 2013.

So not that long ago, I mean, less than 10 years ago.

And when I was there, there were, I think, valid criticisms of CNN at the time.

I think that it was populated by people that leaned left for sure.

It mostly voted for Democrats when they voted at all. So that was true.

But there was still a mission when I was there.

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