The past, present and future of political media

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

GZERO Media

Politics, News, Foreign Policy, News Commentary, Government, Geopolitics, International Relations, Ian Bremmer, Trump, Global Economy, Gzero World

4.7 • 830 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Trust in journalism is rapidly eroding. At the same time, partisanship is skyrocketing. Ahead of the 2024 US election, the GZERO World Podcast takes a look at the media’s role in politics and democracy itself. What lessons has the press learned since 2020 and how will the first election in the age of generative AI play out? Donald Trump’s presidency and role in contesting the 2020 election was a unique challenge for journalists. How do you reliably cover the US president and leader of the free world while he regularly repeats misinformation? And how to you challenge a politician whose entire brand is premised on the idea he’s being attacked by the press? There's also the issue of covering some of the more extreme elements in both political parties. Politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traffic in conspiracy theories and often, outright lies. But they have a growing constellation of media platforms, from NewsMax to Joe Rogan, to reach an increasingly fragmented audience distrustful of mainstream news sources. What lessons did journalists and the media take away from 2016 and 2020? And how will generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney impact the upcoming US presidential election in 2024? Media experts Brian Stelter, journalist and former CNN anchor, as well as Nicole Hemmer, a political historian specializing in partisan media break down the current media landscape in a conversation with host Ian Bremmer.

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0:00.0	The real story about America and the media right now is about the voters, about the people who think the media is the enemy of the people, when in fact, media is the people.
0:10.5	Hello and welcome to the GZero World podcast. This is where you'll find extended versions of my interviews on public television.
0:18.1	I'm Ian Bremmer, and today we are looking at the media's impact on democracy.
0:23.6	In 1964, philosopher Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase, the medium is the message.
0:29.6	He meant that the way content is delivered can be more powerful than the content itself.
0:35.6	Case in point, four years before McLuhan's book was published,
0:40.0	70 million Americans tuned in live to the first ever televised presidential debate.
0:46.2	The candidates need no introduction. The Republican candidate, Vice President Richard M. Nixon,
0:51.3	and the Democratic candidate, Senator John F. candidate.
0:53.9	As the story goes, Senator John F. Kennedy.
1:00.5	As the story goes, Nixon showed up pale and sweaty. Kennedy was tanned and camera-ready,
1:07.4	hyanus port, you might say. And Nixon lost his thin lead overnight. The rest, of course,
1:13.3	is history. Today, it's a much more complicated landscape. Partisanship abounds on television, podcasts, social media, and we now have a new technology tool to toss into the equation,
1:20.3	generative AI. How will all of this play out in the coming presidential election and can trust
1:26.5	in America's so-called fourth
1:28.8	state ever be restored. I'm talking about all that and more with journalists and former CNN host
1:34.9	Brian Stelter and Nicole Hemmer, a Vanderbiltie, a Vanderbiltz, a Vanderbiltz
1:38.9	specializing in political history and partisan media. Let's get to it.
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