The Politics of Disaster | Roundtable

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Sarah, Kevin, and Steve discuss the devastation of recent hurricanes and the politics of the disaster response. Also, with several interviewers fawning over Kamala Harris, journalists coming under fire for committing journalism, and newsrooms collapsing into emotional struggle sessions, they ask: Is CBS News worth their time? The Agenda —Political polarization —Reliability in voting trends —Hurricane politics —FEMA conspiracies —Blame in crisis management (Bush v. Biden) —CBS producers shield Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamala Harris from journalism —The ethics of editing journalism Show Notes: —The effect of conspiracies —The CBS News interview before the struggle sessions The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Editorial director and executive producer: Adaam James Levin-Areddy Associate producers: Victoria Holmes and Noah Hickey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.
0:31.6	I'm Sarah Isger, that's Steve Hayes and Kevin Williamson.
0:35.5	Hello, gentlemen. Hey, morning. Kevin, hi.
0:40.3	Hey.
0:41.5	Just so excited to be here.
0:45.0	We have Quayludes, Kevin, this morning.
0:47.0	A weird thing to say before a podcast,
0:52.0	I'm just not feeling the chitchat.
0:53.7	Let's get to it.
0:54.7	We're going to be taking five word answers only, nothing more. All right now.
1:16.0	All right, so let's get to it. Look, state of the race in the polling averages right now,
1:20.0	this podcast could have been recorded in August.
1:22.0	You have Harris, you know, less than a point up in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nevada.
1:29.4	You have Trump less than a point up in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania is a pure toss-up.
1:37.0	And at the same time, Trump is performing better with almost every demographic group
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