The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 1) | The 21st Century
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 12, 2012 when Democratic candidate Barack Obama was declared the loser at the first Presidential debate against Mitt Romney and Twitter won.
Whistlestop is Slate’s podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald and Elizabeth Hinson.
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| 0:29.4 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop, a podcast to the presidency. I'm John Dickerson of 60 Minutes. |
| 0:37.0 | Superficial, sudden, unsifted, too fast for the truth. |
| 0:45.0 | Does it not render the popular mind too fast for the truth? |
| 0:48.8 | What need is there for scraps of news? |
| 0:51.2 | How trivial and paltry. Am I talking about Twitter? No, I'm talking about the |
| 0:56.0 | telegraph. Those words you just heard were from an article published in the New York Times |
| 1:01.4 | on August 19, 1858. |
| 1:05.0 | People have been complaining about the speed of communication for 150 years. |
| 1:08.4 | We can't think fast enough to keep up with all of it. |
| 1:11.0 | Why does it all need to be so fast? These are modern |
| 1:13.9 | complaints we feel. So maybe they're just the same old complaints. Nothing new, |
| 1:18.7 | which means there's no great danger to our democracy and our presidential system. |
| 1:24.5 | Which of course as you'll remember is the topic of this podcast. |
| 1:27.2 | Well, we'll see about that. |
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