The Press and the Election of 2016: One Year Later

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🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It’s a year after Donald Trump's upset election victory. Before and after the 2016 election, President Trump referred to journalists as enemies to himself and to the American people. But his victory wasn’t just a success in vilifying the media, it was a success in manipulating it. Trump was a media figure, skilled at drawing attention. And news organizations were unused to being so squarely part of the story. What lessons have journalists taken from the 2016 campaign and President Trump’s election? What’s changed since then? And what should change going forward? In this episode of Radio Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance, the editor of TheAtlantic.com, and Yoni Appelbaum, the magazine's politics and policy editor, join Matt and Jeff to look back and look ahead one year after the Trump Era began. Links: - "How Trump Diagnosed American Politics" (Andy Kroll, Nov 7, 2016) - "Zuckerberg 2020?" (Adrienne LaFrance, Jan 19, 2017) - 'We Thought You'd Like to Look Back on This Post from 1 Year Ago’ (Julie Beck, Nov 8, 2017) - The Atlantic Interview - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (as interpreted by Jon Batiste) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	It's been one year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States and say what you will
0:34.4	about his relationship with the truth he got one thing right that the news media
0:38.4	by and large got totally wrong he's president year later, what has that outcome taught the press? And what
0:47.1	has it taught the public? This is Radio Atlantic. Hi, I'm Matt Thompson, Executive Editor of the Atlantic.
1:06.8	My esteemed co-host is Jeffrey Goldberg, our editor-in-chief.
1:10.3	Hello Jeff, I'm Matt.
1:11.8	And to join us in our conversation about how Donald Trump has changed
1:15.1	the media, we have Adrian LaFrance, the editor of the Atlantic.com. Hello Adrian.
1:19.6	Hi, thanks for having me.
1:21.1	Excellent. Thank you for joining us.
1:23.0	And we also have exclusively at the Atlantic podcast, Yoni Applebaum, our politics editor.
1:30.8	How do we get these two?
1:32.0	I don't know. These are huge
1:33.4	these are huge explosives. Hello Yoni. Hey guys. Hi Yoni. So here we are. Four
1:39.9	Atlantic editors. How many Atlantic editors does it take to discuss the first
1:45.8	year of the Trump president? I don't know how many does it. First I want to
1:49.8	take you back to November 7th, 2016. We ran several pieces that day of course, but I want to start
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