Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 12/04/18 - We all have heard the free press is under attack, but Thom gets down to brass tacks with authors Joe Strupp and Matt Taibi. Thom's callers add interesting facts to the stew. Then, 'MASH' actor and activist Mike Farell on why he thinks it is immoral not to abolish the death penalty.
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Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
How can we keep Democracy if we lose America's free press? Thom speaks with Joe Strupp about his new book "Killing Journalism: How Greed, Laziness (and Donald Trump) Are Destroying News and How We Can Save It" and the emergence of right wing unbalanced media from the presidency of Nixon and why that audience doesn't care about fact-checking. ------- Continuing the conversation on the present devolution of news coverage, Thom chats with Rolling Stone contributing editor and author, Matt Taibbi on how political campaign coverage and the 24 hour news cycle has lead to cable news following the model of conversational sports media. ------- Callers add their brilliant observations on the state of media today. ------- Thom welcomes actor and activist Mike Farell, president of the group 'Death Penalty Focus' on Mike's work to finally abolish the death penalty. ------- Talk Media News/ Luke Vargas has been keeping his ear to the ground so you don't have to. ------- Thom hears from a few more listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
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| 0:40.1 | Joe Strump is on the line with us, a veteran journalist, former editor and publisher |
| 0:43.4 | at Media Matters for America, |
| 0:44.9 | author of the new book, Killing Journalism, |
| 0:47.3 | how greed, laziness, and Donald Trump |
| 0:50.1 | are destroying news and how we can save it. His website is Joe Strump, |
| 0:53.8 | S-T-R-U-P-P-P-com and you can tweet him at Joe Strump. Hey Joe, welcome to the |
| 0:57.8 | program. Thanks, good to be here. As I'm sure you can imagine, I have some strong opinions on this topic having worked in radio news |
| 1:06.7 | since literally since the 1970s in fact since the late 1960s I'm curious how are greed laziness and Donald Trump |
| 1:14.5 | destroying news and we'll get to how we can save it once we've diagnosed the |
| 1:17.7 | problem. Well one of the things I wanted to do you know I've been covering media |
| 1:20.9 | for about 18 years first at editor and publisher magazine |
| 1:23.8 | which cover the newspaper business and that media matters for america |
| 1:27.1 | and one of the great found over the year it was |
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