Thomas Rid
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:29.0 | As a journalist, for example, if you're describing something where sophisticated professional experienced actors are trying to trick you, for example by giving you a mix of 90% accurate information |
| 0:45.9 | with a couple of fakes and forgeries slipped in. So the correct information is |
| 0:50.8 | there to convince you that a hundred percent is correct but it's not. |
| 0:56.2 | And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. |
| 1:01.0 | At the height of one of the most eventful weeks in recent American history, which hasn't exactly been an eventful, |
| 1:11.0 | at the height of the protests over police violence and the murder of George Floyd. |
| 1:18.0 | At a crucial time in the global pandemic of COVID-19. The attention of virtually all media |
| 1:28.1 | outlets in the United States and especially the New York Times was for 48, 72 hours on whether or not a sitting |
| 1:38.1 | United States Senator Tom Cotton should have been allowed to publish a nasty op ad in the times arguing for non-peaceful protesters |
| 1:49.2 | to be contained by military forces. Now I want to say two things about that. The first is that there are |
| 1:58.4 | genuinely two different ways of conceiving what an opinion page like that of the New York Times should do. |
| 2:07.0 | On one conception, it should be rooted in a set of basic principles. That is my preferred solution. The Atlantic, the magazine |
| 2:17.1 | for which I write and which I deeply love, has a self-conception as serving liberal |
| 2:22.1 | democracy. Now there are many arguments printed |
| 2:26.6 | in The Atlantic with which I robustly disagree. The magazine does a great job of |
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