Tina Brown: Trump’s Extended Middle Finger, Biden’s Shambolic Exit, & Martha’s Sad Denouement

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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John is joined by Tina Brown, the legendary magazine editrix and his former boss at The New Yorker, to discuss American politics and media at the end of a year of convulsive upheaval in both. Tina riffs on Donald Trump’s reality show transition and its freak show appointments; the soap operatic, still largely untold story of Joe Biden’s family and how it has driven him (notably but not solely by means of the pardon of his son, Hunter) to undermine his legacy as president; the death of the magazine business, her new incarnation as a Substacker, and the broader trends that have leeched both the vitality and sheer fun out of the journalism racket. Tina also explains why she found the new Netflix documentary on Martha Stewart at once so excellent and so sad. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.2	Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey
0:56.3	Joint featuring lively in-depth and sometimes ever so slightly profane conversations with
1:01.4	the people who roam the corridors of power and influence in America, weaving the warp and
1:05.5	weft of our politics and culture. As we come to a close of another dismal, desultory, dismaying, borderline dystopian year
1:13.1	for the mainstream media, whether we're talking about newspapers, magazines, broadcast TV, cable
1:18.2	news, or even slash especially the increasingly dyspeptic world of streaming, one of the few
1:24.7	supposed bright spots out there is substack, where every day more and more
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1:34.5	power to them, I say, but I will also say that if we're being honest, the absence of editors,
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