Toxic Election Lies Spread, Jeff Bezos Sows Chaos at The Post and How The Media Created Election Night

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A look at election disinformation, The Washington Post’s decision, uncommitted voters in the press, and how election night became a television spectacular.

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0:00.0	As a coacher of the RNC, I'm well aware of all the ways that they are trying to sway the election
0:05.0	and rig it in every single state. The body politic is infected by election lies. From WNYC in New York,
0:12.4	this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Michael Onger. In the run-up to election day,
0:17.8	some members of the uncommitted movement have had to make some tough choices.
0:22.7	We've been asked, don't you think the Uncommitted Movement is going to help Trump win?
0:26.3	And we have so many members who've had family killed by American-supplied Israeli bombs.
0:32.0	And I think that fact is going to help Trump win more than anything we do.
0:37.0	Plus, did you know that we didn't have an election night until 1848?
0:42.5	In the early days, the media would keep people up to date in creative and curious ways.
0:48.2	Sometimes they would have a light on top of a building, you know,
0:51.2	in codes published in advance, shine one way or the other,
0:57.4	and people know it's winning. It's all coming up after this.
1:06.9	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Michael Onger.
1:11.1	They're allowing criminals from all over the world to enter our country. Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden this week.
1:14.1	We're not going to take it anymore.
1:16.6	Kamala, you're fired. Get out. Get out. You're fired.
1:22.6	We know who Donald Trump is.
1:24.6	Kamala Harris speaking at the ellipse in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
1:29.7	He is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the
1:39.1	United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election.
1:47.6	The media have dubbed these final week speeches as the candidates closing arguments.
1:53.6	But if 2020 taught us anything, it's that November 5th won't be a decisive end to the election season,
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