Trolling the Press Corps

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

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🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Lucian Wintrich, a young blogger, was recently appointed as the White House correspondent for the conservative political site Gateway Pundit. He has no professional experience as a reporter and doesn’t claim any interest in landing big stories. His goal is to attack media outlets that he regards as leftist, and he doesn’t shy away from name-calling. The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz questions Wintrich about trolling as a form of journalism. Originally aired on April 7, 2017.

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0:00.0	48.
0:04.0	I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone.
0:09.0	When they have that revelation, like the
0:12.0	phrase.
0:13.0	It's making sure.
0:14.0	Pretty huge.
0:15.0	You mean you could get if you have a source for it?
0:17.0	Yeah, the telegraph.
0:19.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:27.9	I'm David Remnick, and you're listening to The New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:31.4	Andrew Moran's has been reporting for the New Yorker on the new brand of conservatism that Donald Trump has brought to Washington, people
0:38.4	formerly on the fringes of the right wing. And one of those is a young blogger named Lucian Wintrich.
0:45.2	In 2016, Wintrich began writing for the pro-Trump website called The Gateway Pundit. And a big part of
0:52.2	what he does is trolling, basically.
0:55.3	He'll mock women. He'll mock minorities, liberals, trans people, overweight people, you name it.
1:01.0	Winchrich himself is gay, and he made up the hashtag twinks for Trump, pretty much anything to generate a little outrage,
1:08.0	so that you never know how much of what he's saying is real.
1:12.6	Lucian Winchrich is now right at the center of American politics as Gateway Pundits
1:16.4	White House correspondent. He had no professional experience in reporting, and he writes a lot
1:21.6	about his confrontations with other White House correspondents. Andrew Moran sat down with him in our
1:27.1	studio in April.
1:29.4	It is clear, and I don't know that you would deny this, that your beat as a White House correspondent
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