Trump and “1984”: Inside the Plot to Break the Media

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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As the election nears, Republicans are going full Mao Zedong on the media. Can journalism as we know it survive? Joe Pompeo, Media Correspondent for Vanity Fair, joins Nick talk about the new right-wing plot to expose reporters’ old tweets, how fake news can be a weapon of war, and why Americans are giving up on the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns
0:09.5	Thursday, November 16th.
0:11.6	Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion
0:15.6	podcast.
0:16.6	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton and I'm going to warn you right now everything
0:25.4	we talk about today on the podcast is completely and utterly fake. It's all BS. And here to talk about
0:32.4	that fake stuff. Fake news is Joe Pompeo. Joe, welcome to the show. It's your first time here.
0:39.0	I feel like I'm like I'm I feel like I'm one of the cool kids now, you know, because I listen and I hear I'm like I'm I feel like I'm one of the cool kids now you know because I listen and I hear I mean I'm no Emily Jane Fox so I hope you have bigger expectations appropriately low
0:49.7	Well, we will judge you after this after the show we will we will the people they love to leave mean comments on the internet
0:57.2	So they will if they don't like it. Let's just tell our listeners who you are why you're here and I'll get into what we're going to talk
1:05.2	about today.
1:06.2	Yeah, well I cover media for Vanity Fair and I'm here because you want to talk about all
1:12.2	the things happening in the media right now.
1:16.4	Fake news and Fox news and that's the same thing.
1:21.2	Trump attacking the news.
1:22.2	Right, yeah, fake Fox news, Trump attacking the news, Trump attacking the new right yeah fake Fox news Trump attacking the news Trump attacking Fox News
1:28.0	Yeah, so let's just jump in so I I have a million questions for you.
1:33.1	It feels to me as someone who's not a professional
1:37.1	very in this industry, but a little bit,
1:40.0	that the attacks on the media by Trump and company have been not only kind of
1:46.8	turned up a notch in the last few months but but he have been different that they've been
1:52.3	more intense,
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