Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter 12: Year in Review
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Chapter 12 chronicles the demise of our fictional magazine, Capital Monthly. The pressure from the White House, from advertisers and from Social Media algorithms kills the independent journalism that was documenting what life was like under Donald Trump's second term guided by Project 2025. As our host, Bill Press, of The Bill Press Pod says in the episode:
“It’s not too late to change some minds. The election is a few days away and still most people have not voted. If you have a friend or family member that has not decided whether to vote, or whom to vote for, this is your chance to make a difference. If this series frightened you, made you even more fearful of a Trump second term, perhaps it can have the same effect on someone you know. Please share this series or even a single episode that might speak to that person's special interests. All twelve episodes are in your podcast app and available for sharing. Or you could direct them to go to 2025 pod.com. If we all do something, as Michelle Obama says, even small things like this, we can make a difference and save our Democracy from Donald Trump and Project 2025.”
We’d like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this series. Especially the talented sound designers Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser who worked on every episode. Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you again. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod. Well, I'll be back from my research and writing sabbatical in Europe next week. But we still have one more episode of our updated version of Trump's Project 2025, up close |
| 0:22.4 | and personal, that special series we ran last fall before the election. |
| 0:27.9 | Of course, we all tried to prevent it, but Trump did win, and his reign of terror against |
| 0:33.0 | the media is ongoing every day. |
| 0:35.9 | Now, in today's fictional story, the 12th and final chapter chronicles the |
| 0:40.4 | demise of our fictional magazine Capital Monthly. The pressure from the White House, from advertisers, |
| 0:46.4 | from internet trolls, and a financial offer from a right-wing hedge fund kills the independent |
| 0:51.7 | journalism that was documenting what life was actually like under |
| 0:56.0 | Trump's second regime guided, of course, by Project 2025. Here's the fictional editor of our magazine, |
| 1:04.0 | Theo Shepard, with a final note to his readers. It's read by our series author David Pepper. |
| 1:13.4 | The pressure came immediately after January, |
| 1:19.7 | the day after the first story. We were fake news, the new administration warned our publisher, |
| 1:31.2 | two one-sided. The criticism grew louder after February, the IVF story. Show both sides, they demanded. Advertisers pulled out. |
| 1:39.0 | Social media companies buried us in algorithms. Death threats came rose his way. I brought in Calvin in March. Cover the other side, I told him. The new administration promised him great access, |
| 1:46.2 | top officials, supporters, voters, frontline enforcers, and those who benefited from his policies, |
| 1:55.0 | business leaders, voucher recipients, and the like. But each month, the complaints still grew. From the White House, |
| 2:03.3 | from advertisers, from social media trolls, Rose's stories too much, Calvin's stories, not fair, |
| 2:12.0 | even though they came right from the access they'd given us. We cut back on Rose, |
| 2:17.4 | gave Calvin more ink. Philadelphia was |
| 2:20.7 | the Rubicon. Too raw, the publisher said, for the first time, he looked scared. In October, |
| 2:28.8 | a firm called Gorilla Capital made an offer our owner couldn't refuse. No more rose. We ran what we had about Hurricane |
| 2:37.1 | Timothy before they cut us off. I walked out of the building for the last time, December 1st. |
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