UK Elections: They’re Not Like Ours! Plus, the Messy Family Behind Paramount
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brits are complaining it's too long they're saying three weeks is it still not over yet |
| 0:05.1 | in the UK the election season lasts six weeks can you imagine from WNYC in New York |
| 0:12.1 | this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:15.0 | Also on this week's show, hundreds of post office workers in the UK were prosecuted |
| 0:20.5 | under mysterious circumstances and largely ignored until a TV show ignited a fire. |
| 0:28.0 | I don't think you can point to a single television drama which has had such a huge impact both in terms of public anger |
| 0:35.5 | and then political movement. |
| 0:37.5 | Plus, what the tabloidy history of Paramount can teach us about corporate media today. |
| 0:44.0 | One of them says, I don't care if 100 women or 50 women |
| 0:46.8 | come forward with more accusations about MoonVests. |
| 0:49.8 | He's our guy. |
| 0:50.9 | That's so preposterous. |
| 0:52.3 | MoonVests is not anybody's guy on the board of directors. |
| 0:56.3 | It's all coming up after this. Listen to support it, WNYC Studios. |
| 1:07.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Michael Lohinger is out this week. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 1:18.0 | Back in January, there was speculation that 2024 would see both British and American leadership |
| 1:26.6 | elections and sure enough in late May drenched in the pouring rain in front of 10 Downing Street, |
| 1:33.7 | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered. |
| 1:37.4 | Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future. |
| 1:41.5 | To decide whether we want to build on the progress we have made or risk going |
| 1:45.4 | back to square one with no plan and no certainty. British Prime Minister Rishi |
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