What Can Musk Offer Trump? And Defining “Decolonization” for Gaza

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump recently held a meeting with Elon Musk, the owner of the site formerly known as Twitter. On this week’s On the Media, hear how the significance of the social media platform has changed as fewer people tune into traditional right-wing media. Plus, a deep dive on terms like “colonialism” and “decolonization,” and what they mean in the context of Israel-Palestine.

1. Philip Bump [@pbump], columnist for the Washington Post, on what Donald Trump might want from an allegiance with Elon Musk. Listen.

2. Iyad el-Baghdadi [@iyad_elbaghdadi], human rights activist, writer, and co-author of “The Middle East Crisis Factory,” on why the words we use to describe the war in Gaza should be clear and precise. Listen.

3. Valerie Hopkins [@VALERIEinNYT], an international correspondent at the New York Times covering Russia, on the growing intensity of Putin's crackdown on dissent in Russia, and Mstyslav Chernov [@mstyslavchernov], on his now Oscar-nominated documentary depicting the early days of Russia's siege on Ukraine. Listen.

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0:00.0	You don't have to have this website and a link that people have to click on.
0:04.0	You can just say stuff and he can get attention. You know, you don't need to be bright-
0:07.5	part to do that anymore. Does the rise of X signal the fall of traditional right-wing outlets.
0:13.6	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media,
0:16.4	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:17.6	And I'm Michael Lohanger.
0:19.2	Also on this week's show in Russia, a funeral, an and election and a journalist in prison.
0:25.0	But it's hard to see your friend and colleague on the front page of a magazine.
0:31.0	I think he just wants to be writing the stories. I think he wants to be in
0:36.3	Russia reporting about this repression. Plus the importance of nuance to distinguish between
0:42.4	terms like anti-colonial decolonization.
0:46.3	There's a lot of these wars kind of flying around and there are many people who are not using them
0:51.1	in a way that further the debate or even informed people.
0:55.0	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.0	And I'm Michael Loneser.
1:06.0	My fellow Americans,
1:08.0	the issue facing United Nations
1:12.0	isn't how old we are, it's how old are our ideas.
1:17.0	And energized Joe Biden speaking at the State of the Union on Thursday.
1:21.0	But you can't lead America with ancient ideas.
1:25.0	Joe Biden delivered what has been described in the press so far as feisty, fiery, heated.
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