What happens to anti-Trump media now?
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🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ever since Donald Trump |
| 0:05.0 | Donald Trump rose to fame decades ago, there have been Trump haters. |
| 0:10.0 | But since he was elected in 2016, there's been this rise of anti-Trump media and media |
| 0:15.6 | personalities who build their whole careers on hating Trump. |
| 0:20.8 | So now in the final days of his White House, what's going to happen to all these people, the people who sort of transform their disdain for Trump into actual jobs in media? |
| 0:30.0 | Joining me here is Recodes Peter it's Peter Kafka. Hey Peter, |
| 0:33.2 | Hey, Daddy. So tell me like what sort of people are we talking about that are the |
| 0:37.4 | anti-Trump resistance media personalities who make this a full-time job and make a lot of money off |
| 0:43.7 | of it. Yeah so to be clear I'm making a distinction between these folks and |
| 0:47.2 | existing media organizations like the New York Times or MS NBC where they're either |
| 0:51.4 | actively or sort of by default became viewed as sort of resistance media. I'm talking |
| 0:57.6 | by people who sort of created themselves specifically to be |
| 1:00.2 | oppositional to Trump. So people like the Lincoln Project, |
| 1:03.2 | so a bunch of Republican never-Trumpers |
| 1:06.0 | who created a super PAC initially aimed at defeating Trump. |
| 1:09.4 | Cricket media, the people you probably know |
| 1:11.6 | as the people behind Pod Save America, the former Obama White House staffers, |
| 1:15.8 | who created a podcast and then immediate business aimed at defeating Trump, |
| 1:19.5 | and Sarah Cooper, who was a former Google employee, |
| 1:22.7 | an aspiring comedian who last spring started doing these lip sinks |
| 1:26.7 | on Tik-Tock and Twitter that went viral, |
| 1:29.1 | who certainly didn't set out to become an anti-Trump media personality but became one and is now very much |
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