What Merchants of Truth Gets Right

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, it wouldn't just be morally right for Trump to finally denounce white nationalism. It would be politically smart. In the interview, Jill Abramson's Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts was released to glowing reviews—but valid accusations of plagiarism and factual errors took some of that shine off. As Mike asks Abramson (a former executive editor of the New York Times), were the negative headlines so grabby that they've damned the book's valuable insights? And would that in itself prove many of her worries about journalism in the 21st century? In the Spiel, the New York Times, biased? You don't say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show may contain my tips for making money on Bitcoin.
0:02.6	It won't.
0:03.6	It also may contain explicit language.
0:05.6	And it really might.
0:06.8	["Duke's Day March 2019, 2019."
0:12.3	From Slated to the GIST I'm Mike Pesca.
0:14.5	So why won't Donald Trump actually condemn the ideology
0:18.9	that drives white supremacists to murder?
0:22.6	Because he's obstinate, and we'll never utter anything
0:25.8	against self-interest.
0:27.5	But there is the rub.
0:29.4	Why does he think it's against self-interest
0:32.2	to condemn a white national neo-Nazi type
0:35.9	who gave him some, though not all, credit for mass murder?
0:39.8	Any run of the mill, D-Minus politician
0:42.4	takes the opportunity to mow the platitude
0:45.7	and just be done with all the criticism.
0:48.2	Representative Jim Banks was on CNN this Sunday
0:51.4	with Jake Tapper.
0:53.0	He said it was impossible for any president
0:55.4	or any of us to denounce such evils sufficiently.
1:00.1	Well, likewise, I mean, Ambassador Brown was unequivocal
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