The Media Is Missing the Trump Bump
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump was, if nothing else, a boon for the news business. But this election cycle, even the “Trump bump” isn’t slowing the shrinking of the audience.
Guest: Max Tani, media reporter at Semafor.
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| 0:00.0 | Like some kind of Pizza Ninja, Domino's are slicing their prices. |
| 0:05.0 | Domino's price slice. |
| 0:07.0 | Small pizzas now 8 quid, medium now 10 quid, and large now 12 quid. |
| 0:12.0 | Yet we're making cuts too. |
| 0:14.0 | In 11th of February 24, minimum delivery spend, charges and areas may apply. |
| 0:18.0 | Tous and see, see Domino's dot code. UK. Max is it fair to say that 2024 has not been kind to journalism so far? |
| 0:30.0 | I think that that is extremely fair to say if not an understatement. |
| 0:36.0 | Max Tani reports on the media over at Semaphore. |
| 0:43.2 | And yeah, this is going to be a show |
| 0:44.6 | with two journalists talking about journalism. |
| 0:48.0 | But seriously, the last few weeks have been rough. |
| 0:52.0 | How many journalists do you personally know who have gotten laid off in like the last six months? |
| 0:56.8 | It's I mean it's probably too numerous to count. I probably know more because I cover |
| 1:02.2 | media and news for a living but I it feels a little bit like survivor out here |
| 1:08.2 | Exactly allow me to just run the numbers here. |
| 1:13.0 | The Los Angeles Times laid off 20% of its staff. |
| 1:16.0 | Time magazine, 15%. |
| 1:19.0 | The music site, Pitch Fork, has for all intents and purposes vaporized. So as Sports Illustrated. I could go on. |
| 1:27.7 | The details of these layoffs are pretty horrific. One journalist said they got canned while on a work trip to a remote lighthouse in Oregon. |
| 1:36.0 | They had to text the boss and ask, |
| 1:39.0 | is my company card still going to cover my flight home? |
| 1:42.0 | Reporters at the messenger learn the Is my company card still going to cover my flight home? |
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