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What Next: Trump Is Back. Is the Media Ready?

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41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Much of the media world looked on with a sinking feeling as Donald Trump held forth in a primetime CNN event. More than most candidates, Trump seems to feed off media attention. Journalists have a responsibility to cover the leading Republican presidential candidate—so how can they do it responsibly? Guest: David Folkenflik, NPR’s media correspondent. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:08.9

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0:25.5

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0:30.0

I was glad that when I called up NPR's David Fulkenflick to talk about Donald Trump's

0:40.4

town hall on CNN last week, he, like me, hadn't watched the whole thing live.

0:46.6

I didn't.

0:47.6

I was putting my kids to bed, so I watched it on a slight delay.

0:54.1

Did you want to watch it?

0:55.1

Or were you like, I'll get to this if I need to?

0:58.6

It felt like a little bit as though I was anticipating a rerun of something I had watched

1:03.0

on.

1:04.0

That's like, you know, like an old law and order episode.

1:06.2

Right.

1:07.2

It had like a gang's all back feeling.

1:10.4

Yeah, but a gang's all back feeling about which you had some ambivalence at best.

1:21.1

To me, this town hall, it was a reminder that the Trump show is getting renewed for another

1:26.1

season.

1:27.1

For the last couple of years, while there've been plenty of stories about Donald Trump,

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