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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 28 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.


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I was glad that when I called up NPR's David Fulkenflick

0:40.4

to talk about Donald Trump's town hall on CNN last week,

0:43.6

he, like me, hadn't watched the whole thing live.

0:47.5

I didn't. I was putting my kids to bed, so I watched it on a slate delay.

0:55.0

Did you want to watch it? Are you like, I'll get to this if I need to.

0:59.6

It felt like a little bit as though I was anticipating a rerun of something I'd

1:03.6

watched on. That's like, you know, like an old lawn order episode.

1:08.8

Right. It had like a gang's all back feeling.

1:11.8

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

1:22.0

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

1:26.7

for another season for the last couple of years.

1:29.7

While there've been plenty of stories about Donald Trump, he's been limited in

1:33.7

his ability to grab a microphone and unleash a rant that becomes a national brain

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