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The Brian Lehrer Show

Where Do You Get Your News in 2026?

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Bryan, Daily News, Media, New, Nyc, Public, York, News, Lerer, Politics, Wnyc, Npr, Arts, News Commentary, Radio

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Listeners tell us how they're getting news amid complications for mainstream outlets.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lera on WNYC, and for our last few minutes today, we will use the decimation of the Washington

0:15.3

Post Newsroom as we continue to hook to the First Amendment and what's happening to the press, as Professor

0:22.5

Bollinger was talking about similar to what's happening to universities, use the decimation of the

0:27.7

Washington Post Newsroom as a hook to open up the phones on this question. Where do you get your

0:33.4

news? News, not opinion. And has that changed for you, this is the core question, has that

0:38.9

changed for you in the last year since President Trump took office for his second term?

0:44.5

212-433, WNYC, 212-433-9-6-9-2. You can call or you can text. Again, we'll use the decimation of the Washington Post Newsroom

0:56.4

as a hook to open up the phones on this question. Where do you get your news, news not opinion,

1:05.0

that may be any different for you than it was a year ago? 212-433. WNYC, 212-433-9-692.

1:14.6

You can call or you can text.

1:16.6

Now obviously for many of you,

1:18.6

WNIC is one of those sources because you're listening right now,

1:22.6

but we're not fishing for compliments.

1:24.6

We want to know where else you're getting your news,

1:26.6

news not opinion,

1:28.9

and if that has changed in the last year, 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-9-2, call us or text us.

1:41.1

Many of you out there right now, I wonder, or I wonder if some of you out there right now

1:48.1

should be, you know, is a better way to put it, are among the thousands who have canceled Washington

1:54.1

Post subscriptions in particular. The numbers are really large. I don't have it in front of me,

1:59.3

but it's many, many thousands of people since they started

2:04.3

changing their editorial policies a year ago under Amazon owner and Washington Post owner, Jeff

2:09.7

Bezos, and now they've laid off 300 people from the newsroom.

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