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Federalist Radio Hour

Why Modern Journalists Protect Power Instead Of Challenging It

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Steve Krakauer, executive producer of "The Megyn Kelly Show," joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new book "Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy With Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People" and consider whether the media industry is broken beyond repair.

You can find Krakauer's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steve-krakauer/uncovered/9781546003472/

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:20.0

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

0:22.6

As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com.

0:26.1

Follow us on Twitter at FDR LST.

0:28.6

Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

0:32.6

Today we're joined once again by Steve Crackauer.

0:35.1

He is out with a new book called Uncovered.

0:37.7

How the media got cozy with power, abandoned its principles, and lost the people.

0:43.3

Steve is also the executive producer.

0:45.2

Over at the Megan Kelly show, such a great podcast, and you guys do such great work over

0:49.6

there, Steve.

0:50.9

Thank you so much for joining us.

0:53.0

Thanks for having me, Emily.

0:54.7

I want to start with the title of your book because there's a word in the subtitle actually

1:00.0

that I love because I feel like it gets often glossed over in coverage of media coverage.

1:06.2

I think it's the sort of meta coverage of the coverage.

1:09.5

And the word is power.

1:11.0

There's so much talk about bias.

1:13.2

But when we're talking about power, when we're talking about the direction that media

1:16.7

bias always kind of goes into, it's the direction of power.

1:21.6

How did you zero in on that word with this book?

1:25.2

Yeah, I was trying to guess which word you were going to use in the lead up there.

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