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Why presidential candidates are embracing podcast interviews

Marketplace Tech

American Public Media

Technology, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first interview on Fox News Wednesday as the Democratic presidential candidate continued her media blitz ahead of the November election. And while it’s generating plenty of headlines, these kinds of big interviews just don’t hold the power they used to, according to Nick Quah, a podcast and culture critic at New York Magazine who’s been following the candidates’ interviews on the alternative media circuit. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Quah about how Kamala Harris’ appearance on more internet-native shows like the podcast “Call Her Daddy” or Donald Trump’s appearances on various “bro-centric” shows like Logan Paul ‘sYouTube channel represent a notable media shift compared to previous elections.

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0:00.0

The big prime time interview just isn't what it used to be.

0:06.0

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

0:09.0

I'm Megan McCarty Karino. Reno.

0:17.0

Comla Harris said for her first interview on Fox News Wednesday as the Democratic presidential candidate continued her media blitz ahead of the November election.

0:31.0

And while it's generating plenty of headlines, these big interviews just don't hold the power they used to, according to Nick Quois.

0:40.0

He's a culture critic at New York magazine who's been following the candidates interviews

0:44.6

on the alternative media circuit.

0:47.5

That is more internet native shows like the podcast Call Her Daddy, which had Harris on last week, or the various brocentric online

0:56.2

personalities like Logan Paul that have interviewed Donald Trump.

1:00.7

Quas says this emphasis on less journalistic, more digital media is a major shift from previous elections.

1:09.0

It's a shift in a sense that we're saying more of it and in a related sense both candidates

1:14.4

seems to be participating in the quote-to-quote like traditional media

1:18.7

ecosystem a little less or a little later than traditionally expected, right? And you know, for several reasons, the chief of which is the abnormality of this particular race, right?

1:30.0

The Harris campaign is about a days old and the Trump campaign is very regular for many in many respects.

1:38.8

We have sort of arrived at a place in which it doesn't just feel like this quote-to-quote

1:45.0

non-traditional media spaces are on equal footing with traditional newspapers and

1:49.6

TV networks. In some senses you can even kind of start seeing it as a little bit having more emphasis and that is the shifts.

1:58.0

Well let's focus in on Kamala Harris's media appearances recently because she's done kind of a spree of them in the

2:06.5

last month or so.

2:08.5

When we're talking about non-traditional media, probably the most notable among them, was the Call Her Daddy podcast.

2:16.1

This is kind of a frank sex and relationship advice and comedy show. Here's a clip from that where host Alex Cooper asks Harris

2:27.3

about some recent comments from Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabees Sanders.

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