Will the media stand up to Trump 2.0?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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In today's episode we have a Newsagents - Ruthie's Table 4 mash up. We’ve been chatting to Bill Clinton's strategist and Democratic supremo James Carville at the River cafe with Ruthie Rogers. What should Democrats have done differently? What was Joe Biden's mistake? And what’s the way back?
But first, we kick off with the settlement ABC News just made to Donald Trump of 15 million dollars after he complained about an interview. Is the media ready to hold power to account this time around? Or is big business just happier to roll over?
You can hear the full conversation with James Carville and Ruthie Rogers on Ruthie's Table 4 podcast in the new year.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Joe Biden stands over this disaster like a colossus, and I like him. |
| 0:18.3 | It's unfortunate because he's had a really remarkable life in political career. |
| 0:25.5 | But he's just going to be remembered for this for a long time and it's really a shame. |
| 0:30.0 | That is the Democratic strategist James Carvel. |
| 0:33.0 | And this is a bit of a fangirl moment for us, because he's one of the most interesting voices |
| 0:39.2 | in US politics, on the left, in terms of his ability to see round political corners. |
| 0:46.8 | If you know the phrase, it's the economy stupid. It was James Carville, who minted that |
| 0:53.9 | when Clinton was first running for office. He has also |
| 0:58.3 | got pungent views on what has gone wrong for Joe Biden, what has gone wrong for Kamala Harris, |
| 1:05.6 | and what has gone wrong for the Democratic Party. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:18.7 | It's John. It's Emily. And a little bit later on, we'll be hearing more from the brilliant |
| 1:24.2 | James Carville, the foremost political commentator, I would say, in the United |
| 1:28.8 | States and who ran the Clinton campaign when he won the presidency. But we're going to start |
| 1:33.3 | with the US and the media, and suddenly this feeling that the landscape has changed with |
| 1:42.4 | Trump's re-election, that whereas the media were kind of really determined to hold |
| 1:48.3 | Trump to account, they now look like they want to kind of settle and make a peace deal with him. |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah, I mean, this has got a price tag on it as of this weekend, because it has been a very |
| 1:59.5 | closely watched case with ABC, one of the biggest |
| 2:03.2 | broadcasters, news broadcasters in the US, also the same ownership as Disney. And they decided to |
| 2:11.8 | settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over an inaccurate statement made by one of their presenters, very |
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