Ben Smith
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Podcast Appearances
You understand?
You understand?
Was appear on stage with President Trump on November 4th, my birthday in Pittsburgh and say President Trump gets it. The reasons you're voting and list the reasons you're voting for him. A lot to do with masculinity, which I want to ask you about later. And I wonder how you think about that in terms of. Does it compromise you as a journalist?
Was appear on stage with President Trump on November 4th, my birthday in Pittsburgh and say President Trump gets it. The reasons you're voting and list the reasons you're voting for him. A lot to do with masculinity, which I want to ask you about later. And I wonder how you think about that in terms of. Does it compromise you as a journalist?
Was appear on stage with President Trump on November 4th, my birthday in Pittsburgh and say President Trump gets it. The reasons you're voting and list the reasons you're voting for him. A lot to do with masculinity, which I want to ask you about later. And I wonder how you think about that in terms of. Does it compromise you as a journalist?
Do you benefit from this environment in which people are losing trust in everyone else and turning to you? I think your audience probably, I would guess, mostly voted for Trump, but I know lots of people who watched you and didn't. Do you worry that they can't trust you, that as you cover him going forward, that they'll kind of think you're in the tank?
Do you benefit from this environment in which people are losing trust in everyone else and turning to you? I think your audience probably, I would guess, mostly voted for Trump, but I know lots of people who watched you and didn't. Do you worry that they can't trust you, that as you cover him going forward, that they'll kind of think you're in the tank?
Do you benefit from this environment in which people are losing trust in everyone else and turning to you? I think your audience probably, I would guess, mostly voted for Trump, but I know lots of people who watched you and didn't. Do you worry that they can't trust you, that as you cover him going forward, that they'll kind of think you're in the tank?
But ultimately, you depend for information on the people that you're criticizing, don't you? Do you ever feel like it would be better if you had a producer occasionally, like in the old days, being like, Megan, maybe that's too much?
But ultimately, you depend for information on the people that you're criticizing, don't you? Do you ever feel like it would be better if you had a producer occasionally, like in the old days, being like, Megan, maybe that's too much?
But ultimately, you depend for information on the people that you're criticizing, don't you? Do you ever feel like it would be better if you had a producer occasionally, like in the old days, being like, Megan, maybe that's too much?
I was talking to another broadcaster the other night, and she said, you know, one thing Megan does that most of us don't do is go after other people in media really personally. Like, there's sort of a gentleman's agreement in a lot of media to not attack each other personally. You had a very heated riff on, I'm forgetting her name, but the mother of Elon Musk's latest child.
I was talking to another broadcaster the other night, and she said, you know, one thing Megan does that most of us don't do is go after other people in media really personally. Like, there's sort of a gentleman's agreement in a lot of media to not attack each other personally. You had a very heated riff on, I'm forgetting her name, but the mother of Elon Musk's latest child.
I was talking to another broadcaster the other night, and she said, you know, one thing Megan does that most of us don't do is go after other people in media really personally. Like, there's sort of a gentleman's agreement in a lot of media to not attack each other personally. You had a very heated riff on, I'm forgetting her name, but the mother of Elon Musk's latest child.
The bulk of YouTube is always going to be, here is like an incredible monologue that went viral. Do you feel like you've been shaped by the medium? That you've been pushed into these sort of like more heated monologues, these kind of... you know, these maybe more confrontational... I don't know. There's something about that kind of monologue that's about trying to go viral.
The bulk of YouTube is always going to be, here is like an incredible monologue that went viral. Do you feel like you've been shaped by the medium? That you've been pushed into these sort of like more heated monologues, these kind of... you know, these maybe more confrontational... I don't know. There's something about that kind of monologue that's about trying to go viral.
The bulk of YouTube is always going to be, here is like an incredible monologue that went viral. Do you feel like you've been shaped by the medium? That you've been pushed into these sort of like more heated monologues, these kind of... you know, these maybe more confrontational... I don't know. There's something about that kind of monologue that's about trying to go viral.
I think your audience, I would guess, mostly voted for Trump, but I know lots of people who watched you and didn't. Do you worry that they can't trust you as you cover him going forward, that they'll kind of think you're in the tank?
I think your audience, I would guess, mostly voted for Trump, but I know lots of people who watched you and didn't. Do you worry that they can't trust you as you cover him going forward, that they'll kind of think you're in the tank?
I think your audience, I would guess, mostly voted for Trump, but I know lots of people who watched you and didn't. Do you worry that they can't trust you as you cover him going forward, that they'll kind of think you're in the tank?