David Folkenflik

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217 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3d ago

David Folkenflik’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The NPR Politics Podcast · What is Trump's interest in Paramount's merger with WB? · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

a bunch of his Hollywood assets to Disney. matched

And Trump's only concern was that he hold on to Fox News so that his ally, Rupert, would still control Fox News. matched

And Rupert said to him, absolutely, I'm holding on to it. matched

And Trump said, great, you know, God bless. matched

Good luck. matched

And that was a call that happened the morning that was announced. matched

That was Trump's only concern. matched

It was essentially waved through. matched

So you're seeing a time at which the court's matched

And the levers of government are being used against those who would harm him. matched

You're seeing Jeff Bezos, who lost billions of dollars for cloud computing contracts because the Washington Post, which he personally owned, was holding Trump accountable through reporting that Trump didn't like in his first term. matched

Suddenly, Jeff Bezos has totally reinvented matched

The opinion pages of The Washington Post blew up a planned endorsement of Trump's foe in 2024. matched

And Bezos is fetid by this president. matched

This is a time at which the folks who control the levers of power have enjoyed the fruits of using them in ways that may or may not be in the broader interest of the American people. matched

It strikes me that that's one of the signal lessons of our moment is that both these the figures over major media properties right now, as is true in the in the tech world, are yielding to power and matched

It may well prove to be less partisan, less ideological than more just sort of a kind of weakness in the face of, you know, somebody in the Oval Office willing to exercise all the levers available to him. matched

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