David Frum
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59 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
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And the tendency of the most modern forms of media, and here cable TV is a little old-fashioned, is to open the doors to all kinds of things that I wonder whether we should be opening the door to.
And...
And whether the ideal of civil conversation becomes a kind of rationalization for simply letting the crazy win.
I'm going to interrupt there because it's precisely because I don't believe there are gatekeepers anymore, that each of our individual decisions becomes more important.
So in 1972, if the local AM radio station invited on a Holocaust denier or an anti-vaxxer or a neo-Nazi, that would be upsetting to people who listen to that local radio station.
But that would never happen on a nightly news program.
That would never happen on a local news program.
So it wasn't really such a big deal.
It would never happen in the local newspaper.
Today, all those institutions are gone.
And so everything is the equivalent of the old AM radio station.
And so every person is called upon, is constantly making these moral choices about what to do and what not to do.
Every person with media, which is everybody who's got a social media account on any platform, we're all in it.
And we all have to make these choices.
And we all have this ideal civil conversation as an excuse available when we're really doing something that we, not the gay people, we should not do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But but that's that's too easy a call.
If, for example, there's someone who says the election of 2020 was rigged for Biden.
I'm happy to talk about that subject.
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