Drew Holden
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442 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 25 Aug
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I don't think it's necessarily a newsroom dynamic or a conversational sort of thing, but I think you have this...
kind of monochromatic mentality around the way members of the media see Donald Trump, his movement, and people who support him.
And I think there's all sorts of problems with that.
But where media is concerned, I think one of the biggest problems is that that sort of thinking, right, that kind of impulse gut feeling about where someone is morally is, I think, leaning their coverage as soon as things happen, as soon as events happen, before facts are known, before the dust has settled,
There is this almost ironclad belief that something bad happens.
Donald Trump is the culprit, directly or indirectly.
Maybe there's more research that needs to be done to figure out how he's connected to it.
But somehow he is at the heart of this.
He is the problem.
He is what is driving this, whatever this new horrible thing is.
And I think that's the fundamental problem, but a connected problem to all of that is I don't think the media sees it.
I know you've had a lot of conversations with members of the media who say, we're not actually interested in conditioning our coverage to a liberal audience.
That's just the audience that we have at the Washington Post.
We're not fact-checking because we think that's what liberals want to hear.
It's just that those are the facts and those are our readers.
We connect the two.
And so I think the media is really, really blinkered in the way that it thinks about all these issues.
And it's self-understanding, right?
I think the media doesn't get that it's doing this.
And it tries sometimes really, really hard to not do that in some of these kind of apocryphal moments where like Barry Weiss got hired at the New York Times in 2016 because the newsroom kind of woke up after the election and said, oh, we don't get something here.
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