Jacob Ward
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1,814 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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And so we're in a moment in which the Trump administration is specifically trying to, I think, attack the sense of legitimacy across democracy in all its forms.
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I have a podcast called The Rip Current, where we talk about the big invisible forces that have people in their grip.
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And
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A recent guest was a pair of political scientists who described how legitimacy is really the last defense we have against the collapse of democracy.
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People believing that democracy is legitimate is the most important thing.
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And that once that goes away, then you really are in trouble.
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And that same kind of attack on legitimacy is taking place when it comes to the news.
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And President Trump seems to be at the very core.
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edge of that.
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He is the driving blade that is attacking the sense that there is legitimacy in the news.
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He likes to divide up people in the newsroom by who he considers to be legitimate or illegitimate.
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They have, of course, kicked out the Associated Press out of the newsroom for refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
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There is a real attacking of legitimacy of the news in a nation where
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Legally, again, there's no difference between the kind of propaganda that benefits the president and the kind of objective reporting that has been the gold standard in the past.
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But here's the other really important thing to consider.
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When you look at the numbers, when you look at how people are consuming news right now,
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Of course, this part of it is pretty well understood.
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I mean, after the 2024 election, Elon Musk declared that with this election, quote, legacy media is dead, long live citizen journalism.
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And Trump supporters have argued that it is a positive thing that at this point, most young men get their news from YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.
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This is a very different pipeline of information than we saw in generations past where everyone was reading or watching a handful of legally required to be unbiased news sources.
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