Jacob Ward
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1,814 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
Jacob Ward’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, everyone can get it wherever they want, and it doesn't matter how biased that is.
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And the way that it divides up, and this is why it's such an important political point for the Trump administration, you live suddenly in a world where there is absolutely...
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a political benefit for President Trump to undermining places that have a history of being bipartisan or being fairly objective, being devoted to an objective, unbiased form of journalism.
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And that is because it is absolutely the case that more people who are getting their news from YouTube, from Twitter, from places like that,
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Those people are more likely to vote for President Trump.
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Biden supporters in the 2016 election were people much more likely to get their news from newspapers, right?
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People who watched or read objective form of news are more likely to vote for Democrats.
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People who watch and get their news from either biased sources or from online sources were more likely to vote for President Trump.
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And that is, of course, what he recognizes.
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It's part of why he seems to be working as hard as he is at chipping away at the legitimacy of longstanding news outlets and working so hard to empower the constellation of conservative outlets that seem to have benefited him politically.
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And here's the last point I'll make.
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Those conservative outlets...
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work extremely well to amplify one version of reality.
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And it is then, of course, social media that continues to amplify it.
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If you spend any time on the short form social media out there, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, then you will see these amplifier accounts that grab up
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clickable moments, sort of click-baity moments, and amplify them wherever they can, such that you're not going to watch the whole, let's say, conversation between President Trump and President Zelensky that wound up being so embarrassing and fractious.
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Instead, you're going to see a little snippet of it that ends up making President Trump look like he was somehow the hero of that and that President Zelensky was somehow a dictator in that case.
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Or President Trump has recently been on a series of interviews with places like NBC News.
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And in those cases, these same amplifier accounts are grabbing up these little slices of that and amplifying them for the best possible effect.
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We're entering a world in which whether we can maintain an objective form of reporting is truly going to be the difference between whether
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