Malcolm Gladwell

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Be it Resolved, don't trust mainstream media · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

high-minded, well-paid, elite white, as it turns out, journalists, some of them the ones that Matt seems to have such affection for, gathered together and set the agenda for the country.

Now, I don't know where this room is.

I said I speculated that maybe it's in Maryland, because that would be equidistant between these two places.

But this is a fantasy.

A conspiratorial fantasy.

The truth is that the elements, and this is why I made a big point about their failure to define what the mainstream media is, and it's a crippling failure.

Because they never really grasped and told us what they were talking about, they were free to construct this mythological thing

where all these people get together and set the agenda.

There is no thing and there is no agenda.

There are a variety of disparate voices and they have chosen to cherry-pick and create this complete mythology.

Here's what I think the debate boils down to, and that is that our opponents believe that the mainstream media, they're concerned that the mainstream media, to the extent that they have told us what it is, is filled with people who don't think like they do, and that fact makes them uncomfortable.

And in support of this, they have given us a long list of rather predictable hot button topics taken from their Twitter feed.

And I was, my question was, what would make them happy?

So what would restore the trust of Matt and Doug in the mainstream media?

And I think what they, with Matt, the answer is obvious.

He would like, if the world resembled 1955 again, that would fill him with joy.

Doug would like more stories on the Hunter Biden laptop.

But more seriously, I think that they would be happier if they felt that the composition of prestigious journalistic institutions more closely reflected the full range of ideological attitudes in the American public.

That is actually a serious proposition.

I don't mean to make light of it at all.

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