Mark Halperin

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Okay, next up, my reported monologue on the media and what people call politics sometimes.

We're in an age now where media is supposed to be more sophisticated, more behind the scenes, more letting the audience into what's really going on.

And that's supposed to happen across the board, and in some cases it does.

But in two areas that I am a student of and one I'm a practitioner of, sports coverage and coverage of what I cover, which, again, people call politics.

I just think there's this general – not everybody, but a general lack of –

sophistication.

And the gap that I find so troubling as a journalist, but also as a citizen who wants people to be well-informed and get good content, the gap is between what the practitioners are actually doing, what they know, whether it's athletes or coaches on one hand, or people in who run campaigns and candidates in the other.

The gap is events between them and the way they get covered.

the way they get covered, it just, it's not sophisticated.

It's not telling the real story.

And I find on Two Way, or when I talk to people who are fans of NextUp, that they want sophisticated, and that a lot of them are sophisticated.

And for some reason, which I have never understood, and frankly still don't understand,

The coverage is dumbed down.

The coverage is too often off track from where the real story is.

Why is it important to get the real story?

Because it's more interesting.

It's more real and more genuine.

And in politics and government and campaigns, you want to hold people accountable.