Matt Taibbi
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214 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Thank you, Michelle.
First of all, are you really saying that Trump's relationship with Russia was not an obsession of mainstream media?
It was basically the entire content of cable news for three years.
There was almost, again, the editor of the New York Times, Dean Baquet, said, we built our newsroom around one story, that story.
The New York Times doesn't get much more mainstream than that, I don't think.
Defining the mainstream media is simple.
I talked before about a bifurcated system
where we have essentially two politically homogenous audiences.
We have Fox News and conservative media on one side.
The mainstream media, roughly speaking, is the other side, right?
That's what we mean when we talk about the mainstream media.
And yes, as I said in my speech, the old system under Walter Cronkite had its flaws, but it did have its advantages as well.
Making the effort to talk to everybody garnered more trust in the public.
there is a reason why people trusted news people more 20 or 30 or 40 years ago than they do now.
Now, when people meet someone from the New York Times or from the Washington Post or from MSNBC,
out in middle America, they don't talk to them.
Those interviews are very difficult to get now because people perceive those institutions to be not on their side.
This is very different.
I know this as a campaign reporter myself.
I've watched over the years how this has changed.
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