Michelle Goldberg
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Michelle Goldberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot of people would have allocated a lot of resources differently if they had any idea that some of these races would be as close as they were.
The media tends to overcorrect.
It tends to respond to the mistakes that it made.
And this can result in new mistakes, but it also means that it is a mechanism that is inherently self-correcting.
I think that when you say, can we trust the mainstream media?
Obviously, you should seek out lots of sources, right?
People should read Matt's blog.
They should read conservative media.
They should read liberal media.
But think about the big stories of the last five years or so, from the Trump presidency to COVID to the war in Ukraine.
Now, if you had just followed the CBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC,
They all got some things wrong.
I think a lot of the media didn't pay enough attention, for example, to the problems of quote unquote, I say this as someone with young children, remote learning.
I think we got a lot of things wrong during COVID.
But in terms of the big stories, if you paid attention to the mainstream media,
you were likely to be much safer and much closer to the truth than if you followed the kind of contrarians, if you followed the people who were saying, don't trust the mainstream media, trust these alternative sources of information.
If you were saying that, for example, it was a common refrain, I think one that Matt made again and again throughout the Trump presidency, that people who were extremely alarmed
about the prospects of authoritarianism, that people who believed that Donald Trump would try to overturn our constitutional order were hysterical.
I think that the point of view of the hysterics is actually held up kind of well in light of January 6th.
COVID, you know, we got things, the journalists were following experts who were facing a once in a century pandemic and official guidance kept changing.
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