Michelle Goldberg

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

I mean, the idea that these distortions always benefit Democrats and work against Republicans is simply not the case.

Again, I apologize for making this so, you know, kind of America-centric.

And I would similarly say, you know,

Buzzfeed published the Steele dossier after the 2016 election, but it was floating around before then, and people didn't report on it because they couldn't verify any of it.

So again, I just think the media makes mistakes, but the idea that the media is, the idea that these mistakes always run in one direction, it is simply not the case.

I think that that's obviously true.

I think that that's inarguable.

I would be surprised if there was any difference of opinion between us on that.

It's something that is new in terms of the scale of the wealth because we live in an age of ever escalating inequality, but it's not a new thing that very rich people have controlled the press.

That's been true

for as long as there has been a press in this country.

I do think, however, that when you asked before about how you restore trust, and again, I know I keep saying this, I apologize if this is not totally relevant to the Canadian context where you have, you know, kind of media organizations funded by the government.

In the United States, we don't have that, except for things like Voice of America and NPR.

One of the biggest crises

in terms of trust in the mainstream media, I believe, has sort of very little to do with ideology and much more to do with corporate consolidation.

There's been an absolute decimation of local media.

And that doesn't just kind of impoverish our view of what's going on in the country, it impoverishes the industry because that used to be the way that you came up in journalism.

You started working at a local small town paper,

You move to a bigger one, you move to a bigger one.

Maybe you ended your career at somewhere like New York Times or the Boston Globe or the LA Times.

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