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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Election ’24: The US media failed. Here’s why
Description: Falling circulations, trivial stories, shrinking budgets, squandered trust? It’s worse than that, says US media analyst and academic Jeff Jarvis. A combination of self-seeking billionaire owners and complacent, outdated reporting meant that papers and TV failed to alert Americans to Trump’s real threat: the advent of actual fascism in the USA. He tells Andrew Harrison how the US press “sanewashes” Trump’s demented edicts, how the Republicans hack the news to their advantage, and what needs to happen to save real journalism. • Order Jeff Jarvis’s The Gutenberg Parenthesis and pre-order The Web...