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The Media Are Going Easy On Trump and Russia is Going All In On Right-Wing Media

2024/9/6
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Brooke Gladstone和Michael Loewinger：主流媒体对特朗普的报道存在虚假等同性，未能充分揭露两党在真相讲述上的巨大差异。他们认为，媒体对特朗普不实言论的报道过于宽容，掩盖了真相。 Daniel Drezner：主流媒体对特朗普的报道存在诸多问题，例如选择性引用、价值中立的叙事方式以及将特朗普的失误归咎于哈里斯等。这些问题导致对特朗普的评价过于宽松，未能充分展现其言论的不连贯性和不合理性。 Dan Froomkin：传统媒体的事实核查往往过于细枝末节，掩盖了双方在真相讲述上的巨大差异，反而加剧了政治混乱。他认为，媒体应该更积极地指出谎言，并关注谎言背后的动机和资金来源。 Will Sommer：俄罗斯通过资助美国保守派媒体公司Tenet Media，试图干预2024年美国大选，尽管影响力有限。他指出，Tenet Media利用知名保守派YouTuber，以高额报酬换取视频制作，但并未发现明显的俄罗斯政府操控证据。 Dan Taberski：媒体对莱罗伊事件的大量报道加剧了“大规模心理疾病”的症状，停止对症状的视觉报道有助于缓解病情。他认为，媒体的过度关注可能会加剧类似事件的发生和发展，因此需要谨慎处理此类新闻。

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Daniel Drezner discusses how the mainstream media's coverage of the 2024 presidential race, particularly concerning Trump and Harris, exhibits a peculiar 'weirdness'. This includes downplaying Trump's incoherence, focusing on Harris's perceived policy gaps while overlooking Trump's, and framing Trump's attacks as Harris's problem.
  • Trump's campaign speeches are often incoherent and rambling.
  • Media outlets tend to interpret and polish Trump's statements, making him sound more coherent than he is.
  • Coverage often compares Harris's relatively short time as a candidate with Trump's longer political career, overlooking her extensive foreign policy experience.
  • Headlines frequently frame Trump's attacks on Harris as her problem, rather than his.
  • The media often fails to contextualize Trump's current behavior with his past actions.
  • A recent poll showed Harris with a statistically significant lead over Trump, but the media downplayed this result.

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At a town hall event hosted by Fox, Donald Trump shared a number of falsehoods, and appeared to confuse who he was running against. On this week’s On the Media, how mainstream outlets fail to hold the Republican candidate accountable. Plus, meet the right-wing American pundits who’ve received payouts from the Kremlin.

[01:00] Host Brooke Gladstone speaks with Daniel Drezner), professor of International Politics at Tufts University. Drezner discusses how the political press continues to struggle to cover Trump, and his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris. 

[12:34] Host Brooke Gladstone interviews Dan Froomkin), editor of presswatchers.org). Froomkin explains why fact checkers at legacy outlets are too often adding to political confusion.

[20:49] Host Micah Loewinger speaks with Will Sommer), reporter for the Washington Post who writes about conservative media. They discuss a federal investigation into how the Russian-funded media network RT funded and influenced content of a conservative media company in the U.S., which appears to be the Tennessee-based Tenet Media. 

[35:01 ] Host Micah Loewinger speaks with Dan Taberski), the host and creator of the podcast series “Hysterical,” about the ties between a medical mystery in Le Roy, New York in 2011, and the unending Havana Syndrome saga. 

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