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Opinion | Who Are These People Interviewing Trump and Harris?
The New York Times ^ | Ross Douthat

Posted on 10/12/2024 5:26:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

In 2015, Barack Obama submitted to interviews with three YouTube stars, one of whom was notable for eating cereal out of a bathtub. It was a moment that opened a window into the media landscape of the future, after the mainstream media as we have known it — while also making that future seem basically absurd.

A year later Donald Trump won the White House, and there was a rush to find the sources of his victory in the darker reaches of the internet, in misinformation factories and troll farms. It was another window into the media future — but this time the future seemed dystopian, a realm of propaganda and manipulation.

In 2024, the media future doesn’t need to be seen through a glass darkly: For the younger generation of news consumers, it has basically arrived. But it isn’t embodied by cereal-eating YouTubers, Russian-funded disinformation operations or even the Silicon Valley-enforced progressive censorship that many conservatives feared four years ago.

Instead it’s embodied by the sex-and-relationships podcaster and the bro comedians who scored important interviews with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump this month — with the host of “Call Her Daddy,” Alex Cooper, tossing Harris questions about abortion and student loans, while the comics Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh chatted with Trump about his nicknaming strategy on their show, “Flagrant.”

As a conservative with an interest in moral decline, I was familiar with “Call Her Daddy,” but I confess I had never heard of “Flagrant” before clips from the Trump interview started populating my social media feed. Which is par for the course for this campaign: The nominees and their running mates have consistently submitted to interviews with shows and personalities who were barely on my radar screen.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: akaashsingh; alexcooper; andrewschulz; callherdaddy; newyorktimes; rossdouthat
Once again, I can make neither heads-no-tails of NYT gobbledegook.

The NYT has officially crossed the "if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your BS" line.

1 posted on 10/12/2024 5:26:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NYT is grappling to understand their declining relevancy.


2 posted on 10/12/2024 5:27:44 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ross @$$hat.


3 posted on 10/12/2024 5:29:51 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ross Douthat - “As a conservative with an interest in moral decline”

Really? Then why are you working at the New York Times?


4 posted on 10/12/2024 5:33:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Duranty Times is flipping out today.

Must have gotten a look at the internal polls for the upcoming election.

5 posted on 10/12/2024 5:40:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“How can I trust a man that doesn’t even trust his own Hat?”


6 posted on 10/12/2024 5:50:05 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who Are These People Interviewing Trump and Harris?

Your replacements obviously

7 posted on 10/12/2024 5:51:49 PM PDT by Pollard (Will work for high tunnel money!)
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