The Power of Calling Bullshit
I join Chris Cuomo for a deep talk on the power of real news, why we stay in the trenches, the importance of rebuilding trust and more
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Chris Cuomo and I recorded this a few days ago, I waited a few days to give this the attention it deserves. This is why we do what we do, professional journalism as a passion and a calling. And it is needed now more than ever.
(Parents, earmuffs for the kids, we do curse a bit.)
We open talking about the BS of the world’s most powerful people — the president, the other president (Musk), members of Congress — making big, big claims and then never delivering on them. Every day, every minute is another adventure by Geraldo into Al Capone’s vault. But, as Cuomo notes, at least Geraldo apologized for wasting everyone’s time.
This is why I started 24sight News a year and a half ago, and why I plow ahead every day, every week. (24/7’s the title here, but I do enjoy sleep, and tend to write better when I’ve had enough rest.)
One man is the President of the United States, the other is an extra-national global power who contracts space flight, satellites, public relations and more to the highest bidders of any nation.
One of them sent private police into a government building to destroy one of the nation’s global charitable agencies. They’ve got masked law enforcement running around the country plucking people off the streets (in some cases flying them to foreign countries for indefinite detention.)
So if there was anything of any consequence in the “Epstein Files”, they would have released it already. (Of note, per Dan Bongino, Epstein killed himself.)
Cuomo is beyond candid in our talk, we hit on:
Polarization and the crisis of trust, and how to rebuild that trust
Why Trump dominates traditional/legacy media coverage (and the shocking regularity of the Trump White House media strategy)
On social media, the former optimism for democratizing information and the onslaught misinformation on platforms like X(Twitter) and more.
How professional journalists, rooted in accuracy and facts, survive and grow in this environment.
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Washington’s advice on parties, “the two-party system has past its value date.”
Why social media platforms promote pro-Trump content and suppress anti-Trump content.
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