At a certain point the more reporting and reading I did it just became clearer to me that years from now, people are going to look back and all they are going to care about—I mean literally, almost all they are going to care about is what we did about the climate.
Hayes is also Editor-at-Large of The Nation. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. Since , Hayes has written on a wide variety of political and social issues, from union organizing and economic democracy, to the intersection of politics and technology. They vote at higher rates, they lived through the Cold War.
In terms of the ideology, I do think that the Party has moved substantively to the left—tangibly, just in terms of policy platforms—but I also think about the Sanders critique a little bit, which is that personnel is policy. You can say whatever you are going to say in your speeches and your platforms, but whether the people around are true believers matters a lot. I think the truth is somewhere in between. Also, this is all pre- the enormous world-historical cataclysm, so who knows now?
This might have something to do with , and the idea that Trump changed everything about politics. I totally agree with that. We have innovation, but also, people like their employer-sponsored health insurance. Did you have a sense of what the average Chris Hayes viewer thought about the primary? What I would say is that there was really a sizable, significant, and unmistakable portion of viewers who really did not like Bernie Sanders, really did not like us having him on the show, and let us know that on Twitter.
I want to be clear here: I genuinely think there was a real problem in the coverage of the campaign, which is that I think a significant number of people in the media genuinely had no real contact with Sanders supporters other than someone trolling them online, or their niece who goes to Vassar. There was a little bit of a bubble, and this is where the conversation about Bernie bros and online harassment comes in. There are a lot of Sanders supporters out there in the world.
There was a reason he did well among all those unionized casino workers in Vegas. The stakes feel extremely profound, and the idea of anything that takes us away from that feels like a betrayal.
I sort of get that. I also think that one of the lessons of , one of the problems, is you only have one campaign to cover. You only really have two candidates, ergo everything is kind of zero sum, and the Hillary Clinton e-mails are a perfect example. It was perfectly fine to cover that story. It was a story. But it was covered at orders of magnitude and excess of what it could have been, and people see this replaying itself now, and are terrified about that.
There exists, whether through these pieces of evidence I can point to, or just sheer implication, some vast conspiracy. They all started going a little crazy and getting super paranoid, but that was part of the point of it. There is absolutely a subculture of conspiratorial thinking among Democrats, or the broad anti-Trump coalition. I would a hundred per cent concede that. That is borne of a lot of things. What I try to do, to the best of my ability—I know that I fail all the time—is to try to maintain the best habits of mind, if that makes sense.
Is it something with the medium, or not? I guess I would say that existing in that place all the time for news consumption is probably not healthy. I think you should go to a bunch of different sources. Are those effects in tension with the best habits of mental hygiene in the prefrontal cortex that we want to cultivate?
Is the challenge to do both—to do something that is having an effect that is compelling people to watch, while also trying to not just leech people at a lizard-brain level? But, yes, there is some kind of tension.
There is a tension between the things that compel us at this brain-stem level and the best forms of mind we want to inhabit as democratic citizens.
What did you make of the recent management changes at NBC News? I feel so removed from them, I have to say. I was sort of surprised. Do you think there is something endemic in the television-news business, even if we know—. Yeah, I was just going to complete your sentence for you. The network made the announcement on Thursday of the exclusive interview.
Reade has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in a Capitol Hill office building when she was one of his staffers in Her story gained new attention this week, after Business Insider published the accounts of two women who said that Reade told them in the s about aspects of her claims. The allegation also has put the spotlight on Democrats who previously said that accusers should be given the benefit of the doubt when allegations.
He was told to pause his reporting. NBC News claimed that the story was not ready for air. Maddow was hosting a segment with Farrow at the time. As the clock approaches 8 a. They will have to climb several floors and scamper down long hallways. Upon arrival, they will find something that has not been a staple of their morning broadcast: a live, in-studio crowd.
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The comedian wanted people to laugh. But not all the time. Sometimes, not at all. Big guffaws are in demand. Some may get them angry. No matter what you hear, he reminds them, keep in mind one rule: No booing. He then presents lively conversation and visits with guests like Richard Engel ,. Sean Hannity always nabs one of the biggest slices of viewership in cable TV.
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