π 1 Books mentioned in "Donald Trump and Elon Musk Broke The Media and We Have To Adjust (w/ Semafor's Ben Smith)" of Pod Save America

Podcast: Pod Save America
Episode: Donald Trump and Elon Musk Broke The Media and We Have To Adjust (w/ Semafor's Ben Smith)
Published on February 9, 2025
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you wrote about this in your book and You talked about it a lot of the interviews when you broke out a couple years ago but is just the uh and this the sort of where we so you have you have two things you have lack of trust in media which is uh and and growing among Democrats particularly among young people you have what I think is actually a distribution crisis in news which is you know sort of the the short version history I always do is that if you were a person who was not a News Junkie in the pre- internet era you had to see the news some form of the news you would bump into it organically because someone literally threw a newspaper at your door every morning or if and you had to open that if you wanted to know when the movies were the baseball score the weather like something happen in your local town you would there you see headlines
Dan Pfeiffer refers to Ben Smith's book, noting that Ben discussed the topics of media, the internet, and the distribution crisis in news in interviews related to the book.