WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast - Assessing Media’s Failures in Covering the 2024 Election

Assessing Media’s Failures in Covering the 2024 Election

11/14/24 • 18 min

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast

Interview with Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker professor of media policy and political economy and co-director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, conducted by Scott Harris.
Victor Pickard assesses corporate media’s coverage of the 2024 election with a focus on the decline of legacy media outlets such as newspapers and cable TV news, the growing strength, reach and influence of right-wing “Bro” social media and podcast sphere, and the lack of funding support to develop a progressive counterpart and alternative.

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