Donald Trump is scheduled to be interviewed on Joe Rogan’s mega-popular podcast on Friday. He already has gone on podcasts with comic and actor Theo Von, in addition to Barstool Sports activities’ “Bussin with the Boys,” a sports activities podcast hosted by former NFL soccer gamers Will Compton and Taylor Lewan. These are simply two of the various podcasts Trump has carried out.
Kamala Harris additionally has carried out a bunch of podcasts, akin to Alex Cooper’s “Name Her Daddy” and “All of the Smoke” with former NBA gamers Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. She additionally did interviews with Howard Stern and Charlamagne tha God.
Not like the marketing campaign days of previous after they toured the nation giving marketing campaign speeches and did TV and newspaper interviews and appeared on Sunday morning exhibits akin to “Meet the Press” and “Face the Nation,” presidential candidates have one other technique to attain audiences: podcasts.
What units podcasts other than different mediums is they’re typically geared to a selected viewers. For instance, Trump’s look on Rogan’s present is an try and woo those that take heed to Rogan’s pod — younger, largely white males.
Harris, too, was in search of to talk to males, notably Black males, by happening “All of the Smoke.”
Does it have an effect? That’s unknown. To date, the numbers counsel perhaps not.
A USA Today/Suffolk University poll requested 1,000 seemingly voters if they’d seen or heard Harris or Trump on podcasts. Almost 72% stated they’d not seen Harris on a podcast, and 77.5% stated they’d not seen Trump on a podcast.
So then why are podcasts such an enormous a part of each marketing campaign’s technique for reaching voters? Effectively, in a race that every one the polls counsel is a useless warmth, any ears reached might assist resolve the election. It actually might come right down to a few thousand voters right here or there, and perhaps a few of these voters take heed to podcasts.
Natalie J Stroud, a professor of communications on the College of Texas at Austin, told Al Jazeera’s Stephen Quillen, “The presidential candidates are responding to a media surroundings the place they can not attain as a lot of the citizens as they as soon as might through advert buys throughout nationwide and native information programmes. By doing area of interest media appearances, the candidates are hoping to succeed in distinct audiences to not solely shore up their base, however doubtlessly convert voters or sway undecideds.”
Then once more, generally the audiences aren’t that area of interest. Trump’s look on Von’s pod, for instance, had 14 million views on YouTube alone. Rogan has an enormous following. Most of the candidates’ appearances on podcasts are also reduce up after which seen by many extra via social media clips on X, Instagram, TikTok and different platforms.
However whether or not the viewers is massive or small, the format of a podcast would possibly assist a candidate attain somebody in a means {that a} formal TV interview won’t.
Bryan Curtis, media author and podcaster for The Ringer, told The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple, “Generally, I feel it’s onerous for journalists to course of that podcast hosts consider interviews very in another way than they do. CNN’s Dana Bash and CBS’s Invoice Whitaker are asking Kamala Harris very particular questions — making an attempt to push her off her speaking factors, making an attempt to make information. A lot of the podcasters she talks to don’t have any agenda like that. They only need to discuss to her about stuff that pursuits them.”
Wemple stated, “Primarily based alone viewing/listening, it appears as if the candidates go on podcasts to point out their personalities, they usually go on conventional journalism shops to flaunt their toughness via-a-vis accountability questions.”
May the podcast technique fade sometime? Maybe. However for now, it’s a platform that can’t be ignored.
There are stories that Trump’s youngest son, 18-year-old Barron Trump, influenced Donald, telling his father that podcasts are what many individuals his age take heed to. The primary podcast Trump did — with social media influencer, YouTuber and wrestler Logan Paul — was chosen as a result of it was considered one of Barron’s favorites.
Many podcast listeners don’t watch the night information, or debates or TV interviews with the candidates. For them, podcasts are the one occasions they do hear from Harris or Trump. Effectively, that, and social media.
A kind of polled by USA At present/Suffolk stated, “Because the tradition and society in the US begins to shift somewhat bit extra, I feel that there will likely be a much bigger transfer to social media as a main place of consumption for information. I’ve children in a large age vary, from 15 to 29, they usually all eat every thing off of social media. All the things from Tiktok, Instagram, Snapchat, that’s the place they get a variety of their data from.”
That’s why Harris and Trump have integrated podcasts into their marketing campaign technique. And why, going ahead, podcasts could be as vital as sitting down on “60 Minutes” or holding three rallies a day in swing states.
In a piece for The New York Times, pollster Nate Silver — the founder and former editor of FiveThirtyEight — writes what his intestine tells him concerning the election.
Silver writes, “So OK, I’ll inform you. My intestine says Donald Trump. And my guess is that it’s true for a lot of anxious Democrats. However I don’t suppose you need to put any worth in anyway on anybody’s intestine — together with mine. As an alternative, you need to resign your self to the truth that a 50-50 forecast actually does imply 50-50. And try to be open to the likelihood that these forecasts are incorrect, and that could possibly be the case equally within the course of Mr. Trump or Ms. Harris.”
There’s extra to his column, after all. And it’s well worth the learn.
However it’s one other instance of you merely can’t consider anybody who says, at this second, they know who’s going to win the election. Nobody is aware of.
Having stated that, right here’s longtime Democratic strategist James Carville’s newest visitor essay for The New York Instances: “Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win.”
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The editor of editorials on the Los Angeles Instances has resigned in protest over the paper’s proprietor blocking an endorsement of Kamala Harris for president.
The editor, Mariel Garza, told Columbia Journalism Review’s Sewell Chan that the editorial board had deliberate to endorse Harris, however was blocked by proprietor Patrick Quickly-Shiong.
Garza advised Chan, “I’m resigning as a result of I need to make it clear that I’m not OK with us being silent. In harmful occasions, trustworthy folks want to face up. That is how I’m standing up.”
The paper received’t endorse Harris or Donald Trump.
Garza advised Chan, “I didn’t suppose we had been going to alter our readers’ minds – our readers, for probably the most half, are Harris supporters. We’re a really liberal paper. I didn’t suppose we had been going to alter the result of the election in California. However two issues concern me: it is a time limit the place you communicate your conscience it doesn’t matter what. And an endorsement was the logical subsequent step after a sequence of editorials we’ve been writing about how harmful Trump is to democracy, about his unfitness to be president, about his threats to jail his enemies. We’ve got made the case in editorial after editorial that he shouldn’t be re-elected.”
The Instances has endorsed a Democrat for president in each election since Barack Obama ran for his first time period in 2008. Quickly-Shiong purchased the paper in 2018. The Instances has not given an official purpose for why it received’t endorse a presidential candidate, despite the fact that it has given endorsements and for numerous state and native races and proposals on propositions.
The Trump marketing campaign, nonetheless, jumped on the Instances not endorsing Harris, saying, “In Kamala’s own residence state, the Los Angeles Instances — the state’s largest newspaper — has declined to endorse the Harris-Walz ticket, regardless of endorsing the Democrat nominees in each election for many years. Even her fellow Californians know she’s not up for the job. The Instances beforehand endorsed Kamala in her 2010 and 2014 races for California lawyer common, in addition to her 2016 race for U.S. Senate — however not this time.”
After information of Garza’s resignation broke, Soon-Shiong tweeted:
“So many feedback concerning the @latimes Editorial Board not offering a Presidential endorsement this yr. Let me make clear how this determination happened. The Editorial Board was offered the chance to draft a factual evaluation of all of the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE insurance policies by EACH candidate throughout their tenures on the White Home, and the way these insurance policies affected the nation. As well as, the Board was requested to offer their understanding of the insurance policies and plans enunciated by the candidates throughout this marketing campaign and its potential impact on the nation within the subsequent 4 years. On this means, with this clear and non-partisan data side-by-side, our readers might resolve who can be worthy of being President for the subsequent 4 years. As an alternative of adopting this path as prompt, the Editorial Board selected to stay silent and I accepted their determination. Please #vote.”
What Quickly-Shiong stated in his tweet is just not how endorsements work in any respect. It even mainly confirms Garza’s declare that Quickly-Shiong blocked the editorial endorsing Harris. For Quickly-Shiong to counsel in his tweet that it was the editorial board’s determination to stay silent is absurd.
In a text to The New York Times’ Katie Robertson, Garza stated, “What he outlines in that tweet is just not an endorsement, and even an editorial.”
In the long run, it’s Quickly-Shiong’s paper to do with what he pleases, however he comes out of this wanting dangerous to each readers and, specifically, his personal employees.
That is simply the most recent drama on the Instances, which is how Garza turned the editorial web page editor within the first place.
Garza joined the Instances’ editorial board in 2015, and have become deputy editorial web page editor in 2021.
In January of this yr, Instances government editor Kevin Merida resigned from the paper, reportedly over clashes with Quickly-Shiong. Lower than two weeks later, two of the paper’s managing editors additionally resigned.
Finally, editorial web page editor Terry Tang changed Merida as government editor, and, in April, Garza turned the editorials editor.
Three CNN journalists, together with chief worldwide correspondent Clarissa Ward, had been lately detained by a militia for 48 hours whereas reporting within the Darfur area of Sudan.
In a story for CNN, Ward wrote, “We had come to Darfur to report on the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, by no means aspiring to change into a part of the story. However months of planning got here aside in moments once we had been detained by a militia led by the person everybody referred to as the final.”
The militia believed the CNN staff — which included Ward, cameraman Scott McWhinnie and producer Brent Swails — had been spies.
The Washington Post’s Jeremy Barr wrote, “The staff was in Sudan to report a narrative concerning the plight of civilians fleeing violence and in search of help. The meant vacation spot was a city referred to as Tawila, which has seen an inflow of refugees in search of to flee close by combating.”
The three had organized for entry by the controlling militia, however had been then confronted by a rival militia and questioned about why they had been there. The CNN staff was then detained outdoors for 48 hours by about 14 males. Ward wrote that she pleaded with one of many males, saying she had three youngsters. The person assured Ward that she and her staff wouldn’t be harmed. He additionally stated he would name their households to guarantee their security.
Ward wrote, “Later, we might discover out that an English speaker had referred to as my husband and Scott’s spouse from the town of Port Sudan, 1000’s of miles away from the place we had been held, to say that we had been secure and in good well being however threatening that we might be imprisoned for a few years in the event that they spoke about it to anybody.”
Finally, the CNN staff was advised, “We thought you had been spies, however now you may go house.” They usually had been launched.
Ward wrote, “A wave of aid crashed via my physique. There have been smiles and handshakes with our captors. We posed awkwardly for {a photograph} on the fringe of the mat that had been our makeshift jail.”
She added, “As a journalist, one by no means needs to change into the story. And but our expertise is instructive in understanding the complexities of the battle in Darfur and the challenges of getting meals and help to those that want it most and getting the story out to the world.
Wow, check out this ominous opening paragraph from Laura Wagner of The Washington Post: “The New York Instances Tech Guild is threatening to go on strike throughout the frenetic time round Election Day, a transfer that might disrupt the newspaper’s capability to offer information updates, election outcomes and forecasts.”
Benjamin Harnett, a principal software program engineer and a store steward for the Tech Guild, advised Wagner, “Just about each side of the enterprise is backed by digital methods that we’ve created.”
That features cell push notifications that ship breaking information to readers and the Instances’ well-known election-night needle, which gives up-to-the-moment voting outcomes and projections.
Wagner wrote, “The Instances Tech Guild, which includes about 600 members, together with software program engineers, product managers, information analysts and designers, voted overwhelmingly in September to authorize the strike, because the Instances and different media organizations ready to ramp up protection of the presidential election. The Tech Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York, has been negotiating its first contract with the newspaper’s administration since 2022. Either side have accused the opposite of bogging down negotiations, which have lately centered on job safety and pay fairness.”
Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha told Wagner, “We’ve got sturdy plans in place to make sure that we’re in a position to fulfill our mission and serve our readers.”
That is fairly the story from The Washington Publish’s Elizabeth Dwoskin, Ashley Parker, Meryl Kornfield and Aaron Schaffer about Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s former working mate Nicole Shanahan: “Her billionaire marriage broke up. Her VP campaign fizzled. Now she’s a Trump-world star.” One of many story’s reporters, Ashley Parker, tweeted, “Once we started reporting on Nicole Shanahan, she provided us $500,000 to be ‘whistleblowers’ and share our sources. We declined — however stored reporting our profile.”
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