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Democrats now hold an unprecedented advantage in America’s most affluent and educated districts, giving them a growing edge in mainstream media presence, academic credibility, and personal dollar contributions. Republicans try to make up this gap through alternative media, business PAC money, and a deeper ground game run by local volunteers.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
Andrew Breitbart despised racism. Truly despised it. He used to brag regularly about helping to integrate his fraternity at Tulane University. He insisted that racial stories be treated with special care to avoid even the whiff of racism. With Bannon embracing Trump, all that changed. Now Breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website, with Yiann
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
How to Fix Democracy Season 3 | David van Reybrouck
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- The live stream for The Rest is Politics ▸ during the presidential election saw 2mn views over an 18-hour period. The podcast got an additional 600,000 downloads during that time. You can catch up with part one and part two; and on Spotify. It was produced by Dizplai at Spotify’s NYC studios.
Podcast ads are “too difficult to buy”
Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
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consultant Ed Rollins. Rollins was