{"id":24334,"date":"2017-06-18T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24334"},"modified":"2017-06-18T21:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T01:35:24","slug":"david-sirota-the-role-of-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/06\/18\/david-sirota-the-role-of-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"David Sirota: The Role of Journalism in the Age of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has posted a transcript and a video of <em>The Real News Network<\/em>&#8216;s interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/06\/david-sirota.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\">David Sirota: The Role of Journalism in the Age of Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDAVID SIROTA: Well I mean, you\u2019ve got to ask the question why hasn\u2019t there been more of a forceful, coherent policy resistance to Trump? I think it\u2019s because the Democratic Party is constantly caught between knowing what it should do to win elections, which is propose a positive policy vision on issues that are popular. They\u2019re caught between that and their donor class, and so there is this constant search by Democratic operatives and pundits and politicians to try to find on the Venn diagram, some middle ground. \u201cWhere can we satisfy the public and also appease our donors?\u201d That crossover in the Venn diagram is getting narrower and narrower because what the public wants is becoming in direct opposition to what the donor class wants.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o07vf0QyqLU\" style=\"broder:thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>On my better days, this is what I try to do on this blog.  I try to report important policy facts irrespective of where they come from or who what individual person they impact.  I am more interested on the impact on our society as a whole than I am on protecting one person&#8217;s privilege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has posted a transcript and a video of The Real News Network&#8216;s interview David Sirota: The Role of Journalism in the Age of Trump. DAVID SIROTA: Well I mean, you\u2019ve got to ask the question why hasn\u2019t there been more of a forceful, coherent policy resistance to Trump? I think it\u2019s because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24336,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24334\/revisions\/24336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}