
Ep. 540 — Jon Meacham
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
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The Perverse Incentives in Our Politics and Media Today
LZ Granderson: We have a perverse set of incentives in our politics and our media today that are making it very difficult to achieve the things that we're talking about. LZ: The tyranny of the need to appear self assured and absolutely unflappable is a is a very complicated one. And what I worry about most in terms of the media climate you're talking about is there's too much reflexive partisanship, he says. But patience can be learned from Lincoln as Frederick Douglass would agree with.
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