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#329 - What Happened to the Republican Party?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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How to Be Fair-Minded, Thoughtful, but Essentially Transparent, Tellers of the News

I just don't think that it serves the media well when we are self-consciously trying to tip the scales of an election. Our role is not to say, you know, Trump is such a unique threat to democracy that this is one story. We're just not going to air because we don't like the timing. If we would have done it, if the shoe had been on the other foot, then we have to apply an equivalent standard. It creates a perception of a biased media and leads to people having more confidence in Alex Jones than what the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal have to say. So it's the same in a sense, we

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