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Ep. 538 — President Barack Obama

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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The Nationalization of the News

I remember thinking that was really curious when you'd call and say, hey, I had a great meeting down near a cycle. Because back then it wasn't as if there weren't already some divisions between Chicago, big city versus downstate and rural areas. That has changed. And part of it is the nationalization of the news. Right. Local interests, regional interests, those have all been set aside because everybody's looking at this news feed on phones. Everything isNationalEverything is a referendum on Trump, Biden, abortion, et cetera. Nobody's actually talking about like, hey, what about that road that is driving? You know, everybody's traffic is killing us.

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