The Eights | Media and Clinton's Impeachment in 1998

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 6, 2018

Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent, Yahoo News, and co-author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve, 2018), and Allison Yarrow, journalist and author of 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality (Harper Perennial, June 2018), discuss how the media covered the impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1998 and how it shaped the modern day feminist movement.

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