Who Is Really Behind the Decline of Local News?; Tax Breaks to Local News Subscribers; My Bubble, Your Bubble; Stuck Between Belarus and Poland
The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 23, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Little Brown, 2015), joins to discuss the venture capital fund that's buying up local newspapers and driving them into bankruptcy—and how the loss of local media is contributing to the polarizing political climate.
- Roy Freiman, Democratic Member of the New Jersey General Assembly, discusses his legislative proposal to offer tax breaks for subscriptions to local New Jersey newspapers.
- Before we dine with relatives with different media diets, Kai Wright, host of the WNYC's The United States of Anxiety, and Kousha Navidar, senior digital producer for WNYC's The United States of Anxiety, offer an experiment to get past the filter bubbles that define what information gets to us.
- Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, journalist and author of Cast Away: True Stories of Survival From Europe's Refugee Crisis, and Monika Pronczuk, New York Times reporter in Brussels covering the European Union, have updates on the ongoing migrant crisis in Belarus as thousands spent weeks forced against the fortified border with Poland.
- Patrick Casey, head of Government Relations Committee for The Guides' Association of New York City (GANYC) and professional tour guide for many years, joins to discuss the future of the tour bus guide profession, as many tour bus companies in New York City eliminate the position.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
