“Trump’s Young Gun” and the 2024 Podcast Offensive We’ve seen new media players and platforms emerge during past presidential election cycles, often reflecting changes in technology and audience habits. One distinctly 2024 phenomenon has been Donald Trump’s “tour of the rowdy podcast-YouTube-streamer space,” writes Dan Adler in a profile of Bo Loudon, an 18-year-old friend of Barron Trump’s and an influencer in the male-centric media ecosystem.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, looking to pluck away any independent or Never Trump–voters, recently sat down for a combative interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, who defends his aggressive approach in an interview with Natalie Korach and says he “laughed out loud” at being spoofed on SNL. Plus, Lachlan Cartwright reports on Olivia Nuzzi’s exit from New York magazine.
Elsewhere, Katherine Eban takes a deep dive “inside the bungled bird flu response,” writing that what “should be a story of heroism, cooperation, and an all-hands effort to defeat a wily virus” is one “of intimidation and obfuscation.”
And upon today’s release of Patriot, the posthumously published autobiography of Alexey Navalny, Mikhail Zygar reflects on the courageous man who became Vladimir Putin’s chief adversary. Navalny’s book, Zygar writes, “tells the story of his death—how he approached it, how he prepared for it, and how he conquered it.”
—Michael Calderone, editor
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