![]() “There’s going to be a certain kind of easy story that has the potential to go away for all outlets if there’s a change of administration - ‘Administration Official Says Outrageous Thing,’” says Noah Shachtman, editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast. But there’s unlikely to be a single focus for that outrage - or someone who seemingly enjoys being that focus. Which is different from saying people won’t be outraged - there will be plenty of that going around. One obvious thing that would go away in a Biden administration is the “can-you-believe-he-did- that” story, which Trump has been reliably serving up since 2015 when he announced his candidacy. Jake Tapper has gone from a CNN anchor into a charismatic truth-teller and bluffer-buster: Maybe someone else could have gotten Trump’s chief of staff to announce the White House had given up on containing the pandemic, but Tapper did it on a big platform. ![]() Michael Barbaro was a well-regarded but unfamous Times reporter prior to February 2017 when he launched the paper’s The Daily podcast weeks after Trump’s inauguration. The same goes for individual talents like Maggie Haberman, the Times’s star Trump reporter. Of course, there are plenty of media outlets that existed before Trump and haven’t said they are directly opposed to his administration but have still benefited from his tenure: The “Trump bump” that the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC have all seen are well-documented. ![]() “But I expect a lot of political shows, which are really built on the Trump phenomenon, are going to decline.” Pushkin, Weisberg notes, doesn’t have an explicitly anti-Trump show in its lineup. “This is a problem we wanted to have,” says Jacob Weisberg, who started Trumpcast at Slate and now runs the podcast studio Pushkin Industries. It’s still going, but if Trump loses, the show will at least change its name while keeping host Virginia Heffernan, says a Slate PR rep. Slate started its popular Trumpcast podcast in the spring of 2016 when it started to look like Trump might be a serious presidential candidate - but not an actual president. Some anti-Trump media will have no choice but to pivot to something else if Trump loses the election. We’ll have a lot more to say soon about what’s next, once we all get a chance to breathe after this election.” (Of note: Crooked Media’s core team also started their podcasting career at The Ringer.)Ĭrooked Media co-founder Jon Favreau wouldn’t comment on Concepcion’s role or his company’s post-Trump strategy, but sent a statement hinting at the company’s expanded ambitions: “Crooked has always been in this for the long haul to inform, entertain, and inspire action. One indicator of Crooked Media’s ambition: It has hired Jason Concepcion, a high-profile podcaster from The Ringer, where he specialized in pop culture projects like Binge Mode, a series dedicated to franchises like Harry Potter and Game of Thrones and NBA Desktop, an inventive version of SportsCenter for the Google Doc + Insta Stories generation. For the last four years, the company has primarily leaned on its flagship Pod Save America podcast but has branched out into other ventures like a newsletter, an HBO show, and other politically-tinged podcasts industry executives expect the company to add other kinds of nonpolitical programming in a post-Trump world. So if they were to do that, they’d be following in the footsteps of Crooked Media, the company run by Obama White House veterans, which formed after Trump’s 2016 election. We’re locked down tight on the mission of defeating Trump.’” “We have not floated the idea of becoming producers or a media company … people have approached us about it, and we’ve said to one and all, ‘This is a convo for after the election. But it could be, per a statement from the company: The Lincoln Project says that’s not exactly true. ![]() The Lincoln Project, a group of “Never Trump” Republicans who came together less than a year ago to deploy ads against Trump in the 2020 election, now wants to become a media company, according to Axios. But if your reason for being is defeating Donald Trump, and that happens, then … what? To be clear: A post-Trump world doesn’t mean the political and cultural divisions that brought us Trump - and that Trump has exploited - get closed up. Even if some of them aren’t ready to say that out loud quite yet. Which puts her in the same boat as other media personalities and companies that have turned the Trump era to their advantage by focusing their ire into opportunities.Īnd now that it looks as though Trump might be leaving, they need to figure out what to do next. “I want my career to do other things, and I don’t want to talk about him anymore.”Ĭooper doesn’t have a love-hate relationship with Trump. “I’m very excited about him being gone,” says the comedian, who went from (mostly) unknown to omnipresent this spring with a brilliant series of Trump lip-sync videos. ![]()
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