Only the Fake News Would Come Up with This (with Amol Rajan)
4/16/202635 min
Politicians have their own podcasts, the Government has launched a YouTube channel. It seems our political class want to bypass traditional media to get their message out. Why is that? How does it affect political language?
As he prepares to take his own steps into a new media landscape, Amol Rajan joins Armando to discuss this and more. We also hear about misleading news headlines, Trump's 'doctored' image, and find out if elves are really poisoning our water?
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First 90 secondsArmando Iannucci· Host0:00
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Armando Iannucci· Host0:35
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Storm Message here from BBC Radio 4, a guide to use and abuse of political language. I'm Armando Iannucci, and this week I'm joined by current host of the Today program and Radio 4's Radical podcast, Amol Rajan. Hello.
Amol Rajan· Guest0:57
You say it with such elan as if almost you're looking forward to me not- No ... being the current.
Armando Iannucci· Host1:00
No, no, no. And I'm not offended in the slightest, Armando.
Amol Rajan· Guest1:02
[laughs] No, no, no, but you are, you know, you are.
Armando Iannucci· Host1:05
Moving on, and we'll discuss, you know, the, the ins and outs of where you're going in terms of media- Yeah, yeah ... and news reporting. We'll look at that in a, in a minute. Uh, but- Honored to be here ... the, the phrase we're gonna discuss this week is, uh, only the fake news would come up with this, which is, uh, something Donald Trump said this week after he deleted an image of himself, which he claims is him not dressed as Jesus, but dressed as a paramedic, but in white