New interactive podcast, AM Live, debuts Sunday at 7pm ET on Callin
In my new show on the Callin app, I'll discuss my reporting and the news, as well as take questions/comments/pushback. This Sunday at 7pm ET: the Russiagate reckoning.
This Sunday, 11/28 at 7pm ET, I’ll be debuting my new weekly show “AM Live” on Callin, a new app for live, interactive podcasting.
“AM Live” will give me the opportunity to discuss my reporting, respond to breaking news, and interact with audience members’ questions/comments/critiques. I’m especially excited about the latter — too often journalism is insulated from its audience, which I think helps explain why trust in mainstream media is currently at such a low point. With Callin, audience members can join the discussion live.
In this Sunday’s debut episode, I’ll discuss why the media’s Russiagate reckoning should go far beyond Steele dossier stories to include Pulitzer winners as well.
I’ll also debunk the excuses that Russiagate dead-enders like David Corn, David Frum, Max Boot, and Jonathan Chait are making to salvage their Trump-Russia fantasies after Steele’s collapse.
Plus, your questions and comments. Debate strongly encouraged.
Callin is only available to iPhone users for now, but Android and web accessibility is coming very soon. If you can’t catch it live, all episodes are archived and available immediately after broadcast. Hope to see you there.
Thanks for this. I saw Frum's latest on Atlantic distributed on Portside yesterday. Just like my sister, who is a Maddow junkie, he starts with a Trump's businesses and plans in Russia before 2016. I guess those are true facts, but amount to little more than prejudice and guilt-by-association in this context. From there Frum's list of things "everyone agrees with" goes into the usual debunked stories. With friends and family still committed to this nonsense, I'm glad to see Mate and others still debunking it.
I'm not sure about Callin. We've seen this whole thing before.
Matt Taibbi recently explained on his Q&A how Callin (like Clubhouse last year) sends sponsored podcasters a lot of shiny equipment (along with the $$$), so independent content creators bring their hard-won audiences into the Silicon Valley data/attention ecosystem. Which might be fine if guys like Callin's David Sacks weren't simply standard Wall Street exploiters committed to fast turnover of brands/products with highest possible ROI.
End result is a little enrichment of podcasters, a lot of enrichment for the big capitalists and - when the latest startup-scaleup app is either abandoned or gets big enough to be open about serving neoliberal orthodoxy (censorship/deplatforming etc) - it's a net loss of trust; another nail in the coffin of non-corporate genuinely autonomous media space.
I wish podcasters weren't willing participants in pushing corporatized oligopoly. There are independent decentralized cross-platform alternatives to Callin/Clubhouse out there with better functionality, better longevity, more inclusivity and fewer pump and dump venture capitalists running the show. Platforms like Callin are here today, gone tomorrow.
It flies in the face of the implicit compact between audience and independent journalist.
Just my two cents anyways.