Political Debate and Political Entertainment | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & David Ottlinger

1,219 views · Published 17 October 2018 · 1:24:57 · Indexed 6 October 2026

Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics

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0:47 When did watching debate become a pastime?  
7:37 The blurring of news and entertainment  
22:35 Journalists who think they’re comedians  
28:00 Joe Rogan, Contrapoints, and YouTuber politics  
34:15 Aryeh sees historical parallels in the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the Yellow Press  
43:21 Is Jordan Peterson an intellectual, an entertainer, or something else? 
49:24 Trump’s merging of politics and entertainment  
57:49 BhTV’s place in the debate-o-sphere  
67:07 David: Liberals need to have a positive moral idiom and vision  

Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and David Ottlinger (The Electric Agora)

Recorded September 20, 2018

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