How podcasts came to rule America’s campaign conversation
Cosy chats have replaced hard-hitting interviews
DONALD TRUMP likes to talk. That much was clear from his three-hour interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience”, America’s most popular podcast, on October 25th. He rambled about “The Apprentice”, Abraham Lincoln and aliens. It was not your usual presidential patter.
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