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Matt Yglesias and Laura McGann Launch a Podcast to Counter the Internet’s ‘Bad Takes’ (EXCLUSIVE)
14.09.2022 - 13:48 / variety.com
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Matt Yglesias returns to podcasting today with “Bad Takes,” a new show that aims to challenge political pieties that take hold online. Yglesias will co-host the show with his longtime editor, Laura McGann, who leads the newsroom of the startup site Grid. In an interview, Yglesias said the goal of the podcast is to bring political discourse “back to reality.” “I think there are a ton of very extreme ideas floating around on the left and right on the Internet,” he said. “In some ways, the easiest way to go viral and get engagement is with very wild takes. Part of the structure here is to push back and to bring people back to good sense.”
Yglesias left Vox in 2020 to launch Slow Boring, his subscription newsletter on Substack. He also left Vox’s popular show “The Weeds” last year, and has been without a podcast ever since. McGann was a politics editor at Politico and Vox before starting Grid.
On the new show, they will tackle one “bad take” per week. The show will take the form of conversations between a writer and an editor, with McGann pushing Yglesias to strengthen his argument. She said the show developed out of their own conversations, in which they would talk about a bad tweet or a bad argument they had seen online. The show’s producer, Olivia Reingold, pushed them to bring their offline dynamic to the show. “He starts with a fairly clear point of view. I think I play a role in forcing him to pause and think through his argument,” McGann said. “I really do find myself talking to Matt the way I would talk to him as a writer. I think it forces Matt to step up his game and convince his editor of something.” Yglesias said that one of the challenges is to address topics in a way that is
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