we ll talk to late-night expert bill carter about the big-star exits and this week s up front and so much more. first, an epic struggle over the future of talking and tweeting. right now all stories lead back to elon musk. he s everywhere. one minute he s like the head of state holding a key meeting with brazil s president, the next like a teenage troll tweeting cruel emojis and memes. musk continues to say his original agreement to buy twitter is on hold. the company is saying the oppo opposite, arguing there s no such thing as on hold, they will forge ahead with the agreement despite musk s belated concerns on the platform. is musk like a student who failed to do his homework and now lashing out, saying it s everyone else s fault? at this time the ramifications for twitter and behind or global in nation. let s welcome in margaret sullivan, and from the post national correspondent philip bump disbunker checker khaya himm himmelman. good morning, everybody. is anybody belie
by a tsunami of negative news. the only thing that s not happening are tsunamis. covid surging in some areas, markets plunging, crypto crashing, raising and baby food shortage, mass shootings, ongoing war in ukraine and monkeypox outbreak. it goes on and on. is the media supposed to look for silver linings here? are we just going to give viewers what they want? let s talk about it with bill carter, cnn analyst and the new york times veteran. bill, this felt like a uniquely grim week. it s bad and you left a whole lot out. i did? you left out corruption at the supreme court. you left out the threat against democracy. you left out the fact there was a coup we re still learning more about that. i have been around a long time. i don t remember a gigantic pileup as bad as this or really
a more dangerous period. i think it s more dangerous for the country. political talkers always try to focus what does it mean for democrats and biden in the midterms. forget about that for a minute, what does it mean for our psychology and health as a nation and a world why you re inundated by seemingly negative headlines all the time. it s like love covid. we can t get out of long covid. everything is bad and we can t get healthy again. it s a tremendous challenge, particularly for the media. what stories do you focus on? how do you not give short trips that are really big when other things happen like baby formula. if you re a mother who needs formula, that s the story you care about. you have to hear about that. the media swarms stories. we go from one story, baby formula story now and something else next week. what do you think gets underappreciated or undercovered now going from one to another? i think the overarching idea that we have a party that really
make it hard. ron desantis may be a sociopath. we don t know what his pathology is, but he s not stupid. and i think that he understands that if he is going to inflict death on schoolchildren, he s going to have to make it real hard for their parents to vote, right? and they re going to do, republicans, anything they can in the states where they for whatever reason these governors love covid. they heart covid. this is how they feel about covid. they want to spread it but also know they can t get re-elected because the majority of people this is a california exit poll but i doubt that it s different in any other state. 65% of people in that exit poll said that they believe getting vaccinated is a public health responsibility. only 32% said they believe it s a personal choice. that exit poll also showed people wanted more strict policy, not less strict policy. most people want their lives back. what is the guy s name dan crenshaw, republican, says i m honestly curious why californian