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Pete Buttigieg: “Political Instagram or TikTok or whatever it's going to be…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Deans Forum - A Conversation with Pete Buttigieg: "Leadership, Innovation and the Next Generation"

Published | Video Starts at 41:11

… this person I already don't like doing something disagreeable that reminds me why I don't like them. Right. Those are the two things that tend to hold your attention on Political Instagram or TikTok or whatever it's going to be, which by the way, has overtaken actual media journalism, is how a lot of people relate to current events. So to me, that makes it even more important to do this, to do the hard work of disagreeing, to do what Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah, has called disagreeing better with people we actually know. (41:11–41:21)

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Asserts that social media platforms have overtaken traditional journalism in how people relate to current events.

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