What Everyone Missed About Graham Platner
About this episode
Molly McPherson explores the contrasting narratives surrounding Graham Platner, an oyster farmer who may be the next senator of Maine, highlighting the dynamics of public perception and media coverage.
Molly stood in the back of a Maine town hall, watching an oyster farmer from Sullivan hold a room with no notes, and texted her kids that they might be looking at the state's next senator. On Monday morning, her algorithm fed her story after story about the same man — now a loser, a liar, a warning. This episode lives in the space between those two feeds, because as Molly puts it in the first fifteen seconds: a crisis begins before the headlines. By the time the video goes viral, the conditio...
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