EP. 874: TMZ IS TAILOR MADE FOR AMERICA'S RULING ELITE ft. RYAN ZICKGRAF

About this episode

The episode discusses the influence of TMZ and its connection to America's political landscape with guest Ryan Zickgraf.

Read Ryan's article in UnHerd here https://unherd.com/.../tmz-dc-is-tailor-made-for.../ For years, Harvey Levin has been America’s high priest of low spectacle. His tabloid news operation, TMZ, has camera crews in Hollywood forever lurking for celebrity DUIs, reality-show divorces, and shirtless indiscretions on boats. Yet, in a country where politics increasingly resembles a Bravo show moderated by C-SPAN, perhaps it was only a matter of time before the gossip mongers packed up and left Los Angeles for the nation’s capital. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497 Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube…

People in this episode

Host: bitterlake

Guest: Ryan Zickgraf

Topics covered

• celebrity culture
• politics
• media
• tabloid news
• gossip
• American elite

Keywords

• TMZ
• Ryan Zickgraf
• politics
• celebrity news
• media influence
• gossip culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TMZ, UnHerd, C-SPAN, Patreon, Current Affairs Magazine

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