Could “Pod Save America” save America?
The podcast is produced by the ironically named Crooked Media out of its headquarters, which The New York Times describes as “a few bargain-priced rooms on La Cienega in a seedy section of West Hollywood, cater-corner to a lingerie shop and across the street from a strip club.”
In this era where social media and right-wing commenters such as Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson have been fast replacing democracy with idiocracy, a group of former members of Barack Obama’s White House communications department is fighting back.
The New York Times story chronicles the efforts of Jon Favreau, a West Hollywood resident who was for eight years Obama’s chief speechwriter, and other members of the communications team including Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfieffer along with Tanya Somanader, director of digital rapid response in the Obama White House, and others from Crooked Media’s WeHo headquarters.
Crooked Media now has six other podcasts, its “Pod Save America” tour has sold out at theaters in seven cities. And The Times notes that another podcast exec guesses the twice-weekly “Pod Save America” is bring in at least $50,000 in advertising revenue for each episode.
Click here to read the entire New York Times story about WeHo’s Crooked Media and its “Pod Save America.”
Ana-Marie Cox is on Crooked Media. “With Friends Like These,” on Thursdays. Great little article. Always good to know these things.
Their headquarters in “a few bargain-priced rooms on La Cienega in a seedy section……cater-corner to a lingerie shop and across the street from a strip club” is in the City of Los Angeles, NOT in West Hollywood.