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Jon Lovett had been deep inside politics, as a speechwriter in the Obama Administration, before he joined his colleagues Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau to launch Crooked Media, a liberal answer to the burgeoning ecosystem of right-wing news platforms. \u201cThere was too much media that treated people like cynical observers,\u201d Lovett tells David Remnick, \u201cand not enough that treated them like frustrated participants.\u201d Crooked Media has gathered millions of politically engaged listeners\u2014\u201cnerds,\u201d Lovett calls them\u2014to \u201cPod Save America,\u201d \u201cLovett or Leave It,\u201d and other podcasts. But Lovett is more worried about voters who no longer get a steady stream of reliable political coverage at all, as local news outlets wither and platforms like Facebook downplay the sharing of news. \u201cThe vast majority of people do not know about Joe Biden\u2019s accomplishments,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen they say to a pollster that this is not someone they view as being up to the job, they\u2019re not . . . understanding how he performed in the job so far.\u201d Lovett shares the widespread concerns about Biden\u2019s apparent aging, but notes that his performance remains effective, whereas, \u201cin Trump, the reverse: he is more energetic\u2014I think the threat of federal jail time sharpens the mind!\u2014but by all accounts is emotionally, psychologically, and mentally not up to the job.\u201d