Plus: Harris' media blitz | Tuesday, October 08, 2024
| | | | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Oct 08, 2024 | | Good afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 456 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing. | | | | | | 1 big thing: TikTok grows as a news source | | |  Data: Pew Research Center; Chart: Axios Visuals A growing number of Americans get news from TikTok — but not by following journalists or news organizations, Axios Communicators author Eleanor Hawkins writes from a new Pew Research Center report. - Nearly half of Americans say they get news from social media platforms, according to Pew.
- And 52% of TikTok users say they regularly get news from the app, up from 22% in 2020.
🗞️ But less than 1% of people Pew surveyed said they follow journalists or media entities on the platform. - When they're seeing news, they're usually getting it from content creators who reference current events.
💡 The big picture: "It speaks to this broader notion that people's world news or politics comes as a side dish to their main course of gossipy entertainment news and the content of the creator that they happen to be interested in," said Aaron Smith, managing director of Pew Research Center's Data Labs. |     | | | | | | 2. 🎤 Harris' interview circuit | | | | Vice President Harris during a break while recording "The View" today. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Harris said during an interview with ABC's "The View" today that "there is not a thing that comes to mind" when asked whether she would've done anything differently than President Biden. - "I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact," Harris said.
📺 Driving the news: Harris is making several national media appearances this week, after largely avoiding questions from either the press or voters since becoming the party's presidential candidate. - What she's saying: Iran is the U.S.' greatest adversary, Harris said in a "60 Minutes" interview that aired last night.
- "Iran has American blood on their hands, OK? This attack on Israel — 200 ballistic missiles. What we need to do to ensure that Iran never achieves the ability to be a nuclear power, that is one of my highest priorities," she said.
💬 What's next: She also recorded an interview with Howard Stern and is scheduled to appear on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert." | | | | | | | | 3. Catch me up | | | | Satellite image showing Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico this afternoon. Photo: NOAA via AP - 🌀Hurricane-related misinformation is getting in the way of on-the-ground Helene relief and preparations for Milton. "I worry that [people] won't apply for assistance, which means I can't get them the necessary items they need to support them," FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said. Go deeper.
- ⚖️ The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold the Biden administration's ban on "ghost guns." Go deeper.
- 🏈 The New York Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh after the team got off to a 2-3 start to the season, and amid apparent tensions with star quarterback Aaron Rodgers, ESPN reports.
| | | | | | | | 4. 📸 1 for the road | | | | Photo: Lluis Gene/AFP via Getty Images Members of the Castellers de Barcelona team form a castell — a human tower — during the 29th Castells Competition in Tarragona, Spain, on Sunday. Photo: Ruben Lucia/NurPhoto via Getty Images | | | | |  | Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it. | | | |
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