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Isaac Lee

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first: 2016-06-27
most recent: 2016-06-27
sittings or episodes: 1
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“That's great. We should not forget that there are still human rights issues and freedom of press is something that we all need to push for because there's no democratic society that can ever be established without a free press.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In Cuba. In Cuba, I am not an expert in Cuba, but I can tell you that people will do better. There will be a possibility to profit from the amazing cultural and music scene that they have there. Tourism will flourish and there will be a lot of investment in the island. And that's good for Cuban people.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In Mexico. Yeah, I'm sorry, yes. Pe ⁇ a Nieto in Mexico. And the left, it's going to have a very important role to play in the next campaign. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will be the candidate for Morena. And whoever will represent the establishment, it's going to have to face him. Youth, like much like with Bernie Sanders, they are with him. And he is against the system. I'm not saying that all his ideas are responsible or promising, but it's a fact that he will be forced to be reckoned with.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Demand like the one we have in this country with an illegal industry that creates cartel corruption blackmail murder the issues not going to be solved and it's very concerning the precedent is not popular at all he's”
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“Famously these days, and it's a border, it will never be a war because it's such a wall, I'm sorry, because the idea is so stupid that I think it will never get to fruition. We are also responsible of what goes on in Mexico. I mean, the drug war makes no sense. There is a consensus of smart Latin American former presidents that are not concerned about politics, that can think about the future without fear that drugs have to be dealt in a completely different way. You will hear President Cedillo from Mexico, Gabriela, from Colombia, Cardoso from Brazil talk about decriminalization of drugs and finding a different route for that to be dealt with. And as long as there is a”
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“Huge, there are failed states like Honduras that I don't know how they're going to recover Guatemala is a huge problem. The president and the vice president are both in jail and the level of corruption is huge. And then there's Mexico, which happens to have a border with the United States, and we need to understand.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's a huge resilient country that produces great avionics, but it's going through a very, very difficult time. Argentina just had a dramatic shift that it's very positive. President, Mrs. Kirchner just left. She was in that case. And she has been replaced by Mauricio Makri, who will take some measures that will make Argentina again what it should have. And it will recover. It will take time, but it will do very, very well. Central America is a huge issue of concern. There's people there that are being murdered by the gangs, fueled by narco-trafficking, and they need asylum. And the crisis there is...”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it has never been as bad as it is today, and that happens because when a country depends so much on one revenue stream, which is oil, and the prices drop down and go to $20,000, $30 a barrel, that's what they know how to do and it's over. So it's a very, very concerning thing. It's divisive. The opposition is not unified and the president is not as charismatic as Chavez, but is more stubborn than him. So it's a very complex thing. Brasil is going through chaos, the level of corruption that we are seeing now in Brazil, it's really terrible, really important leaders of the business class and of the political class are in jail. The president has no credibility whatsoever.”
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“What I'm asking for in Latin America, Colombia is going to have a peace treaty and that's going to be a monumental change. Venezuela is on the brink of a huge humanitarian crisis, which I don't know how can it be unfolding in a positive way. I'm incredibly concerned the government is going after businessmen that are producing jobs and work and product for the people”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“100%. I just think that I am not willing to not see clearly what will determine success in journalism and if technology is going to play a big role then I'm going to be the best at that and if you need to learn about social media and audience development and algorithms we'll do that well too but the essence is always telling a good story and making a difference”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, no doubt. No doubt. At the moment, fusion is not being carried by everyone, although I'm sure that's going to change because it's hard to believe that there is a network that it's doing the black Oscars and the brown and black forum on the election and that is representing”
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“They will be receiving it through Facebook, Amazon, Google, in Apple, in some degree Snapchat, which is growing fast. And those are going to be the Comcasts and the Time Warners and the charters of the future. And they will be the ones determining which content they carry and which one they don't, which is also a scary thought because this is a very small group of companies that will be managing the vast majority of media.”
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“People are not against long-form content. They are against bad content. Let's take for an example CNN. They will tell you that Blackfish was a huge success because it was a documentary about an issue that young people cared, the conversation in social media was enormous. was great. And if you see what's happening with the Jinx at HBO making a murder at Netflix, even scripted television that tells a story very, very well, like the big short. It's an amazing way to reach an audience and people will sit down for two hours and watch it. Because it's compelling”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, we always knew that fusion needed to be a digital first company. It's just that sometimes what you know you have to do and what you can do is a different thing. But we are a multi-platform digital first company that happens to have a cable channel, which allows us to do amazing stuff. I still believe that television has a very important role to play for long form and for premium content. You will not create an impact by only doing gifts or 90 second stories for Facebook. A documentary is an amazing way to create consciousness and to have a huge impact in issues that matter, investigations, the possibility To take over hours to explain something that requires it really well.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a great question, David. I think that if you're building a media company for people to come and visit you, you're going to fail. I think that in these days, you need to find the audience where they live. And you need to produce amazing content that is identifiable because of the quality, the voice, the tone, but you have to find the audience where they live and that is in Facebook and in Snapchat and in WhatsApp and in all of those social media networks and platforms where discovery is really happening. That is why it's so important to understand that there's a huge transformation in media now where the pipes have changed completely. And what we're trying to do is become experts and understand how to produce the content. Content for that, how to be really transmedia, and how to optimize to be successful doing that.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“These new generation, David, it's the most diverse in history, it's progressive, it's tolerant, does not identify people by labels. It doesn't matter if you are gay or straight or black or white. It matters more what you stand for and what you believe in. They are having to face huge issues like student debt, which in the past 10 years went from 300 billion to 1.3 trillion. They're having to face a market where it's harder to find a job. But their optimists and they are more left wing in their view of society and the economy than any generation before. And I think that's incredibly optimistic.”
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“Thomas Jefferson. Exactly. Well, that's the country that we are going to all be living in some time. We sometimes forget. We have an African American as president of the United States. That's not a small thing. And so I think it's very encouraging. But the role that hip-hop is playing now in activism, in human rights, in protesting about solitary confinement, prison reform. It's huge. So music.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which, by the way, speaks about a better society where a Hispanic can play the role of Hamilton and women have important leader roles.”
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“Yes, there's no doubt because they know that they are being transparent, that it's a joke, at least it's harder when people are a joke and they're not telling it. So authenticity and transparency play a huge role. And I think that Univision understands that in a country that when I was born 45 years ago was 80% white Anglo-Saxon. And in a couple of decades, it's going to be less than 50%. It's a very tectonic demographic shift that it's going to have huge impact in society. And we want to keep on being the number one media company for diverse America.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure. Look, when 45% of millennials are non-white and it's only increasing, we believe that the opportunity to create content for the rising America, for what we identify as the new mainstream, it's huge. And we know them and we have been doing that for the past 60 years at Univision. We understand the audience. We know how to create content for minorities. And that's why we also bought the root, which is the number one African American digital company founded by Professor Gates and also identifying what are the passion points for the young generation we acquired an important percentage and operational control of The onion, which is great because humor plays a huge role into this generation. These generation's currency. And it's not by accident that John Stewart and John Oliver and Gregory Colbert have more credibility today.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It has to, David. I mean, you can really not self-deport at Mr. Romney proposed in the last campaign or just send them as criminals when you're talking about twelve million people. And by the way, there has to be some method or some seriousness behind just making accusations. These people are not criminals. These people are not the ones that have a high percentage of crime rate. They are contributing to society. They're doing the jobs that no one else wants to do. And they are entrepreneurial and they believe in the American dream and they want to have a better life. So to think that anyone is capable of rallying and Corralling 12 million people and send them back to their countries of origin. It's either a little naive or is willing to do things that we have not even started to discuss.”
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“No doubt, no doubt. Whoever is eligible and had not filed the papers are doing so now and the level of percentages, the way it has increased, it's in a dramatic way. And that will play a role.”
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“Anxiety about hate they are very worried that what is being promoted is a speech of hate and divisiveness, that it's hurtful to everyone. And they're very worried about what are the consequences of that. And I think that we should all be against hate. It's a very troublesome concept.”
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“Born in Indiana. Can you elect someone for president who's judging the rule of law of the country depending on the origin of the judges?”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, so I still believe that people in the coming months will learn everything they need to know about the candidate. It will not be a Teflon any longer. There has to be a point where things matter and they'll have to decide.”
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“Look, culturally, I think that everyone who is very tired with politics as usual, very tired with business elites and the system driving decisions for them and do not believe in institutions and do not believe in politicians and are very ignorant, are listening to Trump with some admiration and some excitement. And that goes on for some Hispanics too. It will be very hard for me to believe that more than 20 or 25% of Hispanics would ever support his policies. He has gone too far. And with Trump, we have all been wrong all the time.”
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“I think he's not going to be president because of the way that he has insulted and behaved with the Hispanic community. I don't think that the numbers would be on your side if you don't have at least 35% of the Hispanic vote. That's up.”
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“That when you're sitting at the amazing building that we have in Miami with the safety of living in the United States and being protected by the rule of law is to report on the things that our colleagues cannot. So we are very active on Venezuela, very active on Mexico. We have done a couple of things on the elections in Peru. We create a lot of news in those places and we will continue to do so. Mexico is specifically important to us and we've been very tough on the government. We are good critics and we report on what goes on with the drug war and the cartels and corruption and so on and so forth.”
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“and tracing those guns to see how they were used by the narco-traffickers to even murder one of the agents. So that was a big story. We've done stories about children at the border and what happens with them. We have a huge unreported humanitarian crisis in Central America with 80, 90,000 refugees that are stranded and are going through a very difficult time. Sometimes you will see kids that have to go to court without an attorney to explain their case. And that's hard to do when you're nine. And that was also a strong one. We have reported a lot on Latin America, elections. I think that one of the responsibilities that we have at Univision is”
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“Yeah, at different levels, but from the Univision side, fast and furious was a strong one, especially looking at things from the other side of the border, what was the impact in Mexico.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Strong one has created some trouble at some instances, but they do their job incredibly well. It's led by a Pulitzer Prize winner, Peabody winner journalist called Gerardo Reyes, who always gets me into deep trouble, but I respect him very, very much.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that when they appointed me, I took it as a given that they were hiring me to create a revolution. No one hires me for the status quo. It's the wrong call. I had to change a lot of people. We had to make the news division more relevant. We had to work to create a pipeline of talent, to have a plan for the journalists that one day are going to replace Jorge Ramos and Mariellena and work with them as coaches and mentors for them, but that was non-existent. We created a documentary division, which has been incredibly successful and it has won many awards led by Juan Randon. We created an investigative unit, which is a pretty”
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“That's absolutely I think I'm incredibly lucky. There's mainly two reasons. One, the CEO of the company promotes insurgency, doesn't feel threatened by someone who is a contrarian. I think he actually likes it. And he's at the time in his life where he has no ego. He's not into what's coming next on the ladder. He's not protecting himself. He just wants us and the company to thrive. And this is Ram Di Falco who ran NBC for many years and then AOL and he has already done everything a media executive could work.”
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“There, I sold the magazine, did very well with that, started another media company called Animal Politico in Mexico, which is a crazy adventure, but it was lots of fun. And then I was called to join Univision.”
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“Yes, yes. Well, I first started one called Puntocom, which went broke. The owners of the majority of the company at that time were from Venezuela. And the situation there with Chavez got really bad. They were a very profitable newspaper that used to make a lot of money. And from one day to the other, they started to have to invest and fund the paper. to close the company down, which was terribly sad for me. So I became an expert in bankruptcy. I went to the court and bought the brands from the trustee and started again. Which is another amazing thing. Here you can fail. And if you learn from your failures, you can be very successful. And this time, we did incredibly well. I'm very happy with the results. For there? Yes”
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“The only place in the world where an idea can raise money and you can start from scratch and no one is going to hold you is here. And that was an amazing experience at one point we had seven editions of the magazine going on in different countries reporting on everything.”
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“No, David, I am not going to deny that it was a dangerous thing to be doing at the time. And I was very young, but I had been for more than three years at the helm of Semana. It's the most important job any journalist could have. And I was only 30. And I had my life ahead of me. And I wanted to dare more and be an entrepreneur. And by living the whole experience in Semana, I was able to see that the digital transformation was actually happening and things were changing in such a dramatic way that I went to the States with a piece of paper, a couple of friends, raised money and started an independent media company, which is what makes this country great.”
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“Absolutely correct. It is sad to see when the differences between the president and the former president and the criticism from one to the other, it's elevated to the stage where they're not making a difference on what's best for the country, but on how important it is to hurt each other and to keep on the fight.”
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“Yes, sure. After 60 plus years of the longest running conflict in the world now, the FARC, the guerrillas are having conversations with the government that are happening in Havana with the aid of the Cuban government to reach an agreement for peace. And it has never been so close. It's not without difficulty and criticism and huge...”
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“Completely different. Things are so much better. The country is doing very well. Drug dealers and narco-terror is not the main topic of conversation today. Actually, the main topic today is the peace process.”
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“Well, when I was the editor in chief of Sermana, every editor-in-chief has a bulletproof car and needs to have security and you get that threat. And I got some that were pretty serious. But it was not because I was extraordinary or because I did something. Everyone, my successor who's now there, I'm sure he's going through exactly the same thing and getting death threats and living into very difficult times.”
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“Well, it's in very different levels because it meant that people were afraid to go to a movie because cinemas and malls and too many people and there might be a bomb. People were afraid of kidnapping. You started to go with bulletproof cars, had security, and just live in a tension and with an anxiety that I don't think people are used to or built for.”
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“The Supreme Court of our country because they wanted to burn all the files and dossiers that all the narco-traffickers had. And he kidnapped the most prominent people, members of the families of the elite, in order to put pressure on the government. When you hear that and you understand that there was terror, that there were bombs exploding in places that you wouldn't think of. And there were judges, policemen, journalists being murdered on a day-to-day basis.”
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“That's a great question because I hear a lot of how people are completely amazed by what's going on in Mexico and they think that that's as bad as it can get. And it isn't. And it was not exactly at the time when I was in Semana, but it's worth remembering that Pablo Escobar was able to kill three presidential candidates in one election. He blew up an entire plane from Avianca with all of its passengers. He was a precursor to Osama bin Laden in that sense. He put a bomb that killed many, many people in what is Colombia's FBI, which was the DAS. He burned and destroyed”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think that every journalist in Colombia for a long time who was doing his or her job well and was reporting on facts and being inquisitive and skeptical and questioning things would be in danger. And if you are the editor-in-chief of Semana, of course you are. But it's not just the editor-in-chief. It's like every journalist, if you are writing about the paramilitaries, you have to worry about the guerrillas. If you're writing about them, you have to worry about the paramilitaries. If it's corruption, if it's the cartels, if it's a very dangerous place to be a journalist, not so much now, but it used to be a really dangerous place.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, journalists in Colombia were very brave and there's a tradition of brave journalism from many years ago. The owner and editor-in-chief of El Ectador Don Guillermo Cano was murdered and the Santos family has done an amazing job from El Tiempo and Semana played also a huge role. courageous journalism was there. I was working as a very young TV reporter at the investigative unit at a newscast and I got the first and only interview with the head of the DEA in Colombia. His name is Joe Tuft and he gave me the interview just before leaving Colombia after a six Year stint, and in that interview, he told me that the president had received $6 million from the Cali cartel and that he was in bed with a Cali cartel. And it was huge, it was news all over the world, and I got fired. So it was an interesting experience.”
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“Correct. We had unfortunate Yes, yes. We had an unfortunate event. The president of the country had received in his presidential campaign $6 million from the Cali cartel. And we had to report on it and tell that story. And that didn't make the goal.”
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“Well, that was Semina magazine, and Semina is really highly sophisticated opinion investigative magazine that has a lot of influence into the elite of our country. And it is a first class media outlet. It was amazing to be there. I had the opportunity to turn the magazine digital, to launch some new titles that turned Semana from a one-brand magazine company into a media company, which was incredibly exciting. And from Semana to really live closely what was going on at the country at that time.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, yes. Well, his point of view, and it's very respectful, was that he owned the magazine. My point of view was that he decided when to appoint me and when to fire me, but as long as I was the editor-in-chief, I was deciding on the content. And we did not agree.”
2016-06-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it was actually an 80 year old magazine at that time owned by a very successful media group. But the magazine was not doing well. And so it was a great opportunity to change and to dare and to do things that were edgy. And I had an amazing time. It was short-lived because six months into it, I had a disagreement with the owner and I decided to part ways.”
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