#104 Bill Plante & Olivier Knox on Journalism and Politics (live at Glover Park Group)
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Veteran journalists Bill Plante & Olivier Knox join Bob & Ben for a conversation about the press and how journalism has changed in recent years. Bill Plante covered politics for CBS News from 1964 until 2016, and had a front row seat to some of the most significant events in the last half century, including the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. Olivier Knox is the President of the White House Correspondents Association and the Chief Washington Correspondent for SiriusXM, and has covered American politics for more than two decades. Their conversation covers the relationship between journalism and politics, the role of a free press in a democracy, and the responsibility that journalists have to the public.
A special thanks to Halle Mayes, Michelle Soho, Sanjay Bhutiani and everyone at Glover Park Group for their help and generosity in hosting this conversation as a live event at their office on August 15, 2018.
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| 0:29.9 | I'm Ben Sawyer. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:32.5 | And this is the road to now. |
| 0:34.5 | And we're excited to be sharing a live event that we just recorded here in |
| 0:38.7 | D.C. Bob, tell them what we did. Well, we got to spend Wednesday afternoon at the Glover Park |
| 0:44.6 | group in downtown Washington, D.C. Special thank you to our good friends there, Hallie and |
| 0:52.2 | Michelle, for setting up a wonderful event |
| 0:55.8 | with Olivier Knox, the chief Washington correspondent for Sirius XM, and the host of |
| 1:03.7 | The Big Picture, which is on Sirius XM's Podish Channel. That's 124, Monday through Friday, |
| 1:10.4 | at 6 p.m. from 6 to 7 p.m. |
| 1:12.9 | And our other guest was Bill Plant. |
| 1:16.4 | Bill was a correspondent and journalist for CBS News for 52 years before retiring in 2016. |
| 1:25.2 | And he covered every president as the White House correspondent for CBS from Reagan to Obama. |
| 1:33.4 | So we got to really, you know, history is change over time. |
| 1:41.4 | And Bill had a front row seat to American history for half century. And I don't |
| 1:47.4 | think there's anyone else out there who could rival his experience. Yeah. And just the way he came up, |
| 1:54.8 | the way that the media was different at the time. And it is right now, and we all do this at certain times in history, we're so sure |
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