116 | Lisa Napoli: Understanding Media’s Past to Build Its Future

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Bookshop link for Lisa’s books, plus recommendations discussed in the episode: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-episode-116-lisa-napoli-books-recommendations Lisa Napoli, author of Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR and Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News, returns to The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of the news media, and why the challenges and opportunities facing the industry today perfectly rhyme with those of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

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0:00.0	Marshall and Saga here welcome back to the re-alignment.
0:04.0	Radio has the best pictures.
0:12.0	You know, it's a beautiful medium.
0:16.0	It's an evocative medium.
0:18.0	It's an easier medium, clearly obviously,
0:21.0	to produce than television cheaper.
0:24.0	And you can do great stuff and back to the whole community thing.
0:28.0	That's why you have a listenership.
0:30.0	People like to hear it to be part of the community.
0:32.0	And it's easier to invite people into that community
0:36.0	than when it's got to be a slickly produced television show.
0:50.0	Anyone who works with Saga and I know is that booking for this show
0:54.0	is not exactly the most precise or the best planned out feature.
0:58.0	However, there has been one booking which has been on our calendar
1:02.0	ever since last December.
1:04.0	It's for Lisa Napoli, our guest today.
1:06.0	We brought her on to talk about her book
1:08.0	Up All Night Ted Turner, CNN in the birth of 24 hour news.
1:12.0	We were talking about the media, how cable worked,
1:16.0	innovation in the space, what that meant for America
1:20.0	after the Trump presidency when there was going to be this decline.
1:23.0	In news viewership, it was an amazing episode.
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