#234 Primary Problems w/ Brian Rosenwald
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Brian Rosenwald joins Bob and Ben to talk about the state of American political media, its impact on the divide between Democrats & Republicans, and how the party primary election process in most states exacerbates the problem. Brian also discusses his book Talk Radio's America: How an Industry Took over a Political Party that Took Over the United States, (Harvard University Press, 2019) and how his conclusions are holding up three years after publication.
Dr. Brian Rosenwald is scholar in Residence at the Partnership for Effective Public Media Administration and Leadership Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania and senior editor of Made By History, a Washington Post history section. You can follow him on twitter at @brianros1.
If you enjoy this episode, check out Brian's previous appearances on the Road to Now in episodes #30 The Origins of Conservative Talk Radio and #142 How Talk Radio Took Over the Republican Party.
This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.
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| 0:00.0 | You can just see that picture because they were that that's Philadelphia. |
| 0:08.0 | The Shore, Harry Callis, maybe a tasty cake that you're enjoying as you're doing things. |
| 0:16.0 | But we, it's a very distinctive cultural place. |
| 0:19.0 | Well, Brian, I could wax nostalgic with you all day long, |
| 0:23.4 | but it would only be exciting for you and I. |
| 0:26.7 | That's true, or at least for other locals. |
| 0:29.6 | A few other. |
| 0:30.3 | We would have good penetration in the Philadelphia market. |
| 0:33.1 | That's right. |
| 0:33.7 | I don't know what we do beyond that. |
| 0:35.4 | The Delaware Valley, but that's it. |
| 0:37.4 | My mom grew up. My mom was born in North Carolina, but she at one moved to South Jersey and then moved back to North Carolina 18. So this just feels like being hanging out with her and her friends for back home. Just talking about Philly. It's kind of nostalgia for me, honestly. Gloria says Wooder. She doesn't say water. That's right. |
| 0:54.5 | Oh man, they were pounding the cable news anchors last night on Twitter because they were |
| 1:00.7 | trying to talk about the Pennsylvania primary race and they weren't getting the pronunciations |
| 1:04.8 | right. |
| 1:05.9 | It's Lancaster County, you know, not Lancaster County. |
| 1:09.3 | Lancaster. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.5 | And man, Twitter was all over these people. |
| 1:13.8 | A bit of a mess up there in Lancaster. Yeah. And I think they're still counting in Delaware |
| 1:19.6 | County and Bucks County because nobody understands here in Pennsylvania that they passed this law |
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