Are Cable News and Legacy Media All But Dead?

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

CPF Director Bob Shrum joins media experts, Martin Gurri, Adam Nagourney, and Gordon Stables, for a discussion on how the changing media landscape has contributed to global populist trends. They discuss the transformation of the media landscape, the role of the elites in the media and politics, and media's impact on the state of democracy globally.

Featuring:

Martin Gurri: Former CIA Analyst; Author of "The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium"
Adam Nagourney: National Political Reporter for The New York Times; Author of "The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn and the Transformation of Journalism" and "Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America"; Fall 2019 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Gordon Stables: Director, USC Annenberg School of Journalism
Bob Shrum: Director, USC Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let's Find Common Ground from the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California's Dornside College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
0:15.3	I'm Bob Shrum, director of the center. And I'm Republican Mike Murphy, co-director of the Center. Our podcast brings together
0:23.1	America's leading politicians, strategists, journalists, and academics from across the
0:28.4	political spectrum for in-depth discussions where we respect each other and we respect the truth.
0:35.0	We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:46.0	For those of you who don't know me, I'm Bob Schrum, the Director of the Center for the Political Future here at USC Dornc. Dornc. Welcome to the latest episode in our program series and our
0:51.9	podcast, let's find common ground. We're here to discuss the transformation
0:57.0	of the media landscape and the loss of faith in institutions. In particular, Martin Gurry's
1:03.9	book, The Revolveld of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium. It is
1:09.9	sweeping and magisterial. It's been described
1:12.9	by Ezra Klein in the New York Times as a phenomenon in Silicon Valley. And after we're done here
1:20.5	today, Martin will be happy to sign books for you. I want to thank a very special thank you,
1:27.4	actually, to a member of our board
1:28.8	of counselors, Ken Brod, for making this crucial and timely discussion possible. In addition to
1:35.3	Martin, who was a former CIA analyst among many other things, our panelists today are Adam
1:41.3	Nagerni, one of the stars of the New York Times, whose book, The Times,
1:45.3	discusses the transformation of that pivotal institution and its adaptation to the world of new media.
1:52.2	Gordon Stables is the director of the U.S.C. Annenberg School of Journalism, who has studied the evolution
1:57.3	of journalism and information technology, not only here in the U.S., but across the
2:01.6	world.
2:02.3	For 45 minutes to an hour, we'll see how it goes.
2:06.7	We'll talk about Martin Gurrey's arguments, and we'll hear from him, Adam, and Gordon,
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