Hello again, Mormon, I'll need back with To the Point.

We'll be talking today with Scott Galloway.

He's an early entrepreneur in e-commerce, now a professor at NYU, a podcaster, frequent

cable news guest, outspoken critic of Silicon Valley.

His latest book is Adrift about what he sees as

dangerous symptoms of American decline. First, though, we have Margaret Sullivan. She wants to see

change in the way that news is reported in this country, and she speaks from experience. She was

the top editor at the Buffalo News for 10 years,

then spent four years as public editor of the New York Times. Now she's resigned after six years

as media columnist for the Washington Post, and she's published a book. It's called Newsroom

Confidential, Lessons and Worries from an Ink-Stained life. Margaret Sullivan, thanks so much for being

with us. Thanks very much for having me. You argue that democracy is at stake in the midterm elections.

You're hardly alone in that perception. But in your final column for the Washington Post,

you say that the media face a real

test. What do you mean by that? I think we're at a hinge moment in American history in which our

democracy is arguably, at least, on the brink. And it doesn't make sense to me to have the media

conduct itself in the same way that it has been before all this happened. I think we need

to center the coverage of what's happening in politics and government so that people recognize

what the consequences are of these elections and the campaign to come. So not just to cover campaigns in the old sort of

horse race, palace intrigue way, but to talk about how, you know, the threats to our electoral

system are really important and to really get people's attention, I don't think the news media should be

asleep at the switch as they seem to be in many cases. I go way back. I was in television news

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