CPF Fellows Roundtable Series: The Future of Conservative Media
Let's Find Common Ground
USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future
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🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the third installment of the CPF Fellows Roundtable Series of 2021, Spring 2021 CPF Fellows Barbara Comstock and Todd S. Purdum are joined by former Fellow Ron Christie (Fall 2019) to discuss how new far right outlets are challenging Fox News, the influence of these new far right outlets on conservatism, and why conservatives don't trust "mainstream" outlets. This discussion was moderated by CPF Fellows Manager, Harry Burke.
Featuring:
Ron Christie: Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and CPF Fall 2019 Fellow
Barbara Comstock: Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow
Todd S. Purdum: Former New York Times Reporter and Staff Writer at The Atlantic; CPF Spring 2021 Fellow
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future. |
| 0:11.7 | Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect |
| 0:22.0 | each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello and welcome to the third installment of our CPF Fellows Roundtable series. My name is Harry Burke. I'm the fellow's manager here at CPF, |
| 0:39.6 | and I will be your moderator today. Today's discussion is being broadcast through Facebook Live, |
| 0:45.0 | and will be an episode on our podcast series, The Bolley Pulpit, which can be found wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:50.6 | Today, our panelists and USC students will engage in a thoughtful conversation around conservative media, its future, and we will dive into the pressing questions to help us better understand the rights media ecosystem. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm joined today by current and former fellows here at CPF. |
| 1:07.1 | Ron Christie is the founder and CEO of Christie Strategies LLC and an analyst for the BBC. |
| 1:13.0 | He was a special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy assistant to Vice President Cheney for domestic policy. |
| 1:19.7 | Ron was a CPF fellow during the fall 2019 semester. |
| 1:23.7 | Todd Purdom is a renowned and longtime journalist. |
| 1:26.1 | He recently wrote for the Atlantic as a staff |
| 1:29.3 | writer and California correspondent. He was also senior writer at Politico and a contributing editor |
| 1:35.5 | at Vanity Fair. He was formerly with the New York Times where he worked for 23 years. And Barbara |
| 1:41.0 | Comstock, who is joining us live from the Potomac River right now. We really appreciate it. |
| 1:45.6 | As a former member of Congress from Virginia, where she served from 2015 to 2019, |
| 1:51.3 | prior to serving in Congress, Barbara was elected three terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, |
| 1:56.0 | and she's currently a senior advisor, Baker Donaldson, focused on technology issues. So the way this works is I have a few questions here,son focused on technology issues. |
| 2:01.6 | So the way this works is I have a few questions here, but we get a lot of USC students who submit questions, |
| 2:06.6 | and they've done that over the last few days. |
| 2:08.6 | I will kick it off with a question, but we will mostly have USC students that are going to be the ones asking the questions. |
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