Dave Rubin Invited by Biden School for Tense Discussion on the Future of Media & Journalism

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” participates in a discussion with Tara Palmeri as a part of the SNF Ithaca Initiative x iMEdD Media & Democracy Summit at the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration at University of Delaware about the decline of mainstream media and rise of independent journalism and podcasts; the need for authentic conversations over scripted narratives; how new media empowers truth-seeking voices; challenges of journalistic integrity in the digital age; the influence of algorithms and tech on public discourse; the role of independent media in combating polarization; the balance between authenticity and the attention economy; and much more. Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ---------- Today’s Sponsors: Ground News - Avoid the agenda-driven narratives and outright manipulation of the facts from Mainstream Media. Ground News is not a news publisher, they are an independent app and website that simply aggregates every source on a story, so you can compare coverage and see through mainstream media spin. Rubin Report viewers get 40% off their best plan Go to: https://Ground.News/Rubin CBDistillery.com- Struggling with poor sleep or aches and pains? Take the advice of our over 2 million satisfied customers. Use CBD after physical activity for reductions in stress and pain. Order now and save up to 25% on everything! Go to: http://CBDistillery.com and enter PROMO CODE: RUBIN Bare Bars - It’s what you thought you were getting in a protein bar: Real food. Minimal ingredients. No mystery additives. Go to: http://getbarebars.com and enter code RUBIN for 15% off and free shipping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Without further ado, I'm going to turn it over to David and Tara to talk about free speech and big ideas.
0:18.0	So where do we start?
0:21.2	What made you decide to go into the new media space, Dave?
0:25.2	Wow.
0:25.7	You know, it's funny.
0:26.7	I'm going to turn 49 next month, which doesn't seem that old to me.
0:31.0	But when I show up at college campuses, I suddenly realize I'm not a teenager in my 20s anymore.
0:37.3	And, you know, I grew up in the way that I'm sure many of you who are roughly my age grew up.
0:43.3	We had normal cable television and three channels, CBS, ABC, NBC, and we had Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings,
0:52.3	and you kind of watched the same news at 630 and all of those things and the Overton window was kind of narrow but we all sort of believed roughly the same things then of course cable news comes along the internet comes along and
1:07.0	True crime. Yeah, all of it. Yeah. It all came. And I started realizing, boy, you know, I'm watching all of these shows.
1:14.6	I was always interested in politics.
1:16.6	I studied PolySci in college.
1:18.6	And I was watching CNN and I would watch MSNBC and I watched all these things.
1:22.6	I thought, man, everything is making everyone dumber.
1:25.6	Like it just struck me that nothing was elevating the conversation.
1:30.7	It seemed hyper-controlled. There was nothing sort of clever. It was also a time when online stuff,
1:38.7	when I started the show back in 2013, when everything was getting shorter also. So it was the time of
1:43.9	Snapchat and Vine, and a lot of
1:46.2	things where suddenly we were doing six second videos, 10 second things. And I started realizing,
1:51.1	boy, there are so many important things that we need to talk about. I just want to interview
1:55.9	people. I want to sit down with someone and look them in the eye and have a conversation for an hour
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