Steve Krakauer Analyzes America's Broken News Industry
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Guests: Paul Moreno, Steve Krakauer, & Lauren Scott '24
Host Scot Bertram talks with Paul Moreno, William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History and Professor of History at Hillsdale College, about the Marbury v. Madison case, decided 220 years ago this week. Media critic and former CNN executive Steve Krakauer takes us inside his new book, Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People. And Hillsdale student Lauren Scott '24 tells us about a student-produced documentary titled Hillsdale Student, American Hero: How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Beat the Mob & Won the War.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.1 | Because of that geographic bias is this media that's so detached from the rest of the public, you get a fundamental distrust and you get a general disdain and smugness for the rest of the country when it doesn't operate the way that |
| 0:39.0 | you think it should. This is your host Scott Bertram. And that's Steve Krakauer, media critic and |
| 0:44.4 | former CNN executive. His new book is uncovered, shining a spotlight on problems inside our media |
| 0:50.5 | today. We'll talk in depth with Steve about that new book coming up in just a little bit. |
| 0:55.0 | First, we're joined by Dr. Paul Moreno. He is William and Burdice Grucock Chair in Constitutional |
| 1:00.2 | History, Professor of History, and Dean of Social Sciences here at Hillsdale College. Dr. Marino, |
| 1:05.6 | thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me on the show. It is, and I'm sure all our listeners |
| 1:09.6 | already know this. The 220th |
| 1:12.7 | anniversary of the Marbury v. Madison decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. So we thought |
| 1:17.6 | we'd go back, tell people about it, and the impact and the legacy that it has had in the country. |
| 1:23.2 | So tell us quickly, what is the Marbury v. Madison case who's Marbury who's Madison |
| 1:27.7 | what issue is at stake usually it's it's depicted as the first exercise of judicial |
| 1:33.8 | review the first time the Supreme Court strikes down the act of Congress William Marbury was |
| 1:40.1 | an officer who was appointed to an office in the last days, really the last minutes of the Adams |
| 1:46.3 | administration. The Federalists had just lost the election of 1800, and so they created a bunch |
| 1:51.6 | of new offices so they could reward their political supporters when they were on their way out. |
| 1:57.4 | This office was the Justice of the Peace for the District of Columbia. And the outgoing president, John Adams, signed the commission for William Marbury and sealed it. |
| 2:07.6 | But it wasn't delivered to him. |
| 2:10.6 | The outgoing Secretary of State happened to be John Marshall. |
| 2:13.6 | He was at the time holding the offices both of Secretary of State and Chief Justice |
| 2:18.7 | of the United States. |
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