Truth Decay

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

CPF Co-Director Mike Murphy joins Sasha Issenberg and Michael Rich for a conversation on the growing prevalence and impact of misinformation and disinformation in our politics.

Featuring:
· Sasha Issenberg: Award-winning Author on Modern Campaigns & Marriage Equality
· Michael Rich: President and CEO, RAND Corporation (2011-2022)
· Mike Murphy: Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California's 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.
0:29.4	Alrighty, everyone. It's my job to call this unruly group to order. I hope you all enjoyed
0:35.0	lunch. It was the low bid, but it wasn't that bad, right? All right.
0:38.9	I'm Mike Murphy, co-director of the center, and I'm here to host our next panel with two esteemed guests.
0:44.9	But I want to start by thanking our incredible co-sponsors here, Politico. I want to only Americans
0:51.3	Magazine and Newspaper of Politics. We got a couple of their ink-stained wretches here, so thank them.
0:57.9	And my friends at United America, who in my view, one of the last great hopes to make systemic changes in the way we elect people to make it more market-based and get better outcome.
1:07.2	So, United America, everybody. Thank you so much.
1:10.1	Nick, Nick, the big cheese there, a great American. All right, welcome to our panel,
1:15.5	the future of precinct analysis from the deep state. No, I'm lying. That's a lie. And this panel is
1:22.2	about lying. And we have two non-liars here to help us sort out the truth decay, the truth decay.
1:30.2	My friend, Dr. from Fresno, the dentist just stood up a little bit.
1:33.8	Truth decay.
1:35.5	So let me do the introductions.
1:37.2	To my left here, not ideologically, but on the chairs is the one and only Michael D. Rich,
1:43.2	who's President Emeritus of the world famous and
1:45.6	super respected RAND Corporation, which he led as CEO from 2011 to 2022 recently. He focused on
1:54.4	extending RAND's influence, challenging to innovate and address crucial issues. Importantly for
2:00.0	our panel and for our country, Michael co-authored,
2:03.5	Truth Decay. And it's a great book. You can get it. There's a lot of content on this. It's
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