Norman Ornstein and Thomas Edsall discuss The Role of the Media in National Elections as a part of Restoring Legitimacy to our Election System during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series.
Bio
Thomas Edsall
Thomas B. Edsall is the political editor of the Huffington Post. He is also Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
From 1981 to 2006, he was a political reporter at the Washington Post. He is the author of Chain Reaction and Building Red America.
Norman J. Ornstein
Norman J. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. An election analyst for CBS News, he writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call.
His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, and he appears regularly on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose.
He serves on the board of the Public Broadcasting Service and several other nonprofit groups. Like Mann, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
ah, quick reply... as i typed that, Norm stiooed dropping hi one liners. i thought it would go on forever, but just skip the first :10 and it gets really good.