Is the Truth Dead? The Press vs Social Media in the Digital Age
When: December 8, 2 – 3 pm, with a reception to follow.
Location: The Henry A. Wallace Center at FDR Presidential Library & Museum,
4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY 12538
Tickets: $25 General Admission, $20 Students (Current Students Only)
The rise of social media has brought an explosion of information and opinions, making it harder to sift through the noise and find the truth amidst misinformation. Bloggers, influencers, politically driven media, and politicians now wield the power to influence without evidence. How does traditional journalism rise to meet this challenge?
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OUR PANEL
S.E. CUPP
S.E. Cupp is a nationally syndicated television host and columnist. She’s hosted several shows at CNN and MSNBC, and currently hosts Battleground in national syndication. She has authored two books, and has written for dozens of outlets, including the New York Times, Glamour, Oprah Daily, and the Washington Post.
She was a consultant on Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom and Apple TV’s The Morning Show. She is a board member of the Institute of Politics at Cornell University, where she earned her BA. She also holds a Masters from NYU. Her new podcast “Off the Cupp” launches in October on iHeart.
ANDY OSTROY
Andy Ostroy is an entrepreneur, producer, director and podcaster, writer and non-profit founder. He spent 35 years in marketing, including 20 at his own firm. He directed and produced ADRIENNE, the 2021 HBO documentary about his late wife, actor/writer/director Adrienne Shelly (WAITRESS), who was murdered in 2006. He is also the founder and executive director of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, which supports women filmmakers. His writing has appeared in The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, and the NY Times. In 2022 Ostroy created The Back Room with Andy Ostroy politics and pop culture podcast. He also co-owns Samuel’s Sweet Shop in Rhinebeck, NY with actors Paul Rudd, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton.
BRIAN ROONEY
Brian Rooney is a former correspondent for ABC News who covered the West and parts of the world for 22 years from the network’s Los Angeles bureau. He and his wife, Cecile Callan, now live in Staatsburg, NY.
Rooney writes a six-day-a-week subscription news report, The Rooney Report, which he bills as “All the News That Fits on One Page.”
He files a weekly review of the news for Radio Free Rhinecliff and is a member of the board of the digital newspaper, The Hudson Valley Pilot.
MODERATOR
DEWEY LEE, ESQ.
Dewey Lee is a lawyer who was a prosecutor in the Bronx, and eventually spent many years in the New York State Attorney General’s Office in the World Trade Center, Long Island, and Poughkeepsie. After retiring from the Attorney General’s Office in 2010, he remains active in the community, especially his church. He’s been a federal court mediator on the pro bono panel, delivers meals to seniors, drives patients for the American Cancer Society, and is a board trustee of a local public library. For a number of years, he moderated debates on hot button issues for the Marist College Center for Lifetime Study. Topics have included LGBTQ rights & religious freedom, limits of free speech, gun control, drug legalization, DEI, and racism & law enforcement.
This panel discussion is in honor of International Human Rights Day
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person…Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world..” -Eleanor Roosevelt
Location
The event will be held at the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY.
