Telling the Truth 2024 The Future of the Democratic Party

The NYS Writers Institute’s sixth edition of its Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World symposium featured notable journalists, authors, politicians and pundits on two panels to discuss how both the Democratic Party and Republican Party will attempt to navigate a norm-smashing Trump administration.

More than 300 community members attended the event on Friday, November 22, at Page Hall on the Downtown UAlbany Campus in Albany.

Moderator:
Paul Grondahl, NYS Writers Institute Opalka Endowed Director.

Panelists:
Chuck Todd is a television journalist and former host of NBC's "Meet the Press." He also served as NBC's Chief White House correspondent, host of “The Daily Rundown” on MSNBC, and NBC News' on-air political analyst for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and the “Today” show.
He is the author of The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House (2014) and co-author with Sheldon Gawiser, of How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election (2009).

Charlotte Alter is a senior correspondent at TIME magazine, where she covers politics, social movements, and generational change, and hosts TIME's “Person of the Week” podcast. She was previously a special projects producer at "CBS Sunday Morning."
Alter is also the author of The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America (2020)

Congressman Paul Tonko represents New York’s 20th Congressional District, including the communities of Albany, Schenectady, Troy, and Saratoga Springs. He represents all of Albany, Saratoga, and Schenectady Counties and parts of Rensselaer County.
A Democrat, he is serving his eighth term, after first being sworn into Congress in 2009. He previously served as a member of the NYS Assembly from 1983 to 2007.

[PantalonRouge]

Clueless panelists scratching their heads, baffled as to why the working class couldn’t care less about their detached, self-important opinions.

[luhsprwhk]

TL:DR: A bunch of aging goofies treat journalism like it was a science. Same cringe as always.