October 22, 2008 – As an astute observer of the American political process, and how it is mirrored in the media, Kathleen Hall Jamieson noticed a troubling development in the 2008 presidential race. Both partisan and non-partisan commentators have often referred obliquely or directly to Senator John McCain's age, and implied that a man in his seventies could be unfit to be president.
Hear her comments on this issue and many other aspects of the political scene in this in-depth interview with Prime Time Radio host Mike Cuthbert.
Professor Jamieson talks about ageism in this segment.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson is Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Jamieson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society. She is the author, co-author or editor of 15 books including: Presidents Creating the Presidency (University of Chicago Press, 2008), Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford, 2008) and unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007).
