Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

So I went to an expert on this, this guy Joseph Turow.

He's a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication, and he's written several books on the history and the future of advertising.

His most recent book is titled The Problem with Personalization, How Advertisers Learned to Make and Break Us from Ancient Times to the AI Age.

It's kind of a mouthful, but…

Amy's role at Penn as president for many years.

And my role spans several departments, especially psychology and the Annenberg School for Communication, as well as the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which is They're a big umbrella of several centers, and within that is the communication science division, which I had.

So what we're interested in doing is really figuring out what is going on, what are the most important issues to study in the area of communication, both on the basic side, like understanding mechanisms and what... allows us to communicate effectively what's most persuasive, how do we change or not change, because there's a lot of resistance often going on when we're exposed to any information.

And also, how do we apply this knowledge to actually change something that matters in the world.

The three outlets have asked Judge Kelly for a longer preliminary injunction to keep the ban blocked while the lawsuit proceeds, which the judge is expected to consider in early October.

Here, Reporter spoke with Victor Pickard, Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.

Here, Professor Pickard examines Donald Trump's revocation of the three outlets' White House press credentials in the context of dozens of previous Trump regime attacks on journalists, media outlets, and the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press.

This is just the latest in a slightly different type of attack on the press that we've come to expect from this administration.

I mean, there was that somewhat comical moment where Trump was trying to have a press event at the White House, but it wasn't, uh, you know, there was no television feeds, uh, to... or there was no audio feed to capture, uh, what he was saying.

So he's also re- um, being disciplined a bit here, sort of turning the tables on him, um, to show that he, he relies on the press, and, uh, the press has this kind of power, and they really should operate, you know, utilize it accordingly.

That was Victor Pickard, professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.

Find a link to his recent column titled How to Fight Media Oligarchy and related commentary by visiting our Between the Lines website at btlonline.org.

But as we begin our program tonight, I want to thank Victor Picard for joining us.

Victor is the C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

His most recent book is titled Democracy Without Journalism, Confronting the Misinformation Society.

Victor, really good to hear your voice this evening here on our show.

Well, let me reintroduce you to our audience here on CounterPoint.

We're speaking with Victor Picard.

This is Edwin Baker, professor of media policy and political economy at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

And I wanted to ask you, Professor Picard, to summarize for our audience, some of the Trump regime's record of attacking free speech in attempting to censor the U.S. media that he has long described, as I mentioned earlier, as the enemy of the people.