Hosted by Gerry Shields
Gerry is a former longtime Washington correspondent and political writer for The New York Post, Baltimore Sun, and Philadelphia Inquirer and author of the new book: The Front Row: My Jagged Journey Recording American History from Reagan to Trump.
Episodes
Welcome to the Retail Politics Podcast. Without enough hand sanitizer for candidates to shake hands, let alone kiss voter babies, we redefine Retail Politics for the digital world, reaching you one download at a time. We’ll speak weekly for 30 minutes to politicians, academics, and reporters on the front lines of American political issues to help you choose best how your government should function.
S02E3 Alex Mahadevan, Politics of the Nobel Peace Prize
For only the third time in its 126-year history, the Norwegian Prize Committee gave the world’s most coveted award to journalists, hailing their efforts to beat back the rise in rogue world leaders jailing, killing, and exiling the media.
“Given that we’re in the modern age, it’s 2021, the fact that we see a slide away from democratic behaviors from leaders around the world is pretty scary,” said Alex Mahadevan, program manager for Poynter Institute’s Media Wise.
S01E05 M.L. “Mike” Elrick, Politics of Michigan
A Detroit Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, who sent former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to federal prison for corruption, said Sunday that the New York Times could have provided better cover for the writer of an anti-Trump screed by putting his name in the piece.
S01E02 Howard Schneider, Politics of Fake News
Appearing on the Retail Politics Podcast with Gerry Shields, Howard Schneider of Stonybrook University in Long Island, NY, urged readers to thoroughly question the accuracy of the information they receive.
“Much of what is spread is not spread by Russian trolls or malevolent people,” Schneider said. “It’s you and me...we basically need to slow down.”
S01E01 Pete Leffler, Politics of Pennsylvania
This week, we will discuss the Politics of Pennsylvania, the state that handed President Donald Trump victory in 2016 and promises to be once again a critical hurdle for Trump or challenger Joe Biden to win this year.
In this episode, Gerry talks to Pete Leffler, the former longtime political editor for The Morning Call newspaper in Allentown, Pa., who will give us a drone’s eye view of the Keystone State’s current political landscape going into this monumental Nov. 3 presidential election.