Publisher’s note from Robert Scheer:
Jane Fonda’s talk was pitch perfect, a critically vital message that both challenged and offered hope to a traumatized student body. Our campus like most others is now a carefully manicured gated community and I credit USC Dean of Annenberg Willow Bay for having the courage to gift our students with such an indispensable role model. I have taught thousands of students at USC for almost three decades and Jane’s talk this morning was the best example of the critical thinking that is our communication department’s proclaimed purpose, as well as of the empathy that the journalism school aspires to. Jane’s voice is needed more than ever as the exceptionally strong student response demonstrated.
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Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer, publisher of ScheerPost and award-winning journalist and author of a dozen books, has a reputation for strong social and political writing over his nearly 60 years as a journalist. His award-winning journalism has appeared in publications nationwide—he was Vietnam correspondent and editor of Ramparts magazine, national correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times—and his in-depth interviews with Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and others made headlines. He co-hosted KCRW’s political program Left, Right and Center and now hosts Scheer Intelligence, an independent ScheerPost podcast with people who discuss the day’s most important issues.