James Rosen is a man of many interests. Fox News’s Chief Washington Correspondent is known to viewers of the cable news network as a hard-nosed journalist, but off-the-air he wears other hats, including being something of a historian of the Watergate scandal, a Beatles super-fan, a boxing aficionado, and an admirer of Bill Buckley. In the latest episode of The Jamie Weinstein Show, Rosen talks about all of that, plus his thoughts on covering President Trump, the criticism Fox News has faced, the books that shaped him and much more.
Show Roadmap:
- How covering Trump is different than covering other presidents
- Rosen on his personal interactions with Trump
- Rosen rates the media’s coverage of Trump
- On the criticism Fox News has faced over its coverage of Trump
- Rosen on being surveilled by the Obama administration
- On his “obsessions”: Watergate, the Beatles and boxing
- Rosen talks about his book on Bill Buckley’s obituaries and about Buckley’s legacy
- Rosen discusses the topic of his next book: Antonin Scalia
- Advice for aspiring broadcast journalists
- Closing question: On the books that shaped him