Welcome to the Katie Halper Show. On today's show I speak to Dave Karp, the professor who dubbed Brett

Brett Stevens the Bed Bug and caused Brett Stevens to get off Twitter so which is an

impressive goal in itself I also by the way I have a new podcast that I'm doing

with none other than Matt Taibi. It's called

Useful Idiots. You can rate and review that on iTunes and subscribe. I hope you will.

And I bring that up not just to plug it but also because on this week's

episode we speak to Ellie Valley about the Brett

Stevens controversy and Ellie is an amazing artist and he drew with Brett

Stevens and he also shares his personal interactions with Brett Stevens so you'll definitely

want to hear that too. Also I have a bonus episode with Dave that you should

listen to where we talk more about media bias, we talk more about how that works or doesn't work, and also he answers your questions from Twitter.

Thank you so much, Professor Dave Karp for joining me for making your debut on the Katie Halper show.

Happy to be here.

Yeah, we've, I met you years ago, was it, Newroots Nation? Is that how I met you first?

Netroots Nation and I think we went to drinking literally in New York together for

Oh right, yes. So you used to live in New York and now you relocated to DC?

Yeah, I was a professor at Rutgers for two years, 2010 to 2012,

and just lived in Brooklyn and took a very long train commute.

And then I moved to George Washington University in 2012.

Got it. I'll read your bio for listeners.

Dave Karp is an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs

at George Washington University, where of Communication and Information.

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