Regulatory Policy on Late Night TV

Ben Somberg

Ben Somberg

Ben Somberg is the former Center for Progressive Reform Media Manager. He oversaw the organization's blog and worked to promote CPR's scholarship in a variety of media. In 2013, he began working with the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards and Public Citizen, and subsequently moved to the American Association for Justice.

June 29, 2010

The second segment of last night's Daily Show interview with David Axelrod featured a couple minutes on the broken regulatory system and questions of trust in government competence in the wake of the BP disaster.

Axelrod: "I think we've tested the proposition of what no regulation means, and what you get is .. the leak, the mine disaster in West Virginia, and you get an economic crisis."