VIDEO: Succession Insider Frank Rich on How the Final Season Mirrors a Changing Media FULL INTERVIEW 

The full video interview of Frank Rich, an executive producer on HBO's Succession, with David Sirota in the latest episode of the Lever Time podcast. Rich describes the detailed process of creating the final season with show creator Jesse Armstrong and the team of writers. As a writer for New York magazine on politics and media, Rich describes how all the current, rapid changes in journalism and media are reflected in the show, and the ways that all the major TV news organizations from CBS News,to CNN have "all been terribly compromised [and] removed from their original mission, for the most part." David also asks about the conflicted feelings that the “intellectual fascist” character Jeryd Mencken evokes in the context of all the other characters.
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