Sunday, February 16, 2003 5:58 PM
Former Press Club president and Adelphia public affairs host Bill Rosendahl is moving into another prominent role in the Los Angeles political world, but this time it’s from the other side of the fence.
He’s running for Los Angeles City Council, and will for the first time in his long career be the person answering the pointed questions instead of the guy asking them.
Rosendahl is well known in Los Angeles for his frequent work as a moderator or questionerat high-profile political panels and debates. He moderated the Press Club’s 2003 Gubernatorial Recall Debate, which was televised on C-SPAN and broadcast on every national network. Rosendahl was widely respected as the longtime host of Adelphia’s weekly public interest talk shows, “Week in Review,” “Local Talk,” and “Beyond the Beltway,” which featured guests ranging from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein to pundit Arianna Huffington.
Says Rosendahl, “For the last 16 years I’ve been a TV journalist asking questions and learning alot about the national and local landscape, and now I think it’s time to look for answers. I’m doing that by creating a non-parti- san coalition and learning the incredible mix of issues in my district.” Rosendahl is running to replace Los Angeles City Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski in the 11th District that takes up much of coastal Los Angeles. Miscikowski is step- ping down after eight years on the City Council because of term limits.
While Rosendahl is confronted with all kinds of new experiences—-having to fundraise for his campaign, for example—-he is also teaching classes on media and politics at Cal State
University Dominguez Hills.
His class, part of which is taught in a television studio, has gotten rave reviews from CSUDH officials for its use of well- known political pundits and political figures, who travel to the campus to explain the political and media process to students. The classes are televised on educational access channels in 125 communities reaching 7 million television sets statewide.
