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Generation. Last night the people of alabama elected a new senator to represent them here in washington. So, now republicans who control the senate faced a choice will bwhilethey allow the senator elt jones to take a seat among his colleagues before a final vote on the tax plan . We know something about that kind of choice in my home state of massachusetts. On january 19, 2010 massachusetts elected a new senator to represent them here in washington. The result was just as shocking to democrats as last nights result was to republicans. It also came when weave we weree middle of another historically important policy debate heren in washington. Health care. A lot of people thought democrats should ram through the final version of the bill in congress before become could be seated. I could stand here and read you quote after quote from republicans who now control the senate talking about how unfair that would be, how corrupt it would be and how antidemocratic that would be. I could go on a
The book gives the brush over on the history of journalism but the basic idea is you have these factors that transform journalism in the past 75 years. We have had rise of corporate ownership starting in 1946. We had the rise of the World Wide Web chat changed everything for allowed individuals to participate. Then we had have the global collapse and rise of smartphones, social media, and apps. You have huge corporate ownership of the media and you have as a result a flood of information and bad Economic Times which really crippled with the Corporate Media and took a lot of journalists out of the industry whether willingly or not. Media smackdown traces the press back foobecoming partisan priss. We talk about there is a far left press, near left paresis, far right press, conservative left plus but there is a huge group in the middle not be reached by many of those and that swath is the problem. People who are drawn to political ideology are drown to outlets and that tends to shift poli
The book gives the brush over on the history of journalism but the basic idea is you have these factors that transform journalism in the past 75 years. We have had rise of corporate ownership starting in 1946. We had the rise of the World Wide Web chat changed everything for allowed individuals to participate. Then we had have the global collapse and rise of smartphones, social media, and apps. You have huge corporate ownership of the media and you have as a result a flood of information and bad Economic Times which really crippled with the Corporate Media and took a lot of journalists out of the industry whether willingly or not. Media smackdown traces the press back foobecoming partisan priss. We talk about there is a far left press, near left paresis, far right press, conservative left plus but there is a huge group in the middle not be reached by many of those and that swath is the problem. People who are drawn to political ideology are drown to outlets and that tends to shift poli
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Schapiro express important that the action on a stock frank. Chairman schapiro said the libel make markets more transparent, stable and efficient. From George Washington University Law school, and this is 45 minutes. Good morning. I am paul berman, 19 of the law school as art said and i want to welcome you to this conference and obviously welcome Mary Schapiro, chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission. So one of the things that i think makes this law school, the George Washington University Law school distinctive and different from other top law schools is the degree to which we are integrated into the real world of law and policy practice in this country. So one of the things we are always striving to do this not be an ivory tower Academic Institution solely, but also one that is always trying to engage the practicing bar, people from corporations, people who are not lawyers in the educational enterprise and also when Public P