Things together. I mean, did you say, im going to be a writer, and then all of a sudden you realized that your life was on the internet or. . No, i wrote offline, in print, for about 12 years almost exclusively, and its so funny. Colson whitehead has this recent piece about writers who complain that twitter and blogging is going to destroy their writing. And its actually a split that i never really understood much. I love print, and i like blogging and i like tweeting. You know, i like a lot of things. And so it never really struck me as being in contrast or even being a problem or, you know, it being two different worlds or anything like that. Its just writing. Hinojosa youre able to divide up your time so that you can blog at one part of the day and then write long form at another part . Uh, i dont even think about it like that. Its very unconscious for me. Hinojosa tell me how you do it. Well, im not good at much else, so thats the first thing, you know . I dont really have, like, o
The night that i win the emmy. Being on the Supreme Court was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information, there is no freedom. And its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. Aughter]. Senator sanders, welcome. My pleasure. Very nice to see you, sir. Good to be here. Lets start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. Are you going to run for president . Giving serious thought about doing just that. Youve given it enough thought at this point. Why dont you just decide . [laughter]. Whats keeping you from making the decision already . I tell you what, you make out a check for a billion dollars is that what it is . Yeah. I thought you didnt like billionaires, though. I dont like billionaires, but i do need enough money to run a serious campaign. Right. And one of the problems we have is when you take on the billionaire class and the Koch Brothers and wall street and the military Industrial
So, hard to sum up ten years, but what was it like . Well, i think it was the most interesting period of my career, and challenging, and ultimately satisfying, but it was really the hardest for many different for many different. Hinojosa because . Well, to open the bureau there was quite a challenge. The ap hadnt been. Hadnt had a permanent presence in cuba for almost three decades. So basically it was my job to find an office space, furnish it. Hinojosa hire the people. Hire the people. And you had to hire them through the cuban Government Employment agency. Hinojosa how long did the whole process take . About two years. Hinojosa just to open the office . Well, no. I mean, we opened the office, but it took. Probably took about two years until it was all outfitted. Hinojosa okay, so your biggest misconception about. Because you had spent some time, you had covered. You and i both were there when the pope was there in 1997. But what was the biggest misconception that you had about what
This is overheard. audience applauding deray mckesson, welcome. Its good to be here. Thank you very much for being here. So, we sit here today on january the 13th, one week from the Trump Presidency beginning officially. How are you feeling . You know, it is sad in so many ways, and so much of the energy of the next four years will be spent withstanding an administration and trying to maintain the progress that we have made so far. Im hopeful that over the next four years that we dont lose our sense of promise and hope whene think about what resistance looks like. In my profession, the journalism business, the saying that has become commonplace is, give him a chance, but hold him accountable. Are you prepared to give him a chance . I dont know what a chance looks like when he is so openly racist and bigoted and islamophobic. I dont know what giving him a chance looks like. I do know that there are people who are ready to hold him accountable and ready to withstand the administration an
Hinojosa drugrelated killings continue at an alarming rate throughout mexico, and the violence is now spilling across the border into the United States. Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News alfredo corchado. Im maria hinojosa. This is one on one. Alfredo corchado, you are the Mexico Bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News. As such, you spend a lot of your time covering drug dealers, the traficantes, the narcos, the kidnappings. This was not the mexico that you would have been reporting on 20 years ago. Its a whole new mexico. Well, i actually came to mexico, and my real passion back then was covering immigration, covering the usmexico relations. And when i left mexico in 2000, i left mexico for washington, because i thought the story had died in mexico, you know . Hinojosa the immigration story. The immigration story, but also, you know, mexico now had democracy in the year 2000. And so i figured that maybe the story was going to be washington and mexico city. So i moved to