And many publications. And mikes coverage won an award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about uber, facebook and other socalled giants for the times and appears often on cnbc bchl krch , and msnbc. The book signing will be in the back and appreciate if you keep the line along the wall to your far right. Enjoy reading, everybody. [applause] i thought there would be 20 people here. Yeah, its all friends, friends and and a fireside chat. A congressional hearing, be on your cspan behavior, all of us, especially mike. Yeah, im not going to curse tonight, i think. Im going to try not to. I was thinking and i think you were thinking you should probably start off with reading something. I dont know how many people here have actually read any part of the book, but i think it would be nice to, you know, have you read a part. Thank you, yeah. Thank you guys for coming, also, and especially those of you who are standing. Ive stood at many an event at this bookstore. By fr
Subject a very important subject as you may know i am a pharmacist currently the only pharmacist serving congress of healthcare something extremely important to me. It is also important to the american citizens and everyone would agree with that. I thought it was interesting that you start by you start the book with the premise that the Healthcare System is broken. And if we look at the polls, think the polls would indicate that. Almost 70 of the people in america say the Healthcare System is broken. Right, i really think that healthcare is going to be the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll just came out from dallas it said 35 of the American People polled rate healthcare is extremely important as one of the issues. We have seen in the polling, 53 of americans support a singlepayer with no private coverage at all. But now 65 are supporting the public option which will be a Government Insurance plan that would compete against private insurer
You are watching tv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, welcome to covered books. Its my honor to introduce to you jim jenkins who was an editor, editorial writer and columnist on the editorial page 431 years. He will introduce our special guest, help me welcome jim jenkins. [applause] in 1973, i saw him first across a loud profane my filthy newsroom in downtown raleigh. Right out of school, i was still in school. I looked across and set to someone, whos that . Thats david. Hes going to be the new star here. He had long dark hair over his shoulders, thick jet black mustache. As a long time ago. [laughter] david is a grad of the Journalism School and a member now of the journalist of hall of fame. In raleigh, he became famous very quickly in the newsroom when a new young editor came in and sent out a memo to the staff saying each order, submit to the editor every morning and itinerary for his plans for the
I think it still exists. Around the time i was writing people were excited about big data. The technology, to collect data on many thousands of projects. They would like to know what is going on at a covert Level Analysis and how people are using their products, how people are engaging in the technology. My third month on the job at the analytics company, the story broke. I had to realize how high up that fetish goes for data and surveillance opportunities and people like to have information. And the information being collected by unknown entities. What can be done with that information . What cant be done with that information . Host is all about marketing . Guest it is about targeted ads, and any individual apps there is usually way for the company to make money unless they are selling data to someone else. And ecommerce site, makes it easier to check out in a way that amazon makes easy and swift to get to pay. That would be a sort of kosher application of user data and engagement da
The most walk us through a peer started with college peer. It was just my 10 year reunion so [laughter] i did not attend i graduated 2009 from Wesleyan University with a degree in sociology. I just read in the wall street journal that 2009 was the worst job market for generations. I had the good fortune to walk straight into that. After my internships and my parents in music for a while i worked at a Literary Agency for a couple of years in new york. After that joined doing a netflix or ebook type. I was there just for three months. It was just supposed to be that i was the person that knew about books and publishing. It was a fourperson company want to join three of four founders. From there went to San Francisco and worked at a Data Analytics startup. At that it would be a great application for my sociology degree. Little did i know i wasnt what they were looking for. I did the 18 months which is probably the longest 18 months of my life. And i really like to work in a Company Buildi