[applause] booktv is on facebook. Likes to enter act with booktv guests and viewers. Watch videos. Facebook. Com become tv. And now on booktv, npr media correspondent David Folkenflik talk about the rice and near fall of rue bert Murdoch News Corp and how mr. Murdoch was able to survive the recent bribery and phone hacking scandal in england. This is a little over an hour. [applause] thank you. Thank you for coming. Just turn the lights up. You have to make noise every now and then and well know youre there. Right now we cant tell. I get to introduce david so let me just bear with me a minute while i read what they wrote for me. Did you write it for me . David folkenflik has been nprs media correspondent since 2004. He previously covered media and politics for the Baltimore Sun and edited the 2011 book page one, inside the New York Times and the future of journalism. He was covered murdoch extensively and has been a protect commentator in the hacking scandal. His new book murdochs worl
Of opinion with how this war began . And a great observation that history county archives, and can you actually determine what the facts are based on available information or shall we always be disputing these issues . Theres not much to be discovered in the archives. A lot of german high command archives in the Second World War, the russians took some back to moscow, and have not been thoroughly explored yet. And elements within the soviet government knew what was going on and great and discovered caches of documents but i dont think we will come to an agreement, viewpoints keep changing but it is such a complex event. The Second World War is so much clearer. They wanted or prepared to risk war. And first of all, it is such a complex correction of events, and what they will keep on doing is deepening the context so so we know much more about European Society at the time and very interesting studies done, education. What were people learning in their schools and it is something about w
Lab with thousands of rounds of ammunition and pipe bombs. They apparently lived there with their 6monthold daughter. I want to turn to the investigation and new information pamela brown is getting for us. What are your sources saying about a possible motive in this case . That is still unclear and what they are hoping for is to get the contents from their electronics. We learned there were two cell phones that were damaged and found in a trash can at one of the crime scenes. The cell phones are being sent to the quantico lab and we have learned that while investigators found a computer in the home, the hard drive belonging to that computer is missing. So investigators have had to issue a subpoena for electronic information content from the big providers. They are waiting for that. All of this will be crucial. For what evidence investigators are looking at now there is nothing to indicate a clear cut motive. One source i spoke to said this does not fit neatly into a box. There are susp
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