How much you want them to ensure that we can continue to get Library Services and please, when we put out a call that we need your support, please do so. We dont have money for pacs, we dont have a lot of money, we are not wealthy people. So we depend on what you call grassroots and that is normal people picking up the phone or emailing their member of congress or their senator or their governor and saying we want you to support libraries. The mayor, the governor, the United States Congress Needs to know that and respect that and make sure that that happens going forward. And that a takes hundreds and thousands of calls from people like you. I couldnt have said it better. What a great point. We have, i think, time for maybe a question or two. Does anybody in the audience have a question . If not, i will go on. Its not a question, but i wanted to thank you very much for your comment about dr. Carla hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a ques
They must have had really good radar. We said showers, but it was a constant rain. It did not let up all afternoon. All right. A couple of things, number one, theyre playing the astros of houston, otherwise known as the Houston Astros and who remembers their old, tiny uniform from the 70s . I thought this was the coolest as a kid. Look at that color. They dont wear anything like this anymore. For good reason. Look at the colors on that. It was of its era. What else . Houston astros, National League team. I always notice that, it doesnt seem right on some level. You had to wait til the world series for that to happen in the old days. Hey, remember when we were at yankee stadium, and we had so much fun. We ran all over the mace. We were there many times, one day for good day at the game, another time we played a Charity Event there. And we interviewed this gentleman, and then they let us run the ballfield for some reason. I dont think they let you, i think you took it upon yourself rosan
Recounts the competition between the right brothers and Glenn Curtiss to be the man in flight. This is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. We would like to welcome you all to the rogers memorial library. My name is penny right im the director of adult programs and we are very delighted to have our discussion tonight by an esteemed acclaimed author. We would like to thank cspan book tv for being here with us this evening and when we progress to the question and answer segment, we will have a handheld microphone for you all to use to ask your questions. We are also grateful to our local independent bookstore for being here this evening as well. We are most happy and grateful however to our visitor and guest laurents goldstone lawrence goldstone. Hes the coauthor of more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction. Six written with his wife, nancy, and has written extensively on both american and european history. Larry has been widely interviewed on radio an
Bastion of cnbc asia for 20 years and ive brother at the wall street journal. So my question is, we used a kind of joke at cnbc that someday we would all be working for murdoch and media and im going to end on the larger question which is do you think that is the case and the future of objective journalism as we know it collects what is your view on it . I sort of have a negative view and im hoping you have a more positive view so we can be positive going forward. The charge we came in here with was answer the question can brew per murdoch save journalism and you can work that in as well. Its interesting, is he a savior for journalism now . No. Has he sustained excellent reporting done a number of his raw jax . Absolutely. Did he do it with an idea philanthropist in so doing more public minded lex i think less so as he wanted to be part of helping shape the conversation with the elites and the public into the determine outcomes with top officials. Very Good Journalism happened as a con
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