Both sides fear there is no end in sight of this spiral of vials. This incident that you guys talked about this morning, Israel Forces shot a 21yearold in the chest with live ammunition, happening right outside hebron in the refugee camp. 200 people were protesting and palestinian Officials Say 53 people have been killed by israel soldiers, thats one every five days. This happened right after no major incidents with what Israeli Police called terror incidents, the first in telaviv. A palestinian man went up to an israeli soldier while he waited for a train. That soldier was stabbed arched died later that day. Just a few hours later in the occupied west bank, only 20 minutes from where i am now, a palestinian man tried to run over some people, failed to do that, jumped out of his car and stabbed three israelis, including a 21yearold who survived a very similar attack in the same spot eight years ago. Many israelis are expressing fear because the number of people who have died in what th
Master on how to get things to happen. Her grandfather was, is the legendary bob strauss who probably was one of the legends of politics in america. Before i asked mark to kick it before i ask mark to kick it off, a book is out that i just watched called the death and life of american journalism. The book is dedicated to bill moyers. There is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. You are experiencing it now. Thank you. Great to be here. I have met so many wonderful people already in this room. Thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. Im afraid i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. I guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. It is in flux. There is a thinker about journalism, clay sherkie, who wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, compared the phase were
You can only focus on a few things. There is the question of what are you going to focus on at your company . Focused. Have to stay sorting through the good ideas is sometimes hard. Other questions . Do you see yourself as you evolve as a Media Company getting to other things like conferences and events that you states stage . We do some of events. We interview people. And it is an interesting way to generate media. It is a trend of live event plus live content. Do one more here. Just say it. I will repeat it. First of all, i want to tell you that i respect your model and how you went and asked studies of the real media companies. You are right. It wasnte nothing if for a guy by the name of read old illed read chef sheffiled. In his book, reed was the one who recruited all the people from new york and they lived in a fleabag hotel while they founded cnn. It is a great story. I read the book called cnn the inside story with lots of inside stories with schonfeld being a major player whil
On newsmakers republican senator john hoeven of north dakota. William adams, the 10th chair announces a new initiative to enhance the significance of the arts and humanities. The initiative is part of the institutions 50th anniversary celebration. The Government Institute titian was founded in 1965 with a mission to support research, education, preservation, and programs and humanity. This National Press club event is about one hour. Tuesday night, president obama delivers his state of the Union Address. Live coverage begins at it 00 p. M. Eastern. The gop response, delivered by joni ernst and the reaction for open phones, live on cspan and cspan radio. On cspan2, watch the speech and congressional reaction in the u. S. Capital. The state of the Union Address live on cspan cspan2 cspan radio, and cspan. Org. William adams the 10th chair of the National Endowment for the humanities announces a new initiative to enhance the significance of the arts and humanities. The initiative is part
The category of things where i think there will be bipartisan support. I think those are very clearly legislative issues that the congress will take the lead in terms of the timetable and focus they will do. Not mentioned because i thought that they were very contentious. As her matter of fact as a matter of fact, on the ledger of putting things in columns of more contentious or greater possibility for working together, i see both of those in that category of greater possibility for working together. I think the question will come back to a point that was just raised in terms of deficits and that sort of thing. As one looks at cost. The administration has expressed support for both of them. So the question is a legislative approach to achieve them. We want to thank you for coming and thank secretary burwell for joining us at new america. We hope youll come to future events here. Not always as high profile as this one, we are really glad we could host you today. Thank you very much. Tha