First, the best word for what is happening in america right now is radicalization. Thats what it is. Thats what this hyped up rightwing media machine is doing. Thats why it feels harder to talk about politics with other people. Harder to speak a common language about right and wrong. Harder to meet in the proverbial middle, because some news junkies, some neighbors are being radicalized. When trump lives are calling for troops in the streets, thats radicalization. When they speculate about breaking off and creating their own country. All of this election denialism talk is radical. And yet it is infesting the airwaves. Its everywhere in the protrump media. When a former Houston Police captain points a gun at an ordinary air condition repairman because he believes he is the mastermind behind a voter fraud scandal, that is evidence of radicalization having reallife consequences. These conspiracy theories spreading around, millions of americans clinging to conspiracy theories, this is evid
It is an engaging read. I hope i as a journalist do not have much interest in media criticism. I have a joke about it its hazardous. You need specialized equipment and its best left to the professionals so theres good media criticism and i think most media criticism is trashed and most is indicative of the problem im trying to talk about in the book that is a refuge for partisan we dont want to talk about what our side did so lets talk about the coverage of what our side. So this is not my happy place. But i had an experience professionally and i think we are also having an experience professionally as citizens that this stuff is even the changes that have gone through in the past 20 years its been a lot. Theres beenng a lot going on ad at the time when people are hungry for the learning curve to stephen and for us to get better faster. You talk about what happened to you at fox news when you were left to go after being part of the team that called arizona for joe biden. You do say tha
Potential. Skills every child in america needs, any childhood will tell you this fact and so will ever mother. The first five years of the childs life is the window we have to give the most essential skills for success. Millions of families that are struggling this is an they wont get. The block that youly on, should not determine the success of the life that you have. The is why we need to make investments today to bring affordable prek to every child in america. This gives every child a chance own to make strong sure their hard work takes them go. Far they can every dollar that you invest in it is anducation, important for our overall today. It means more working mothers get to stay in the work force, for their children and stay on a path to advance their careers. The wholeod for economy. Critics say our debt and we cant afford this. I agree we have to do more to the deficit under control. Every budget we write is about we fight for. In a global economy, when were countries and marke
Guest this morning i just ran the 47 and asked two questions. One is, how much depth as they get . How many Media Outlets cover the story and was the shelflife . Still asked a day, week or month . The guns was relatively sure. Maybe a three week. Romney 47 we still havent seen it and obviously, but its been about a month now. Now the stories drop off, but they get dragged back in either by opponents or dragged in by events. Im sure that as they come to the president ial debate, someone will say i wonder if hes going to respond to that. I wonder if obama will a him a question about that. Because the issue is in my mind which of these gaffes are ones we had to Pay Attention to. Do they represent a true character flaw . To be represented in capacity to act the way would like to have them not clarks religious normal things and well make mistakes. So a candidate hanging out in the public and now with the internet and youtube and places like that, but not only distributed more broadly and mo
Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to support texas libraries and literacy. It is a great book to read and to find a word because. H. W. Brands is the dixon Allan Anderson centennial prof. Of history in austin. His focus has been for many years on American History and politics and his biographies and histories include a number of tremendous books. This is the just the most recent. Also traitor to his class about Franklin Roosevelt, biography of Andrew Jackson called Andrew Jackson. The age of gold about the gold rush in the 1840s. The Fir