Welcome. I have written fiction about president ial politics and the media and i wish i knew these four giant when i was doing research for the novel. We could not have a better panel for the topic today. What do you feel is the role in this era of journalism and specific to the times. The la times, are using a Division Within your staff . I think there are several components to that. August, 19 episode. One of which was with the word, racism. Whether that was a fair label for the president or whether as i think an older generation of editors that went to question intent. Given the president s we were never sure if it was racism or sexism or gender issues. And so, that was one part of it. The second i think is the question of how. Weve been dealing with the economic model for journalism that has basically going away. To your point about the president which i call that this information is in chief. There was always a compact between people and government and journalists. They try to tel