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
Pearlstine, van gordons van gos daughter. Welcome my name is doug brent, i have written fiction about the media and i wish i knew these four giants when i was doing my research because we cannot have a better panel for the topic today. I think most of you are familiar but i would like to begin with each of you giving a brief introduction of yourself starting with you dan. Dan abrams, abc news chief Legal Correspondent and for this purpose i cal have media heightm which covers medium politics and my latest book is on theater roosevelt and the big trial. I am rick single, my book is called information and how we lost the global battle against this information and what to do about it. That is the smallest part by the way. I was the editor of Time Magazine for many years and went into the Obama Administration where was undersecretary of state for Public Affairs and this book is about combating this information from the state department. My name is Van Gordon Sauter i used to work in newspa
Welcome my name is doug brent, i have written fiction about the media and i wish i knew these four giants when i was doing my research because we cannot have a better panel for the topic today. I think most of you are familiar but i would like to begin with each of you giving a brief introduction of yourself starting with you dan. Dan abrams, abc news chief Legal Correspondent and for this purpose i cal have media heightm which covers medium politics and my latest book is on theater roosevelt and the big trial. I am rick single, my book is called information and how we lost the global battle against this information and what to do about it. That is the smallest part by the way. I was the editor of Time Magazine for many years and went into the Obama Administration where was undersecretary of state for Public Affairs and this book is about combating this information from the state department. My name is Van Gordon Sauter i used to work in newspapers and then did television and other thi
Im rick, my book is called information words, howie lost the global battle and what to do about it. Editor of Time Magazine many years and went into the Obama Administration where i was under secretary of state Public Affairs in this book about combating misinformation from the state department. My name is van gordon sauter, used work in newspapers invented television and other things and i think my greatest distinction is that i was the least successful anchorman in the history of commercial television. [laughter] and was fired. Executive editor Los Angeles Times and in prior lives was a journalist working at Bloomberg Forbes time inc. And the wall street journal. You are my boss at timing. Thank you. Id love to hear from all of you that if i could start with you, norman. Jazz 19, New York Times ran a headline that said trump urges university racism. The executive editor of the paper called internal staff meeting at which they are deemed to be two fashions. On one hand, journalists wh
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