A pleasure to read your latest book. And it was wonderful to have this conversation. And im hopeful that those watching this conversation will pick it up, learn for themselves and pass it on. Ithanks for coming, everyone ths is my pleasure to welcome mickey huff for the second time. To the avid reader, we had him last year for the previous day, the free press, you know, 2023. And today im going to be discussing the free press 2020 before we have. Hell be discussing the book good discussing i think media and that of thing and then ron opened it up to questions afterwards so please welcome mickey one of the others thanks so much know thanks to everybody here at the avid and broadway in sacramento its always delight to be here and its been a really great place since i since i moved over here from sonoma county, where project centered was founded almost 50 years ago. Project has been around for a while and so im going to probably start just by telling you a little bit about what projects a
Is my pleasure to welcome mickey huff for the second time. To the avid reader, we had him last year for the previous day, the free press, you know, 2023. And today im going to be discussing the free press 2020 before we have. Hell be discussing the book good discussing i think media and that of thing and then ron opened it up to questions afterwards so please welcome mickey one of the others thanks so much know thanks to everybody here at the avid and broadway in sacramento its always delight to be here and its been a really great place since i since i moved over here from sonoma county, where project centered was founded almost 50 years ago. Project has been around for a while and so im going to probably start just by telling you a little bit about what projects answered is what we do just real quickly show of hands how many people here already know about project censored. Two. Three. Yeah ive got so fewer than half, but so for those dont i will just start i will start there. And as y
That if the world is going to be a better place, were going to have to be the leaders to make it happen. I ve it. All right. Well, eddie, brother eddie, this was a real pleasure. A pleasure to read your latest book. And it was wonderful to have this conversation. And im hopeful that those watching this conversation will pick it up, learn for themselves and pass it on. Ithanks for coming, everyone ths is my pleasure to welcome mickey huff for the second time. To the avid reader, we had him last year for the previous day, the free press, you know, 2023. And today im going to be discussing the free press 2020 before we have. Hell be discussing the book good discussing i think media and that of thing and then ron opened it up to questions afterwards so please welcome mickey one of the others thanks so much know thanks to everybody here at the avid and broadway in sacramento its always delight to be here and its been a really great place since i since i moved over here from sonoma county, w
To personally welcome you to the texas book festival in austin, texas when the greatest book festival in the united states. My name is brian sweany, proud member of the texas book festival comest you can totally trust me when i say that. We are here with an esteemed panel to writers that i very much admire for a panel called falsehoods, forgeries and fake news. I often think times person of the year may very well be fake news, something that comment our language. Fake news is maybe the city of houston which is sent to you we can advocate for. Fake news has become so ingrained in every aspect of our lives in terms of how we Consumer Media and understanding political discourse in the large decision going forward. Id like to introduce our panel today an esteemed writer and poet karen young. Kevin young, author of several books. The latest we will be discussing today is called bob, the rise of postaccident fake news. How can you not want to read that . Kevin also started on wednesday as th
Weve been following alleging that the 85 billion acquisition would substantially lesson competition and also result in higher prices for consumers. In some other media merger news out there, the coke brothers are acquiring time, inc. , two titans that have been struggling. To inject some 500 million of equity into meredith if the deal ends up going through. Ride sharing company uber announcing that hackers stole the personal data of 57 Million People of both drivers and customers. They were able to obtain emails and addresses but not credit card info or Social Security numbers. Now, uber kept the data breach a secret for more than a year and paid 100,000 ransom to the hackers to delete the data and keep that breach quiet. Taking a look now at the markets for you. The dow, s p 500, and nasdaq all hitting records this week. Shares of the retailer amazon hitting alltime high. All major markets closing in the green this week. Maria, back over to you. The media has seen drastic changes over