Here we are with a loggerhead moment in these situations repeat themselves through time and there is a quote from a minister of france that said 01 on not to be obstinate. Of less you ought to be then you ought to be an unshakable. That is a good phrase for the moment we are in right now. With the president that he ought to be obstinate should be unshakable. By collecting quotes and i probably will the rest of my life. Whether a window into a moment of history but a well phrased thought with the emotional residents. A good taken to have on hand. Donald barlett, when did you and james steele start working together . Guest 1971. Host how did you met host when did you start working together . Guest 1971. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. T we would write on theay. Same same day. Almost n knew each other and had day this would happen. Very often that does not work in journalism. Sometimes they dont like to work together, but we tried to experiment. So far so good, as they say. Host why did i
Now everything private about us is not in the house. We we have to find out ways to protect things that we care about and so forth. So we talking about . Well, the names of the organizations of the services that we are talking about, who are we talking about . We are talking about not only states, but think about it, private data affects 800 Million People. It will be the Third Largest nation in the world after china that has its own currency and economy. And yet, there is no revelation about what can be posted in the government can try to get information off of social networking sites. We are talking about companies that made a deal with Internet Service providers in california in order to put their hardware. They could copy and analyze every web search mitigation was just a settlement, but we have to think about the way it our private information has become public and potentially monetize them out there. Okay, so we are talking about the real beginning of this conversation. With 11 k
Doing socalled lowlevel kinds of crime but eventually became the crime boss of new england with his headquarters on federal hill in providence, rhode island. Sometimes people think mob guys are thats not true at all. They have people are incredibly intelligent. They pull some scams for example, on wall street that would make Bernie Madoff look like a piker. But, of course, they had a traditional kind of socalled organized crime which were shaking young people, extortion. Of course, they viewed as just protecting your business from other guys who might try to shake you down. Of course, murderforhire, et cetera. The repertoire grew and grew as a result of their trying to protect their way of doing things. More from rhode island state capital as the booktv, American History tv, and cspans local content vehicles look behind the scenes at the history and literary life of providence today at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. You dont always find many newspaper editors in any era embracing inve
Donald barlett, when did you and james steele start working together . Guest 1971. Host how did you meet . The newsroom of the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was interesting. We were both hired. Guest we actually arrived on the same day. Guest same day. We never knew each other and had almost no contact area are firstyear. Host who teamed you up . Guest someone at the paper, the paper and recently changed ownership, and he was very interested in projects, investigative projects, enterprise journalism, and he thought that the two of us who were newcomers might be able to work together. Somehow or another ordains that this would happen. Very often that does not work in journalism. Sometimes they dont like to work together, but we tried to experiment. So far so good, as they say. Host why did it work for so long . Guest we think it worked because a similarity of work ethics. We both love to research and report. In effect, we both say that means we are of sound mind. Nighter it means we like to
Same rate. Nobody disputes the fact that people can be wealthy and have money, thats okay. But everybody sort of prospered at the same rate. Guest at the same rate. Guest but from the 80s on, its gone the other way. Theres a shift in that sense, and thats whats different. Some people would have you say, t inevitable as part of the global economy. We say, no, there are specific policies that have encouraged this and helped bring this about. Host and you have been watching booktv on cspan2. This is our Monthly Program featuring an author or authors and their body of work. James steele and Donald Barlett have been our guests. Multiple Pulitzer Prize National Magazine award winners, r50 awards 50 awards altogether, so for their work. They have written eight books. Their web site is barlettandsteele. Com is how they are known. Their most recent back is the betrayal of the american dream. Gentlemen, we appreciate your being on booktv. Thank you for joining us as well