good morning. thanks for coming. my name is marty kaplan, i m only the faculty of the adam burg school for communication and journalism at the university of southern california. i m also the founding director of something called the norman lear center whose mission is to study and the shape the impact of entertainment and media on society. if you re interested in the hear center s work, hearcenter.org is the conclusion of my branding message. today is the second of a series of four events here at aha. it s the launch of a partnership whose members are the national history center of the aha and i want to thank roger lewis and jim grossman for being part of initiating this partnership. the leaar center and also at usc the center for communication, leadership and policy which is headed up by my colleague jeffrey cowan. that partnership has a name. it s called historians, journalists and the challenges of getting it right. it starts with the premise that both those professions, h
first of all, i spent 20 years on the of other regions of the empire i have seen the aspect most people have not unless you re in the foreign service or military perkun up by a st. paul of the signs of the redng warning signs are there. also is spent so long outside the united states gave me a perspective when iat returned. i understood how with radically the country had changed in the two decades iowa s away those who remained within the borders of the united states those seven more incremental and less perceptible. host: what are some of the symptoms or the signs? the biggest the fact we are following the trajectory of all empires that they expand beyond their capacity to sustain themselves. we have run of the largest debt in human history we cannot repay it. we have done so at the costur of our publiccl education, infrastructure, w orkingas class, and the evidence is physical evidence is all around us. but if we don t radically reach that course, then smile, perceive
and the dissent is going to be horrifying. how did you come to that conclusion? guest: well, first of all, i spent 20 years on the outer reaches of empire as a foreign correspondent. so i ve seen an aspect of empire that most people have not. unless you re in the military or the foreign service. and i think all of the red signs, the red warning signs are there. i think also the fact that i ve been outside of the united states gave me a kind of perspective. i understood how radically the country had changed in the two decades that i was away. i think for those who had remained within the borders of the united states, those changes had been more incremental and perhaps less per perceptible? host: what are the signs? guest: the signs are we are following the trajectories of all the empires they expand beyond their capacity to sustain themselves. we have run up the largest deficits in human history is the bottom line we can t repay it. we have done so at the cost of o
in his book, william argues that the new york times has a liberal agenda that tarnished its reputation. mr. mcgowan, a contributor to the wall street journal and former editor of washington monthly was at an event and two yearslittle more than an ago talked about journalism as dead. newspapers were in terrible shape. we ve gone through a stretch here. you probably saw this morning that aol acquired the huntington post. [inaudible] what did i say? huntington? huffington. the huffington post. last thursday or friday, merdoch announced the daily was going to appear only on the ipad as a daily newspaper. a few months ago, the daily beast absorbed news week or it was the other way around, and we ve seen situation in which there s now some original content that occurs only online. i mention two sources. the fiscal times for those of you who want to follow fiscal issues and those who want to follow new york issues a site called the city pragmatist. something exciting
thing in washington where limitñ are put on what is possible, that are detached from what people want and need. this isn t in my chapter because i discovered after training?pwx again, which is hard to believe÷ because of how they turned again./÷ there was a survey asking how much of the federal budget to you think is to support the republican in the house? people s answer was 5%. now of course, it s actually only $400 million a year that works out to $1.25 or so. and even more so they thought that was okay. so here we are in washington have any political debate where people are fighting over some table scraps and yet the actual audience out there, the actual z voters out there have no problem spending arguably hundreds of millions or billions of dollars more. flash is never the way it s been presented.o÷ they are not aware that while we are spending that dollar now.6xx this has been their approach to this problem, but i think there is a better approach, where we step back