I think were good. Jorge good afternoon and welcome to the ninth bienial alter cronkite award for excellence in television journalism. Im marty kaplan and on the faculty for school and journalism at the university of southern california, where im the director of the norm lear center, which has administered these awards since Walter Cronkite gave out the first one here in washington in 2001. If you are with us on cspan or facebook live, welcome to you, too, from the National Press club in washington. If you are watching to see the proposal dresses and movie stars or absence of them, thats the other media gathering in washington this weekend. But please do stay with us. Looking around this room, i see lenty of glamour right here in the middle english root meaning of glamour, learning, knowledge, insight. And if you believe that the of glamour that you bear witness to something called alternative facts, which is a wrong that Good Journalism tries to right. Todays Award Winners and network
Our set at the Convention Center , the Wright Brothers is the most recent book. The most recent bestseller, esther mccullough, who funded the right brothers. Guest they did. The only funding they had is what they took from their modest earnings from their bicycle shop. They not only funded their efforts but they virtually made everything they were in need of to create the first flyers they built of the first flying machine as they called it. With the exception of the block for the motor which was made of aluminum it was their idea and that was made for them in a small Startup Company as we would call it today in pittsburgh. Alcoa, Aluminum Company of america. It was the first aluminum engine ever built. When it was first used the box split. Rather than saying thats not going to work, they said build another one. So the second one didnt split and produce more horsepower than they expected. So they had a great capacity to solve problem but when something didnt work they didnt give up. Th