Today with richard stengel, the author of information wars how we lost the global battle against disinformation and what we can do aboutbl it which was published earlier this month. The subject of the book is one rickl knows well. From. From 20132016 he was under secretary of state for Public Diplomacy andnd Public Affairs n Barack Obamas state department. No one has served longer in that post in american history. From 20062013 he was a top editor at Time Magazine, the publication where he worked on and off as a writer and editor dating back to 1981. His previous books include the bestseller mandell is way, and youre too kind, a brief history of flattery. [laughing] more in new york, rick is a graduate of Princeton University and studied english and history at oxford as a rhodes scholar. Please join in welcoming richard stengel. [applause] rick, it is great to have you in austin. Thank you so much for being here. Great to be here. Congratulations on the book. Its an interesting and c i
I do have an outside voice if i need it. Thank you for being here. How wonderful it is to see you and see a full house for our panel. I will do housekeeping before i start. It will be a 60 minute session, 40 minutes of conversation, questions from all of you. Be nice when you ask questions. Be respectful to one another and our panelists. If you are going to tweet about the event, silence earphones. We encourage the. You saw upon the screen that if you are a member of the tribune and want to give us more this weekend, and you want to renew, we have a three day getaway to the Hotel San Cristobal in mexico. Drawingenter you into a to be the winner of that great getaway and become a member. I will get started. I am evan smith. Panel of this [applause] stop pandering. Name of this panel is talking heads. Either you get the reference or you dont. Its ok if you dont. It doesnt regardless of the explanation you will see here. Gathered on stage are five chosen talking heads, contributors to a r
On would you anoint to carry that responsibility . Thanks you for being here, i am evan smith. I am spending time today Walking Around and saying hello to folks in the audience at sessions that we consider to be fundamental to the success of this event and are the best aligned with the mission. We worked really hard all year long to get representative andds roy, georgia meadows to have an a diversity of ideas and have folks from all sides. We won people in every room to talk and listen to people they agree within disagree with because we think texas and this country will be better if all of us are at a conversation at the parties of our state and country on all sides. We are honored by the presence of our outofstate guests, representative meadows and jordan. We are pleased that representative roy, although he is not technically in his district. No, this is in your district. You are just pandering, right . Ok. Representative roy has come home doing constituent service. Seriously, the se
I do have an outside voice of mindy. How wonderful to see a full house from our panel. I will do a little housekeeping before we start. This will be a 60 minute session. 40 minutes of conversation. We will take questions the last 20 minutes. For god sake, please be nice when you ask questions. Speeches, ask questions, be respectful to our panelists, and they promised, with the exception of rick wilson, to be respectful to you. [laughter] if youre going to tweet about the event today, please silence earphones, if you tweet about is the hashtag if you are a member of the tribune and you want to give us , there is a stain mexico, a roundtrip fare for two for southwest airlines, we will enter you into a drawing to be the winner of that great getaway if you become a member of the tribune this weekend. That is it. Im going to get started. Hi, i am evan smith, the ceo of the Texas Tribune and the name of this panel, oh, goodness. [applause] stop pandering. The name of this panel is the name o
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