Journalists are giving up media for politics and books take the fall. Libraries and the domino effect. When examining the coverage of e elections, one of the measures is the amount of air time can debts get. When approximately butiflica decided to run for a fourth term, there wasnt a declaration of his candidacy. He has hardly been heard or seen in public since. He is widely expected to win because for many, he saved the country from a brutal civil war in the 1990s, which left Something Like 200,000 people dead. So algerians are understandably wary of instability. There have been stories of crackdowns on Media Outlets of the last month, one channel, atlas t. V. Was shut down after it covered some protests and gave a platform to certain government critics. Many bypass their media from coverage from french channels, not too many on the ground reports since the government has been refusing visas for some journalists. Outsiders defaulting to the arab spring narrative to tell this story wou
Afghanistan. One doesnt listen to the other. No one has ever been able to tame afghanistan. Why do we think we can tame it . There are things we can do there with covert actions, drones, pet. I have no problem with that. To send our troops over there to get killed and not change anything, not so great. Host dr. Ben carsons book came out in 1990 followed by think big came out in 2000. Take the risk 2008, american the beautiful 2011. And theres a new book on the way. For the last three hours we have been talking with dr. Ben weve got more coverage of nonfiction books and the book industry every weekend on booktv, including in depth, live every month. A threehour look at one authors body of work with your question. Over the next few months, ben shapiro. October 6th, civil rights leader and democratic congressman from georgia, john lewis. And november 3rd, biographer kitty kelley. Along with our schedule, you can also see our programs anytime at booktv. Org and get the latest updates throu
Thank you to the forum for hosting us and all you for coming in all. I am the editor and we are the prod publishers of vijay new book the poorer nations i will briefly introduce him he will talk about his book for a bit. Then we have q a i will kick off with a few questions and we will turn over to you. Were hoping to wait for the microphone to get you since it will play on booktv on the cspan in the future. I get the feeling that a lot of people here know vijay but for those who dont just tell little bio of 39. He is a chair at the American University of beirut and formally for a long time that george did martha tear of south Asian Studies and the director of International Studies at the Kennedy College in connecticut. Are you going back to trinity . The author of more than one dozen but long dash books if you count those the only available in india. This year he published two books one we will not talk about but it is worth checking out called uncle swami called. It is about of south
Now, openly challenging the word of a widow whose husband died in service of the country. Sergeant la David Johnson was killed in niger more than two weeks ago. He was laid to rest over the weekend. Today in hin her first intervie his widow Myeshia Johnson says she still has questions about her husbands death, including this. Every time i asked to see my husband, they wouldnt let me. What did they tell you . They told me he was in a severe wrap, like i wouldnt be able to see him. I need to see him so i know that is my husband. I dont know nothing. They wont show me a finger, a hand. I know my husbands body from head to toe, and they wont let me see anything. I dont know whats in that box. It could be empty, for all i know. But i need to see my husband. She also gave her account of the condolence call from President Trump. What he said was the president . Yes, the president. He said that he knew what he signed up for but it hurts, anyway. And i was it made me cry because i was very angr
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