pirate attack. now we have libya. general mattis, who is in charge of the central command is a werewolf. a good friend of mine, but scary. and i ll be amazed that general mattis doesn t take action against pirates in a way that will cause everyone s had to stand sometime in the next month. but in order to do that, we have to recognize we have other uses for these forces. and i think we have enough that we can keep it going. i thank you all very much for spending all this time with me on a rainy night. thank you. [applause] .. word of the two killers at columbine, and eric was a psychopath and dillinger was not. they were completely different people, and as i spent ten years on this book and the question i get asked most often is why did they do it? it took about a year to figure out that is the wrong question and leads in the wrong direction because there is eric and why he did it and dillinger and they are completely different people. so do you want to talk about so eric was
a few months ago, the daily beast absorbed newsweek or the other way around. and we have seen situations in which there s now some original content that occurs only online. i mentioned two sources. the fiscal times, and those who want to follow new york issues, web site called the city pragmatist. something exciting is happening, and one good thing is this web page of the new york times. a rocky start. a lot of good content. the title of tonight s discussion, the new york times good for democracy? a better question would have been, wouldn t have been as provocative, on balance, is the new york times good for democracy? and to that question we can give, yes, but, and no, but, answers, with a lot of variationness between. for that, let me introduce our two speakers. mike tomasky. editor of democracy. a quarterly general based in washington. deserves an applause. [applause] he is also the american editor at large for the british guardian, where he writes a blog,
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whatever. you find yourself 18 years old then. i grew up in a small new hampshire town and always wanted to get out of the town. i wanted to hit the big city. i was always writing. at 18i think i understood that there was only one subject about which i was fully equipped to right, and that was my own life. so i began writing young as my ticket out of new hampshire. what proved to be my one and only a year of college. i sent a letter to the editor in chief of the new york times saying how would like to write for you. interestingly he wrote back and said okay. he also understood that there was only one topic i was an expert on. he said why don t you write about growing up in the 60 s. that became a cover story in the new yorkte in the good and a troubling ways and altman they lead to publishing that book before i got too old. they were rushing me they did not want me to be 20. [laughter] none of us are 20 now but i wrote this book expecting to fly after another but i had
i am absolutely thrilled to have these three authors here with us. as a child of the 60 s about 40 years ago i remember the political action of mark rudd at columbia, and i remember reading joyce maynard and 18 year old looks back on life on the front page of the new york times in 1972. and martha tod dudman has been my friend for more than 20 years. so i would like to a just briefly introduced the panelist, and then we will get started. joyce maynard, immediately to my left grew up into new hampshire and now lives in marin county. her book that came out of that new york times magazine piece is at the ten at looking back: a chronicle of growing up old in the sixties . i had this book. it has been with me a long time. joyce has ridden the second memoir called at home in the world which was written in 1998 and updated last year. in the middle of our panel is martha tod dudman who lives on mount desert island, maine or as we call it, mount desert island. she has been in busin