War. Booktv in prime time continues this week. Tonight after the communicators, well bring you authors from book fairs and festivals. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern, we begin with Oscar Goodman at freedom fest. He talks about being oscar from mob lawyer to mayor of las vegas. After that, well go to this years printers row Literary Festival to hear about the cooked seed. Then on to bookexpo be america in new york city city with erica jong who talks about fear of flying. And we finish with author and radio talk show host larry elder at the Los Angeles Times festival of books as he discusses his memoir about his troubled relationship with his father in dear father, dear son. Booktv in prime time all this week on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, with the announcement this week that the Washington Post has been sold to jeff bethos, we thought wed take this opportunity to look at changes in the newsp
You can follow the action on twitter. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our guests. Please stand briefly. From your right, dallas morning news. Maria, fort worth start telegram. David callaway, usa today, editorinchief. Adrian garcia. Kevin, washington post. The honorable rodney alexander, texas state senator. Allison fitzgerald. Skipping over the speaker for moment. Bob carden with card in communications and the Speaker Committee member who organized todays lunch. I thank you. Bobby patton. Of thes leader and owner l. A. Dodgers. The senior sector producer and manager of political programming for abc news. Marilyn thompson, bureau chief for thompson reuters. A host and reporter with voice of russia and blogger for the washington post, she the people blog. Rick dunham, a political reporter with the Houston Chronicle and former National Press club president. [applause] it seems now like the whole country was watching when our guests today literall
Still plenty of criticism about the industry, most americans continue to believe the media plays an important watchdog role. As we take you through that reports this morning, we want to hear your thoughts. He of us a call. We split our lineup we split our lines up by age group. You can also catch up with us on all of your favorite social media sites, on twitter and facebook. You can also email us at. Ww. Cspan. Org we want to take you to that report that was released on thursday by the Pew Research Center for the people. Public valuations of News Organizations performance on key measures, such as accuracy, fairness, and independents remain mired near alltime lows. There is a bright spot on otherwise gloomy ratings. Brought majority continues to say the press acts like a watchdog and you outside of its role, the pew Research Notes that story has a charge that goes with it, noting the change over the past three decades when they started tracking these numbers back in 1985. The orange lin
Have been picked by the industry to be here and share information. You are all very intelligent people. We would invite you to send us any information you have when it comes to how we do this better and best and make america safe. Please read the bios. They are all impressive people. I want to thank them for being here. Lets take a 15minute break. Hank you [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] lookmorrow we will take a at the july unemployment numbers and the role of low wage and parttime positions. Then threats from al qaeda with a former u. S. Ambassador to iraq. Hen u. S. Russia relations all of that starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time on cspan. The relationship between the u. S. And russia is one of our topics tomorrow on newsmakers. He is the chair of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on europe, eurasia, and emerging threat. Here is some of what he had to say. It is imperative we have a Good Relat
Grandmother fainted. Right back into the arms of the president. He caught her tenderly and gently. The encore presentation of first ladies, looking at the public and private lives of our nations first ladies. Next week, Anna Harrison to eliza johnson. Cspan, we bring Public Affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings on the white house events, briefings, and conferences and offering complete coverage of the u. S. House, all as a Public Service of private industry. Industryy the cable tv 34 years ago and funded by your local cable or satellite providers. You can watch us in hd. A look at the Defense Departments budget cuts under sequestration and the impact of those cuts on military readiness and strategy. The pentagon will have to cut 500 billion over the next decade. The discussion was hosted by the brookings institution. Good morning. Called dissecting the pentagon strategic choices and management review. I am marvin calvin. I am