Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
I was looking through some Washington Post headlines recently, and my favorite one was from last week. This is the headline. This is true, not fake news. It is an actual headline. It said this. Can republicans relearn how to accept political outcomes that they dont like . [laughter] thats what the Washington Post was wondering last week. The more notorious headline was , joel alluded to this, was when we learned about the killing of the isis leader. Did you see the headline the Washington Post gave that . Albaghdadi,was austere religious scholar at the head of the islamic state, dies at 48. That was of actual headline in the Washington Post. I dont know your experience, but that was like the best day ever on twitter. Because everybody started inventing their obituary headlines. There was one that said noted great, noted for his special interest in small children, died at 77. Do you know the author brad thor, the novelist . He put up this one, john wilkes booth, renowned thespian, theat
President ial coverage. After that, we sipped on for interviews with two president ial candidates, former governor Deval Patrick and former senator michael bennet. Susan patty rhule, in your job at the newseum, you and your team have been charged with telling the story of the news media in society. We will talk about today about news media and president s. When you think about that relationship from a macro standpoint. What has characterized the relationship between the president and the press throughout our history . Patty it is an interesting courtship, the relationship between the president s and the press. Early on during the campaign, the candidates want to woo the press. They know the power of the press to get their message outside. In office, when the celebration is over and the reality of governing comes in, and they realize that the role of the press is to be a watchdog, the peoples watchdog on government, to see how are they doing the job youre doing . To be a check and balan
Patty it is an interesting courtship, the relationship between the president s and the press. Early on during the campaign, the candidates want to woo the press. They know the power of the press to get their message outside. In office, when the celebration is over and the reality of governing comes in, and they realize that the role of the press is to be a watchdog, the peoples watchdog on government, to see how are they doing the job youre doing . To be a check and balance on the president. Few president s enjoy being criticized. So that relationship for people who dont understand that, it can go very badly. Susan we will talk about changing media over time, and also changing reporting styles. When did the tradition begin lebanese media should be an impartial judge . So much of our history, news reporting was when did that shift . Patty it was a 20th century ideal. In the George Washington days, the press was highly partisan. It was the publishers and the printers who made the case fo
Story with the exposure, she just says that in those days there was truly honest professional journalism in the usa, this character who exposed this whole scam, he contacted, sent a request to the leadership of the soviet union, and they literally described to him, literally second by second, how long this character had been, where he had been, what they showed him, he had in his hands evidence from the soviet union that this character was not. Which ukraine was not, there is a very interesting evolution of this hirst empire. Hirst began his work when he was just immersed in the media business, with a man the last name, which is probably known to many people, pulitzer, the pulitzer prize, yes, and for some time he worked for pulitzer, and then the moment came when hearst and pulitzer actually clashed, because no matter what problems american journalism was facing at that time , this is how i dont know hearsts bulldozer tactics, selling a newspaper for one cent. If you need to sell, smu