The Heritage Foundation hosted this event where panelists debated the pros and cons of existing laws. Good afternoon. My name is david azerrad, director of the simon center principles and politics and the Family Foundation fellow here at the Heritage Foundation. Its my pleasure to welcome you to the Heritage Foundation for this panel discussion. The freedom of the press as all americans know is enshrined in the First Amendment. A free press is a necessary component of republican selfgovernment and a hallmark of a free society. That is not in question. In fact, its a nonnegotiable. Free speech, however, is not the exclusive prerogative of the press. The First Amendment you will remember protects the freespeech rights of all americans, not just those who so happen to have an in a in journalism. The prez, in other words, is itself subject to free speech just like everyone else is. Journalists do not take well to criticism and i say this as recovering journalist myself. There is a tendency
I want to thank the panelists for your patience. Thank you for being here and being with us and were looking forward to your testimony. Rather than go through the record well start. Thank you. So first of all, id like to thank the committee for the extraordinary work that you did with all of the stakeholders to get a longterm faa reauthorization bill passed. It had been a long time since that had happened and everyone came together, and the votes that you received, we are 393 in the house and 93 in the senate. This is a clear mandate to move forward with very important safety provisions for our Aviation System. Among those was our issue of ten hours rest for Flight Attendants. Now, this is an issue of safety, health and equality. Safety, we had been raising the flag on this issue for more than 30 years, identifying Flight Attendant fatigue, getting through other faa reauthorization bills the commission of fatigue studies, seven in fact that determined that Flight Attendant fatigue does
Foundation. Its not like to welcome you to the Heritage Foundation for this Panel Discussion and i will preserve the constitution service. The freedom of the press as all americans know is contrite in the First Amendment. The free press is a necessary component of selfgovernment and hallmark of a free society. That is not in question. In fact, its nonnegotiable. Free speech, however, is not the exclusive prerogative of the press. The First Amendment you will remember protects the free speech rights of all americans, not just those who so happen to have an ma in journalism. The press, in other words, is itself subject to free speech just like everyone else is. Journalists do not take well to criticism, and to say this as a recovering journalist myself. There is a tendency in the media to equate criticism of the press, however wellfounded, with an attack on freedom of the press itself. But i think you can be committed to free speech while attacking those who abuse it. Whats more, the fre
Good evening everyone. We will. My name is allison fitzgerald. I am the 112 president of the national club. I am an incoming investigation visitor to the associated press. Leave the program tonight, i dont think ive ever seen a book he met here that exists this full. Thank you for coming. We invite you to listen watch and follow so long in twitter. Hashtag his amc life. If you have questions, for the authors this evening, please there will be question cards around the room write the questions on the card and pass it to the end of the line and they will be collected and set up to me. We will leave plenty of time for questions. I just wanted take those moment to acknowledge our headliners team. Stan communications, strategies, our staff hit lindsay and would put this if it together this evening. So we are delighted to have them with us tonight. Robin and kate. The authors of the education of brett cavanaugh. [applause] so the book is about three days old. Its been three days of uproar an
[applause] good evening, everybody. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is Alice Fitzgerald and im the 112th president of the press and incoming investigations editor of the associated press. We had a terrific program tonight. I dont think ive ever seen a book around here that is as old, so thanks for coming. We invite you to listen, watch and follow along on twitter clubdc at dclive. If you have questions this evening, there will be question cards around the room. Writes the questions on the card and pass it to the end of the line and they will be sent up to me. We will leave plenty of time for questions. I just want to take a moment to acknowledge our headliners team, the chairs laurie russo of Communications Online with dc media strategy and staff at liaison Lindsey Underwood who put this event together this evening. So, we are delighted to have with us tonight New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and kate kelly, the authors of the education of Brett Kavanaugh. [applause]