Despite the hiccups a lot of old order news organizations cheering for its fault. They had to fill time for the crew is follow weighing, can you talk about that, why it was such a big deal for cnn . It was an amazing day a year after cnn went on the air. It was only in several million homes that could receive it, cable was not, the animosity of the networks and jealousy and disbelief on the part of the networks than anybody would care about news 24 7 combined to make a perfect storm march 30th, 1981, when the president was shot, there was a crew, there is always a crew, the White House Pool crew was always with the president in case something happened to him but cnn was not allowed to be part of the pool. They happened to be inside, was a time filler for cnn, cnn need a lot of at that point. It is a long story, i detail in the book but it was a day that put cnn on the map in the minds of the press corps and that helps make them aware there was not just is just for the news but in 24 ho
Greetings everyone we have the distinct pleasure to welcome our to guest today author of the furious sky of the hurricanes in america. Louisiana was blasted this week and our thoughts and goes out to the whole area speaking earlier to say many weeks or months to have trouble with the water system and with shreveport and monroe is still without power. So with jack davis today in conversation with our author who is a professor of history specializing in sustainability studies. The New York Times book review calls it a beautiful homage and with the Pulitzer Prize the notable book for 2017 and several other best of list including washington post, npr and forbes. Welcome. Its a pleasure to have you here with us today. We will turn the floor over to jack and lets start the conversation. If people have questions they can bring into the chat room and also to encourage people to have signed copies here at the bookshop they can go to the website we will be happy to ship books for you anywhere in
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Born. How Public Health can give children the future. Shell be talking with Andrew Gettleman so youre in for a good time. I just want to say a huge thanks to perri klass, andrew and the team at norton for makingthis happen at all of you for showing up. So were not able to host in our space but our community is still here. We are grateful for your support and for the chance to make space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar tonight you can see the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. They can see that youre here though and you can react at the top of your resume screen. There are a couple of functions will be using throughout the event that you can find at the bottom of your resume rhonda,one of those icons is the chat. Youre welcome to post your comments in the chat, thats a great way to show your appreciation for the author and to interact with your fellow attendees. If you have a specific question you liketo have answered