[applause] hello, everyone. Welcome. What a great crowd. Thank you all for coming out. I am susan coll and on behalf of our owners and entire staff, i would like to welcome you to politics prose. You can here . Are we get started, youll hear me in the back. If this could be a good time to turn off her silence or cell phone. Also after the event you dont mind helping us by folding your chairs, we would be grateful. And we have microphones on either side. Just write here this evening. If you could step up with your question, that would be great because we are recording this event. You can also watch in a few days on our youtube channel. I am very pleased to welcome Richard Engel this evening to talk about his new book, and then all broke loose. Im guessing you recognize richard is the chief one correspondent for nbc news where he reports regularly from a variety of places, mostly in the middle east and much of the time but they fixed loading in the background. We are especially glad to h
Quorum call quorum call a senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator the majority whip. Mr. Cornyn thank you, madam president. Id ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , it may not look like it now, but were actually making great progress in moving forward with a critical piece of legislation that would reauthorize the federal aviation administration, and in the process make flying safer and more efficient for all of our citizens. Members across the aisle have worked together on this legislation, and i know well have an important vote at 5 30 on monday and hopefully be able to process some of the amendments that have been agreed upon by the managers of the bill which are a part of the managers package. But i wanted to turn to a topic that has concerned me a lot over the last year and troubles me more each day, and that is the use by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton of a
Was seeing, what i was thinking. And so it began. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. This is booktv on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Heres our primetime lineup tonight, starting at 7 00 p. M. , we tower to charles kessler, and at 7 45, elin showwalter take her biograph of the a author the battle hymn of the rub. On afterwards at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, american join co founder steve case speculates on the future of the internet. Then at 10 00, najari receives an award given for a become on military history our International Affairs for his history on then 1947 partition of india. And we wrap up booktv in primetime at 11 00, with the marine corps universitys sebastian on fighting isis. That happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. [inaudible conversations] [applause] hello, everyone. Welcome. What a great crowd. Thank you all for coming out. On behalf of our owners and cav id like to welcome you to politics and prose. You cant hear . Before we get started can y
Continued ms. Miss rating, if the industry executive sits on the board and says there is no problem, please move along. There is no consequence. I dont know if it was intentional but maybe its just a fact of can misleading and fraudulent. Nor aggressive enforcement would be inhibiting the creative freedom of people in hollywood and there would be authors, creators forced to move shows to cable or Motion Pictures, the shows on television would become, you know, not as edgy or whatever you want to say as they are today. Harming the creative community. Right. You can produce whatever you want to produce, but lets do it accurately. Beyond Just Television we have seen evidence and Motion Pictures as well. There was a study by the Annenberg School two years ago that showed there is more gun violence on pg13 movies than rrated movies. There are a couple of reasons for that. The studios make more money on pg13 that are. They will find anyway to get the violence in there. The 2nd is, there is a
Leaked. And it was never written to be leaked. And at first we thought, thats just awful. It was only a few days later that we suddenly realized the power of what had just happened. Because people around the world embraced the fact that the times had the courage to do a deep z dive on itself, which we have done and to say heres what we have done right, heres what we must improve on and within a month i cant tell you how many calls i received from other Newspaper Publishers around the world asking for to come and meet with the people who had done the innovation report because it was a wonderful wakeup call. When dean became executive editor at the same time, one of his first steps was to reach to our business side and take alex and make her an executive in charge of Audience Development. As you noted, one of the great findings was that the journalists must take greater responsibility for building their audience. Welcome to the world of social media. As fewer people come to a home page a