Political correctness thats crippling our culture and shutting down serious debate. Hes 50 fax will spark. The conversations that will begin to finally undo decades of damage from disinformation and liberal mythmaking. Gi can you elaborate . Sure. Starting this book, i realized that for decades, there have been policies that have just not worked, whether it be in the areas of education or immigration or hot contemporary political things about Climate Change, policies put in place that has not actually helped fix they issues that they were intended to and they made americans lives far worse off. In researching this book, i found scores of data are particularly from gallup, American Voters for decades now and the answers have been overwhelming. American people simply dont trust the media by a margin of 70 to tell them the truth about some of the political policies have created. Another 60 dont trust politicians to tell the truth about those issues as well. So researching the problems hav
Adding this modernization and reform. This is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press club. Worlds leading organization for journalists. My name is Michael Friedman and i am the 113th president of the National Press club. Im a journalist in residence at university of maryland grover. An executive producer of the public broadcasting series the report. The an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen watch or follow along on twitter using the mpc life. For cspan and public radio viewers andd listeners, pleasee aware that in the audience today, members of the general public so any clause or reaction you mean here, is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask thatuc you please hold yr applause until all the head table guess have been announced. Beginning to my far left, john oshea, col. U. S. Army retired, and number of American Legion post 20 which is based here at the National Press club. Kevin, captain u. S. Navy,
As a Capacity Building and fellowship Building Program that takes 2530 individuals dedicated to Racial Equity and takes a yearlong process of developing skills. Teach lessons. Beach capacity and fellowship. Thats the deal. Our other partner is pages bookstore and now i will introduce from pages bookstore. [applause] hello everybody and thanks for coming. I am susan murphy, i own pages bookshop on grand river in the rosedale area. We are so happy to be here tonight and have jody talk about the book. If youve not read the book, its an easy read because its so engaging with the characters in the book. Jody is a Research Professor at the new york university. Previously at Cambridge University, she also teaches Bankruptcy Law at columbia. Shes an elected member of the council on Foreign Relations and a Technical Advisor to the bank for international settlements. Shes received a prestigious multiyear grant to research her book. Until 2014, she was a law professor at Cambridge University wher
Scenes on social media at post boost on twitter, instagram and facebook. Remarkable year for book that have been tackling the uses and especially the abuses of this countrys criminal Justice System. And we at politics and prose have been honored to host authors and poets behind them. The first event we hosted this year at this location was for the investigation of the misdemeanor punishment without crime and were closing with an equally essential look at the way the legal world unfairly treats this countrys disenfranchised and the author target is his own former profession as a public testify. The become called usual crueltity comes from alec karakatsanis. The founder of the civil rising corps, advocating for racial justice. Especially known for come batting the unconstitutionality of money bail, karakatsanis was name the 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public yates and the steven b. B. B wright aired for and as an introduction to his talk tonight im very excited to be welcoming his g
Pearlstine, van gordons van gos daughter. Welcome my name is doug brent, i have written fiction about the media and i wish i knew these four giants when i was doing my research because we cannot have a better panel for the topic today. I think most of you are familiar but i would like to begin with each of you giving a brief introduction of yourself starting with you dan. Dan abrams, abc news chief Legal Correspondent and for this purpose i cal have media heightm which covers medium politics and my latest book is on theater roosevelt and the big trial. I am rick single, my book is called information and how we lost the global battle against this information and what to do about it. That is the smallest part by the way. I was the editor of Time Magazine for many years and went into the Obama Administration where was undersecretary of state for Public Affairs and this book is about combating this information from the state department. My name is Van Gordon Sauter i used to work in newspa