Need to know, one thing that news organizations did not do and they seem to be learning now is that you have to embrace engineers, figure out how to harder how to higher and collaborate with them. The Biggest Online today are engineering companies. They are in charge. Most of the Traditional Media Companies to did not have them, could not hire them, did not put them in charge. That has to be a theme for successful news online. Next anding to happen how is serious journalism going to get paid for since the subsidy of advertising has been. Ipped away have a full consensus either among the three of us which is really why we built a webbasedas platform. We hope others here at harvard pick up on it and that more voices and interviews get shared ng whatan keep documenti happens. Even after we finished the draft of the essay, the globe was sold. The gray arms sold to jeff bezos the grahms sold. There is an aspect that is a rashomon tale. No two people agree on what happened. It was confirmed
Morning. As always, you can join in on the conversation. You can also join us on facebook or send us an email or send us a tweet. This is the headline this morning, front page of the wall street journal we want to focus on the larger issue of transportation infrastructure. Earlier this month the president traveling to the port orleans, saying it is time to spend more money. One in nine of our bridges is rated structurally deficient. More than 40 of the major highways are congested. So is our airspace. Who is sitting on a tarmac wondering right it is you are not taking off and getting aggravated when you buy someplace, heart of the reason is we have the antiquated air Traffic Control system. We need the next or duration air Traffic Control. It would reduce time travel, delays, fuel costs, pollution in the sky. We know how to do it, we just have not done it. That should not be a democratic or republican issue, that is just smart to go ahead and do it. President and his comments earlier t
The Justice Department has suggested that southwest and jetblue, when they locate near major hubs, they drive down prices, and it may be a language problem. They want someone to offer competition. Whether lowcost carrier is the best phrase, we do not know. Delta says let us compete, and we can drive down prices. Host this is from jan talk about how they overbook and cancel at the flight drop of a hat. Guest plans are 80 full on average. Airlines routinely sell more tickets than there are seats on the airplane because they know people will not show up. They are trying to keep him as full as they can, arguing that makes the system most efficient, and keeps, essentially, prices as efficient, or as low as possible. In terms of cancellation, it is frustrating because the planes are full and it is difficult to find your next flight if the flight is canceled. The department of transportation keeps track of those statistics. The airlines have been doing better in the last year or two in not ca
Choice. I it was a storytelling choice, where just bob cochran trying to create stakes. This guy has to stop it. Ment the assassination would be a national catastrophe. And the first black american in the white house. Thats where the choice came from, the choice for dramatic stakes. Last question. Its been great [inaudible] i wanted to circle back to what you referenced about the saudi ambassador saying something that around the world from in africa and thailand and singapore and egypt are viewing americans through television, and i wonder youve already discussed what you think what control do you have about the shows going there and being translated or maybe not the dialogue that you intended . Im just speculating. How does that work . Because, according to him, this has a huge influence in how were viewed as americans. Right. Well, what its actually a distribution model. The question is, what control do we as artists have . Terms of distribution . Do you even know about the running d
Spoke at the Cato Institute of washington. This includes remarks by one paul sun, senator rand paul. Its an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im david boaz of the institute of her trying Something Different you are doing an event after work hours. Well see how that works out, but hopefully its good for people who have jobs and cant come to the events we do usually at noon. Required to have a very interesting discussion of ron pauls revolution. About 30 years ago there was a book published about the early years of the Libertarian Movement called it usually begins a timer and unless we found a cato, that most of our interns and students who came to her seminaries had first read the fountainhead. Not all of him, but more than anything else. I think you can say over the past six years, it usually begins with ron paul. As we get more people hitting their first taste of libertarian ideas and maybe then they move on to read ayn rand and cato policy studies, w