Ennial Walter Cronkite award for excellence in political journalism. Walter cronkite award for excellence in political journalism. Er, whichn leer cent has administered these awards oute Walter Cronkite gave the first one here in washington in 2001. If you are with us on cspan or facebook live, welcome to you, too, from the National Press club in washington. If you are watching to see the prom dresses and movie stars or them, that is the other media gathering in washington this weekend. But please do stay with us. Looking around this room, i see plenty of glamour, right here, in the middle english root meaning of glamour, learning, unowledge, in cite, and, if yo believe that the actualette tow our, then you bear once to the loop pins of something called alternative fact. Which is a wrong, that Good Journalism tries to right. Todays Award Winners and work ions across and stat the country. I see a number of other distinguished guests whom i would like to recognize. You know who you are.
Ennial Walter Cronkite award for excellence in political journalism. Walter cronkite award for excellence in political journalism. Er, whichn leer cent has administered these awards oute Walter Cronkite gave the first one here in washington in 2001. If you are with us on cspan or facebook live, welcome to you, too, from the National Press club in washington. If you are watching to see the prom dresses and movie stars or them, that is the other media gathering in washington this weekend. But please do stay with us. Looking around this room, i see plenty of glamour, right here, in the middle english root meaning of glamour, learning, unowledge, in cite, and, if yo believe that the actualette tow our, then you bear once to the loop pins of something called alternative fact. Which is a wrong, that Good Journalism tries to right. Todays Award Winners and work ions across and stat the country. I see a number of other distinguished guests whom i would like to recognize. You know who you are.
A member of the National Constitution centers scholarly advisory board, central to the creation of this beautiful narl treasure founded during the bicentennial to bring people together to debate the constitution and celebrate it, and thanks to his inspiration and the guidance of others, today we are thrilled to announce the launch of a new interactive constitution that you see behind you, that we believe will transform constitutional education in america. And with the help of the federal society and the american constitution society, the leading lawyers organizations, we commissioned the top scholars in america to write about every clause of the constitution, describing what they agree and disagree about so citizens can make up their own minds. This morning the president of the College Board and i announced the College Board will make this the center of the new ap history and government exam and will help students learn about the founding documents for the s. A. T. And we want to get i
Print sources that support it. This 20 minute interview is part of booktvs college series. Host well, booktv on cspan2 is on location at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. We are in the Annenberg School of communication currently, and joining us is the dean of the Annenberg School, michael x. Delli carpini. Dean delli carpini, what is the Annenberg School of communication . Is. Guest well, were a freestanding school, one of 12 hoar at penn, and we do research, both research for the public consumption and for scholarly work. And ph. D. Training and undergraduate training on the way in which media and communication influence social practices, political practices, Health Practices and cultural practices. Host well, were here specifically to talk to you about your most recent book, after broadcast news media regimes, democracy and the new information environment. But it seems that for the last 20 to 30 years weve been debating the after broadcast news scenario. How do you asse
Outlets have been breaking new ground about the connections to russia. One of the Washington Post stories calls Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from russiarelated investigations. Trump was reportedly ticked off about this. He didnt think sessions needed to recuse himself. So what happened this weekend . Trump tried to change the story. In fact, he and his allies have created a brand new story line. Castings a purgss on president obama. They havent given any proof, but they have given Trump Supporters a talking point. That trumps problems are obamas fault. They are working overtime to promote this dmartive. Lets take a look at whats going on here and how it start ed. This morning just in time for the sunday morning shows, sean spicer said, quote, reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling. By reports, does he mean trumps own tweets . Because saturday morning trump went on a reckless tweet storm making all