Test. Were really excited to have and we have one with to two authors plus our weekly book club two stories per week and variety of social gatherings and if you enjoy your time here tonight please check us out on social media and ecity books on twitter and sign up for newsletter and hearing cool things that we have coming up. But tonight its our pleasure to welcome doug wad new york best selling author an advisor to two american president s an is one of the few living his toirns to have written about all of the american president s hes interviewed seven first ladies coauthor to book with one. Has entertained two in his own home. A and has served on a white house staff to the assistance of the president. And cofounded with first Lady Nancy Reagan and heres here to talk about his new book game of torns and introduce shortly. After the talk we have a q and a from the awngs and then youre welcome to purchase a copy of the book signed at the back. So thank you so much for joining us. Thank
The book gives the brush over on the history of journalism but the basic idea is you have these factors that transform journalism in the past 75 years. We have had rise of corporate ownership starting in 1946. We had the rise of the World Wide Web chat changed everything for allowed individuals to participate. Then we had have the global collapse and rise of smartphones, social media, and apps. You have huge corporate ownership of the media and you have as a result a flood of information and bad Economic Times which really crippled with the Corporate Media and took a lot of journalists out of the industry whether willingly or not. Media smackdown traces the press back foobecoming partisan priss. We talk about there is a far left press, near left paresis, far right press, conservative left plus but there is a huge group in the middle not be reached by many of those and that swath is the problem. People who are drawn to political ideology are drown to outlets and that tends to shift poli
The book gives the brush over on the history of journalism but the basic idea is you have these factors that transform journalism in the past 75 years. We have had rise of corporate ownership starting in 1946. We had the rise of the World Wide Web chat changed everything for allowed individuals to participate. Then we had have the global collapse and rise of smartphones, social media, and apps. You have huge corporate ownership of the media and you have as a result a flood of information and bad Economic Times which really crippled with the Corporate Media and took a lot of journalists out of the industry whether willingly or not. Media smackdown traces the press back foobecoming partisan priss. We talk about there is a far left press, near left paresis, far right press, conservative left plus but there is a huge group in the middle not be reached by many of those and that swath is the problem. People who are drawn to political ideology are drown to outlets and that tends to shift poli
The book is the brainchild of a commodore, he was a reporter for the indianapolis hartford 25 years, hes a prolific author in retirement and aid had continued the manuscript and brought in jim kuyper and me toward the end of things to bring adifferent perspective. But the book is kind of the brush of the history of journalism, theres a nice chapter on the history of journalism but the basic idea is you have these factors that transformed journalism in the past 65 years so we had the rise of corporate ownership in about 1946, we had the rise of the internet, we had the rise of the world wide web. That takes almost everything and allowed individuals to participate and then we had Global Economic collapse during 2007 and along with that we had our smart phone apps and social media. Youve got the perfect storm where you havecorporate ownership of the media , declining returns because of competition and economic issues. And you have a result, a flood of information and bad Economic Times wh
Their children in school. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff its three weeks to go till election day, just 24 hours until the last president ial debate, and charges of vote fraud and media bias are swirling. Today, the current occupant of the white house dismissed such talk, and rebuked the candidate behind it. It was a rose garden welcome for the italian prime minister, and president obama used it to call out donald trump on his claims of a rigged election. You start whining before the game is even over . If whenever things are going badly for you or you lose, you start blaming somebody else . Then you dont have what it tak