Economics and monetary policy. Another part of his coverage including the european car industry which gave motivated to write his new book, faster, higher, and farther the volkswagen scandal. Faster, higher, and farther has found an appreciative audience with readers and critics alike and praise of his research and narrative style publisher weekly rights his compelling prose makes the book reads like entertainment more than education and the story of volkswagens fall have the company cheated emission testing devices was exposed by West Virginia University Researchers and finally with public excited by the epa, is a study and corporate hubris. Interest in this now faded scandal may be confined to a niche audience but readers to pick up the book will be glad they did. Please join me in welcoming jack ewing. [applause] thank you very much, marc and its great to be at the politics and prose which i understand is quite an institution in the washington area. The way that this book got starte
In a New York Times publisher award in 2011 for coverage of the european debt crisis. Keeping study in his pursuit as a journalist, jack continued to write about business, banking, economics and monetary policy. Another part of coverage included the european car industry which gave a motive for him to write his new book faster, higher, farther from the volkswagen scandal. They found an appreciative audience with readers and critics alike and praise of research and narrative style publisher weekly writes a compelling prose makes the book reads like entertainment more than education and in the story how the company cheated devices and was exposed by West Virginia University Researchers and finally publicly cited by the epa as a corporate hubris. Interest in this now faded scandal may be confined to a niche audience that the readers pick up the book will be glad they did. Please join me in welcoming jack. [applause] thank you very much. Its great to be here at politics and prose which i u
Decemb december k putting together two companies that in terms of programming are similar. Its not like were going from one network that does reality or that type of programming to sports or lots of scripted work or whatnot this is putting those two things together the question is are you better off putting those two together or in this new age of media trying to go into scripted gore into a premium thing scripted. Scripted. But this has been bandied about. For a long time they were two sort of theyre not like outliers that deserve to get together. If it was going to happen, would put these together for scale thats where the synergistic value is some analysts would question this how much more power does a discovery scripps together have in terms of carriage agreement Going Forward . How much value proposition, if you want this channel you have to take this channel that was more scripps problem than a discovery problem zaslav yesterday admitted we are managing through the new times, dau
That ben jerrys was willing to take a stand on an issue that was not in its own financial selfinterest. It was for the common good. That was the big difference. Business is always taking political stance. Business is a very political animal. It is always lobbying to not raise the minimum wage. Business is always lobbying to not add any more environmental regulation. Business is always looking out for its financial selfinterest. But when business takes a stand for the common good, people stand up and take notice. This is something that is different. That really set ben jerrys on the path to being a different kind of company. And as ben said, soon there after the cold war ended, so it was very successful. [laughter] host i must say, there are most days i have to say i love my job, and today is one day i especially love my job. I got to have this amazing conversation and on behalf of all of us that put this together, we have something for you. [applause] host thank you so much. Mr. Greenf
Worth of firing line episodes but critics. Close to it so shes probably the reigning expert on all things related to the fire line. Please welcome Heather Hendershot to the podium. [applause] thanks so much. Its really great to be here particularly here at the Hoover Institution because the hoover was so important in the research i did on the. Rtant to i was at stanford where the papers are and of course theyrs have preserved all the episodes but the papers and transcripts i really could not have done it without without the who bringser addition great to be here. The ers keeping keeping up to blast me about the book is why did he write it . That people askt this book is why did you write it. The short, quick answer in part is this guy, i have been working on the book since 2011, about a year and half ago it became more urgent as our level of discourse seem to be deteriorating in the shouting matches be increase. It seemed like an important time to be talking about a show that really va