Difference is we are 24 7 so that right now journalists dont have much time at all to go deep. There never was a lot of time to explore and be thoughtful but now it is all about breaking news. That is of big difference. There is also not a lot of opportunity for journalists to learn and grow and become more proficient and more knowledgeable. I think that is the difference now too. Was there something you heard from all even journalists that resonated why they left the profession . I think most of the mcnall of them said basically i wanted to do more and do less. Would you ever come back to journalism . If so what would you cover . I am not sure. I love writing, i love writing books. It is more likely i would do another book. If your are a former journalist interested in the profession, celia wexler is author of Pointe Du Hoc out of the news. Now Ricardo Cortes talks about attempts to prohibit the use of coffee and coca in the u. S. And around world. Ricardo cortes describes secret deal
Nobody runs their household that way. The State Government dont operate that way, but we are totally incompetent when it comes to spending americas taxpayer money. Why would we continue to a 32 billion a year on i. T. Programs that dont work for the federal government. But 60 of what they take out of the pentagon and thats governmentwide. Why would we do that . Were going to have a special Senate Committee to look at this, oversight, look at bad actors in government and demand the people get fired in the company is not performing pay the money back. None of that happens. So you can defraud the federal government. You can do it with impunity and thats because members of congress are basically not willing or inexperienced to not know you want to hold people accountable for what they say theyre going to do. Whether its a federal employee, procurement employee for the company provided. Thats just one example that happened this week. Host what is the business started . Guest my father was i
Colonized in some ways is because of a bunch of old white end men in europe couldnt get it up. [laughter] so there you have sex, drugs and International Relations in a nutshell. [laughter] but i tell the story because what we consider drugs is important. And so when the mostly white males of european ancestry who drafted this 1961 International Convention got to exempt all of their favorite drugs, the ones they were partial to and got accustomed to; coffee, alcohol, tea, you know, all these things that they loved to do. But coca was manager that indigenous was something that Indigenous People used, indians. And it was those racist attitudes that made them say, you know, this is forbidden. This is terrible stuff. But, in fact, coca in its natural form is, actually, i think, a very beneficial plant and relatively harmless. Its a very, very, very mild stimulant, if my opinion. In my opinion. From personal experience i compare it to two cups of coffee, basically. And so the thing thats har
To, you know, the need for, you know, more videos or youtube downloads. And in reality thats not what we should be thinking about as a society. Its really to enable, you know, the kinds of interconnected health care, energy, education policy. And its all going to be mobile. And if its mobile, you need spectrum. Host charla rath, Vice President of verizon for wireless policy development. This is the communicators on cspan. The communicators is on location in las vegas at ces international 2013, the Technology Trade show. More programming next week. And now, Ricardo Cortes talks about attempts to prohibit the use of coffee and coca in the u. S. And around the world. Mr. Cortes describes secret deals made by top u. S. Antidrug official harry answer linger pushing to banco cas use worldwide. This is a little over an hour. Okay. Um, and so tonight we are pleased to welcome Ricardo Cortes to discuss his latest book, a secret history of coffee, coe that and cola a tale of coffee, cocacola, ca