Provided the video. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us for what promises to be a timely, eliminating roundtable discussion looking back on the 50th anniversary of the successful struggle to elect newarks first black mayor, kenneth gibson. Elected in june of 1917, is an 1970,stration marked his administration was part of a wave of political to 1974. Ion from 1967 his history is vital right now as black lives struggle against Police Violence against george floyd, breonna taylor, and the attempted murder of jacob blake have found a call for black liberation ball raising familiar questions about the roles of electoral politics and black freedom struggles. Electionago, gibsons came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion in newark, the Police Beating about unarmed man sparked an uprising against White Supremacy and its enforcers in blue and its enforcers in blue in the jim crow north. Racism,anizing around renewal projects, and countlessl injustice, beatings had gone unpunished
Tom francine, did you stay up and watch this . Francine i went to sleep and set an alarm to wake up. It is a bit messed up. That ist talk today, why. Tom for an international audience, to be kind, it was absolutely original. My goal today come cross the hours of surveillance, is to spin forward. Do you realize we are going to do this on october 15, in miami, with the great steve scully of cspan, in a town hall format. I cant get my head around that, but thats what we will do with Bloomberg Politics and david westin and s kevin cirilli, to recoup and prepare for the eyes of october. Francine the focus is on the polls. We had an initial post it will be interesting over the next 24 hours. We will have Leslie Vinjamuri on, polls. Leslie was tweeting last night around four clock a. M. I think she was in a pub with ferro. I dont know what she was doing. Francine lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika it was billed as the first president ial debate, b
Cause. To prove. Only was poisoned with. Us Vice President ial hopefuls. Only t. V. Election debate but it was a flying. Headlines. Transformed d working life as we know it so if you go speak to the president of Global Workplace and find out. With your latest global news update join us again. Social media. Millions of people together how to control what we think and how will leave without us even knowing it im joined today by tim kandel former facebook director online to zation expresident of contrasts and the c. E. O. Of moment at. Tim kandel former phase of director former president. App great to have you with us and i have so many questions for you where do we start. Right so obviously during this pandemic radar screen time on social media is way up i mean do you feel that this increase will be permanent or are we going to sort of when else once were allowed to freely roam again. Its hard to argue predict the future. I mean i think weve seen a surge. In doing this because people tur
And furniture that is full of the imagination yet still functional. But we kick off the show with a balancing act of sorts the sport of slacklining or balancing on a high wire is hard enough and requires a great deal of concentration now add the extra challenge of playing an instrument or performing theatrical now by that may sound impossible but this is what a group of french performers are doing up on high we caught up with them at a church in france for one of their latest shows. Acrobatics at dizzying heights on a high line. It leads to the abbey church of scent and baby and southeastern france. Here the group will do so is putting on a show that combines music dancing acrobatics and puppet theatre with extreme sports. We used fashion which is highly i mean to make a scene india so high and. Yet we just want to bring. Out in the real space. Nobody ever play music before. Trying to. Keeping your balance at such heights is already quite a feat but performing a choreographed routine w
Using technology to complete to compete for our attention which they then sell to advertisers but heres a question from someone that has worked on television for most of her life hasnt he been doing the same thing for decades now i mean i mean weve heard the same arguments against brainwashing its manipulating break throw it out isnt social media just. New sort of t. V. Yeah i think its a great question. There are a couple things that id say one is that t. V. Is just not as good at being as addictive as social media and thats for thats for a couple reasons one is its not interactive and 2 is its not personalize to us right the content that i see on t. V. Is not about my social world it doesnt it doesnt reflect. My popularity and my standing it doesnt it doesnt allow me to compare myself to other friends or colleagues in the way that social media does so social media really allows me it really it really preys on a bunch of things in kind of my animal brain that really get me addicted yo