That all happens starting next on cspan2s booktv. And now on booktv, jon ronson takes a look at public shaming in the internet age and the impact its had on the lives of people who have been targeted. [inaudible conversations] hi, everyone. Id like to welcome you to book court. Thank you so much for coming. Were very excited to have jon ronson here with us tonight. He is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and best selling author of the psychopath test, lost at sea them, and the men who stare at goats. His writing has appeared in many places including the guardian, New York Times, vanity fair, gq and others. He contributes regularly to this american life, and we are very excited to have him here to talk about his new book, so youve been publicly shamed. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming jon ronson. [applause] hi. Thank you very much for coming. I thought id start by telling you the story of the worst thing that i ever did. [laughter] its not in the book. It was too painf
They were not changed. [indiscernible] he read them, i did not see them. There were three basic points. There was a demonstration that grew into a larger violent attack. Very early, we are still trying to figure out what is going on. I forget what 0. 3 was. We did not know who did it. To. Point today we still do not know exactly who did it. It is not a peer it was preplanned. Truck bomb and fall that was clearly an al qaeda planned attack. This was a group of armed terrorists and libya who in a matter of hours there together and armed assault. But we are trying to figure out is what kind of terrorist attack it was. It is regrettable this has become so partisan and political when we have serious questions to answer. [indiscernible] time. We will get a chance to see it. Anyway, we had time. We just did not have enough time to show it. Apparently it takes half an hour. I think it was just for the chair and rankings on the key committees and subcommittees on Armed Services and pre tell. [i
Disaster that left 11 men dead and resulted in the worst offshore oil spill in u. S. History. That announcement is where we want to begin with you this morning. What are your thoughts on the recordsetting 4. 50 million fine and the recovery effort in the gulf. Give us a call on the democratic line or the republican line or the independent line. Host you can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media sites on twitter, facebook and email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good morning to you. Want to begin as we said with that 4. 5 billion fine of b. P. Over the oil spill from 2010. Heres the front page of the Houston Chronicle this morning. B. P. Stock with 4. 5 billion fines. The column notes that finally justice for 11 lyes lost. Another headline, b. P. Pleads guilty, a picture of the deep water horizon rig there from the incident. And want to take you to the advocate also in louisiana. Oil firm to plead guilty to charges in death. B. P. Agrees to pay out 4. 5 billion in de
Audience. Thats our show. Join us tomorrow night at 11 00. Here it is your moment of zen. Here with reaction author columnist eric rush civil rights attorney, radio talk show host you dont even have the decency not to interrupt somebody you are an embarrassment, sir. Shut up. Please shut captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. Come on. Stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen cheers and applause thank you, ladies and gentlemen. cheers and applause thank you so much. Please, sit down. Folks, folks as a great lady once said we got to hang out. Well, merry christmas, everybody. As with you see i have fully incringe eled my set for the week. I have candy cane columns back there. I have my two big balls right down here. I have poinsettias all back there, festive and deadly. laughter but lets not f
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