Amy the muchanticipated film, snowden, about one of the most wanted men in the world, hits theateters this friday. Today we spepend the hour with academy awarardwinning filmmakr oliver stone and t the actor who josephnowden, gordonlevititt. The e films release e comes amt a steppedup campaign for president obama to pardon snowden befofo he leaveses offie in january. If not for these revevelatio, we wouould be worse off. Yes, there are laws in the books that s say one thingng, but pers thisis is why the pardon n power exists for the exceptions, for the manyny things that may seem unlawful in letters on a page, but when we look k at them morally, ethically, whwhen we lk at the results, it is obvious these were necessary things. These were vital things. Amy and we will speak with wikileaks editor sarah harrison. In 2013, she spent four months with snowden and the russian airport. Fororking as a contractor the intelligence agencies, he was able to understand this isnt necessarily they are
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose dean baquet is here. He is the executive editor of the New York Times. It is the top position in the news room. He took over in may of last year succeeding jill abramson. She was the papers first female editor. He became the first africanamerican to hold the post. The digital era has disrupted the business of journalism as many of you know and has presented challenges and opportunities. Many traditional News Organizations have reduced staff in face of significant competition from digital outlets. The New York Times has withstood the downturn. Last month, reached the milestone of 1 million digitalonly subscribers. As it charts its path forward, the times is experimenting with a new form of storytelling. The lathest project a tenminute Virtual Reality film that tells the story of children displaced by war. This week more than a million New York Times subscribers received google Virtu
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose dean baquet is here. He is the executive editor of the New York Times. It is the top position in the news room. He took over in may of last year succeeding jill abramson. She was the papers first female editor. He became the first africanamerican to hold the post. The digital era has disrupted the business of journalism as many of you know and has presented challenges and opportunities. Many traditional News Organizations have reduced staff in face of significant competition from digital outlets. The New York Times has withstood the downturn. Last month, reached the milestone of 1 million digitalonly subscribers. As it charts its path forward, the times is experimenting with a new form of storytelling. The lathest project a tenminute Virtual Reality film that tells the story of children displaced by war. This week more than a million New York Times subscribers received google Virtu
Neutrality in 2015 . That is the big telecom issue of 2014 and it will continue to be the big issue for 2015. Fcc chairman tom wheeler said he wanted rules on the books by the end of this year. That is not going to happen. Now it becomes an issue for 2015. In the first few months im expecting the fcc will come with final rules on Net Neutrality. President obama came out in support of reclassifying Broadband Service under title ii of the Communications Act, which would make it treated like a utility. The broadband Industry Groups are opposed to this. Theres a lot of pressure on chairman wheeler to go that route. We will see in the first few months what happens there, and even once the rules are on the books, there is going to be lawsuits from the Industry Groups like verizon and comcast especially if chairman wheeler does what the president wants and uses title ii and then the republicans in congress will probably also have a response. Will they try to repeal it, put forward their own p
Suggestions. One of them fundamentally altered the core of that document. Wwor they were trying to grapple with how the dynamic works and how does the structure play out. Those are complicated issues for people to understand. Its one thing to turn around comments on am radio as much as we love it. For Something Like dynamic reserve pricing to understand how it works and affects your ability is something terribly different. The only thing i have to conclude when i see Something Like that happen with the comment deadlines is the fact that the proposal is being made by republican and if you look at my track record under acting chairwoman clyburn there are any number of areas where even though i didnt agree with the overall framework and nonetheless agreed to adopt it and work within it to prove the document. I like chairman wheeler and i get along with him personally and i hope we have a collaborative spirit Going Forward that but to this point by and large we were shut out on matters of