op-ed of the year. while big papers like the times are thriving, local papers continue to close up shop. and some digital start-ups are flailing, too. the media business is in a state of revolution. and that s partly because tech giants like facebook and google control so much of the media environment right now. it s also partly because you are choosing to consume news in new ways. that makes it an incredible and stressful time for my panelists. joining me now, kathleen carol. she s the board chair at the committee to protect journalists. matt murray, the editor in chief of the wall street journal, and sally buzbee, the executive editor of the associated press. thanks, everybody, for being here. thanks for having us. sally, as the editor of the world s biggest news organization, what changed this year? what was different about 2018? i think there has been a lot of focus this year on the safety and security of journalists. some of that has been very naval gazing, but a lot of
reagan. they both talk about the future. in fact, i would submit the proper state of the republican party is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. the most successful presidents have been per pech yulely advocating a political revolution. rethinking things they already knew about and finding education. talk about the things you had access to to find a life in the period we found before. thanks, mark. i had exclusive access to files at the reagan library that weren t made available to anybody else.
going to be an injection of muslim brotherhood leadership into the arab world. people were predicting this was the beginning of the long talked about caliphate in the region. things have changed. the people of egypt want this thing called quality of life. they didn t like islamic laws being implemented. they didn t like the fact the economy was in the toilet, education was nonexistent and tourism insreubl. now they are calling for the president to leave and the military weighed in and they put the president on a deadline to meet with their opposition, especially emphasizing the youth who they say brought on this continuous state of revolution. gretchen: he s not going to do that. he s saying i was democratically elected to run this country, and so he s rejecting what the military is asking of him. i think it s fascinating because remember when this happened, guys, we talked on this couch about is this