Welcome. And we are delighted to have all of you with this today. The committee gathers to examine this state of the television and video marketplace. Im glad to convened this hearing with my colleague, se senator cantwell, hours established panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. The honorable michael powell, president and ceo of an cta the internet and television association. The honorable gordon smith, president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters and our former colleague. Mr. David kinney, ceo of nielsen. Mr. Craig aaron, president and ceo of free press. Americans are living in the golden age of television. Weve never had more choices and access to video content. When viewers tend to be home at a certain time to watch their favorite show, they are gone. Television experience is moving away from dependence on fixed schedules, programming links and the confines of the Family Living room. With the development of overthetop technology, digital programming and s
Quite extraordinary polarization and division and in the book you advance this this quite controversial claim that the us is closer to civil war. Then many of us would like to think or believe and what i thought it would make sense to do is we get launched is to give you a chance to simply lay out what your argument is in broad terms and and then we can we can dig into bits and pieces of it as we as we go along. Yeah, so my argument comes from studying civil wars for the last 30 years. Ive looked at all regions all countries that have experienced civil wars since the end of world war ii and there have been over 200 of them and one of the things that weve learned is that they tend to they tend to break out in similar ways and and the same factors emerge in the in the lead up to these wars no matter where they happen. And then in 2017 i was invited to serve on the us Governments Task force. They have a task force called the Political Instability Task force and i served on that task force
Quite extraordinary polarization and division and in the book you advance this this quite controversial claim that the us is closer to civil war. Then many of us would like to think or believe and what i thought it would make sense to do is we get launched is to give you a chance to simply lay out what your argument is in broad terms and and then we can we can dig into bits and pieces of it as we as we go along. Yeah, so my argument comes from studying civil wars for the last 30 years. Ive looked at all regions all countries that have experienced civil wars since the end of world war ii and there have been over 200 of them and one of the things that weve learned is that they tend to they tend to break out in similar ways and and the same factors emerge in the in the lead up to these wars no matter where they happen. And then in 2017 i was invited to serve on the us Governments Task force. They have a task force called the Political Instability Task force and i served on that task force
Quite extraordinary polarization and division and in the book you advance this this quite controversial claim that the us is closer to civil war. Then many of us would like to think or believe and what i thought it would make sense to do is we get launched is to give you a chance to simply lay out what your argument is in broad terms and and then we can we can dig into bits and pieces of it as we as we go along. Yeah, so my argument comes from studying civil wars for the last 30 years. Ive looked at all regions all countries that have experienced civil wars since the end of world war ii and there have been over 200 of them and one of the things that weve learned is that they tend to they tend to break out in similar ways and and the same factors emerge in the in the lead up to these wars no matter where they happen. And then in 2017 i was invited to serve on the us Governments Task force. They have a task force called the Political Instability Task force and i served on that task force
Quite extraordinary polarization and division and in the book you advance this this quite controversial claim that the us is closer to civil war. Then many of us would like to think or believe and what i thought it would make sense to do is we get launched is to give you a chance to simply lay out what your argument is in broad terms and and then we can we can dig into bits and pieces of it as we as we go along. Yeah, so my argument comes from studying civil wars for the last 30 years. Ive looked at all regions all countries that have experienced civil wars since the end of world war ii and there have been over 200 of them and one of the things that weve learned is that they tend to they tend to break out in similar ways and and the same factors emerge in the in the lead up to these wars no matter where they happen. And then in 2017 i was invited to serve on the us Governments Task force. They have a task force called the Political Instability Task force and i served on that task force