Examines the changing technology on journalism. He is in conversation with Susan Glasser of politico. Also the author of a new book overload finding todays truth in news. It is an honor to be with you. I am a little bit humbled to be given the task of interviewing such a legendary interviewer but thank you for taking the time. Time. Guest thank you, and im honored to be interviewed by y you. You are a wellknown person in journalism, and it is good to be with you. Host we are trying to make sense of the effects right now. We might as well go ahead and start with the proverbial elephant in the room, the president ial tweeter in chief. Once again, they are fairly consistent. The president of the United States said it isnt freedom of the press when others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even when it is completely false. That was not an accident. Its frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. The First Amendment seems to allow us to wr
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Many of the people who had taken to the streets the last few years. Theres been a shooting and seemed like its happening for s one it wasnt one of the massive nights, but i remember seeing that and just, and making a note in my notebook that day that it captured a lot of the feeling that id been seeing and hearing from demonstrators. Host what was your experience in ferguson . Guest so i got to ferguson two days after Michael Brown had been killed. At the time i was a National Reporter for the post covering politics, i was covering congress. A very different beat. And i happened to be free. I had a bag packed. Id just gotten back from a trip to cover a senate race in michigan, and we were having a conversation around the office about, hey, you guys see whats going on in missouri, whats our Coverage Plan . I initially offered, hey, i can call some of the congressional c representatives, maybe theyll call for a federal investigation, get a d. C. Ish scoop, right . Finally an editor said,