amendment. also today creating a national women s history new mue seem as part of the smithsonian. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by rev. dr. haplain, cheryl coleman hall, nineteenth street baptist church,, ashington d.c. the chaplain: let us pray. god of infin it wisdom, of faithfulness of mercy of justice and love, we gather in this place at this by grace and we are grateful. we pray for clarity of blind for the work of service that must be accomplished by each one here. we pray that they will use today wisely, for today will become yesterday and today is creating tomorrow. we pray that broken places are made straight and the bridges we are building are strong and mighty for we must all work upon them. we pray for the persons who support them, the family members as they carry out the awesome responsibilities that bring brothers, sisters, communities and countries. as we gather charged with the awesome responsibilities for whi
you can only focus on a few things. there is the question of what are you going to focus on at your company? focused. have to stay sorting through the good ideas is sometimes hard. other questions? do you see yourself as you evolve as a media company getting to other things like conferences and events that you states stage? we do some of events. we interview people. and it is an interesting way to generate media. it is a trend of live event plus live content. do one more here. just say it. i will repeat it. first of all, i want to tell you that i respect your model and how you went and asked studies of the real media companies. you are right. it wasn te nothing if for a guy by the name of read old illed read chef sheffiled. in his book, reed was the one who recruited all the people from new york and they lived in a fleabag hotel while they founded cnn. it is a great story. i read the book called cnn: the inside story with lots of inside stories with schonfe
master on how to get things to happen. her grandfather was, is the legendary bob strauss who probably was one of the legends of politics in america. before i asked mark to kick it before i ask mark to kick it off, a book is out that i just watched called the death and life of american journalism. the book is dedicated to bill moyers. there is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. you are experiencing it now. thank you. great to be here. i have met so many wonderful people already in this room. thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. i m afraid i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. i guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. it is in flux. there is a thinker about journalism, clay sherkie, who wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, compare
exchanges but no bound so sightly tightly that you re so stuck on the rules, you cut them off just before they say, i killed my wife. sorry, you re out of time. you want to make sure that s exchange. we all function by rules, though. judy, you raised about the topic. did you like the format, one for foreign affairs i think given an ideal situation, you think a president deals a great deal with foreign policy, domestic policy, and i think ideally it makes a lot of sense just to make sure that you re not going to be so heavily weighted one way or another. for example in the 2004 election, when iraq was a huge issue, i could say, gwen, remember this better than i will that may have been a time when there would be when the candidates would want to spend a lot more time oop foreign policy. right now most voters say their primary concern is the economy. so, i think maybe there needs to be a little more flexibility on that. i know candy, i m sure, was thinking about th
doingrnalists had been that work we would have known about it. these are disclosures that are important for the public to know about. spoke earlier about how many different media outlets there are out there now. they are all covering the same story. the things that are exclusive and distinctive are important. there is no better way to set yourself apart. to become somebody who breaks news that editors can get from any other source. was a great conversation. . want to thank each of you we are going to take a short break. we have the newsmaker with the dnc chair scholz. thank you. [applause] thank you. it was a pleasure. coming up, views of the obama administration s fiscal policies. then a discussion on the 45th anniversary of the woodstock music festival. then the changing demographics of the 65 years old and older population. washington journal is live. friday, a look at the continuing conflict between russia and the ukraine. the center for the national interest on