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(applause) bob schieffer, welcome. - thank you very much. - so good to be with you again. - well, you and i have been friends for a long time. - long time. it s nice to see an old friend. - watching what you ve done down here and the role that the texas tribune is playing in journalism right now. you re the template right now you re the template right now for what needs to be done. - well, i appreciate you saying that very much. this book is a terrific tale of tales, right? it s a collection of tales of people who are attempting to solve this problem that you ve identified, correctly. the world is changing, the media business is changing, the consumption habits of the public have changed. what did you find in the course of your investigations, your conversations? - well, what s happened here, walt mossberg, the technology writer who now is kind of the king of the internet, with the reports on technology and what s happening. he once said that when you re in the middle o ....
(audience laughter) (applause) katy tur, welcome. - thanks for having me. - so good to see you, congratulations on the book, it s so great. - thank you! - i love this book, and the thing i love about it the most is that you had the good sense to write it, you were the earliest or among the earliest people on the trump campaign. you had the good sense to take notes, you figured out i m gonna be witness to history, even if we didn t know whether he d get anywhere in this campaign. - yeah, i was there from the very beginning. almost the very beginning. i was, the first rally i went to was june 30th of 2015, a few days after he announced his campaign. i was the first network tv correspondent. right, there were other people reporting on the trump campaign, but it was not something at the level or with the same commitment that maybe your network had made to placing you on the trail. - no, we were the first ones to essentially take it seriously from almost the very beginning ....
were in a film called chappaquiddick? i thought, a comedy about chappaquiddick? (audience laughing) - oh, right! - it s not a comedy. - no, it s not a comedy. - it s the actual chappaquiddick. - it s a look at the story that really kind of affected ted kennedy s life completely - arguably changed history, right? if you believe the idea - absolutely! - that ted kennedy was going to be president at some point, and this might have been the thing that disabled it, right? - oh yeah, beyond a doubt. and it s also interesting given our current political climate, like what ted kennedy got away with, the entitlement and stuff like that. it s a really fascinating look. - you and i are the same age, we re both 51. - 51, but i look 50. (audience laughing) - is that right? you don t look a day over 50 and a half. - i barely look 50 and six months. - so we were three years old when this happened. so i have no memory of it, i just know what i ve read over the years. and i suspect tha ....
the thing that i take away from it is really the thing at the end, after you read the story and you re kind of contemplating the meaning of it all, here is this note from you, the author, a couple paragraphs explaining the genesis of the title. and it s the henry longfellow translation of dante s inferno, which i gather, i m not a scholar on dante s inferno, but i know that this is not the most popular translation, is that right? right. and so you are citing this as the origin of the title, and it goes, if i can remember this, it s midway upon the journey of our life, i found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. so look at that, i memorized that. well done. it s a very elegant phrasing, and the concept of the forest dark obviously is yeah. you know, i find that translation particularly beautiful because it keeps the original order of the italian, so selva oscura, and you normally see that translated either as dark wood or dark ....
helen thorpe, welcome. - thank you so much. - i m gonna pretend that we don t know each other. stipulate, we ve been friends for - a long time, decades. - 25 years, longer than that. and you know, the thing about this book, which made me cry, and i think is wonderful and is the best of your three books is, i m overwhelmed with admiration for what you ve accomplished here. - thank you so much. - it s a great book and it s a great book right now because of the world we re in and the issues that are before us. and i m trying to understand, even having read the book and having thought about what you must have been thinking about, how did you know that we would be having this conversation? - i love that you re asking that question, because the world has changed so much in the course of - just in that time. - yeah, while i was hanging out with these students. - you started writing this book and researching this book, it s the 2015-16 school year that is the guts of the report ....