Hello, everyone. Welcome to lawrence park. I am so happy to be here with Courtney Martin and you can all be here with us. I want to say trent tillis, one of the cofounders of our project, is Courtney Martins editor on the blog, he is said he cant be here, he is sick today. I want to bring his name in here. Envious. Host Courtney Martin send an email yesterday. When we planned this we were not looking at the calendar saying what is happening that week . Courtney martin emailed yesterday and said should we do this . Should we have a book launch at a salon to talk about the new better off reinventing the American Dream in this unsettling election, unsettled Political Landscape . I said absolutely. Because of what happened this weekend how unsettled we are, it is important to sit together and talk about things that matter to us. I was thinking this morning about introducing Courtney Martin and i wont do a big introduction, you can read her credentials. I love what she brings to our media s
Hudible conversations] hello. I am so happy to be here with Courtney Martin and you can be here with us. One of the cofounders of the project is very sad he cannot be here, he is sick today. Courtney cent and email yesterday we were not looking at the calendar to say what is happening this weekend chief meld yesterdays and said it should redo this . Should be have a book launche to talk about the new better off in the week that it is momentous and the unsettling landscape . And i said absolutely because of what happened andd how unsettled puerto rico it is important we sit together in a room and talk about what matters to us. So i will not do the big introduction you can read her credentials and i love the presence that she brings to our media space on her blog that is eliminating for everybody reading it. Per rigour as a journalist and a thought leader and also a human being. Somehow i want to introduce courtney is i love her. Y. [laughter] she is a journalist, but she is a new journa
I guess when we planned this we were not looking at the calendar of things. Courtney emailed and sent should we do this and have a book launch to talk about the new better off in this unsettling political landscape. Because of what happened this weekend how unsettled we are, its important that we sit together and talk about things that matter to us. I was sitting down this morning thinking about how to introduce her. You can read all of her credentials. She looks at what is so wife giving and eliminatin illuminat. She is in her full message every week. I wrote down how i want to introduce courtney and im so glad shes here because i love her. Ou [laughter] she is a journalist, but she is a new journalist and is one of the people that is modeling and innovating and incubating new forms of journalism for the 21st century. All of the institutions right now in the early 21st century things that made sense and seems to be were even ten years ago doesnt make sense anymore. One of the things w
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