[inaudible] i don t know what has been said, but i would like to maybe so has already raised this point. i don t really see, i don t see how the age of twitter, if that s what age we are in, obviates long-form journalism. first of all i m reminded of one of the great jazz trumpeter s luster was asked, what do we know about jazz? he said it depends on what you know. if you want long form listen, it s out there in many forms. to the extent it is as much as used the, many things besides twitter are at fault. but there, i think twitter can actually be a facilitator to all forms of journalism. i know, you know, listen, i ve also people like stephen colbert just because it s fun. i follow a lot of people because i know that they will link me to interesting articles about ukraine or cyberwarfare or something that i m otherwise going to miss. and so i say twitter you know, used in a certain way. and i assume as most of you, see it as a great facilitator, a new kind of curator that
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disclosure that a u.n. peacekeeping force from nepal was the source of a cholera outbreak. he leaves readers fully aware of how much remains to be done if haiti is to have a brighter future is and it currently is looking at. that is it, they were all fabulous books but one of them has to win the bernstein award. that is dan fagin for toms river: a story of science and salvation . [applause] don t go quite yet. have two words. wow. all right. i long for liz. [applause] wow. long form lives because of people like the bernstein family. thank you very much for places like new york public library that care about reality, care about what actually is in this world. it lives because of people like you that support this kind of work and it especially lives because of amazing books like david and jonathan and fred and sheri fink and we are just surrogates for a much larger population of people who do this work everyday. this is an amazing faint. truth actually matters and when
sugar policy is extremely coordinated complicated. if somebody tells me they don t understand the farm bill i tell them they don t know what they are talking about. these are political decisions that have an impact on the lives not only of americans but the lives of people in the world. so we need to understand the politics and dietary overt goal is to get them into becoming advocates. host: foo next, dan fagin sat down with booktv discussed his book toms river about small town in new jersey that was negatively impacted industrial waste pollution. this interview was conducted in new york city. it s part of booktv s college series. this is about half an hour. host: toms river is the name of the book winner of the pulitzer prize for general nonfiction last year. nyu professor dan fagin is the author. professor, what is toms river ? guest: toms river is again in new jersey, a small city at this point. i wrote about it because toms river was a town like any other tow
really cares about what a difference $100 or $200 a month in food stamps make to a family that s really poor. host: professor nestle, how did you get interested in these topics? guest: first of all, i like to eat, so i have always been interested in food. the very first course that i taught on food and nutrition, you really can t understand anything about why people eat the way they do unless you understand the politics of food. because people don t eat food in a vacuum. they don t make choices in a vacuum. they make choices based on what s available, how much money they have, but their friends are eating, but the culture requires and a lot of it gets into arcane politics. the most arcane politics i can think of is sugar subsidies for sugar tariffs and quote as. our sugar policy is extraordinary complicated. the farm bill is beyond complication. anybody who tells me they understand the farm bill, i just think they don t know what they re talking about. nobody can understa