War. Booktv in prime time continues this week. Tonight after the communicators, well bring you authors from book fairs and festivals. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern, we begin with Oscar Goodman at freedom fest. He talks about being oscar from mob lawyer to mayor of las vegas. After that, well go to this years printers row Literary Festival to hear about the cooked seed. Then on to bookexpo be america in new york city city with erica jong who talks about fear of flying. And we finish with author and radio talk show host larry elder at the Los Angeles Times festival of books as he discusses his memoir about his troubled relationship with his father in dear father, dear son. Booktv in prime time all this week on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, with the announcement this week that the Washington Post has been sold to jeff bethos, we thought wed take this opportunity to look at changes in the newsp
You can follow the action on twitter. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our guests. Please stand briefly. From your right, dallas morning news. Maria, fort worth start telegram. David callaway, usa today, editorinchief. Adrian garcia. Kevin, washington post. The honorable rodney alexander, texas state senator. Allison fitzgerald. Skipping over the speaker for moment. Bob carden with card in communications and the Speaker Committee member who organized todays lunch. I thank you. Bobby patton. Of thes leader and owner l. A. Dodgers. The senior sector producer and manager of political programming for abc news. Marilyn thompson, bureau chief for thompson reuters. A host and reporter with voice of russia and blogger for the washington post, she the people blog. Rick dunham, a political reporter with the Houston Chronicle and former National Press club president. [applause] it seems now like the whole country was watching when our guests today literall
Still plenty of criticism about the industry, most americans continue to believe the media plays an important watchdog role. As we take you through that reports this morning, we want to hear your thoughts. He of us a call. We split our lineup we split our lines up by age group. You can also catch up with us on all of your favorite social media sites, on twitter and facebook. You can also email us at. Ww. Cspan. Org we want to take you to that report that was released on thursday by the Pew Research Center for the people. Public valuations of News Organizations performance on key measures, such as accuracy, fairness, and independents remain mired near alltime lows. There is a bright spot on otherwise gloomy ratings. Brought majority continues to say the press acts like a watchdog and you outside of its role, the pew Research Notes that story has a charge that goes with it, noting the change over the past three decades when they started tracking these numbers back in 1985. The orange lin
Have been picked by the industry to be here and share information. You are all very intelligent people. We would invite you to send us any information you have when it comes to how we do this better and best and make america safe. Please read the bios. They are all impressive people. I want to thank them for being here. Lets take a 15minute break. Hank you [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] lookmorrow we will take a at the july unemployment numbers and the role of low wage and parttime positions. Then threats from al qaeda with a former u. S. Ambassador to iraq. Hen u. S. Russia relations all of that starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time on cspan. The relationship between the u. S. And russia is one of our topics tomorrow on newsmakers. He is the chair of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on europe, eurasia, and emerging threat. Here is some of what he had to say. It is imperative we have a Good Relat
Tyler is married to sarah olson and they have a fiveyearold son, leo, and a two euro twoyear old daughter willa. Ladies and gentlemen, tyler olson. [applause] good evening, everybody. It is good to be here with you. I am here for two reasons. The first is to see all of you. I see some familiar faces. The second is very simple. Iowa needs a new governor. [applause] as john said, i have a five yearold and a twoyearold. A lot of you have come tonight and asked if my kids are here. The first question i thought would be, good to see you, but it is are your kids here . This is one of our favorite times of day. After dinner, we put on the music. My fiveyearold and twoyear old dance around the house. Not quite in a venue like this, this is a nice ballroom, but around the living room. There is nothing more joyful than a fiveyearold and a two yearold dancing around the house. They dont care if anybody is watching. My wife and i are making sure the blinds are down and the curtains are drawn becau