and we have to do more of that. host: john nichols is the co-author of this book, people get ready: the fight against a jobless economy and a citizenless democracy. thank you for being on booktv. guest: pleasure. host: and booktv continues our live coverage of the tucson festival of book withs on the campus of the university of arizona. we re inside at the gallagher theater, but outside there s approximately 150,000 people every weekend, or every weekend that this is held attend this festival, and lots of different venues outside as well. well, our live coverage continues here in the gallagher theater. up next, an author panel on civil rights and the supreme court. after that a call-in opportunity for you with new york times columnist maureen dowd. welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of the books. hi name s lorraine. we want to thank cox communications for sponsoring this. mr. cohen and and the presentation will last one hour including questions and answers.
[inaudible conversations] host: book tv live coverage on tucson festival of books continues on the campus of the university of arizona, which has been the home of the festival for the past nine years book tv has been live for the last several years as well and coming up there are several more panels including in half an hour or so freedom of the press with authors maureen dowd, joe carson and evan thomas. that s what s coming up and if you want to follow along you can go to book tv.org and get the full schedule or you can follow us on twitter at the tv or facebook, facebook.com. /book tv. lots going on outside, but we are inside and for the next half-hour we are pleased to have new york times calm this, maureen dowd here before her panel. we will take your calls as well. maureen dowd, how do you view your job? guest: well, peter, that s a big question. i don t like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. i view my job as a watchdog and times readers often don t
put out is a mess, and it is a mess because it goes back to the previous question, it doesn t take in big ideas from other places that have worked. and we have to do more of that. host: john nichols is the co-author of this book, people get ready: the fight against a jobless economy and a citizenless democracy. thank you for being on booktv. guest: pleasure. host: and booktv continues our live coverage of the tucson festival of book withs on the campus of the university of arizona. we re inside at the gallagher theater, but outside there s approximately 150,000 people every weekend, or every weekend that this is held attend this festival, and lots of different venues outside as well. well, our live coverage continues here in the gallagher theater. up next, an author panel on civil rights and the supreme court. after that a call-in opportunity for you with new york times columnist maureen dowd. welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of the books. hi name s lorra
can follow us on twitter at the tv or facebook, facebook.com. /book tv. lots going on outside, but we are inside and for the next half-hour we are pleased to have new york times calm this, maureen dowd here before her panel. we will take your calls as well. maureen dowd, how do you view your job? guest: well, peter, that s a big question. i don t like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. i view my job as a watchdog and times readers often don t understand that i m not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. i was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. on just going to try to tell them it s like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz . i m going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and what s these people will have life-and-death power over us are really like and where they are lying and whe
developing right now - another corridor school employee is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. marcus cain worked for linn mar community school district. he has since been arrested and charged after investigators image to a minor. minor.cbs 2 news reporter dora miller joins us with more on this ongoing investigation. investigation. cain admitted to sending, what police called, obscene images to a 17 year old student. student.district officals contacted investigators last month when they found out about the inappropriate behavior. the 26 year old is no longer employed by the district and was arrested this week on monday. he was released on a promise to appear in court. marion police say although they didn t find many pictures. th should be careful when it comes to communicating through social media. electronic media can provide another avenue for people to get in trouble and there s only so much that the schools are able to do to monitor that type