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Him all throughout. I love his humor. And i mentioned commonsense. Hes delightful. He always makes me laugh, even now, and ive been writing about them for about 25 years. What should occur to journalist take from his career . Well, i think they should have the courage to say what they want to say, not always be waiting to see how it is being received. Also, he gets a lot of shoe leather. I think in this age of the internet, people are rushed to. They dont have the time to do their research. Pages to the interview on to look it up quickly. He was always, as i say, putting the issue to the pavement. Always researching, al always gg out there and doing the interview. What do you think his impression would be of our current state of news in american . I think he would be very depressed. Very depressed. And i think he would be very saddened to see that print journalism is being subjugated by television and by the internet. [inaudible] why . Because as i mentioned earlier, i dont think peopl
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. This weekend on booktv Arthur Brooks is live on in depth. Jason so kill sits down on after words, nick childs and robinship advise africanamericans on how to deal with police and the criminal Justice System in the u. S. , robert baer provides a history of political assassinations and a literary tour of waco, texas. Check out our full schedule online, booktv. Org. You give me your name and the title of the book and tell me how you came to the project. Hi, im lawrence knutson, the title of the book is a wave in the white house, i came to the project because i am a retired reporter for the Associated Press and in my last three or four years i exploited a personal interest and wrote a column about american and washington history. That led me to the publisher of this book which is the White House Historical association. We started talking about it and someone said, wh
And Judy Woodruff and jim lehrer raised the president ial president ial debates they better be ready. So if the media starts to say what is this all about . Is china really doing these things and are we so naive and gullible we will get our president ial candidates to become engaged in the topic. So far only two of them have really talked about it. Elizabeth warren has a comment on one of her speeches, Elizabeth Warren is talking about losing jobs and middleclass and how china invests deeply and infrastructure as he gives the percentage of gdp. So shes kind of admiring the chinese model that only america could be like that. That is the title of a book by tom friedman which is quite good. I think it is roughly what he used to be like that. There is a similar book by richard fox the council of Foreign Relations called the Foreign Policy begins at home with a big section on competing with china. So the idea is there but its not yet a president ial issue because theres so much complacency.