Ones that provide the breakfast here at no cost to all of us, so if you see any other members, they are all Corporate Leaders here in New Hampshire and new england, and very generous through politics eggs but its the only thing i know where you can go and see the major candidate running for president of the United States at a venue like this, and its free, the breakfast, because its possible because of all these wonderful, wonderful supporters that we have. Speak of supporters i also want to thank the New Hampshire institute of politics for being such incredible partners with the news England Council as we have cohosted the politics eggs for many, many years. You say its been a very busy cycle so far. A very crowded field. We look forward to spending more time i here at st. Anselm in the months ahead. In fact, we will be here tomorrow for a breakfast with another democratic candidate, congressman tim ryan of ohio. New England Council also has several other events that we have planned i
Like you and me just yelling at each other. At talking. What draws an audience is when, in fact, we disagree. When, in fact, we get nasty with one another. What Rupert Murdochs demonstrated is that there really was a hunger in america for something that was less liberal than what the networks for putting on the air. So, fox news was born. Fox news has been hugely successful. It earns somewhere between 1. 10 0. 50 billion a year. 1 and 1. 5 billion a year. The folks at nbc took a look at what fox has been doing and figure out if they could make news skewing news to the right, if we could make half of that, lets ask you to the left. And so, you have on Cable Television news that caters to people who consider themselves progressives, news to people who consider themselves conservatives, you have the afternoon radio talk shows, the evening radio talk shows which cater largely to the conservative. You have the latenight comedy show, john stewart, stephen cole there, that tend to cater more
Kalb. [applause] hello and welcome to the National Press club. I am marvin kalb. The conversation with ted koppel about democracy and the press. If i use the word twilight to suggest that network news, as we have known it, is on its way out and as something new is emerging. Whether what is new will satisfy the urgent needs of our democracy cannot be noted at this time. Lets hope that it will. Without a free and occasionally rambunctious media, we will not be living in an open society. The free press and an open society are intimately linked, one dependent on the other. Network news if network news is in its twilight, then perhaps our democracy is facing a turning point as well. I asked an old colleague and a friend, ted koppel, to discuss the changes in network news and what those changes might mean for our society. Ted is known best for his 25 years of anchor and host of nightline, but he has also been a foreign correspondent, a war correspondent, and author, and he has covered Many P
People say thank you for what you are doing. I feel guilty. I can never do for this country what it has done for me. I do not know where i would be of my parents have not come to america. I doubt whether i would be in a place like this. Perhaps i would be like this. Wrong with being a bar tender. I believe there are millions of people that want that for their children and grandchildren in america. Our job is to make it easier for them to do that. And government can play a role. The governor is an example of what government can do in the state. I pray god will give me an opportunity to be part of that in washington d. C. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on these topics. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I am going to say, i am relieved there were no hecklers. The last thing is what we are here to do is to celebrate the governors birthday. I understand mackenzie is going to sing. Is that right . Everybody is coming . Great. We want to hear them. Im not going to sin