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
Treasury secretary by president clinton but he declined. That headline from the New Hampshire a union leader. We will see you tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Here on the washington journal. Until then, have a good day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] here is what is coming up on the cspan network. Live at noon on cspan, a discussion on the challenges in the middle east and United States Foreign Policy. Speakers at the Woodrow Wilson center in could robert maley, ron cspan 2, julius will speak about International Telecommunications policy. Live at 12 30 on our companion network cspan 2. And election news this morning, alan west house conceded to powder murphy, putting an end to one of the most expensive house races and the country. The Washington Post writes that after all of the votes were tallied, murphy held a slight lead but his margin was not Strong Enough to trigger an official recount. The republican pressed
If you will, the quote extremists mood is over reaching. How did richard nix on thread the needle to appeal to the more mainstream socalled chamber of Congress Republicans and the goldwater wing . Conservatives had been chastised. Chase ended is a better word. Gold condition water had lost overwhelmingly. People wanted to say the Republican Party was dead, conservatism was dead after 64. Two weeks after that Lyndon Johnson won, a gallup poll found an almost dead heat among americans who identified themselves as liberal or conservative. There was always that lark element that thought of itself conservative. Nixonts skill was to thread the needle, to be just conservative enough happy to 68 was a turbulent year a fairly moderate stoliberal wing. It was a tightrope act the book available at cspan. Org. Pat tree arkansas George Washington and the new american nation, their biography of Thomas E Dewey and the triumph of Herbert Hoover and your work along with robert dole laughing almost all
Entitlement portion and the republicans have held their tongues. The whole discussion is about revenue. They are marshalling their ceos to make demands on entitlements. So many of the Business Leaders dont want to go over the fiscal cliff. They really want tax reform to happen. Whatever happens, they want this to be a stage setter. Thank you for being on newsmakers. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] tomorrow on cspan, we look back at august 2011, as the news conferences around the budget control act. This created sequestration. That is split 5050 between defense and nondefense spending. In january, our first week that we were sworn into office, the present as for the increase in the debt ceiling and i made it clear that there would not be an increase in the debt ceiling without changes to the way that we spend the American Peoples money. Shortly after that i was in new york. We agreed that there should be no
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