Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, ondemand on cspan. Org Supreme Court or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual talk series but im virginia prescott and im your host for this talk. Tonight and talking with lisa napoli about her new book up all night, ted turner and the birth of 24 hour news for you can purchase the book directly from a cappella books and the link is in the chat on the right of your screen and the link is also at the Atlanta History Center website. As lisa and i talked please submit your questions and use a q a feature at the bottom of your screen and will try to answer as many as we can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview on Second Thought this friday and you will hear me do what we call a re id to keep consistent sound while we are going. So excited to speak with lisa napoli who got her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnn new york, and bc bureaus as a teenager and she is a repo
To you. I still see myself as a book critic. This book is gamma extension of that work but these days i feel like i am a political journalist and using books as a means to that kind of work. Or is that something you actually steered clear of it has to in some ways beyond just sympathy for so i hope that it will give me a better sense of the decisionmaking that goes into what a book covers and how many chapters. What is it that you do during the day then you read 150 books about the trump era it is a book about books like the book about coffee tables from seinfeld but i hope it simply uses books to try to understand a moment and get a snapshot of a moment so it could have been a lot of things. It could have been film, theater, fiction so its a book about this moment in america and civic life but what do you mean about the intellectual history . There are a lot of ways to imagine. It anticipated everything and ive done some of that myself, guilty but that isnt the kind of book i wanted t
Can you primarily think of yourself these days. I still think that im very much to see as a book critic. This book is just sort of an extension of that work. Carlos but these days, if you like of a political journalist and hunter lost as well in any ways. And using books as a means to do that kind of work. Pamela and also an author. Did you know that you would always wanted to write a book is a book critic or is it something that you actually kind of steered clear. Carlos i did not have a sense that i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book on reading other peoples books was putting for me. I worried a little bit that if i went in the process of writing about, i would end up far too sympathetic to the authors. And really for me for my day job. I thank you so been really useful to see what that process is like. In all of the work that goes into creating that finished product that i usually just get at the tail end. Pamela b think it will change as a book critic. Carlos i thin
Nasa launch four astronauts aboard the space x dragon capsule to the International Space station on sunday. Afterwards, top officials at nasa and spacex held a News Conference on how the launch went and what is ahead for the mission. Thank you for joining us. Moments ago at 7 27 p. M. Nasa space x space x crew1 mission blasted off from Kennedy Space Center Historic pad 39a with four astronauts. Americans, mike hopkins, victr glover, Shannon Walker and japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi today we are joined to have a great group of people to talk about thehe crew1 missionn this post conference and talk about them in historic elements of this historic launch. Joining us today is nasa jim bridenstine, kathy, associate administrator for operations, at nasa headquarters. Vice president and director general of jackson Human Spaceflight Technology directorate, steve dixon administrator of the federal aviation administration, faa and president and chief operating officer of spacex. Ar in a in a
Despite the hiccups a lot of old order news organizations cheering for its fault. They had to fill time for the crew is follow weighing, can you talk about that, why it was such a big deal for cnn . It was an amazing day a year after cnn went on the air. It was only in several million homes that could receive it, cable was not, the animosity of the networks and jealousy and disbelief on the part of the networks than anybody would care about news 24 7 combined to make a perfect storm march 30th, 1981, when the president was shot, there was a crew, there is always a crew, the White House Pool crew was always with the president in case something happened to him but cnn was not allowed to be part of the pool. They happened to be inside, was a time filler for cnn, cnn need a lot of at that point. It is a long story, i detail in the book but it was a day that put cnn on the map in the minds of the press corps and that helps make them aware there was not just is just for the news but in 24 ho