this is like the story, but is true. there is a lot more to the story.avis: what the make of the fact s he puts in the state' out a couple of albums, and they go nowhere, but in south africa he sells half a million albums? they love him in south africa. of all the places in the world, why did his music had told there? the times are pretty tumultuous here as well. people always say the good old days. these were not the best times for people of color in this country. how could it not catch on here, but it took off like nobody's business in south africa? >> it was obeyed. -- it was big. it is so strange this happens. it is so hard to explain. one thing is he was not hurt at all in america, because anyone who hears it immediately understand. he is very accessible, but if no one hears it, it never starts. tavis: why did it not get hurt? why did rodriguez not get hurt in the -- heard in the states? >> if you would have sold 1000 copies it would have started. they told him rodriguez does not work. you need to change your name. robert zimmerman changed his name

after story in the book also in stories of the wisp. blowers talked about you know and that that sense of attachment to ideals . that you mentioned whistleblowers. who whistleblowers are. it seems like in the united states the obama administration has prosecuted six whistleblowers. from the george washington administration until the end of the bush administration the entire collection of prosecutions of whistleblowers. anti-government whistleblowers or people. the total number of people prosecuted was three by every previous administration combined how have things changed for whistleblowers. well you bring up a very very important fact and by the way those those are national security whistleblowers and that actually relates to something larger which are which is another theme of the book you know it's easy to admire whistleblowers when they blow the whistle on someone else's crimes or someone else's fraud when their distance from daniel ellsberg oh the vietnam war of course what a hero ellsberg was not a hero in too many people in the s

so you had time to find the story, to think about the story. nows that a not is a say we aren't doing a good job today. it's not to say it's not fun but it's not the same. demands are constant, i talk to you 1:00 my time in the middle east and come straight off that and bang i have to dot evening news. that's stimulating and it's fun and we're doing it well, i think, but it's-- there was a time when you could, you could disappear. you could pretend you were henry morton stanley if you were covering africa and that doesn't exist any more. >> rose: the other thing is you do it in a minute and a half box, you tell us a story generally in a minute and a half. >> yeah. >> rose: but what i love about being at cbs, for me, is that you guys are storytellers, that's what you are. >> that's basically what a journalist job is. but there is a challenge to a minute and a half. >> rose: absolutely. >> how much can you get in here and how much information can you provide, how well can you do this and the beauty, the fun of television is that you've got pictur

how did the story stay buried? >> demon and i discovered the story, i thought it was very important. the impact that these women and on what we wearan impac .oday the story rises to the top in certain parts but it never comes full circle with models playing the big roles. tavis: i don't want to make you overtly political, but what does this story say to us, and guide us? tell me what the message here is for the tragedy today? i noted fashion week is going on as we speak. this is not my area of expertise but i watch a little bit of everything and i still don't see the number of african american models on the cover of magazines. i don't see them to the extent that they ought to be. what is the unfinished business in this industry given what we know? >> the unfinished business is to show people that all races can be beautiful. all people can be beautiful so you need to use the people that can make your clothes look the best, regardless of color. there should not be a blueprint for what a model can look like. you can a

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the story of jack nelson, for those who don't know, is the story of news reporting in the latter half of the 20th century. if you look at his career starting off, he was born in talladega, alabama, just across the state line, moves as a child to biloxi where he starts peddling newspapers. he was a newspaper boy. an honorable way to begin. that's how i got my start. of. [laughter] he gets his paris job at the daily herald -- his first job at the daily herald down in biloxi/gulfport. just purely serendipitously, it's where i got my start, okay? [laughter] he portrays himself quite openly as a very gullible reporter, and i certainly hope that when you've bought the book and you've had a chance to look at it, you'll be as entertained as we were by some of his early stories of falling for ruses and having great faith that everyone was telling him the truth. as you find out later, they weren't always telling the truth. of course, he then begins to develop a reputation as a very tough, hard-nosed investigative reporter which gets him beat up a couple of times and sends him fleeing to the atl

fundamentally right the dorner story is a local story, mostly. but it was getting national attention. so, it was both. the presidential story was a global story. this is, this is o.j. on steroids. i mean, we've been here before. >> tleferance, of course, made to bill clinton's 1997 state of the union which was split screen. okay, local story jane hall, national attention. why is that? >> well, i think some people try to portray him as some sort of rob robinhood and while we're in the midst of a serious debate of gun control that amount of coverage glorified this man publishing his manifesto. i agree with frank, newspapers won't have to choose as much as cable does. they can split the screen. if they had split the screen, they would have been saying christopher dorner, a murderer, is equal to the state of the union address by the president of the united states. that would have been pretty awful. >> although in the hours before president obama spoke, a lot of split screen and paul farhi is there an argument that the shootout, the manhunt, the fire

>> stephen: short story. >> short story who? >> stephen: sorry, pop song. [ laughter ] >> fair enough. [ laughter ] >> stephen: here is another thing. do you ever think, don't get me wrong, i like your stuff. i read one of these. [ laughter ] >> really? thank you. >> stephen: i read one. my favorite one. not quite two pages long. why not a haiku? why not enciewd it in dna and inject it into my mind? take a short story and carve it on the head of a bullet? why not that? look for that impact. i love you don't get on the train. bam! >> it could work. it could work. [cheers and applause] it could work. hemingway story. >> stephen: he told his own story. >> did he indeed. he has a six word story. it's depressing. says this for is sale, baby shoes, never worn. i know but you could make it happier. for sale, baby shoes worn out. >> stephen: because kept them on the baby too long. [ laughter ] >> stephen: i've heard information is kingize queeneddized. you want to know everything. want to know everything. why does she love him so many s

is that a political story? really except, you know, we're ten years away from the russian revolution. to me if you want to sort of explore political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal. because at's sometng that no one can deny. whatever your supposed politics are, left, right, if you put it in a human connection most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in the way they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. >> brown: some of your stories present the contemporary strangeness of life by taking us a little bit further into the... further into the future and taking something happening now and pushing it even further. so it almost has thequality of science fiction at times. other of your stories and i see more of them in this collection feel more right of the moment, realists. >> right. brown: humane in a way. i've been married to my wife paula for 25 years. we have wonderful kids. it's been a really rich life. i start thinking, is there a way to get

whether it's a family story or your story whether it's ancestors whether it's your history you want to write about. but it's the second one that's hard. i felt that when i turnod the computer and thought, now i have to write book number 2. i had in mind that i wanted to write something very different from women of the silk that was strictly about the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my japanese culter. i didn't have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinese and half japanese but raised in the chinese culture. when it was time to write the second book and i knew i wanted to explore my japanese side it was going to be difficult in the way that i didn't know the culture. right away i had to learn a lot. it was something that was not engrained in me besides the story. i sat down and thought about the story my mother told me about her brother being ill. he at one point went from hong kong to japan to recuperate. he was the one that wanted to be an artist and wanted to paint. i thought about that

immigration stories, the story that comes up multiple times, and all of a sudden, the story of the wind sing america becomes the story of a terrified america. in that we begin to see exactly what separates the two americas. immigration and worry about immigration is as old as america itself. one of the first great american best sellers, book by maria monk, it was an account of catholicism. priest did terrible things, murdering the babies that were produced and etc. i was stunned to read in peter's book that despite all of those various forms of horror of immigration, it wasn't until the 1870s that it became a question of borders. and it became a question of borders about the 1870s. they tried to resist prostitutes, lunatics, idiots, people of moral rectitude and all around the dispute began of the chinese immigrants. mexicans, no problem at all. they could come and go as they wanted because they wouldn't stay forever and in fact, the great late chinese smuggling was to pretend that they were mexicans. how things change. the immigration story is kind of a deal to america. when did it tri

. >> history is stories. you know? and so i really enjoy thinking of different ways things could have gone or perhaps are going at the moment. >> yeah. >> but that's what's so interesting to me about the elections now is that you pretty much the candidates are doing what i'm doing. doing stories. because that's the thread that connects all of this stuff. and they tell stories about how they see the past, what they think the future is. and you vote for the person whose story you like the best. >> right. >> and that's the way it is. and so telling a good story, one that tries to -- you know, reflect things kind of as they are, not as the wayú you think they should be or could be, but really try to make an effort in a journalistic way to do that i think is a great art work. >> of course, when you look at the you tell stories or i do listen to them, i might hearing is true. is that a mistake, actually? maybe i should say it the other way. i have less faith going into it that their stories are actually true. i wonder how yo

those stories were not racially based stories. this i learned from the book, i never knew this, i learned it from jean patterson. the last story jack covered for the constitution was in little rock when eisenhower had the federal troops out and they rear desegregating send central high school. as jean patterson said at a memorial service jack was never the same after that. the common theme running through the stories about corruption in government or state officials, incompetent doctors, the movement, what he really did and what i would like to do in washington is battle injustice and expose it. he found in justice, whatever was, and exposed it. started when he was 22 and went to the time that he died and you know there is an old myth shattered by this book by the way, when i arrived at the constitution, both cuts and wrote about this, it was gospel truth and we believe that, jack did not stay at the atlanta constitution. the management would not give you a $5 raise. that is stated as true and as president carter pointed out he wa

it will be different stories. but the oppression of our voices have been for so many, many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a different generation. a lot of us had been writing about that because they were silenced for so long. i am involved with the book prize. it's a pacific rim book prize in which books come from asia and all over the pacific rim. in the last 11 years it's been a prize we read so many books that have come from

who was telling the story? one thing we can clear about the start i can comfortably used the word we. but the plural there are some genuine things we want to see together for advice book a larger structure is written in the third person who tells stories about our work with each other. in sections of the book is a complicated little stricter but i and we end of day and whoever think it works. tonight we will be faithful to the structure by leading passages in both modes with a recollection the first part of a call for the atlantic when i was an editor follow the first chapter in the beginning and then we will go on from there in. >> i just want to tell you a little story about this book. in 40 years of working with someone you come up with habits and towards the end of the book we write the bad reviews. i was especially good at this. it's a kind of magical thinking the notion if you thought of all of the bad things someone can say then it's already been said. the public didn't always work and the notable locati

we haven't got any stories. actually we've got no experience. wait! i've got a story. i had an experience. you? yeah. actually i've never told you this before but in my younger days i used to work in a kimono shop. you did? yes. and 8 years ago i went to the house of the samurai to sell kimonos and the samurais name was,uto,gotomosh. but when i arrived only the samurais wife was home. sam ris wife? i bet she was gorgeous! oh, yes, she was very sexy, beautiful lady and she invited me into the back room and served me sak . go on! go on! well i stayed there all afternoon. talking and drinking saki and suddenly she looked at me and said, mr. kimono man, come closer. closer. and she looked me right in the eyes and said, i think i'm falling in love with you. i am! i love you. i want you. i need you. then she started taking off her kimono. she started to take off her - what happened next! calm down. i can't. i'm just so jealous. wow you must have had a wonderful night together. you think so? yeah. actually, no. no. just because right as i was kissing her. samurais brother sud

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is that a political story?lly except you know, we're ten years away from the russian revolution. to me if you want to sort of explore political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal. because that's something that no one can deny. whatever your supposed politics are, left, right, if you put it in a human connection most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in the way they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. >> brown: some of your stories present the contemporary strangeness of life by taking us a little bit further into the... further into the future and taking something happening now and pushing it even further. so it almost has the quality of science fiction at times. other of your stories and i see more of them in this collection feel more right of the moment, realists. >> right. brown: humane in a way. i've been married to my wife paula for 25 years. we have wonderful kids. it's been a really rich life. i start thinking, is there a way to get

story. the united states master the relationship between illicit trade in war before we tacked to conflict commodities, blood diamonds and so on. after all, how can george washington supply his troops but that massive smuggling of gunpowder since we actually had no domestic capacity. one of them is in fact john brown at brown university who sought gunpowder at exorbitant prices to george washington of course i'm insane or charging us these prices come up with no choice because of extreme circumstances. john brown emerged the richest men in rhode island because he was such a profiteer. fast forward to the war of 1812. most people to remember this war. not only important, one of the main reasons the united states failed to annex canada as it turns out we were more interested in trading of them fighting them. they were quite intertwined economically, not so enthused about fighting. the british troops in canada were greatly dependent on the smuggling to keep troops of either would've been a much

quick story. was at gracie mansion, which is the mayor's house in new york city, and he with a female deputy mayor was standing on the front porch and they were gazing out at the east river, and a rat ran across the lawn. and the deputy mayor screamed. and he said, don't think of it as a rat. think of it as a squirrel. he saw things the way he wanted to see them, not the way they were. and he pushed toward that vision. and he was able to tackle very thorny issues, particularly in this town. the issues of pay. the issues of cuts. getting the budget under control. he did eventually balance the budget when it was ridiculously out of whack. he did that in a few years and got the city back on firm financial footing. but it was a tough time. very tough time. >> he called himself a liberal with sanity. and he was always against social engineering. in fact, chuck, he used to say, why does new york always have to be number one in welfare and medicaid and -- couldn't we be number three and number four and b

invasion more on that and plenty of other stories at artie's website. is. the. united nations says the french military intervention in mali has made the situation in the country worse with fans at the west african nation will fall into a downward spiral of violence human rights groups are concerned about ethnic reprisal killings and accused in forces of murdering suspected militants. who has been traveling around the country throughout the conflict reports now for. so you got him money yes. i mean the united nations already describes the situation in mali as a disaster the u.n. human rights commission says the country's caught in a spiral of violence fraught with grievous consequences the situation has been made worse in the wake of ferocious fighting in and around the city of northern mali following four days of fierce resistance from insurgents complete with suicide attacks the french military has been forced to conclude that some of the locals maybe extremists. however some of the key areas in this conflict are still off limits to international journalists wh

>> that story that is inside of the bigger story, well, i mean yeah that was a big story in itself.between these five people, and their need to survive and i just was struck by the courage that this woman had, and i mean i think when you go to see a film like this you always put yourself in that scenario and go how would i deal with this. who would i be. and i'm certain i would be nothing like maria. but maria talks about it and say its you don't know. and i don't think we do know. and i think we need to understand it and the movie help its us. >> rose: you get beaten up by the elements. >> yeah, yeah. very much so. >> rose: was it exhausting to film. >> yes, very exhausting am but every time you get to that point of feeling like you've reached your limit and wanting to complain and sano, i'm done k we to the do this anyore,sa you would remember that this is nothing. we know we're safe. we foe-- you know what they went through was a totally different experience. so you better shut up and get on with t you're just an actor and keep your complaints to yourself. i mean that was the wat

we know our story is false. let's sit down, you and i together conspire to make a phoneny story? that is what you think happened? >> what important is not what i think happened but what is important is what actually happened and that the administration tell us what happened. >> did it happen is it possible that happened? >> why are you suggesting that's what i think happened? what happened really matters. there are five stories that we have been presented. >> what is the worst case scenario? >> al-qaeda was taken out by somebody, we don't know whom. so that the administration could sell the story that it was about a videotape when it wasn't ever about a videotape. it was about al-qaeda. they downpyed the attack and strength of al-qaeda. they have done it consistently going back to attacks in first year of the administration. >> that is what matters? >> it doesn't matter what my story is. it matters their story. >> bret: we will have a short lightning round. >> what a pity. [ laughter ] >> bret: next up, the frid

is her story is about ordinary people, we all have these stories and our families and we shall try and dig them up. so first thing is to try to talk to the older people in our families because we often way too long. don't wait. don't wait. collect those photos and talk to people. collect those records in boxes and old folders somewhere. there are great pools where you can find records and documents from your desktop. ancestry.com is a subscriber service which has a fee. familysearch is free. if you know where your family is from you can go to your local courthouse and search for a property records, vital records, birth certificates, marriage certificates. 4 african-americans, many people have fought it is hard and difficult to do and it is because african-americans do not appear in the census until 1870 and people say what about letters and journals and i say slaves were barred by law from being able to read and write and newspapers at the time didn't chronicle marriages and birth and things like that but even so it is difficult. from 1870 on, the census is a great fool and you can fin

(thomas mcguane) the story's always the "moving on" story.hat do you need to know about the western? it's about moving on. and the trouble is, even though the world is round, it's not a permanently solvable dramatic theme in that if you move on in the climate we now live in, in the western, you hit l.a., where westerns are made. (narrator) the cowboy hero was invented by writers, many of whom had never been west of the mississippi. anyone who had lived in the real west knew it wasn't very romantic. but thousands of dime novels fed an insatiable public with thrilling tales of the frontier. the myth easily made its way into film. by the early 1930's, the western had found a home in grade-b, low-budget movies. the b-movie hero was one-dimensional. a simple, moral guy who lived violently by an uncomplicated code of right and wrong. hollywood made the movies with fancy stunts and chases, but paid little attention to story or character. john wayne, a favorite actor in the serial western, earned his spurs in dozens of low-budget formula pictures. i

this is another story.mpanies are covering themselves because the law states they are the ones that are responsible. so it is carnival cruises, and everyone who owns them whatever legal entity it is, they are the ones who are on the hook, they are on the hook in federal court a hundred percent. if it's easier for the person who is suing to bring it to the state court there are exceptions where you can bring it to the state court as well and they will have to proof, the plaintiff, the passengers are going to have to prove that this fire was caused by negligent, in othenegligence. if somebody snuck into the engine room and blew up one of the engines or intentionally started one of the fires, then the cruise ship has a legitimate defense, but if it's just based on lack of upkeep, lack of maintenance, then they will have a case, the plaintiff will have a case, but fred is right, the tickets for these cruises are usually pages long, and they describe the limits on liability based on your injuries. jon: last i sa

didn't believe his story about having no memory.ain and specific at trial. as for the janitor jerry trump, the judge was convinced that jerry trump committed perjury at the initial trial. lied about seeing ryan, but he said it's unlikely it would have changed the jury's decision had they known the truth. in the same way he found out his son had been arrested for murder, bill ferguson learned ryan's fate from a reporter. >> she says, i just want to know if you want to make a comment on judge green's ruling? i'm thinking, what? what ruling? she goes, you know, oh, my god, you don't know, do you? i go, no. >> that was it. >> yeah. >> finally, i got hold of my dad. he was trying to hold it together, but even his voice cracked, you know? that was the worst sound i ever heard in my life and the most difficult thing i ever heard. >> then you were locked down? >> yeah. it's just at that moment you feel so empty and so alone. and hopeless, you know? >> kent heightold's family all along fought ryan's attempt to overturn his victory. kathleen

everything out there tells a story. that's why i'm here. because i'm looking for stories. i'm looking for these same kinds of stories that i find in the desert. i came to hear straight from grace cathedral today where i walked into the cathedral and i took off my shoes and walked on the maze that's right in the front, in the center. and i don't know if you've ever been to this place. you have to stop in and walk this maze because it is very much like what it's like to be out in the desert. where you start walking along and you see where you are going eventually. you see the center spot and you know where you are going to be, except you are going away from it and then toward it and then away from it and all the way around it and then away from it again and back toward it. that's what it's like walking out in the desert in the deep cliffs, in the dunes where you want to go there but there's not a route from here to there. if you had a gps it wouldn't really work because it would point a straight line from here to there because there's a cliff face and to get down you have to

his story and his heroics. and what i found was this compelling story not only of jim thompson, a hero, five years in solitary confinement, fiv escape attempts, hi first five years he never talked to another american. extraordinary what he went through. and nine years, longest held. what i found was te war had impacted his family tremendously and that had to be part of the story. and i didn't think i would have that part of the story until alice agreed to tell what she went through, why she went through. she's not asking people to condone what she did. she'sust asking people to understand. >> when did she agree to talk? >> in 1985. and i didn't call her up cold. i had interviewed her daughter, laura, and she told me that aspect of the story. i said i need to talk to your mom. she said the only way -- she said she'll never talk about her p.o.w. year experiences or her experiences while her husband was a p.o.w. but then she said, well there's e way you might be able to approach her andthat's through ruthy, her yo

story broke now interesting we had that story there's a whistleblower story in that in that a soldier named joseph darby took the cd full of those photographs and forwarded them to the pentagon criminal investigation unit and that triggered a set of acts and decisions that eventually led those pictures to be shown across the world and across the united states darby. a hero if you believe that that torture and the behavior there is squarely against american values in the constitution darby. cannot return to his hometown afterwards when he's outed for this because he's receiving threats he and his wife there have been no medal of honor as far as i know given to any of the people during the bush era who there were such people who refused to torture who did say something who in guantanamo refused to go along and i tell one of those stories at the end of my book about a lieutenant colonel darryl van de velde who had a crisis of conscience in guantanamo but those people did not get on or did not get fed and they still haven't actually. we should know their names and i hope that in writing t