this means to tell a story. in old times they would travel and tell the stores about the events of the timeses. i need you all to stand up to learn these. excellent. take a stretch. lift our arms up high to the sky. we will start by creating trees. we will turn our arms into tree branches. our finger tips into leaves and we will sway in the breeze. when the wind picks up we will sway faster. we will make birds by taking our hands facing etch other, cross our thumbs and using our hands like bird wings. the birds are flying high above the treetops. in the forest is a river. we will lift our wrists and lower them to make water waves. very soft. you can hear the water flowing. in this river are fish. we will take the right hand over our left and use our thumbs like fish fins and let your fish swim through the water it takes a big dive. >> and growing next to the river are a bed of flowers. opening one hand onfinger at a time watching the flower petal blossoms. we will take our other hand and turn it into a butterifiy

these are short stories, a collection of 10. based on southern stories, my stories but based on stories that i heard. they were like stories i heard. one in particular comes from my growing up. we managed our monsters. i was the founder and first president of monster watches of america. i ate 6 boxes of crinkle cereal and in the mail i received 6 glow in the dark id badges, oh yes. and i invited 5 friends to join me. the most prized possession was the monster book, you know the monster rules, you know them. module no. 10, monsters cannot come within the circle of light. if you have light, they can't come in that circle of lot. monster rule no. 7, you don't play near where monsters live. isn't that common sense? why do they have people stay in houses and it says get out? i say who wrote that? [laughter]. so in my book when the house says get out, well get out. monster no. 5 says never lie about seeing a monster. we all know they are there, those of us that are believers. you can see them just out of your sight. hear them scratchin

that's a story. so, i will tell you a story. in india, here we have super heroes like, tell me a hero. >> super man. we have super heroes in india. krishna. lifts mountains and throws them to the ocean to create bridges. i will tell you the story about a super hero. krishna as a little boy in the village where the trees blow and the water flows and the birds fly and the grass grows, in this village there are cows. and people and they go to the river and they go to get their water. and they go to the river and what do they see? an evil demon is polluting the river. callia. and they can't get water because it's killing the cows and the people. so, they go to krishna and say, please, do something about this this is not good. he says, he thinks about it and says, okay. he takes his friends to the river to play. they play ball. they play with the ball and then by accident or may be not, the ball goes in the -- river. and callia is in the river. krishna is swimming through the dark waters and sees the ball is in the tail of the serpan

facts wrapped around a story. facts put in a story. let's go back to that porch again, this time my mother in that soft tone of hers. she would tell hair raising ghost stories. she would start at the hour of the dark:30. that is 30 minutes before it gets all the way dark and the monsters come out. and i can hear her say, you used to be a woman who appeared under that street light over there and our heads would all go as one with the street light. it was though we were looking for the lady who walked in front of our house and didn't have a head. when she got to this street light she vanished. then in the same breath she would say, now would you go into the house and get me a drink of water? i would have to go into that creeky old house all by myself. it wasn't so bad in the living room because the lights from the front porch, but she had a table that had claw feet and i knew it was going to snatch me by the ankles and never be heard from again. i scaled along the wall carefully. when i got to the kitchen, it was pitch dark, couldn't see

this is a way to get people to focus on stories that are important to them as a community or individual or causes they are passionate about. >> just to piggyback on what she was saying, we have to rearrange the way we think about news. we might not read 5000-word stories anymore, but i know in all my other friends will read 5000 suites that have to do with one particular issue -- 5000 tweets that have to do with one particular issue. there was a case where a policeman in oakland killed a young man, and most of the reporting that came out about the issue was the road to a degree, but it had a certain perspective. the conversation was turned into where are the people from these communities? why don't they read our stories? why did they not call into our shows? there were huge questions. honestly, nobody really thought to look too deeply into it, but we noticed that these people were reading and having those conversations and getting into debt, but they were not doing it on the "chronicle" website. they were doing it on facebook. they were doing it in google groups. i cannot tell you how m

[laughter] a story called terminals. in the last moment of his life, time slowed and slowed to a halt. no longer pressed as he has been in youth he strolled the youth on foot and thought over every thought. love and war and stars he grabbed the meaning of it all as a whole. he yearned to share what he knew. though that lived on and might have learned moved to a future where his still voice would not be heard. thank you. [applause] >> hello. i'm going to read a scene from draining the sea coming out in march. it takes place in guatemala during the 80's. this is a scene from the polytechnic the tick cal school where they would take the disappeared. emanuel for the americas. we are inside the basement of the polytechnic and i'm admiring the bone is thattedose that your heal bone makes in the sunlight in the palms of my hand in my mind. when you come to my bed your hands and breath is sweet and we can love like this for hours. i can find christ in your body. this too must be constructed and killed bike on television with pain

telling a story is a creative act. when you're dealing with subjects as large as the ones that each of the three of us has dealt with, telling a story involves a lot of selection. there are thing we all -- i'm sure there are things we all have left out that we are dying to put back in the directer's cut of our books. [laughter] i know that's been the case with me. there are stories we have to truncate, there are issues we have to come press. if -- come rest. if you are writing academic history, most of those things would be referred to because your task isn't to put all the -- is to put all the facts on the table. creative nonfiction you have to structure the story in a way that gives it pacing and drive and keeps the reader or's interest. reader's interest. and as i said, that's a creative act. and it's very important, i'm sure to all of us, in writing books like these. >> i don't think that the goal is to write creative nonfiction. i think the goal is to write engaging nonfiction. >> i agree. i think, you know, i tea

and understand it, but also know how to tell a story, understand how fact work, how confirmation works, how non- fiction story telling works. that is a big challenge. we also need to develop procedures within the community of journalism in the new media that are as thoroughgoing and really comprehensive about the nature of the practice of journalism for the new media as they were in the newsroom, say, 20 years ago. >> i think one answer to the question of how we police bias, at least on line, is that online news is a conversation, right? that is one thing that is great about it. when you are talking about a piece that runs on line -- online that people can immediately start commenting about, people can start talking immediately about whatever biases they have identified, and the writer can jump in and start defending the position. that is not possible in print. i think there's a sort of built in keeping-people-honest-ness about the medium. we want to report fairly at patch, but as we are asking people to share things about themselves, we want to share something about ourselves, s

a need. i think folklore and story telling is part of being a human being.nd it's something that's going to continue. whether we like it or not, that people are going to continue to develop myths, they're going to continue to believe in them, they're going to continue to tell stories about them. we need to continue to present the truth but without, i think, getting angry about it. >> uh-huh. washington and religion is, certainly, an issue of great controversy. especially within people of the evangelical faith. there is a certain segment -- not, by any means, all of them -- there are some good scholars who raise serious questions about whether washington could be viewed in terms of evangelical christians. the broader sense of christian i think washington clearly fits. the issue of washington as a born-again believer in the saving grace of which people feel very strongly was, in fact, the case, and there are books like "sacredsacred fire" which 0 pages and trying to make this argument and william johnson's "washington: the christian." what is your take on, on

so in the original form, it's a patriotic little story. it isn't even so much about washington's faith as it was about changing the mind of a quaker to support the american revolution. there's absolutely not one scrap of evidence that it ever happened. but it has inspired, as you say, numerous paintings, modern paintings that are also very popular. it's been on postage stamps, memorial plaques, it's been on statues, and it's something that i think reflects a deep need that many americans feel so have washington as one of us. so say that washington can understand how i feel. that washington can relate to my faith. that's something for a person who is deeply religious that gives them a great sense of grounding, it gives them a sense of connection with washington in a sense of connection with their nation. it's another example of how when we deeply need to believe something, we often put evidence out of our minds and put careful thought out of our minds and just accept it. >> host: on that question, i mean should we as historians try hard to d

it's a true story and something that still exists now. ns god watches over -- this piece a girlfriend her boyfriend goes to war and she says, i was lucking to be in love for a little while. i had love and everything i could ever want and now he's off at war and i'm alone. and i don't know what will happen after this. will he kill another mother's child. will i have to live with that? god watch over my belove ed and all the mother's sons. [music]

is still as i mentioned seen as more of a dream and a quantum man quantum could brew and i could a story so as a result i think as the moment of the fact of having prices skyrocketing things to this you know middle east developing. north african and global world instability this is rather how many russian companies to present themselves because i think here as opposed to pre-crisis store while pre-crisis russian companies was positioning himself as you know companies willing to diversify companies willing to go to new markets in his wounds to increase their competitive advantage i think right now we do well first we'll have a lot of fight your second there because we have seen this year these are companies which wanted to preserve the shares for investors already sometimes so i think at the moment this is rather. than this which we're already willing to come to see investor sentiment just using global environment and this is definitely the moment playing favorites russia but i agree completely when oil prices will go down then we will see progress verified through verse of sentiment and

that i tell in the book and stories i talk about today are store reus about all of us. to tell you a little bit about my personal story. i was a 17 magazine makeup reading desperate to read in. with each careful purchase, i was one step closer to that girl i dreamed up. i used lots of them, 20 products a day, makeup, skin creams, an enormous cloud of aqua net hair spray. this is the back in the days of big hair and shoulder pads and bright makeup. i looked up all these products as a teen, 20 products a day, i was surprised to discover, i had been with exposing myself to 200 products a day before i got on the school bus. what is in this stuff that we put on our bodies, put in our hair on a daily basis. that is what we have been working on and looking at for about the passed 5 years. these are the groups involved in the campaign for safe products. most poplar brands of all kinds of products, deodor rants, makeups, even baby shampoos contain chemicals that are toxic that get into our system. most of these chemicals, um, come from oil by-products, petroleum. this is true of the high end

facts wrapped around a story. facts put in a story. let's go back to that porch again, this time my mother in that soft tone of hers. she

it's a repulsive story how p.t. barum made his fame by buying a slave in the early 19th century and telling her to say she was 161 years old and george washington's nanny. his stories. he worked her to death. and really treated her very badly. >> host: granted, if she was 161, she's got to be fairly close to death, whatever this story is. it's interesting. i was thinking you were going to say george washington custis. how do you see him because custis, because of his close connection to washington as a step grandson and as the writer of his reminiscences, i think i've seen that book perhaps quoted with the exception maybe of weems more extensively than any other older book. >> guest: i believe custis' book was published in 1852. it was in the 1850s. and custis exploited the fact that he was george washington's step grandson. he had known george washington as a child. in fact, george and martha spoiled him terribly. he got kind of overweight and they called him wash tub and he was kind of a spoiled kid and as he grew

they did a cover story about the suicides. it was a pathetic story. they send people over with the p.r. firm and were dotted around. they did not talk to a single worker. it was a puff piece. >> of all of the people you talk to outside of the gates, who did you remember the most? >> there was one girl who was explaining to me how she cleans the screens of iphones by hand. i showed her mine. i handed it to her. i have a picture of her holding my iphone. i said that you might have clean this iphone. we will never know. incredibly quickly, as soon as she said that, she rubbed it on her pants and said, i have cleaned it a second time. i was talking to her and she was so delightful. i said, how old are you? she said, i am 13. >> if somebody wants to get a hold of all of your work, what is the website? >> it is my name. it is mikedaisey.com. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> for a dvd copy of this program call -- for free transcripts or to give comments about this program, visit us at

i saw a wonderful story that you did on hillary clinton. he has made this part of her foreign policy. i spent a few weeks traveling with her around the country, around the world in fact, for a special i did with her. she was engaging country after country after country. she has to be a woman. what role and responsibility to we have given that we are in afghanistan, specifically, to press for these roles, these pathways to be open for women? >> i was there in july of last summer. what was fascinating about that is that women have no right to speak. it was secretary clinton lobbying the government and the international community to make sure that women had the right to speak at the last -- at their own conference last summer. what she has done in terms of the civil society posturing, really giving groups that fight for democracy, a child marriage, women's advocacy, is a voice within the u.s. state department and giving them the support, training, access to feel that they would not have without department funding. the men congregate towards her

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't understand hard as we. saw back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half of the white house he introduces what they call an innovative online privacy policy allowing internet users to use only one password for all personal accounts but is this option really safe plus it's a battle to save the bay in alaska were a billion dollar copper mine actually far more than copper threatens the life supply of the nation's finest salmon spawning ground so who will win this fight a survival nature for big business and a florida unemployment agency is under fire after it tries to help potential job seekers the rather bizarre scene in tonight's daily take i'll tell you why the irish scot is probably horrified by the idea of a state full of unemployed. who seders. the white house unveiled a new online policy that could change the way we all surf the internet the new policy is a

i have known you since . >> what a story. i never knew your story. sometimes the things inside us are like a thorn poking inside of us until we can help others get what you couldn't have. that is beautiful. >> yes. a lot of kids have had a chance to get their dreams fulfilled by being in performance. >> wonderful. what does performing stars do. once you got started with it, how do you eequipment the children. what do they learn? what do you do with them? it. >> is easy. the area where i originated the stories is? public housing in morin city. the kids are interest there. it is not difficult to go out and locate them. but i am working to the grandparents which sent their kids to us and the parents would call the schools. we receive as a liaison to make sure the kids know where the classes are, how do they get to the classes. the link between the families and the organization, so, basically performing stories, we provide the program and the support, we seek the scholarships and link those children to whatever activity these want to do and it has grown f

. >>> a story we brought you yesterday. a man who fell out of a boat has died. the 44-year-old and a woman were pulled from the bay early yesterday morning. the two fell in when laurel tried to restart the motor on a boat. guards spotted them, they were taken to the hospital. laurel died, the woman is okay. >>> a break-in and fined one of the largest siezures of marijuana. they stumbled on a pot growing operation of 2300 plants worth $2 million. the burglar was trying to catch tools and copper fittings from the business. he may not have known about the bigger loop inside. >>> san francisco leaders could approve one of the biggest developments on treasure island in decades. the $1.5 million development would create a neighborhood in the bay. it includes 8,000 residential units. if the planning commission approves the proposal, it heads to the board of supervisors. the meeting will be held at city hall at 6:00. my dad was stationed on treasure island. i'm sure if they built it that way, he would not recognize it at all. >> have you been there? >> yeah, sometimes w

this is a story about 2 of my favorite she ras. the women went to a share holding meeting and carrying 5,000 brooms. in india a broom is a woman's power. by delivering brooms, we are telling them to clean up their mess. chemical melt down spent 20 tons of gas into their city. they are leading the fight to send justice to their people and the worst fate. mothers carry poisons in their breasts. she accepted the 2004 environmental prize. we are not expendable. we are not flowers offered at the profit and power. we are dancing flames commitmented to darkness and the magic and mystery of life. women have long been slain at the environmental health and justice, from rachel to louis and the family of love canal. to the women of india and around the world fighting to clean up dangerously contaminated community. today more women have more power than ever before, especially more economic power and political power, women can shift the balance of power and change the face of the future. we are the once we have been waiting for as the poet june

we will have much more on that story from annapolis in a minute, but first, we want to update a story we have had all evening long, and that is involving the orioles legendary burk robinson. the jury has the latest. >> a pause of concern all around baltimore late this afternoon. much better used to it -- news tonight. the hall of famers deeper and infection, -- forced his way to call for an ambulance. as you will see in his statement, this trip to the hospital had nothing to do with his previous battle with cancer. robinson had planned to go to the hospital today for what he calls a routine procedure. today, however, it turned into anything but routine. it he released this statement, "thing you for your out pouring of concern. i was scheduled for a routine procedure on march 31, 2011. the evening before surgery had developed a fever and infection. my doctors chose to admit me to aggressively treat the infection. i am responding well to the antibiotics and this has nothing to do with my prostate cancer in 2009. i ask you to give me my privacy and i thank you for my prayers." he remains

i mean, it's a very old story. but i think finally the americans are realizing that, "wait a minute, we are part of the problem." and it took mexico... i mean, it took the issue to come to america's, you know, doorsteps for the us goverment to finally realize this is about coresponsibility. i mean, it takes two of you. >> hinojosa: do you... when you hear people talking about this kind of... i don't know if i've heard the word flood, but, you know, the violence creeping over the border, coming into the united states, and i've heard some people say, "you know what? too alarmist. may have happened here or there." as someone who works on this issue all the time, is it true? are we seeing a crossover of this violence from mexico into the united states? >> it's a spillover, but i think that maybe some of the reports have been a little bit overexaggerated, you know, "a massive spilloveof violence." i ink the spillover up tnow has been much more of people leaving one side, you know? i think as a journalist, one of the thin

top stories this hour to a priest in finland who spoke out against an internationally wanted criminal is being questioned by police officers because the story you know larry is accused of inciting religious hatred after describing as a terrorist even though the chechen warlord is behind the moscow metro and for me. as the u.k. france itself to the forefront of protecting libyan citizens lawmakers in london a furious the country sold millions of dollars of weapons to people for the unrest in libya as well as egypt hunt bahrain for homs from britain and latest all rising . from moscow heads of a new fall towards towards the plane crash that killed poland's president kaczynski and ninety five others in western russia last april investigations of the tragedy that strained relations between the two countries is still under way. of it out with more news for less than half an hour from now up next we go inside the infamous content of a bay detention center as filmmakers try to expose what's really going on there. yes i play a piece there is. a friend which is a field and he would like to be