. >> but you are a bill moyers baby. >> charlie: i am. what do you mean he's a bill moyers baby?arley and said, go with my blessing! (laughter) >> with your career, you can choose different kind of rhythms. >> charlie: exactly. there are jock reporters. they wake up in the morning, have a press difference, even some lady on the 104 bus is not a reporter at all but she sits in the back of the bus and announce this is morning, today i will be at the press conference of the city council vice president, and when you watch evening television, she is there! she's in the back. she's the star! she's just bringing up the rear everywhere! (laughter) and i think it's kind of neat. but as ira is suggesting, it should be acknowledged that there are people who go to work and they want to tell you this just in, and they want to get it on and right and get it fast. >> charlie: i'm not doing that. >> no, that's the one extreme, and then there's bill moyer. >> if you look at what we do here, you have to put it in the context of the whole season. you have theater, dance, music, opera, you have to h

. >> but you are bill moyers' baby. >> what do you mean? when he started, bill moyers put his hand on charlie and said, go with my blessing, or whatever. [laughter] >> about this business -- you can choose, in the course of your career -- you can choose different kind of rhythms to be in. there are jock reporters. they wake up in the morning. they have a press conference. they meet a lady on the 104 bus. she is not a reporter. she announces in the morning, today i will be at the press conference of the city council vice president. when you watch evening television, she is there. she is in the back row. she is the star of her own tempo. bringing up the rear everywhere in new york. and i think it is kind of neat. it should be acknowledged that there are people who go to work and want to tell you, this just in. i want to get it on and want to get it right and want to get it fast. >> i am not doing that. >> that is the one extreme. and then there is bill moyers. >> we have to put it in the context of a full season. you have got theater, dance,

the book is dedicated to bill moyers.here is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. you are experiencing it now. >> thank you. great to be here. i have met so many wonderful people already in this room. thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. i guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. it is in flux. there is a thinker about kie, whosm, clay sher wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, given thewe're in now great digital -- digital changes in the world, in terms of the scope, to the changes that occurred when the printing press was coming into its own. that complete upheaval that was happening at that time. we are going. change like that now. because we are in the middle of it we can't know what the to bel effects are going because we are living through i

movements in the post 1960s 7 is a movement was no subscription, chicago was rules for radicals, bill moyers and the weather underground, jeremiah right and barack obama. i expected to see a room full of young women fighting for their rights but instead the room was actually pretty much empty. the question, why do you care what the national organization for women think? are they relevant to give their not. they're very important to pay attention to because people like barack obama in washington d.c. are paying attention to what they have to say and take their advice when it comes to policy change and when it comes to messaging on certain issues but it wasn't necessarily the speeches that were being given that caught my interest at the convention. instead it was the exhibit hall and what was being sold. they were selling books about marxism and the feminist movement. .. so that is the kind of material that they were selling at the conference. and so i was quickly realizing to mass i'm there, that now was not about women's rights actually bought about socialism, big government, and abolishing

the book is dedicated to bill moyers. there is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. you are experiencing it now. >> thank you. great to be here. i have met so many wonderful people already in this room. thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. i'm afraid i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. i guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. it is in flux. there is a thinker about journalism, clay sherkie, who wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, the phase we're in now given the great digital changes in the world, in terms of the scope, to the changes that occurred when the printing press was coming into its own. that complete upheaval that was happening at that time. we are going. change like that now. because we are in the middle of it we can't know what the overall effects are going to be bec

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