it is my great pleasure to introduce these two wonderful gentlemen, james o'shea and james warren. [inaudible] general o'shea is a very good friend of mine. it's fitting for him to host this. [inaudible] what's more tonight is that >> james o'shea is a master electrician and put himself through college baidu eight electrical work.riweot and we have real work that needs to be done around here. hoping you would stick around after words to fix some of the lights. you know, jim moret he is say hell raiser and a former managing editor of "the chicago tribune" now writing hot for the cooperative ways to appears twice a week in the near times and on the website and known all over the country and all over the world and from capital gain and she writes for everyone including the a lipstick month late and double augur for the "huffington post" and with the sun times and kasten it pretty much everything. i am sure mostur of you know, have worked together and we have heard a lot of stories. one of my favorite how did james o'shea was so mad at james warren he screamed at him and hung up the pho

it is my great pleasure to introduce these two wonderful gentlemen, james o'shea and james warren. [inaudible] general o'shea is a very good friend of mine. it's fitting for him to host this. [inaudible] what's more tonight is that i'm doing the favor to james o'shea by doing this, and something you may not know about him is that jim o'shea is a master electrician. he put himself through college -- i don't know if you know this -- by doing electrical work, and so we have a lot of work that needs to be done around here -- [laughter] and i was hoping, jim, that you'd stick around afterwards and fix lights and things like that. [laughter] obviously, you all know james warren. he is a real hell raiser and a fabulous human being, former managing editor of the chicago tribune and now writes for the chicago news cooperative appearing twice a week in the "new york times" and also on cnc's website. he's a fixture in journal. i. you're all aware of that. he's known all over the country and, indeed, all over the world for frequent appearances on shows like capitol gang on cnn. he was the washi

. >> the deal from hell by james o'shea is a story about "the chicago tribune" and sam zell and what has happened to media businesses from an insider. jim o'shea was a longtime reporter at "the chicago tribune." he became the managing editor at the l.a. times, so he's had both the ground work as a reporter and the management experience of being, you know, not quite the other side, but, you know, in the decision making meetings. and it is the full, unvarnished story of what's happened to media businesses in america by focusing on the story of the tribune company. page 1 is a book in our series of books that we have done in the conjunction with participant media. we've done books and films like foodinc. and waiting for superman, and this is their new film. it's called "page one: inside "the new york times." " and we had an npr media reporter that has a collection of essays by many different contributors writing about media, again, taking this subject beyond the, um, the film's limitations. a film can tell you in a very visceral way the story, but it can only tell you so much. these ess

formerers are -- editoro to beribune" james o'shea takes a behind the scenes of newsrooms. on "after words," robert bishop talks to deborah tannen on the lack of moderation in american culture. author injured his from our trip to frankford, kentucky. -- author interviews from our trip to frankfort, kentucky. on "in depth," "newsweek" editor ellis cose. starting saturday mornings, 48 hours a people and events telling the american story. watch personal interviews, oral histories. revisit the figures, battles and events during the 150th anniversary of the civil war. visit college classrooms across the country during lectures in history. the presidency it looks at the policies and legacies of past american presidents. get the complete schedule at c- span.org/history and sign up to have it emailed to you. >> "washington journal" continues. host: today we finish our four- part series on medicare. monday we focused on an overview and history of the medicare program. we moved on to discuss medicare advantage. prescription drugs we talked about yesterday. today, the fiscal challenge

james o'shea takes you behind the scenes of decisions made in board rooms in newsrooms across the country books we feature on book tv, including christine o'donnell on her bid for the u.s. senate seat from delaware. ronald bishop talks with a georgetown professor on the lack of moderation in american culture. the media's role in the need to want more. throughout the weekend, author interviews from our trip the frankfurt, ky. one in debt, join us for a three-hour conversation with ellis cose on racism in america. get the complete schedule and our website. >> this morning, present obama says he is in close contact with members of this federal response team, along with governors and mayors along the east coast, about federal and state preparations for hurricane irene. the storm is currently on track to make landfall on saturday. he spoke from martha's vineyard where his -- he and his family had been vacationing this week. he returns to washington tonight. >> good morning, everybody. i want to say a few words about hurricane irene, urge americans to take it seriously, and provide an overview