. >> host: you mention josh marshall. josh marshall was a guest on c-span at the q&a program for is discussion about himself and how he got interested in reporting. we have a clip of that just so you cannot meet demand who had the idea behind the talking points memo. let's listen. >> remember the first mummy is that i want to do this myself. create this website. yeah, you know, i think they're a couple moments when i had that, where i didn't do it yet, sort of false start. when i was in graduate school i was involved in web design basically to support myself. and i put together a newsletter that was about things having to do with the internet and stuff like that and i likes it. i think i liked being a publisher. i like putting something together. and then when i got into being a political journalist, i had an urge to do some thing like it. and it only really came together at the end of the 2000 election when the place i was working at the time was called the american prospect. it was biweekly. came out twice -- came out t

. >> this week on q&a, josh marshall publisher and editor of talkingpointsmemo.com, a web-based news organization featuring breaking news, opinions and investigative reporting. c-span: joshua micah marshall how would you describe what you do for a living? >> guest: oim a publisher of a news web site, and i am also the editor so i am heavily involved in the editorial and publishing side of the operation and that is basically what i do. i publish a news web site. c-span: how long have you done it? jaczko i have done it -- it's been in existence for 11 years but in anything like its current form it goes back about five years and when i say current form, where we employ a number of journalists, you know it's a full company with everything that goes with that for the first five or six years that i did it was just a one-man show so there is continuity, but a very you know a radically different enterprise. c-span: can you remember the first moment you said i want to do this myself, create this web site? guest code yeah. i think there were a couple of moments. there were a couple of moments

josh, one of the community grand marshals.applause] and i would like to thank all of you for your help, especially my sister colleen and my partner, jose. [applause] and my mother. everyone is so lucky to have you. we start off the program each year with a reminder of what the pink triangle is about. to tell the history of the pink triangle, please welcome the star of greece. -- of grease. [applause] >> good morning writ -- good morning. this is too much to take in this early. you guys are amazing. the history of the pink triangle. the pink triangle was used by nazis in concentration camps to identify and shame homosexuals. this symbol, which was used in an attempt to label and shame, has been embraced by the gay community as a symbol of pride. [applause] that is right. however, in the 1930's and 1940's, there was nothing to celebrate. gays were forced to wear the pink triangle on their pockets in the concentration camps. to identify them as homosexuals, to set them apart from the other prisoners. triangles of various colors w

host: josh marshall was a guest on c-span for a discussion about himself and how he got interested in reported and we have a clip of that so you can meet the man who led the idea behind talking points memo. him. listen to [video clip] >> that first moment i said i would do this myself, great this website. >> when -- i think there were a couple of moments when i did not do it yet. it was a false start. when i was in graduate school, i was involved in web design to support myself. i put together a newsletter that was about things having to do with the internet and stuff like that and i liked that. i think i like being a publisher, putting something together. i got into being a political journalist. i had an urge to do some thing like id and it only came together at the end of the 2000 election when this place i was working at the time, it was a biweekly and came out -- it cannot twice a month. a very different time and i had an urge to do something like this and i was on vacation was supposed be the week after the 2000 election, which was still going on down in florida. i started then a