of journalism.hey have become too -- they have become used to the idea that they will get a one-sided opinion shut down their throat by a media organization instead of neutral information. the second, the censorship trends, they are going to become used to it that this is how it is. make sure we don't see certain information or hear from certain people. that is not the way it was, not the way i grew up, not to wait journalism works or information access should work in america. i'm afraid among young people this is what they know and how things are. host: this is bill in georgia. democrats line. caller: i would like to talk about the defense authorization hasand the fact that trump threatened to veto it on the ground of confederates -- confederate generals and having a forged name after them as well as the 203 liability shield for social media. what is not being mentioned in -- thatl is the fact offshore accounts are going to be required to report the ownership of those companies. this is something i

one place i can go to get journalism.ould like to challenge your thought that censorship and narratives just started. my mind flashed back to the 1968 dnc when hammer was speaking and it was cut away from her because the media did not want to see her talking on tv. from an african-american perspective, the narrative has always been biased. biased against us. another thing is that they always talk about trump because he tweets ad nauseam. i would like to go a day without a tweet. but they have to report on it because he is president. finally, the black lives matter, i would like to get your thoughts on how that was presented. african-americans were saying give us a chance to celebrate us. that is why black lives matter. we are protesting, but in the immediate it is rioting. in the media it is they want to defund the police, that is not what we were saying. i would like to get your perspective on how that is covered. sharyl: two things i would like to address, you are right. the shaping of news has always been there. and i

>> from the journal? >> the question is what are the dates and sources.f you want to talk about both, the journal and the photos we used. >> we have these remarkable drawings and stories that joseph ray tells in his journal, but a lot of the other footage as i said is from the movie. some of it is from our collection of course. comments from some that say cruelest,arek on the -- crew list. was this the same from the 1830's? >> that is an interesting question, i'm not sure if it was the same. there were so many families connected in nantucket and so many that have the same first name and last name, i'm not sure . another question is how did joseph's journal survive and come to nantucket >? >> it came back with joseph and i don't know, one of his descendents was able to donate it to the historical association and we are very fortunate to have that along with many other ships journal. the research library has an amazing collection of journals and log books. there is a great project going on right now at the research library that transcribes all these journal

because journalism must be nonpartisan or else it sees it ceases to be journalism the become something else and we've got a whole lot of something else right now in american media. bob kerrey the founder of our website consorting news in the last piece that he wrote before he died exactly 3 month 3 years ago december he wrote about this dying journalism and because of the partisanship taking it over and the basics of journalism a fax of being neutral of being impartial was going by the wayside he didn't if i did the arjun's of this with the in the reagan administration with the rise of right wing talk radio but then he came to see that especially during the obama administration and it really took off going to trump and station that the democrats were doing the same if not worse than what the right wing had done and when i say democrats i don't i don't call them left i think the democrats a center right but in that nonetheless they're certainly the other party and both sides are using other democrats because as much or democratic t.v. particular and newspapers and there are republican i

joseph kept a journal throughout this voyage. so a lot of the drawings that you will be seeing came from joseph ray. he was a 21-year-old nantucket boy hired to go on the ship and his job was going to be both steerer and harpooner. that means when they are actually pursuing a whale, ofeph will be in the bough the ship. when they approached the whale, he will also be the harpooner. the present is going to harpoon the whale. joseph joins the rest of the crew. he is -- these are men from the all over, men from buffalo, boston, nantucket, because the captains and the mates are most likely from nantucket. and there is also a man from the azores. as the edward carriage sales all over the world, they will be picking up other sailors along the way, so that will add to the diversity of the crew. diverse whaling crews created the first meritocracy in the colony. in a young man who could prove to clamber up the ladder and achieve success on the voyage or did maybe you could become a mate, maybe even a captain. pictured here we have the firs

the "wall street journal" is at the center of a firestorm over an opinion piece on the incoming firste with biden's use of the title doctor even though she has earned her doctorate of education. now women and men around this country are weighing in. here's abc's megan >> reporter: the "wall street journal" is defending its decision to publish an op-ed about dr. jill biden which critics have called sexist and demeaning. writer joseph epstein argues the first lady elect should drop doctor from her title because she's not a medical doctor. epstein writing, a wiseman once said that no one should call himself doctor unless he has delivered a child. biden earned her doctorate in 2007. responses supporting her have exploded on social media overnight. former first lady michelle obama writing, right now we're all seeing what also happens to so many professional women, whether their titles are doctor, ms., mrs. or even first lady. all too often our accomplishments are met with kept sim, even derision. the husband of vice president-elect kamala harris tweeting, doctor biden earned her degree thr

the columbia journalism school to be in conversation with wanda smalls. and then to introduced wanted to be a reading and conversation will have time for questions and we will do our best to get to as many as possible. in the middle of public archive but the audience is not a part of that recording. thank you again for tuning in. please welcome is we're introduced to ms. for it. >> thank you. women beginning her career as a copy editor. and with a local and national outlets including "washington post" and "usa today". 2004 through 2013 she was the executive editor of montgomery advertiser in alabama. that journalism department and then for black journalist serving on the board of directors with the landmark survey a black journalist the national association a black journalist and then to push her memoir coming full circle which chronicles her decades long career and then to a short excerpt. >> i will read a passage way it was when she was like mother wanda you have a telegram from 1969 i was at home for christmas break in the union messenger needed my att

that have proven independent journalism can survive even flourish after the spring. and in key fodder in tunisia have done the same under different circumstances they all offer quality reporting expertly preserved that audiences have come to. given the restrictions and in some cases the dangers the reporters face their work is all the more north. korea was established. in march 2012 when we realized that something unprecedented was happening in the country and it was very important for syrians to not only be citizen journalists simply reporting to basically provide international journalists with the footage and the raw data for others to come and sort of edits and analyze we need to have our own place where it wasn't just citizen journalism it was also in-depth report for the syrian conflict in a way not to be reduced to just the they lead to death all of its heroes and it's martyrs and it's victims but also for syrians a take a step back and to be able to come together to reflect and to think not only about the present but also about the future. intifada is in indep

and what we call journalism. my basic standards for journalism is that is a respect for truth and facts. this is something that's been degraded substantially under the trump administration that when facts are presented, that challenge the political take of this administration and news venues that ignore facts in order to present their world viewpoint as if that was -- it's wrong and very sadly, there has been several instances where marina times protecting incorrect and they refuse to retract their statement. that happened over and over again. there comes a time where people can lie about whatever they want to lie about but our responsibility as supervisors is to decide whether or not we want to support an outfit that presents lies as fact and when presented with facts refuting those lies, fails to retract them. i would love the marina and that part of the city and county of san francisco, to have a responsible news outlet where we could spend public dollars to advertise. that means "the marina times" is doing a

he excelled at everything journalism required.ut and design and typefaces, an inherent instinct for a story and he believed in investigative journalism, and he took all of that and used it to create the modern sunday times. the embodiment of a humble hack taking on mighty forces with nothing but the truth, harry evans putjournalism itself in a debt to him that will never be serviced. sir harry evans. we owe him so much. the digitalisation notjust of media but of our entire lives will, of course, accelerate in 2021. look out for a new wave of antitrust measures as regulators everywhere try to break up tech monopolies. the tech cold war splintering the internet further, lots of royals in court, new chairman, may be a new path for the bbc, and a shake—up of british broadcasting with the arrival of gb news as the battle for our ears, eyes and attention intensifies. whatever you're doing, or however digital your christmas may become, i hope you and yourfamily have a happy and healthy time. thanks for watching. hello. we have a stormy 2

he was our guest on this morning's washington journal. host: c-span viewers are familiar with jeffrey rosen, joining us on the day that the electoral college will vote for president and vice president. before we get to the why, explain exactly what happens today. guest: today, electors will meet in their states and cast their votes for president. process wheremal there are certifications i have to be created that are two certificates. assignment,ion of and certification of who actually won the vote. there are six copies of each, they are transmitted to the president of the senate, who is the vice president, as well as the secretary of state, the chief judge of the federal district court, and those certificates are then counted on january 6, when congress meets to actually elect the president and recognize his victory. host: a complicated system. why do we have it? guest: because the framers put it in the constitution, it was further refined by federal law. interesting an topic. i am honored to discuss it with the viewers on this important

washington journal talks about issues that impact you. our annual authors week series, one hour segments with a new author. coming up wednesday morning, princeton university's eddie on his new book, begin again. james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own. and then kristen tate talks about her recent column about what she describes as an exodus from cities and blue states. watching c-span's washington journal at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created by america's cable television companies in 1979. today, we are brought to you by these television companies who provide c-span to viewers as a public service. >> the texas governor received the covid-19 vaccine at the medical center in austin on tuesday. he was joined by the texas department of state health services commissioner, who also received the vaccine. the state is on pace to distribute more than

he said when i moved to new york you must keep a journal and i followed his advice and started a journal in 2009. and i still keep it. maybe not as closely or you know, it's gone through stages but i did keep a very close journal during the pandemic and a lot of material fromthis book came directly from those journals . >> are you still keeping mark . >> sure, i'm making out at how this book started. with notes from a journal, things i was noticing,things i was hearing or not hearing . how our lives werechanging . >> what did you realize this might actually become a book ? >> i have to give credit to my editor, nancy miller bloomsbury who was also your editor and our friend . we share an amazing brilliant editor, . believe me, i had no idea that i would write a book about the pandemic in 2020. in fact, at the end of january, i completed a draft of a different book, a very different book of the history of exercise called sweat because i've been working on for years. i sent that into nancy at the end of january, also finished this screenplay insomniac city so i was just going to sit back.

of journalism.y have become too -- they have become used to the idea that they will get a one-sided opinion shut down their throat by a media organization instead of neutral information. the second, the censorship trends, they are going to become used to it that this is how it is. make sure we don't see certain information or hear from certain people. that is not the way it was, not the way i grew up, not to wait journalism works or information access should work in america. i'm afraid among young people this is what they know and how things are. host: this is bill in georgia. democrats line. caller: i would like to talk about the defense authorization hasand the fact that trump threatened to veto it on the ground of confederates -- confederate generals and having a forged name after them as well as the 203 liability shield for social media. what is not being mentioned in -- thatl is the fact offshore accounts are going to be required to report the ownership of those companies. this is something i t

because journalism must be nonpartisan or else it sees it ceases to be journalism now become somethingelse and we've got a whole lot of something else right now in american media. bob kerrey the founder of our website consorting news in the last piece that he wrote before he died exactly 3 month 3 years ago december he wrote about this dying journalism and because of the partisanship taking it over and the basics of journalism of facts of being neutral of being impartial was going by the wayside he didn't if i did the arjun's of this with the in the reagan administration with the rise of right wing talk radio but then he came to see that especially during the obama administration and it really took off going to trump and station that the democrats were doing the same if not worse than what the right wing had done and when i say democrats i don't i don't call them left i think the democrats a center right but in that nonetheless they're certainly the other party and both sides are using other democrats because there's more or democratic t.v. meticulous and newspapers and there are repub

this is news africa coming up on the program the survival of journalism doing it on demick as a media industry do use with a house. and then make one digital media house in south africa. but is that the rights move also coming up. it's a life threatening journey on water from africa today come out. why do so many young africans risk their lives for. i. welcome to the program the journalism industry has been hey todd due to the 19 pandemic across the continent loss of revenue from advertising has led some media houses to lay off journalists some publications of even how to shut down. still struggling to survive and i even make in more dishes moves to south africa your digital news media outlet is now branching into print publication against all odds . investigative critical journalism that's the trademark of the daily maverick it started in 2009 as a digital only publication and has been at the forefront in exposing corruption and government failures in south africa in september they decided to swim against the current and published a print publication for the 1st time most new houses

but i knew we needed new journalism that is passionate but also give me a full picture of the world that is what people want they want not more information but they need navigation stories about where we are what we come from but especially moving ahead so the idea that it's only fear that we should took tap into it that we've been doing in the news industry for years with telling people of the show that it's breaking news here something bad might happen here in the polling training everything is going to help watch here that has been our strategy and it has turned out that people turn their back on us they have overwhelmed and they don't want to pay for it so if we think about it we should know listen to psychologists who say yes fear is very strong and as you said it comes down from the stone age but hope you speak of it that's the reason why people get up and you know we still don't and we've been misled to look into that absolutely but we still have to all these things in journalism job to report the truth and the truth isn't always beautiful yes and sadly a lot of bad things ha

that is from inside the wall street journal. the front page showed the wall street journal with this dramatic photograph of a wildfire in orange county in southern california wildfire erupted in california forcing acuations, california senator, vice president-elelec kamala harris in a cnn interview saying climate change would be one of th administration's top prioriti. >> pretty progressive. some might call it ambitious but the american people in the world can't afford anything less. the clock is ticking rapidly on this issue. the president-ect has made very clear we will approach this in a way that we know the vast majority have in common with what separates us. through the policy, convened everyone from labor groups to fortune 500 folks. there is a consensus on what needs to happen. the president-elect was talking to t head of gm and days later, they are going to drop the resistance to california's rules on electric vehicl. we have reason to be optimistic about at is possible. it will not be easy. it will require convening but

public interest journalism that sometimes is a bit hard to do in daily newsrooms. we are kind of a british eqvalent of propublica which does a very similar role in the u.s. we try and investigate big tech wod look at that climate, we look at sort of financialization and corruption, ande try and get into those. of course look at global health because with coronavirus this year, how could you n? >> host: and you write in your book, "the tangled web we weave", it's considered a truism in the news industry that the internet is killing journalism. >> guest: yes, it is. it sometimes i think that criticism is fair and sometimes i think it isn't. there are things the internet did to journalism that damaged it by don't think are unfair and don't think we should try to ask for compensation for. it used to be if you wanted a new car, you look in your local paper, advertisement in the back of the paper. that was also true for dating. most often true if you wanted to rent a new flat or apartment or by one. the internet is just better at thos things. you can search, , you can ge

to pay for quality journalism.ty journalism, you have to pay for it and they want to support it. they are worried about the information ecosystem. it's contaminated with falsehoods and conspiracy theories, and they want to support organizations like ours. >> yeah, does seem there is more awareness, if you want the news to survive and thrive, you have to where will you be growing? >> we're setting up some hubs, one in europe, one in that will be one of the major pillars of our coverage going forward. and we're focusing, of course, on social media, particularly on instagram, that's been a primary way that a lot of people, particularly younger people, have gotten their information and so we're going to dedicate more resources to that. >> it is notable to see any outlet adding foreign bureaus, and these hubs are going to have in europe and asia, is this a way to more thoroughly compete with the cnns and the new york times of the world that have these 24/7 global operations? is that where the post is heading? >> yeah, w

watch washington journal live wednesday morning.nd be sure to join the discussion with phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> today, the wisconsin elections commission met to discuss certification of the 2020 election results. during the meeting, republican meters objective to how the chair of the commission moved forward with certifying the results of the presidential election by signing off on the canvas report a day earlier and sending results to the governor for approval. here is a look. >> commissioner. >> i would like to raise a question of privilege. >> ok. concern, these comments will be about your activities as chair, and i think they take precedence to anything else on our agenda today. i cannot express strongly enough my disappointment in your actions yesterday, particularly after i formally asked at the last meeting that we would have a meeting and a chance to discuss prior to any certification. you twog that, i sent separate emails, neither of which was, received any reply. in which i explained you

journalism that is sometimes hard to do in daily newsrooms.e are kind of a british a,uivalent of pro-public which is similar in the u.s. we look at big tech, the ization. financial i we get into global health because with coronavirus this year, how could you not? book,you write in your "it tangled web we weave," is considered a truism in the news industry that the internet is killing journalism." james: yes, and sometimes i think that criticism is fair and sometimes i think it isn't. there are things that the internet did to journalism that damaged it that i don't think are unfair and that we should ask opposition four. it used to be -- ask compensation for. it used to be if you wanted a new car, you looked for an advert in the back of the paper. that was also true for dating or if you wanted to rent a new flat or apartment or to buy one. the internet is just better at those things. you can search, you can get reminders, you could look in a broader area. it is easier. people moved to that because it is better. is not unfair, it's not the fault

it was the beginning of a new kind of hyper scrutiny being given to journalism all kinds .it's very much a part of the moment we're living innow . he would say to me what part of the expectations of journalism and hershey's time was that you had a much broader license to take things from many places without maniacally crediting sources at every moment. >> even though hershey's notesfrom his interviews no longer exist , the dialogue only exists among papers. i mean, if they emerge i want to be the first to get a crack at them but they do include many of the reports the scientific reports that he referred to when he was writing hiroshima when my researchers look through them once in a while we were like this is an awfully good description that was very close to how it had ended up in your oshima but for instance a report description of the geography of your oshima being fan shaped with seven rivers and but it was an informational poll so you can imagine this reporter whose writing on deadline who has a fan of material picking and picking. there was a report that he had on the

investigative journalism i have seen up to that point my life was truman capote is great in cold blood and at some point even sick puppies and prison feel the need to tell somebody about it now this man you're talking about it's an artist and it's more of a economic crime but even violent people get in behind and stir and they. the human need to brag on something even if it's the most perverse gesture is mind boggling to me it absolutely is it is yeah i got one would think well if i don't think it's totally only bragging i think a lot of times they just really want to tell their stories you know they're these are the people that are sort of shunned and stereotyped in our society in a lot of times they just be feel a need to explain why they became who they are and you know they didn't grow up to be quote they didn't grow up criminals they don't want foreign criminals and a lot of times they want to explain sort of their lack of opportunities that lead them to into these trafficking worlds so that's what's always super fascinating to listen to as well. we're talking to marianna van zell

journalism and dad the media as we brought it existed although it never existed as we like to believe it existed even back to cronkite to the 3 network newscasts it would never down the middle if you look back and the people certainly had bias if you look back but it's bad it's bad but that you don't instead of admitting it and you're alluded to that it's you know going back to the gentleman who unfortunately passed that it goes back to the reagan administration right wing talk radio but that. talk radio host of which i won and won one back then never sure we would count you out we had a penguin worth of pounds that's what we did and do but these people like jake tapper and rachel maddow and the rest of them on end of the n.b.c. c.n.n. and throughout the media that binocular the owner of the money thing. and you don't call them your analysts the joint kappa said literally thank you supreme clear our thank you so when they wouldn't take the pennsylvania case last week because my parents weren't my parents were going to be different branch i believe in pennsylvania thank you and that's

but before we do, we have some actual journalism to report tonight.n friday, a reporter with this network, peter doocy tried to get joe biden to address a factual issue. his son hunter biden is now under federal criminal investigation relating to tax fraud stemming from his business deals in china. here's how the conversation we went. >> did hunter biden commit a crime? have you spoken to your son, mr. president-elect? >> tucker: i am proud of my son, said joe biden. if that's on similar, there's a reason. that's the same rehearsed non sequitur that the biden-harris transition team sent out in a press release last week. and you're not getting any more information than that. just a minute ago we heard about how in america, politicians don't take power, the people grant it to them. but it turns out the people granting a power don't get answers. what we do know is that joe biden is very proud of his son and his son's federal criminal investigation and that's all you need to know. so why isn't joe biden willing to answer even basic questions about his son

it's not my first choice but you do what you do when you work in journalism.the democratic convention was in charlotte the conventions themselves actually handled journalists assignments the worst hotel imaginable and the crack piles someone said at that hotel i wouldn't bring a hooker here, to which roger stone replied i would. [laughter] >> not unexpected. >> you left social media. thank you for your advice on that. it's made me a better reporter and person. can you explain why you left? >> i never used it at all until my mid-30s i went to work for an advocacy organization and they required everyone to have a facebook page. that's the only time to connect people with your stories it got a lot of traffic and if i put up a post on the corner i can count on a couple hundred thousand also that never brought out the best in me. i tend to write opening sentences that are 210 words long. some people are good at it and some create more value frankly i bought myself one of those word processors that doesn't have an internet connection, e-mail or anything like that wa