really didn't pass it was just the two of us i was always around as i grew up but i discovered that shearer was a grandmother i didn't know. it even with him with my grandma has always leaves with a feeling of guilt. but she has never shown any anger looking towards the united states. when you and bill of other people destroy the. if her economic goal was the fire it was such a devastating experience. and destroys the will of the people. he said before i became a volunteer to be a guy i had to the speaker study group and all the experiences. ha ha ha my mother never talked about it because she felt gail to us that she survived how mother and sister were crying for help. and yes at the time we were all looking for her. she tried to fix her mother tonight how moderate couldn't it is meant to blot all over her but is it. my mistake i was at school playing marbles when suddenly it becomes dawn flash man and however i didn't see the flash of light one of the farmhouses was burning and i was very scared to see that you that's where my memory of the horrors stops is actual play time is. what the s

my friend harry shearer told me he was at the school a couple of years ago. brian williams was talking. it was about katrina. harry asked a question about what the networks were not covering more -- what went wrong with the engineering of the levees in new orleans during the flooding? and brian said, it is the emotional stores that are the most compelling. to his credit, he then had harry around the next day to talk about that issue. but the notion that is the emotional stories that are the most compelling. in terms of network news, is that a fair way of looking at at framing it? >> to use the katrina example, the emotion that went into covering that, people at the superdome and the convention center, pleading, crying for help. that was the emotional story. that was the first week or two of the story. to look back into more investigating. at that point, the emotions of the story is what generated the huge outcry across america. if she did not see this people on television crying for help, the next step would not happen. i think that was an important starting

i'm alan shearer director of the medill washington program, which is part of northwestern university. medill has been a bitter national security journalism education since we created our unit covering conflicts and terrorism class in 2003. in 2009, we open the medill national security journalism initiative, which is a long-term effort to help journalists and journalism students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to report accurately and with context on the events and issues related to defense, security and to the liberty. the initiative has four components and receive generous funding from the mccormick foundation and the carnegie corporation to pursue these endeavors. we have created a sequence of graduate and undergraduate courses in our main campus and out of thin and here in washington for our students. we also are sponsoring an annual symposium in 2011. we've created excellent research fellowships and training for working journalists, which brings us to today's event. i want to thank the museum for kindly allowing us to use this wonderful facility. and now, let's get onto it

i'm ellen shearer, no director of the initiative and director of the medill washington program whichis part of northwest university. medill has been a leader in national security journalism initiative since we started our unique class in 2003. in 2009, he opened the medill national security journalism initiative which is a long-term effort to help journalist and journalism students to report accurately and within the context on issues related to the defense, security, and civil liberties. the initiative has four components, and received genuous funding from the mccormick foundation and carnegie corporation to pursue the endeavors. we have created a sequence of graduate and undergraduate courses in our main campus and here in washington for our students. we also are sponsoring an annual symposium in 2011. we've created six month research fellowships, and training for working journalist. which brings us to today's event. i want to thank the museum for kindly allowing us to use the wonderful facility. let's get on to it. because we have a very exciting panel discussion ahead. leading us