. >> among other titles, tina brown is the cofounder of the daily beast.com website. you have a book section on that website. tell us about it. >> we launched about six months ago is becoming a very striving channel on the daily beast website. every day we cover a new book on each day we have highlights of what to read, why you should read it, we do wonderful little cheat sheet as we kaw, does kind of a brit lit, whatever is reading in the u.k. is a very lively channel. lucas whitman is the editor. he has joined us just recently. we are developing what we feel overly great warm spot for writers, because there's so few places now where they can get their books reviewed. we do video. read a wonderful interview gives very few interviews about his new book, the humbling. so i think a combination of video and pictures and reviews and interviews and extracts which were not doing, it's really developing quite a following. and i think hopefully we will span into the breach which has been led by so many spanish book reviews section. >> have you ever reviewed harold evans books

from the daily beast, tina brown. and mtv's sway call loway.e to help us unveil 360's all the best, all the worst of 2009. welcome, i'm tom foreman. if you did not get a little nervous this year you weren't paying attention. from economics to politics to pop culture everything seemed to be in flux. sure the nation signed on for change but by year's end some were ready to say keep the change. let's move on to better times. still, as we chart our course into the future, it's worth looking back on all that got us to where we are. back to where the whole big, bad year began. we've got to give the biggest and worst story of 2009 to the economy. because it certainly gave it to us. >> i think it's a year where america had to get off its sugar high. >> started out with an economic crisis and seemed to be a bottomless pit and started out as a very frightening time. >> certainly if you had a job you were really lucky and everybody was scaling back in their own way. >> from the start all the numbers were running bad, employment down, home sales down, busi

[applause] >> among other titles, tina brown is the cofounder of "the daily beast.com" website.you have a book section on the website, tell us about it. >> we lost about six months ago is coming a very striving channel on "the daily beast" website that everyday we cover a new book. each day we have highlights of what to read, why you should read it. we do wonderful little cheat sheet, pieces about reviews, more over the place we had the editor from the times littered, does kind of a written list, what ever is reading in the u.k. he's a very lively channel. and lucas whitman is the editor. he came and joined us just recently. we are developing what we feel overly great one spot for writers, because there are so few places to where they can get their books reviewed. we do video. we had a wonderful interview with philip recently who gives a very few interviews about his new book, the humbling. so i think a combination of video and pictures and reviews and interviews and extracts which were not doing. it's really developing quite a following that and i think hopefully we will stand

and then when tina brown came in, she freed me to write about other subjects, as well. i wrote about politics more under tina. c-span: but you've written major pieces on hillary clinton and newt gingrich, a book on steve ross, who was head of warner. >> guest: right. c-span: and in what years were all those done? >> guest: well, the book on ross, i guess -- i mean, that was "master of the game," which came out in 1994. and i had written pieces about time warner at "the new yorker. that was how i got interested in ross. and at the same time -- and then in the early '90s, i wrote the piece about hillary and then about gingrich. and then after that, i wrote about the middle east. so tina was the one who let me sort of just have a broader ambit. c-span: when did you marry congressman -- is it mel levine? >> guest: it's mel levine. c-span: levine. >> guest: just two years ago. and -- but i had been living in california with him more or less sort of the last five years. so -- and it was in that period of time that i was working on this book. c-span: the mob, the gangsters, all

to see you all here at the british embassy, and of course a special welcome to harold evans and tina brown we in the embassy are delighted to be participating in the launch of harry's book, my paperchase. the book covers and i've started reading it, the book covers a huge amount of ground from harry's childhood in the north of england and for a time, you won't know this, you are living and ankles a few hundred yards from where julia later grew up. then on to his professional career as a journalist and editor, publisher and author. but this isn't just another autobiography. this is also a biography of the newspaper industry over many, many significant decades. and the book describes that almost industrial process of producing a newspaper over really the best part of the last century. now all that has and one vanished with the book, is a slightly not an obituary from print journalism. mark twain said, i'm not an editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that god will not make me one. [laughter] >> harold evans is 14 year tenure as the editor of the sunday times, a

. >> tina brown, cofounder, editor, daily beast.com. >> thank you. >> i am a revolutionary. black people need some peace. black people need some peace. we're going to have to struggle. >> i'm saying something. >> you going to have to do more than talk. you're going to have to do more than listen. we've got to start getting out there with the people. >> it's sort of like a primary thing to me. i'm the first move. >> this is 2337 westwood road, described by police as a black panther party arms and entities. 14 states attorneys placemen led by sergeant daniel gro found that indeed it was a hole for weapons that after a gunbattle that caused jeffrey haas his life, as soon as sergeant and the officer who are leaving are men announced their office occupants of the apartment attack them with shotgun fire. >> sir, you say your men were fired upon. witnesses who have seen the apartment say there is no evidence of bullets from the direction where the panthers supposedly were to be. >> this blatant act of legitimatize murder strips all credibility from law enforcement. in the context o

to see you all here at the british embassy and of course a special welcome to harold evans and tina brown. we at the embassy are delighted to be participating in the launch of harry's book, "my paper chase" true stories of vanished times. the book covers, and i started reading it, the book covers a huge amount of ground from harry's childhood in the north of england in for a time, you will know this, you were living in eckels the few hundred yards from where juliet lathrem corrupt. then on to his professional career as a journalist, editor publisher and author, but this isn't just another autobiography. this is also a biography of the newspaper industry over many many significant decades in the book describes that almost industrial process of producing a newspaper over really the best part of the last century. now all of that is decidedly not an obituary for print journalism. mark twain said i'm not an editor of the newspaper angela always try to do right in the good so god will not make the one. [laughter] harold evans 14 ten-year ten year as the editor is "the sunday times" in year as t

brown. he spoke earlier today with tina susman of the "los angeles times" in port-au-prince. >> reporter: tina, thanks for joining us. you are at the airport so tell us first what's the situation there in terms of supplies being able to get in. >> well, today appears to be the first day that things have really gotten under way here at the airport. up until this morning they were having problems landing planes full of people and supplies because of crowd on the runway. but just today there have been, for instance, several cargo planes bringing people in, among them 250 doctors, nurses and medical experts including veterinarians, sent out from the health and human services department by the state department. they just arrived this afternoon. and aid agencies are expecting some cargo planes to come in. in fact they are expecting 18 metric tons of supplies arrive on a cargo plane this afternoon. >> reporter: give us a sense, if you would, about how hard it is to get around the city for you, for aid workers for anybody at this point. >> extraordinarily hard. in fact, everybody i have spoken to, the