are and then to create that movement there is the direct lineage 1969 armstrong and aldrin and walter cronkite goes new year's day and tells all of cbs 1970 is the year of earth and behind the news rise was that the bumper. and then cronkite made the first earth day 1970 as if it was a major national event and the media can make a big difference and then nixon was forced to create the epa in 1970. and the whole earth catalog was steve jobs or all of them are about the moon apollo had a big effect that's why many try to get into space as an occupation of financial investments. >> you bring us back to earth thank you. [applause] >> by the way i am getting frantic waves we will be in the barnes and noble tenant you may sneak in a question scie and history in medicine and that will begin in about 30 minutes. joining us now on the set at the university of southern california's author james

. >> first of all thank you for your book on walter cronkite and roosevelt. there is a scene where it shows a protest saying that is a misappropriation of resources. how much was that counter movement quick. >> great question. talking about james hansen and the biographer they made a film. there was protest going to the moon. there was skepticism with the naacp and the southern christian leadership conference with ralph abernathy the successor to mlk junior he went to the moon lunches but he was not anti- astronaut but questioned why aren't we putting that money into the urban poverty efforts and edward r merle was not keen on it working for kennedy he said if we do it and he's to be a person of color not white men only most of the world is not white if we can put an african-american or native american or latino into space that would say a lot about our culture of inclusion and nobody listened for go there was a group of women maybe not angry, yes angry they couldn't go. they didn't behave publicly with anger but because there were 13 women trained for mercur

leslie mitchell who was walter cronkite long time producer, a book, half of with his days as a newspaperman and he asked in the print media, what is news? peaceable news is what the editor says it is. the second half with television. he said what is news? the answer was used in what the process it is. that's in fact, what news is. what cnn and company and wanted to be news is that this was collusion and bob mueller was going to uncover it. and what happened is all a long american people have been yawning. we don't buy that we don't see anything here. just like climate change. climate change is another one. we've been seeing that as a top show of concern. -- top shelf. cnet has been the worst on climate change. and yet if you look at the publics perception on this, i don't care how many stores are out there, it doesn't move the public. just part of the pile for the public. they could the tenth and soap is a look, it's not our business to give the public with the public wants. it's a business to give them the news. i'll accept that, by the same token after all these stories, what the public i

prestigiousw, the walter cronkite award for excellence in journalism.tory of broadcasting. legend declared a living by the library of congress. as i say, to name a few of her awards. she was an american icon. -- she willver be forever be in the pantheon of the greatest professionals in her field. how blessed we were in congress that she used her gift to study and share america's history and heritage, helping tell the full story of our nation. cokie's brilliant reporting and writing shined a spotlight on the unsung women heroes of american history. their steroids -- steroids had long gone untold. the women who helped build and strengthen our nations are net -- are taking their rightful place in america's history books. as she stared -- are the stories of the suffragettes, upon his shoulders we stand, she empowered the next generation of women leaders to stand on her shoulders. her work to chronicle history helped shape america's future, helping inspire countless young women and girls to follow in her groundbreaking steps and to give them the confidence t

walter cronkite, newly hired anchor is managing the election night coverage. they have a univac that can predict the outcome. predicts correctly is an overwhelming victory for eisenhower. it was so decisive in its production that all of the programmers were like i think they got it wrong. , it is a time when the hardware is considered to be so important. the software is like being a telephone operator. you're just plugging in different wires in different places. it was not considered an art or science, just very routine. that coding something was like data entry. surprisingly this was seen as women's work. secretaries, telephone operators, it is kind of basic, a woman can do it. turns out is that programming is very complicated. if for some reason there is some misfire in the program, there is a bug in the program, you have to do over around. it is a very creative process. what computer specialists and technologists realize is programming the software is really where it is at. as that becomes more , the discipline of computer science is created. by the late 50

plummeted as a result of the democrats being able to draw out these facts, lay them on the table, and walter cronkite reported on them every night before the american people. president trump will not be able to defend himself against these facts every single night. >> bring it. >> he's going to say, if you stop lying about me, i'll start telling the truth about you. and the democrats have an opportunity to lay out truth here. so there's value in the impeachment inquiry. >> i noticed president trump is not as confident as you because he says stop the impeachment -- he's not tweeting bring it. >> no, he's not. but while he's in the -- >> he watches this show. i challenge him to take holly's position. tweet right now, mr. president, bring it on. >> he is doing just fine. listen, while the president is in these twitter battles over issues that don't really matter -- >> you can't tweet your way out of it. >> we just confirmed the 150th judge, the senate just did. >> which is a disaster. >> this is what's happening. so i cannot even believe that this far into his presidency that the media and the democrats

over the coue career, roberts received countless recognitions, including three emmys and the walter cronkiterd for excellence in jonalism. she was also a best-selling author, mostly exploring the importt roles women have played throughout erican history. roberts sat down with the late gwen ifill for the newshour in 2015. >> one of the reasons i have been writing books about women in history is because other people haven't been. and telling history without talking about one-half of the human race seems to be an inaccurate way of telling the story. >> woodruff: in the end, roberts earneder own place in history as a trablazer in journalism. president obama issued a statement today, praising her as a"role model to young wom a time when the profession was still dominated by men." and, house speaker nancy pelosi said of roberts that she "forever transformed the role of women in the newsroom and in our history books." roberts was diagnosed with east cancer in 2002, and diedst today in washington, of complications from the disease. she was 75 years old. let's hear more about cokie's life and legacy

it is a combination of walter cronkite and gossip girl. 86 --n text pb to we are joined by members of the house freedom caucus, and i would like to send you a special thanks to our partners for hosting us here and to our sponsor for supporting the tent today. jake: i'm going to introduce our guests. thank you for the applause. i will go down the line, and they are very far because they do not like a question and it means that they cannot attack us. you notice that they are on the right-hand side of the stage. -- from ourht perspective i guess. from our -- this is jim jordan from ohio, the freedom caucus founding chairman. representative meadows who is the chairman. two more days, so he speaks for the freedom caucus, and shift roy, who is on the freedom caucus and he has a card-carrying member. is there a card? >> we have a visa card. jake: that is right. you have a passport to come into office. >> this is my first time in austin. thank you, i appreciate you turning on the air conditioning. jake: we wrote a book about congress in which mr. roy escapes, mr. meadows and jordan were in th

it is a combination of walter cronkite and gossip girl. 86 --n text pb to we are joined by members of the house freedom caucus, and i would like to send you a special thanks to our partners for hosting us here and to our sponsor for supporting the tent today. jake: i'm going to introduce our guests. thank you for the applause. i will go down the line, and they are very far because they do not like a question and it means that they cannot attack us. you notice that they are on the right-hand side of the stage. -- from ourht perspective i guess. from our -- this is jim jordan from ohio, the freedom caucus founding chairman. representative meadows who is the chairman. two more days, so he speaks for the freedom caucus, and shift roy, who is on the freedom caucus and he has a card-carrying member. is there a card? >> we have a visa card. jake: that is right. you have a passport to come into office. >> this is my first time in austin. thank you, i appreciate you turning on the air conditioning. jake: we wrote a book about congress in which mr. roy escapes, mr. meadows and jordan were in th

abby hoffman, allen ginsberg, tom hayden, gloria steinem, walter cronkite, peter paul and king, malcolmdr. x, bobby mae kennedy, marshall mcluhan. and so on. -- body candidate. -- bobby kennedy. this is the putting it on the line conscience, the direct action. all right. so those are my two working definitions for transcendentalism to counterculture. i'd like to say something about a few commonalities of which there are many, just as there are obvious many differences between these two eras. the first point i would make is that they were both relatively short-lived. movementcendentalist is a vibrant intellectual social movement had about a 20 year to 30 or shelf life. mid-19th again, in the century. although as the stalker lecture suggests, summit transit let dental lust -- as this lecture suggests, some transcendentalists ideas touch the countercultural era and have lasted longer. i think this is particular the notable and the essays and poems of emerson and thoreau. studied still read and by american school students. if you i sophomore in high school and you take an american literature

. >> it you had a dream of being walter cronkite. >> i did and working here.tal stories, the space flight, the assassination of kennedy. >> you tagged along with this news team. >> i did. to learn a little more about the business. i thought walt ter was one of the most respected individuals in the country at the time and i wanted to be him. never quite made it. i did not have the confidence to pursue that career path. i didn't think i was interested enough. >> it's so interesting to think you didn't have the confident for that but you have the confident to do what you've done. >> over the years i've built up a lot of confidence. but i've believed in myself in this 45-year path many times. >> you say you've got to be optimistic because nobody wants to be ruled by somebody who's a pessimistic leader. nobody wants that in their life and that's something that you do. >> working for someone who's always telling you the sky is falling or we're doing this but it won't work or, oh, my goodness, look at what we're up against now. that doesn't do anybody below that any

of us are old enough to run for the days when there were three television networks and you had walter cronkite and jenn holloway and they basically tried to balance. they were not perfect. those were the choices. that is very different than what we have now and -- anybody out there to be a validator. that is one element. social media is also been amplified by using data analytics to micro target particular audiences. you don't have to speak consistently to everybody. you can make sure your message is specific to people or just didn't things. there are other elements that increase the risk. one is the fragmentation of the mainstream media and the effort now to drive revenue by getting people to turn onto your particular media outlets. it means there is a tendency for the mainstream media to amplified messages on social media. in fact in many respects what you see on twitter or face book is really just the indication to get cable television or talk radio to focus on a particular plot line and then to amplify it and propagate it for the viewers. finally, the theft of data, and the release of that

. >> i think one of the trainings is my mom and i, we grow up with walter cronkite and there's one source of news and because everything on anewsfeed on twitter and facebook is prioritized equally , the voters next to the breaking news: all looks the same so there are news judgments is very different. my niece is a very different news judgments as well but she's able to discern what kind of looks like if there's a byline: there's a website updated recently. but there's simple tricks like don't share something if you haven't read the whole article. if you haven't read the headline it's not okay to share the digital citizenship that we need to teach them that, but we need to teach them in ways that resonate withthem just like we do when we teach younger people . we do with examples. we need to do something that resonate more with different age groups and it's hard to work. only somewhat real estate on your phone. another example is the nancy pelosi effects. later they put things, some people pulled them down which i think was the actually right thing to do was call them as much asthese comp

us are old enough to remember the days when there were three television networks and you had walter cronkite and they tried to balance -- they weren't perfect. that was the choices. that's very different from what we have now. there is no arbiter or -- it's probably the russians -- anybody out there to be kind of a value d validater. social media has been amplified by the ability to use microtarget audiences. you can make sure your message is tailored to people interested in different things. one is fragmentation of the main treme media and the effort now to drive revenue by getting people to turn on to your particular made i can't outlet means there's a tendency for the main stream media to amplify messages on social media. in fact, in many respects what you see on twitter or facebook is really just the invitation to get cable television or talk radio to focus on a particular plot line and then to amplify and propagate it for the viewers. and finally, the theft of data or what they sometimes call doxing and the release of that data allows people who want to pursue particular agenda get info

you had walter cronkite, etc. they basically tried to balance. they were not perfect. that was your set of choices. that's very different now, there is no arbiter or, it's probably the russians, anybody out here to be kind of a validate or. that is one element. social media has also amplified the ability to use data analytics to (technical problem) audiences. you no longer have to speak consistently to everybody, you can make sure your message is targeted specifically to people who are interested in that. the fragmentation, as i said earlier, of the mainstream medium, media and the effort now to drive revenue by getting people to turn on to your particular media outlet means there is a tendency for the mainstream media to amplify messages on social media. in many respects what you see on twitter or facebook is really just the invitation to get cable television or talk radio to focus on a particular plot line (technical problem) the release of that data allows people who want to get access, information which they can publicize or distort, in order to get, to drive home

the calm walter cronkite section of youtube. on the right-hand side, ufos, conspiracy theories, big foot, whatever. and if you take a human being and drop them anywhere. in the calm section or crazy town. if i'm youtube, which direction from there am i going to send you? i'm never going to send you to the calm section. i'm always going to send you toward crazy town. now you imagine 2 billion people like an ant colony and it's tilting the playing field toward the crazy stuff. and the specific examples of this a year ago, a teen girl who looked at a dieting video on youtube would be recommended anorexia videos because that was the more extreme thing to show the voodoo doll that looked like a teen doll. and the next thing to show is anorexia. if you looked at a nasa moon landing, it would show flat earth conspiracy theories. i wrote down another example. 50% of white nationalists in a study said it was youtube that had red pilled them. that's the term for the opening of the mind. the best predictor of whether you'll believe in a co

but in 2009 "the new york times" appraisal on walter cronkite had to have eight different corrections made due to just factual inaccuracies. and this is the newspaper, of course, that america used to depend upon. and then in 2015 "the new york times" published an article claiming that new figures surrounding china's rate of coal usage could affect u.n. climate talks when in fact those figures were so outdated that the u.n. was already aware of that particular update -- uptick. so, again, distorted information, but what is consistent with this, what are the common denominaters? that is, their misinformation in "the new york times" almost always fits their narrative. and then, in 2017, "the new york times" incorrectly stated that china was in the trans-pacific partnership. well, that starts a whole national debate on what's going on. if china's in the t.p.p. and we are not in the t.p.p., and then the debate turns along, how are we ever going to get back into the t.p.p., and we'll have to take china in with us if they'll let us in. china wasn't part of the t.p.p. just misinformation. and

yet, annie hoffman, tom hayden, richard nixon, walter cronkite, william westmoreland, peter, paul, mary. , doctor king, bobby kennedy, marcia, and so on.