A little bit of our live addition of reliable sources this morning. A lot to talk about even in reaction to what Kellyanne Conway was saying. Let me start with the former covering obama presidency. And then devika patrick, the ceo and founder of taxonomy. Well talk about facebooks role in the future of news. They were covering the clinton campaign, and now doing abc six years ago, Kellyanne Conway just said the press is negative of the man we cover every day. Are you presumptively negative . Im cynical and thats my j job. Not skeptical cynical . I think we have to be a little bit of both given this administrations relationship with the truth. And how tough it is for us to get at that right now. Do we start our day, and i think i can speak with all of us to sit in the Briefing Room everyday, and a negative manner . Absolutely not. Thats not the tone from my perspective of our coverage. My sense is that this perception that there is an adversarial relationship much more comes from the white house them from our end of the Briefing Room. They won an adversarial relationship where they perceive this to be the case, were just doing our jobs. I dont think the complaints they have are any different than the Obama Administration has had about coverage or negativity your any other one. You you think same complaints but theyre louder about it . I think so. He was unhappy with coverage to. What about policy coverage versus style. Just now kelly and was saying what about the border, political and everyone else cover that yesterday, im not sure why she said it wasnt covered. What is your impression of that complaint about lack of policy . I covered the Obama White House and started in 2007 and eight. I can guarantee you that i heard the exact same thing from the Obama White House that political cared way too much about other things and do not cover policy. I covered health care and away i guess i would basically hear the same thing and sean spicer said this morning that they want us to cover policy, the challenge is that the white house itself is very focused on intrigue and he was up and whos down. It is not just the press engaged in this so i would say this is like a longstanding complaint, we do cover policy, we have 125 reporters who cover policies alone. Thats a Huge Investment in what is going on. We give it play and yes i would maybe give them up point and that they typically do pretty well, people are interested in whats going on, the differences this white house engages with our reporters to talk about whats going on in the white house. Thats what spicer and others push back and try to internally say dont talk to reporters. Think they backstab each other for leaking. I think theyre saying dont talk to reporters, they said privately. We had a story two days ago where we quoted six people inside 30 talking about the 100 days. Thats a remarkable level of people leaking and talking to us. I mise fascinated and i talk about this a lot, seems like its happening mormor in every story the number of sources that it are being reported get bigger and bigger. They say we spoke to 18 sources today, its a sign of how much people are talking. You asked about policy versus intrigue, i would say until syria last week through a percentage out there, 80 or 70 of the content that gets asked about her discussed is the press corps asking about who is doing what to whom inside the white house and or can you clarify something the president tweeted about. A lot of this is self generated the fact that were not talking about policy. The president s anti media tax came up earlier. When asked from your perspective, what has the impact been from this white house . Has it hurt us with our audiences or not . I think it has created a more challenging environment. Are people trusting what your reporting . I dont have data on that, i feel the pressure of the divided environment and my response to that is how i set the tone for newsroom and how we report and reminding our reporters and editors that the basic rules of journalism still apply in an environment where doesnt feel normal is still imperative that we conduct ourselves just as journalists would. You verify information, you try to get as many sources as possible try to be transparent about how we got the information, doing that and adhering to what the basic rules of journalism are in giving people a chance to respond, engaging with them that doesnt change. If we do our jobs like were always supposed to do thats our best insurance for the long term. Were in a weird environment right now. It might not be like this in five or ten years. All i can do is make sure my newsroom is living up to the standards of journalism i learned years ago. Getting as many sources as possible, you really want to have a preponderance of evidence feel completely confident about what youre putting now. Thats good for journalism. Were under scrutiny that involves response. A divided but connected world. Thats the title of the session. David, how do you view facebook and other social media impact on the first 100 days. I could make the case that his tweets dont matter that they only matter when cnn and politico report them. Because on twitter hes not reaching that many people. However i can also say that it allows him to go around the media on a daily basis. The bigger point is that the landscape changes everything. This well programmed morning started exactly right, not only with the Pulitzer Prize winner but someone who won a Pulitzer Prize using social media to include his audience as his source. And to create a collective process. The fundamental difference of a connected world is that it is a participative age. Everybody wants to participate and they will whether you like it or not. Every person in this room has one of these. When theyre on a theyre not just receiving, their broadcasting. I think his tweets matter a lot. One thing i would, tell, the thing that was said in the Journalists Panel about how trumps tweets cannot be responded to come you cant followup like you could in the press conference, thats a legitimate complaint but on the other hand if you listen to what happened with faron holt when he used trumps handle and a tweet about his philanthropy and then trump called him, because you can actually tractor comment to the president in a way you never could before. I might argue that is a counterbalancing factor. Regarding facebook versus twitter, think its easy and washington in particular and given we have a president who is twitter centric to forget the primary way most people get their information is through facebook. Probably not just in the united states. Definitively on a global level the primary source of information for peoples facebook. In all but three or four countries. That is a big change that will continue to change the landscape. Theres more we could say to follow that. Your same facebook is the internet and the news to a degree we may not appreciate. Its a place where people receive the news and because it is a twoway medium it creates a context fundamentally new to have the ability to react in a position were formerly you are just a passive. He said some reporters tweets were a hot mess during the campaign this was an issue, somewhere printed out and she would show examples. Do you worry or doublethink before you tweet. Yes, it goes back to how we started the conversation. The pressure is on all of us more than ever to not screw up. To get everything right. Twitter is a medium is no different than going on the year on world news or gma. You cant screw up on twitter or on air, theres no differentiation anymore between the outlet any of us are on i want to go back to what you are talking about right now in terms of how the social media impacts us in real time. Just yesterday in the press briefing when im sure all of us were aware that sean spicer made that comment about the holocaust in syria that his sons blown up, rightfully so. It kind of landed in the press briefing. None of us really knew what to do with it. It took five minutes or so and im looking on my phone scene from the news desk at this thing is blowing up. When you say hey do you want to respond to this, it was at real time in the press briefing the comment was gaining traction. We give them the opportunity to clarify and that do not go well for him and he ended up doing a apology tour all night. This white house is even struggling on what to do with this. Thats a fascinating example. I do not know thats how it happened. Weve heard quite a few times this morning particularly from fleischer pulmonary that the press is biased i found that anachronistic point of view. The fact fox news is the number one cable channel. We cannot have the session we had here this morning without paper being represented. Were in a new landscape where there is a broader range of voices in the media generally. This because the internet made it possible, fox notwithstanding. So that anecdote goes to show the tail is wagging the dog a little bit. The world is much bigger than the press and i think that the internet has broadened the range of voices dramatically and included everybody. There is a professor at harvard that did a study on the media landscape and actually the landscape on the right is bigger than those in the center and on the left. One of the scary things is that there is almost no communication across the divide just doing a mathematical analysis of traffic on the internet which is disturbing. The biggest story about the future of news is those two alternative realities. Breitbart versus the New York Times. Was there anything facebook or other companies can do . That is a profound gaping wound. That is a question there asking themselves. Anybody who has read and if you havent you should read Mark Zuckerberg extraordinary essay about a month ago where he contrarily acknowledged that fakeness was a problem. Can you remind us about november . You had them on stage a few days after the election. This is where he said its a crazy idea that fakeness affected the election, which he is now essentially retracted. So youve seen him evil. I have a lot of respect about Mark Zuckerberg. His extraordinary but he is racking his brain about this. There are extremely conscientious people of facebook asking themselves what does it mean that we are the fundamental landscape of information dissemination. I think its scary that society and all my respect for the company that a commercial enterprise and in the position of having to make the decision theyre going to have to make about how they prioritize public dialogue. It is truly a global issue. There is a great story in the guardian about a week and a half ago about how this fake news problem is almost every country. In germany alone their 500 people working for facebook in berlin combating fakeness in german. The taiwanese government is worried about what facebook is doing. Its hard for a company to do it. Im not sure company should do it but thats a position wherein. We invited facebook to be here today but they declined. Youre talking about last summer they said we dont have responsibility and it sounds like now they do have responsibility. The responsible people. But they let me post live in spam and whatever i want on facebook. They didnt have to do that. Its not that easy for them to police all 2 billion people in real time. You have to keep that in mind. The existence of these platforms should be put on us because we are making the big by using them. Whose faults, if anything. I do think facebook takes several seriously. I dont think they have the answers for these problems. Doesnt outlet like political think about writing stories to reach folks who prefer an alternative reality where its real or that the pope did endorse donald trump. We feel a need to report on what is the facts. On pizza gay tour if it is donald trump claiming he created 600,000 jobs on his watch. Providing the context for that, thats what we attempt to do. So yes, that is not our soul mission these days, but when we are presented with a glaring factual inaccuracies, i think we do have an obligation to make that clear in the course of our writing and reporting. Its interesting to watch the evolution of this over the course of the campaign into Donald Trumps candidacy in presidency and how we as a media has struggled to correct the record. Lets just take the tweet on wiretapping for example. To a have to . At what point do we say in our stories, print or digital otherwise, this is just not true. I think were now at that point where we are doing that. I think it took us a while to get there. There is a sense of, is that our job is immediate to be Fact Checking every single thing. Can we possibly fact to check everything were reporting on question i dont know if we can. But i do think were doing it much more. If we go to Fact Checking to narrative checking when he said there 600,000 jobs created what is he really think . You could make the case that this white house has been conventional. Conventional media has not been doing live, live shows with the president are creating a new form of media through social networks in a way that has been all that disruptive. Weve seen some experimentation but the world has not been flipped on its head the last 12 weeks. I agree, i think there are tools white house can be using that the Obama White House used to great effects. Alternative ways to reach out to folks through different platforms. Using the white house media apparatus to do videos and do their own news focus projects. I have not seen that yet. That is only three months in. Its early going. We saw a more nimble media in terms of using all of the possible tools at their disposal. We see the typical twitter, the fact that sean spicer does media briefings every day i think is a good thing. That is something he threatened not to do at the beginning. He is doing it because as i saw, you get in there and you realize the power of being able to command an audience for 45 minutes, and our, and as he does he is changed in a way that he reads our prepared remarks at the beginning of his briefing to get out a message. When the president decided to bounce syria the last week, the value of the press pool was clear. It was 1030 or 11 00 p. M. At night and he had a press pool ready to broadcast what he did. People realize the power of having this White House Press corps there to broadcast what he does. Was anything to learn from that night of live coverage in the networks . Some shoddy audio, the night of the serious strikes, did you see anything about media tactics or techniques that stood out to you . Nothing that comes to mind. We disappointed the Audio Quality . Certainly. There was questions about the rush to the nature to rush it. Is the first time anything like that happen they have to get the technology together, that is not the biggest offense in the world. In terms of coverage the white house policy when it comes to military action we will tell about yo after the fact. What predictions you share your conference and what would you share this audience about what well see happen between now and 2020 more were talking about reelection . Any politician with a head on the shoulder should be emulating trump as much as they can in terms of twitter and social media presence. It serves them well. Theres a major differentiator before that he tweet so much. Its a good thing that he has a direct pipeline and channel to his audience. Frankly, good leadership probably do that from now on. One of the ironies about the Obama Administration that many of us in the tech world were critical about his he got elected because of social media. And then there is none and evidence to speak of. He didnt use it to govern our martial community of support to his policy. Trump is definitely doing that. Whatever you say about the briefing and is not my world, what happens in the white house Briefing Room is a little bit beside the fact at this point because there is another set of channels that exist and ultimately media is going to have to operate more in those channels than the old one. I really do think, especially when i heard fleischer talk, theyre sentimental for something that is no longer the landscape. Do you agree . Yes, no. As a journalist we need that Briefing Room. There is a huge value for both sides of this. The president needs that to get his message out. He can circumvent the media as much as he wants but you cant get it Briefing Room out and hundred 40 characters. Maybe he will tweet that out prove me wrong. In terms of us going forward, the mission in terms of reporting is no different than it was when i started the career and for all of my colleagues that came before me. Its the truth and it matters now more than ever and we cant screwup trying to get there. Stay in your lane into your job. It is no different now. So do you think that is enough, reporting the truth,. As opposed to what . Whats the alternative . Carrie, what about politico and its views of news. How is the the company been cheating to adapt starting up here . Back what i said earlier is its an intensive process of examination of all the stories that we out, stories we were going to have an empire that will get scrutiny. For looking new ways to reach new audiences and new forms of storytelling, new to get the message out, thinking about my newsroom and not only racial, but geographic diversity, political diversity that is as well. Its also a time where i spent a lot of time talking to reporters about how theyre doing. Our newsroom folks have gotten threats and mailed to their home and there in a very, sort of, difficult time doing their job. That can wear on a newsroom. I have to be conscious of that and make sure that i, as an editor, are a psychologist for some folks. Im monitoring the room to see how people are doing. Its a different environment than the white house i covered in their dewey. Work but it can be adversarial but that on hidden stories that the white house is very accessible in a lot of ways. My reporters and other reporters, theres a lot of access. Thats a good thing. Its maintaining a sense of doing a good job, stick to the principles, be aboveboard, our business is, we are nonpartisan newsroom back what youre describing is evolution, not revolution. Doesnt revolution. Doesnt sound like youre seeing revolutionary changes right now ive been asked that question a lot. I agree with philia where theres cores that we have to stick to but im always trying to rack my brain to think more what we can do. And having those conversations and seeing how and its challenging. But im not getting behind in some way. I think were all grappling that cecilia, i want to wrap up by going back to the title of the entire event this morning. Of course, the First Amendment is right in the title. The first 100 and. Made the case that theres not been legal and other kinds of threats against freedom that some may have feared for Inauguration Day not yet. I dont know they will, or will come but there were threats before, he made them and he was clear. Its funny that you racist. Someone did on my facebook today i wish President Trump would carry out with his threat about libel laws you out of the white house. Do you reply to that . No. That reminds me why i dont check my facebook. It could happen, i dont know that it will. Part of my job is to hold the president accountable for the things that he has said early on in this campaign that got him into office. The breitbart reporter that was on the state earlier one of the most important questions about the presidency that theres this huge pop in this country that wants libel laws to be strengthened. They want a border wall, your controversial issue that they can paint on and we have to hold him accountable and asked him about those promises as well as the ones making in office. He will see, is the answer. Ive given up predicting terry, we have the First Amendment lawyer. He thought about these issues before Inauguration Day and were more on alert we have been on the past. Is there anything to say about how things have gone . Theres a lot of awareness about leak investigation that we hear, theres a lot of education going on in terms of me and my other top editors about the possibility of more leak investigations preparing now for how we can protect ourselves. How you talk to sources. All of the offenses discussion about how we can protect ourselves now with the assumption that will see more leak investigations at the white house even though the last white house was be aggressive about this. Thats overhearing of course theres Technological Solutions about these problems posed by leak investigations. What are you referring to . New apps, new messaging software that are perhaps safe . Some of these very highly encrypted message systems. No. Theyre wrapping up tools that can be used to evade. Are we more divided . I think were more. Political division is a form of connectedness. The proliferation of voices that the loud voice to come to the service that were essentially suppressed for. Thats part of what trump was saying and the breitbart people were saying. In the long run, thats healthy, even even though i dont agree personally. Thats what the president and the press have in common. Reckoning and hearing from everybody at all times. Thank you, panel for being here. And thank you all mac. Thank you, brian and panel. To close out this great morning. We turn to one of the wisemen of washington journalism. They said they should with thoughtful commentary that made sense of it all. Bob is here to share some closing thoughts on where we go from here and how we might do better. The special treat to welcome him back to the museum. Of course hes a cbs news reader has spoken to the nation for decades about whats happening and how to make sense of it. When thinking a lot recently about the future of news and thats the topic of his fifth book entitled overload, climbing at her and finding the truth in the deluge of news that will be published this fall by roman and littlefield. Welcome honor to welcome bob back. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you all so much for being here and i want to congratulate you on your bladder control. [laughter] i understand a lot of you have been here since 830 this morning and im greatly honored. Good advice is like news. Its where you happen to find it and i want to start this talk with some of the best advice i ever got. I did not get it in my years as a reporter on the top. I did not get it at a journalism school. I got it at an art school. Second only to my love of journalism, if my love of art and back in the day when i was struggling to find my artistic style and art instructor gave me some of the best advice i ever got on anything. He said, look, stop worrying about your style. Just find an artist that you really like and copy it. Copy everything he does and he says as you do that you will understand how he thought the problems in your own style will evolve out of that. I want to tell you this morning, if there are any aspiring reporters, if there are News Executives who are wondering what is that a reporter was to do, what is the role of the journalist, i say this get the story that David Baron Paul wrote about how he covered the campaign and copy every single thing that he did. If you do that, youll be just fine. Thats the best advice i can give you this morning. I really enjoyed the discussion. I thought the Previous Panel was one of the most pertinent of the morning and i thoroughly enjoying hearing Brian Stelter and his crew. It was quite good. I want to try and ive been asked to put all of this into some context. This was my 14th Residential Campaign and i will say this it was not like the others. [laughter] normally, a company and has some slogan or something that always comes to mind when you think of the campaign. I like ike. Nixons the one. All the way with lbj. The question i was asked most often and the thing that comes to my mind the most that will help me remember the was have you ever . [laughter] the answer to that is no. I have never seen anything like this campaign. I said that so often on television but it became a game. Every time i said old bob just said he never seen anything like that, they had to take another drink. We had a lot of designated drivers so it all came out fine. [laughter] this was truly a Campaign Like no other. It was a campaign where for the first time in a long time, on the money didnt seem to matter. Just ask that was about that. The first time in modern history of the two parties nominated candidates that the majority of people neither like nor trusted. Where body parts got more attention than Foreign Policy and were attitude often counted more than facts. With voters. It was a campaign to promote the former speaker of the house, two brand candidate crews as lucifer in the flesh. And the devil worshiper society talents that and said, no, not true, hes not one of us. Its of us. Its true, you can look it up. [laughter] strong letter to follow but this was in my opinion the Worst Campaign i ever covered in the first in my life. Donald trump won the presidency but the biggest winner was this massive Cottage Industry that has grown up around our political campaigns. Once again this year, a a lot of people made a whole lot of money. I dont know what the voters got out of it but they did very well. Some of us were pleased with the outcome, some of us were cast into despair but overall the motion felt by most people on Election Night was one of the price. Even among the top people who im told on Good Authority that their own source gave them 8 chance of winning. They were surprised to. Those of us in the press were roundly criticized on all sides that we should always take criticism fiercely and learn from it and there were lessons to be learned this time. We must also keep in mind that this is nothing new. Every campaign has its all the faults that the. We were the manner he made some negativity during the nixon administration, we were the pointyheaded intellectuals who couldnt park our bicycle straight when George Wallace iran and this year they hung some less clever but really nasty names on us. This is all part of the job. It is something that we all know about and expect. Its not that part to be taken seriously. But lets talk about this years criticism. First the press accused of electing because he gave him so much pleasure. Then, we were excused about missing the story because he did not take them seriously. Finally, we were said to not really make much difference because trump used social media to go around us. As my boss said, you can pick your own adventure here but all three of those things simply cannot be true. And theyre not. My own belief, opinion clearly stated, is that trump won because he played by new rules, broke all the old rules and discipline played by the old rules. He understood that and this is sort of obvious in retrospect but escher like phone said most things are obvious in retrospect. He understood that if he offered himself to enough Television Programs he would be invited on some of them. That is precisely what happened. I disagree with those who say that the host didnt respect. They pushed back many times but he was going on so many programs, so often, that the exposure overwhelmed the back. While people were pushing back on something he said yesterday, he was already on another program laying out new allegations. Whether he knew it or not, he was practicing the political strategy that was identified by an australian political consultant named belinda crosby. He called it the dead cat three. The way that works is that no matter what the conversation that theyre having a dinner party is that if you throw a dead cat in the middle of the table, the conversation immediately turns to the dead cat. [laughter] donald trump through dead cat dead and alive on the table. Then suddenly the conversation was back on him. I think, in contrast, Hillary Clinton did it the old way with concentrated on fundraising and controlling the narrative as they say in politics. In other words, never leave your candidate in a position of having to answer a question that does not fit the theme of the day. Limit live interviews, respond to all questions with well rehearsed focus group tested answers. After trump had been on a morning show a number of times, i called him up and asked why dont you ever have Hillary Clinton on. She said getting an interview with hillary is getting an interview with mother theresa. I think in a way, that sums up this whole campaign and what happened. That was the story of the campaign and by the time that the other candidate understood what was happening, it was simply too late. People were disgusted with the gridlock and politics as usual, and both parties, the number number of people who identify as democrats and republicans is at an alltime low. People didnt like the choice but they want to change. Maybe it was no more complicated than what former First Lady Barbara Bush had used early in 15 when she was urging her son deb not to run. She said, maybe people are just tired of kennedy and clinton and bushs. She may have been right. I found many people last year either really liked or really disliked both of these candidates but i found no one who said that they needed more information before deciding which one to go for or to vote against. In that sense, and i believe that is some evidence, the, the upper half those of us in the press did our jobs. Even so, there are some really serious lessons to be learned here. Too much information made its way on the National Conversation and once it got there it was difficult to remove. We have to be from now on and more vigorous and challenging what we all get to know as fake views. Only now, are we beginning to understand the danger that it poses. Only now, are the big Distribution Companies and we heard the discussion topic book, only now are they recognizing that they simply have to take some ability to what the information is that they are distributing. They are news media companies, like cbs news and the Washington Post and the New York Times. We take responsibility for what we distribute. They are going to have to find a better way to do that too. In an effort to show balance i think too many socalled surrogates and strategists made their way onto the television and were given far more credibility than he deserved. I kept wondering i would see someone on television that democrat strategist or republican candidates but what does that mean . Did they put out yard signs on the Previous Campaign . [laughter] it didnt take long to listen to them to understand that they had no understanding or contact with either of the campaigns but there they were. I think that for whatever reason perhaps to add drama to increase the horserace tension we tended to make too much of the slight changes in the polls. We talked about one candidate or another leading by a single. When in fact, the shifts in those poles were well within a margin of error. There is no such as a one point lead in any poll. We also placed too much faith in pulling. The truth is polling is not as good as it once was where respondents were once honored to be a part of polls, now people want nothing to do with pollsters. Fewer than 10 that you pardon, fewer fewer than 10 of the people polled are willing to actually talk to a poster on the phone. That raises it really serious questions. I dont know how you make these polls but what to do 90 of people people who refuse to talk to a poster, how do you determine what it is that they had to say. The harvard historian who writes for the new yorker says this she said we are tending to look on polling data as some sort of higher truth and she brought up an interesting. With a closing of so many newspapers and shrinking staff. She says that, too many times we are replacing beat reporting and man on the street interviewing simply because News Organizations dont have that people do it anymore. With polling data, were replacing it with what many News Organizations use to do. Theyd go to the local pta meeting, the local local bar, they just talk to people and asked how do you feel about this . How do you feel about it . Surprisingly peter hart who had the wall street journal New York Times poll, that you pardon abc pool, peter said that he agrees with what bill lepore said. He told me that we have started thinking that statistic and dynamics and analytics and that just doesnt work. Because analytics will tell you certain things but they will tell you where people stop and what movies they like but they dont tell you what is in peoples hearts. That is something currently in the media need to take to heart. We need to get back to knocking on doors and asking people how they feel. Yes, we want polling to back it up. We need facetoface participation and checking with people in these various communities. What complicated this whole situation was that all of this is being played out, this campaign which was the most unusual i can recall, in the midst of a technological revolution that is having a profound effect, not only on how we get news but on our entire culture. The web gives us access to more information that any people who have ever lived on this earth at any one time. But rv just overwhelmed with information so much cant process it or are we wiser . I think at this. We are overwhelmed. So much information that we cant deal with it. The web gives us this unbelievable access but there are some downsides. For one thing, the nuts can all find each other now [i dont care how bizarre your attitude or feeling is you can find somebody out there that agrees with you. False news, some of this news, both by design can go around the world in a millisecond and it is simply going to have to be dealt with. The coming of digital has also thrown local newspapers in a downward economic spiral for which many will not recover. We lost 106 newspapers in this country over the last ten years. Other newspapers are down so thin that your water bill is probably thicker than the local newspaper some people are getting in their communities. This has had a huge impact on politics, how politics campaign, how how people are finding out who is running. I think, unless you find some entity, that can somehow do what weve always expected a local newspaper purdue we are going to have corruption in this country, not just in politics but corruption in general at a level we have never seen in this country. This is the great crisis in journalism right now. The good news is that some of the bigger News Organizations, especially the New York Times and the Washington Post, are finding ways to exist in this new and very different communication landscape. They are no longer does newspapers publishing a paper newspaper every day. They had become 247, multiplatform news Organizations Companies that provided breaking news, video coverage, running commentary, website, newsletters, podcasts. They are looking for more and more ways to reach people. The good news is this is working. While circulation of the paper newspaper is down, during november of this year of last year, both times in the post in one month, were reaching as many as 70 million viewers. 70 Million People were reading or finding some contact with those News Organizations. The News Organizations executives will tell you that while this technology is getting them this great reach, their viability will still depend on whether they are giving news that people need to improve their lives. If you can do that, if you can make your News Organization relevant by providing information that people have to have, then they will survive. And there must be new concentration on that by all News Organizations as we go forward. At the local level, many of the things that these big newspapers have figured out how to do they can be a pattern for other News Organizations at the local level. At cbs, for example, we now have inaugurated a 24 hour all news, Screening Network to get on your phone or your laptop or your computer. You dont get it on your Television Set unless you go through blue or one of those organizations like that. During both political conventions last summer, we would sometimes have more people looking at that they were watching cbs news on the television network. There are ways we will find a way to accommodate. This is just like were in a place now where the world was after the invention of the printing press. Martin luther said it was not extremist greatest drift but it took a while for the world to work its way through that. There were 30 years of religious wars after the invention of the printing press. Eventually equilibrium was reached and were in another. Much like that. Equilibrium has not yet been reached but we have to recognize where we are. I want to call us by talking about this new and very different world what is the role of the individual journalists. Quite simply it is what it is always been we are not the Opposition Party as some would have you believe, nor do we believe we are, nor is it our place to sit down and shut up and let the world by as some have wished we would do. The politicians, government officials and journalists all have different roles. The politicians are there to run the campaign. Government officials are there to fund the government. They are there to deliver the message. Our job is to check out the message, determine if its true and if so, what will what will be its impact on the governed. If the totalitarian trend Totalitarian Society there is only one source of news. That is the government. In our form of government and independent press gathers Accurate Information and provide it to the citizens and they can take that information, compare it to the governments version of events and then decide what to do about it. Those who would underline our role are quite honestly class and i mean this quite honestly that they are undermining the relations of this country and what is founded on. We must always remember and never hold ourselves out to be the exclusive source of wisdom or morality. We are not. Our job is to simply ask questions and to keep asking until we get an answer. That will not always be easy, nor will will we always be the most popular people in the room but that is what the founders intended. And it is vital to our form of government as the right to vote. Ive been a reporter for 60 years and i have never been prouder of my profession than i am today. Thank you. [applause] cspans washington journal live every day with the news and policy issues that impact you. 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We have a lot of wonderful artifacts of course from baltimores time at uva, many that come from eva sources. Among other things we have the typewriter that he was issued by the university, even with the property stamp on the back. We have a jacket that he wore. He as you can see when you look at the deck it is the and rowdy. He like to keep close for a long time. He left his jacket hanging in his office when he went on his last trip to oxford mississippi what he passed away on a sunday at eastern on american street team he to Thomas Jeffersons monticello. If you had visited monticello two years ago you wouldve come and you would have seen jeffersons beautiful neoclassical villa. But what we wanted to do was change that. We wanted to distort the landscape of slavery. If you could come up the phone top endeavors time the first thing you would have seen most likely was enslaved people. There would have been no place on the phone top that slavery was not visible. We want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. Connect will also visit the Muller Center at the university of virginia to learn about their first year project with explorers challenges president s and their in the first year the job Lyndon Johnson said when he became president that no matter how big your majorities, you get one year. Before congress are thinking about you and start speaking about themselves and their own reelection. At about january of your second year after youve done your first year, all the members of the congress about their midterm elections and theyre really cautious about taking any risks help you get your mandates and agenda through. Watch cspan seats were of charlottesville virginia, saturday at noon eastern insistence to the tv and on the afternoon at two pm on American American history tv entry. Working with our cable affiliate and visiting cities across the country hear some of the programs this Holiday Weekend on the fan. Saturday at eight pm eastern a massive briefing on the discovery of seven earthlike planet orbiting a new fourstar. Were currently using the Hubble Space Telescope to study the planet and the system to and if they have hydrogen, helium apps years followed by a discussion on the pros and cons of genetically modified food. Posted by Public Square in los angeles to those of us who do this think that all plans are gm owes. Theres actually nothing that you buy in your Grocery Stores whether organic or conventional that hasnt been genetically modified eastern sunday from the last four president s. Then a visit to the africanamerican History Museum in washington. You know, i i knew the nation was thirsting for the museum but i have to confess, i didnt know that the reaction would be the positive and the strong and it 1 35 pm a panel of federal judges discussing the history of the bill of rights what the bill of rights is is part of the world constitution. Its hugely important designation offenses. If the division of power followed by a conversation with simoni and institute the library of congress and the archivist of the united states. Our collection is a hundred and 56 million objects including 2 million bucks at 6 30 pm eastern president ial historian and the green medford, douglas, Douglas Brinkley and Richard Norton smith discussed president ial leadership. It interesting that the greatest american president Abraham Lincoln is bracketed by arguably the least successful american president this Holiday Weekend and tonight on the tv a look at slavery in america. From the tucson festival of books with authors Jonathan Bryant a National Book award abram candy. Later university of texas professor on the economics behind slavery. And al