Page 5 - David Ensor News Today

well, for nearly all in beijing for cnn. the bureau chief. almost raised to that task taken been taking by academic parents to beijing as child and put into public schools an went on to report at bureau chief in tokyo and now is a senior fellow at the new america foundation. her book "consent of the network" examines the very challenges that well be addressing here. holding a copy there. lee ballenger, youve made the most explicit proposal for how we should address journalism in the di...

its the professional standards that develop. its the ability to shift some of those resources. its the give and take of ideas. >> we should note some other elite universities are toying awfully close with the model that you just described. as a tiny fraction. >> tiny fraction. >> youre not going to do your reading without a deadline anyway. >> lets look at one more video. this is from greece. i think youll get the picture here. im beginning to see that the large crowd demonstration, ma...

happened to the media that says its all worse than it used to be in the golden age of the 70s and 80s is very much one that comes from the news room is of "the washington post," the "l.a. times," maybe the "new york times." its not necessarily one that comes from what people experience. and something i think about a lot, its also i think a very coastal even sort of a corridor narrative. i grew up in a small town in northern alberta. what we could read when i was a kid was "peace river ...

honest in its attempt to present straightforward, highly edited and vetted journalism, how is that to be recognized by folks like you and particularly by the readers of the world as something different than other things you would refer to as citizen journalism? >> well, who would like to venture an answer? rebecca, you want to try? >> sure. i mean, it has to do with reputation. i think news organizations or online organizations that are doing a good job develop a reputation of being cr...

which was something of a mirage in recent years but lets build something really worthwhile. and, yes, it will take time but it will be built to last rather than as the last recovery was, built on sand. it is difficult. and politics is not easy, obviously. when you are working in coalition, when you are dealing with difficult economic circumstances. but the most important thing is to do the right thing and to do the right thing by the people of this country who want government to think ...

to have a crew with a satellite dish who knew how to operate it. either that or it was stick a videotape on a flight and get it somewhere. >> i was in new hampshire just before the primary. i realized what the current press corps looks like, which is a bunch of monopods with cameras stuck on them gaining a more direct live access to an event than just about any medium could have delivered until, oh, 10 or 20 years ago. so the landscape has been greatly changed. we could go on like this...

too many people know that much about us. and some have inaccurate notions of what we broadcast and our impact. but we are platforming a not stick. were on shortwave which is where it started in 1942. were on medium wave, fm, satellite tv and radio, about 50 websites. we use facebook, twitter, youtube, skype, actively, every day. we have a charter thats signed by president ford in 76 that orders us to serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news and orders us to be ...

is the most important thing the government is doing. of course it isnt. but parl simt quite capable of doing more than one thing at a time. do i think it would be a good idea if actually parliament delivered a house of lords that had people who were elected by you, the members of public in the house of lords to pass the laws that we all have to live by? sure i do. and every single party, major party, went into the last election saying that they wanted to reform the house of lords. so i...

look at the flagging economy of europes second most indebted nation. >> reality was where were going down the drain, we are going the greece way, and that will be a disaster for us and for the rest of europe, and i think for the rest of the world. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. >> suarez: and hari sreenivasan profiles chinas newest english language sensation, jessica beinecke, a teacher of american slang. >> brown: thats all ahead on tonights newshour. ...

down the drain, we are going the greece way, and that will be a disaster for us and for the rest of europe, and i think for the rest of the world. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. >> suarez: and hari sreenivasan profiles chinas newest english language sensation, jessica beinecke, a teacher of american slang. >> brown: thats all ahead on tonights newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. >> the william and flora hewle...