Like you and me just yelling at each other. At talking. What draws an audience is when, in fact, we disagree. When, in fact, we get nasty with one another. What Rupert Murdochs demonstrated is that there really was a hunger in america for something that was less liberal than what the networks for putting on the air. So, fox news was born. Fox news has been hugely successful. It earns somewhere between 1. 10 0. 50 billion a year. 1 and 1. 5 billion a year. The folks at nbc took a look at what fox has been doing and figure out if they could make news skewing news to the right, if we could make half of that, lets ask you to the left. And so, you have on Cable Television news that caters to people who consider themselves progressives, news to people who consider themselves conservatives, you have the afternoon radio talk shows, the evening radio talk shows which cater largely to the conservative. You have the latenight comedy show, john stewart, stephen cole there, that tend to cater more
Kalb. [applause] hello and welcome to the National Press club. I am marvin kalb. The conversation with ted koppel about democracy and the press. If i use the word twilight to suggest that network news, as we have known it, is on its way out and as something new is emerging. Whether what is new will satisfy the urgent needs of our democracy cannot be noted at this time. Lets hope that it will. Without a free and occasionally rambunctious media, we will not be living in an open society. The free press and an open society are intimately linked, one dependent on the other. Network news if network news is in its twilight, then perhaps our democracy is facing a turning point as well. I asked an old colleague and a friend, ted koppel, to discuss the changes in network news and what those changes might mean for our society. Ted is known best for his 25 years of anchor and host of nightline, but he has also been a foreign correspondent, a war correspondent, and author, and he has covered Many P
People say thank you for what you are doing. I feel guilty. I can never do for this country what it has done for me. I do not know where i would be of my parents have not come to america. I doubt whether i would be in a place like this. Perhaps i would be like this. Wrong with being a bar tender. I believe there are millions of people that want that for their children and grandchildren in america. Our job is to make it easier for them to do that. And government can play a role. The governor is an example of what government can do in the state. I pray god will give me an opportunity to be part of that in washington d. C. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on these topics. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I am going to say, i am relieved there were no hecklers. The last thing is what we are here to do is to celebrate the governors birthday. I understand mackenzie is going to sing. Is that right . Everybody is coming . Great. We want to hear them. Im not going to sin
On friday, including at last nights rally in virginia. Im watching the democrats saying how terrible it is were appointing we have the right. We won the election. 5 00 tomorrow at the white house, were going to be naming the nominee, who hopefully will be on that court for 50 years. The only thing i can tell you for sure is it will be a woman. Is that okay . Meantime, democratic nominee joe biden appearing in several Virtual Events this weekend, including what you see right there, the exclusive interview with my colleague stephanie ruhle, where he talked about a number of things including the Latino Business lattitude conference going on right now. Also he talked about the president ial debate just three days away. Speaker pelosi said you shouldnt debate the president because he has no fidelity to fact or truth. Does she have a point . Well, she has. Look, the people know the president is a liar. I mean, they know that. Its not like its a its going to come as a surprise to them. My gue
We will discuss human rights in north korea. We will have that live again in about an hour starting at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Republican residential hopefuls that wasw hampshire, on saturday, speaking at the inaugural Freedom Summit. , ted cruz,nd paul and mike lee were at the Freedom Summit. We will show you a worship now, a portion now. [applause] thank you very much. I just left washington yesterday, and have to save is good to be back in america. [laughter] to be here with my friend. Though were there bond was there and she and i were the only two senators who actually high. Ed to u2 in junior when they came to the senate i was the youngest senator. I was 39 at the time i was elect it didnt took office elected and took office. I was reading at the level of a 40yearold which i was told was very impressive and 42 now, but i read at the level of a 43yearold. Always trying to they had of the curve. Here is always reading had herself. When i got there was interesting because to some people