The dark side of the personal finance industry tonight at 10 00 on after words on cspan2. And look for more book tv online like us on facebook. Next on book tv, barbara matters seldom editor of scooped recounts the life and career of her late husband, a pulitzer prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Been joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson in the discussion of jack nelsons memoir, scoop. The evolution of a seven reporter. It is about an hour. Good evening, everyone. Its good to have everyone here. My name is sink, and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight. And the director of the Journalism Program at emory. And coauthor of a book about News Coverage of the civilRights Movement, featured jack quite prominently. First of all, i want to thank the Carter Library and museum for hosting this one and for cosponso
And lived with the dominant culture and so some of the stuff that ive learned from that i put back in my cartoons. Next on book tv, Barbara Matusow editor of scoop recounts the life and career of her late husband pulitzer prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Ms. Matusow is joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson in the discussion of jack nelsons ms. Moore scoop the evolution of a southern reporter. Its about an hour good evening everyone. My name is haint and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight. The director of the Journalism Program at emory and a coauthor of a book about News Coverage in the Civil Rights Movement that featured jack quite prominently. First i want to thank the Carter Library and museum for hosting this and cosponsoring this and also Emory University which houses the papers and the wisdom of
A great program. Great success. I believe jack gave the first door second speech to the interests he felt very deeply about that. I am part of the advisor report. Ladies and gentlemen, were will go out to the lobby after president mrs. Carter is able to leave and we will have readings from the book shortly,. Expos and the dark side of the personal finance industry which leader you call the industry complex which includes not only investment brokers but also the financial media, seminar leaders, newsletter publishers. You even include yourself as a former columnist with the l. A. Times and the money makeover column. Its part of this complex, and you point out with some guilt that you were responsible for giving people the illusion of control. You talk about that in the book. What do you mean by delusion for control . Guest it starts with Sylvia Porter and it is a spinoff on the selfhelp movement in the 1930s they are known for everything from the of hard Economic Times of the 1930s you
Bond, andrew young, gwen eiffel ifill, and Dorothy Gilliam. To pick up on what and a young just said, let me put on my reporter hat for a minute, over the years when most people think about the march on washington they only think about the dream speech and that part of the speech. They dont think about anything else and you are right. He said a lot harsher things than anyone talked about. This is including the absence of women on the stage on purpose. They even missed the dream part of the speech. They were looking so much for the violence that they did not see it. Im wondering how they thought, with anyen there, notice that theyve missed the story. I want to address Media Coverage on the march on washington and i remember the three Major Networks were there. Withoutered it interruption and they broadcasted it to europe. The Washington Post assign more than 60 reporters to cover that story. It was really big news. A congressman, you said that the Civil Rights Movement without the media
Hall of National Memory remind us of the many thousands who made their way from every corner of this nation. Through great effort, to be here on august 28, 1963. For an event they would never forget. For an event that we as a nation must never forget. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, jesse norman performing a version of ladies and gentlemen, jesse norman performing a version of the song performed at the 1963 march on washington for jobs on freedom. He has got the whole world in his hands. Let us listen please to the words of this song and understand that in the heart of our creator, every soul has the same value and should be valued equally. Thank you very much for the opportunity to sing for you. Hes got the whole world in his hands. Hes got the whole wide world in his hands. Hes got the whole world in his hands. Hes got the whole world in his hands. [singing hes got the whole orld in his hands] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the United States house of repr