John R Wright News Today

>> @ good evening and welcome to the campus of george washington university. im tavis smiley. we have assembled a wide-ranging group of journalists to talk aout "americas next chapter" three-hour long conversation about where this country is in the first decade of the new century. lets thank c-span for covering this conversation. [applause] he is the chief political correspondent for cbs news, please welcome david brody. [applause] she is the co-founder of voto latino, maria teresa kum...

whatever the opinion, we recognize our reverence for fact. it does not always to be found in the middle. sometimes the truth is on one side or the other side. the earths not flat. [applause] [unintelligible] the object is to stay in the middle and state your views. >> youre looking like an american tourist in london, exactly the wrong way. he mentioned at this cable channels. if he were to add all of them together, you get on a typical night, 4.5 million or 5 million people. that is ou...

it is not just facts and is not just news, but it his opinion. today, given what arianna huffington is doing, it is very difficult to get away with it. immediately, on the internet, there is a correction. there is conversation. there are the people. the people are speaking. i like this is news for that reason because it can be measured engaged. there is not as much room for opinion. frankly, i do not want to turn on the news and hear someones opinion. i do not care. i have my own opini...

elected, which is increasingly prevalent in terms of how the white house is making decisions -- the way to get reelected is to go to some kind of medical medal -- mythical middle. i think all of these divisions are lazy journalism. to have the right policies for wall street is not left wing. to say that you want to leave afghanistan -- you have pat buchanan and george will who are against the policy. the media is calling them left wing because they are reflexively lazy about categorizi...