Good afternoon and welcome to the Heritage Foundation, my name is rob bluey, Vice President of communications at heritage and executive editor of the daily said no. As a courtesy to the speaker spo become a habit to ask you silence your cell phone although dont turn them off, because we do encourage you to share on social media about todays program and to help us spread the word we are streaming on twitter and youtube and you can find it on the heritage beyond both of those channels and platforms. To introduce the guests today, Marvin Olasky is a prolific writer and accomplished editor. We are proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation where he is a former visiting fellow in somebody that is a close friend of the organization. Hes the author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism, which he will discuss with us today. Marvins political journey is quite unique as he became an atheist marxist in high school and went on to join the communist party in the
The internet is our guest today, marvin olasky, were proud to welcome him back to its heritage where hes a visiting fellow in somebody whos a close friend of our organization. The author of 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism which he will talk about today. Marvin, his political journey is quite unique. As he became an atheistand a marxist in high school and went on to join the communist party in the 1970s. It was at the university of michigan when he had his phd when hehad a spiritual awakening and was baptized into the Presbyterian Church in 76. He later became the founder of the redeemer Presbyterian Church in austin texas in 1992. After college he taught journalism for 25 years at the university of texas at austin and became a regular yale daily news at the boston globe. Is for both garnered him significant attention the eye of the Bradley Foundation which supported his visiting fellowship right here at the Heritage Foundation for 2 years. One of his most wellknown
Gabbard and hudson duck, New Hampshire in hudson, New Hampshire. Eastern, 2 00 p. M. Andrew yang in nashua, New Hampshire. Tuesday at 11 a clock and eastern, senator Elizabeth Warren in boston. Watch the president ial candidates, live on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free span free cspan radio app. For 40 years, cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and Public Policy events from washington dc washington, d. C. , and around the country, so you can make up your own mind. Created in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local satellite or cable provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Announcer next, a discussion about the history of journalism john miller, with hosted by the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley and mountain view, california last month. This is one hour and 10 minutes. John lets talk about fake news. Have you heard the joke about the reporter who asked a tough question of Elizabeth
California. This is just over an hour. Lets talk about fake news. Joke about thea reporter who asked a tough question of Elizabeth Warren . [laughter] neither have i. But i am a journalist, i run a Journalism Program. I want to plead with all of you not to let 99 of journalists gave the rest a bad name. [laughter] i was looking through some Washington Post headlines recently. My favorite one recently was from last week. This is the headline, this is true, this is an actual headline in the Washington Post last week, it said, cant republicans relearn how to accept political outcomes they do not like you . They do not like . [laughter] that is what the Washington Post was wondering last week. Headline joelious alluded to was when we learned about the killing of the isis leader and did you see the headline the Washington Post gave that . Was, albaghdadi, religious scholar, dies at 48. That was the actual headline in the Washington Post. I do not what your experience was, but that was like
Studies. So good afternoon. Im the director and associate fellow of the Americas Program set csis and it is my pleasure to welcome you today. We are very excited to host such a distinguished panel to discuss this topic. Last december, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, better known as amlo, took office in mexico. He won the election in july 2018 in a landslide victory on an leftwing platform that promised to among other things promote the respect of human rights, improve the economy, work to end ongoing drug war and address corruption at all levels of government. For many mexicans and was rep centered a paradigm shift from the governance of the past two decades and sees himself as a remedy to ineffective government responses to corruption and violence. Yesterday marks the First Anniversary of his inauguration and during his first year in office amyl has enjoyed a record high approval rating. However in the past year hes also seen challenges on many fronts including mexicos security, economy