I just want to read a couple post did an article about you in 2005 and lines. Tell us what your approach is. Ohio. Sswoman from who called martha a courd. A wrinkly d to her one of the things that happens when you try to cover inside politics, a lot of these pics are basically inaccessible to broad audiences. If you want to talk about congressional procedure. Inaccessible to is this person thats that sort of character and there is a good guy over here and it allows them to follow the story. There is a term paper which will is this person thats that sort of character and there is a good guy over here and it allows them to follow the story. There is a term paper which will put them to sleep. The other side of the political system gets the same treatment, you say on harry reid, the Senate Democratic leader from nevada, quote a prolife mormon with a Campaign Chest full of casin know money. Another thing i know about this process is if the reader knows what your the finances are really resp
Publishing company and asked to edit an anthology of gonzo journalism, and i took the project because i wanted to talk it gonzo journalism will only seems to apply to that one writer, hunter thompson. I want to read a couple lines, and tell us what your approaches, why you go this way. Jean smit, from cincinnati ohio, you refer to her as a wrinkly, which like woman with a penchant for dressing like a , what are you doing there . I guess one of the things that happens when you try to , orr the inside of politics wall street, a lot of these basically inaccessible to broad audiences or really really difficult to sell to people if you want to talk about commercial and procedure. That one article is about the rules committee, and one of the things you have to do, i think, in order to get people interested in these topics is to turn it into a human drama. Characters ande you have to use fiction technique to characterize people so that people know that one person is a certain kind of her, and
Attorney would waive lien privilege, which is something that corporations had ahind often, and a judge in scathing ruling said that the prosecutors had violated the constitution, violated the Constitutional Rights of these defendants, and that also led to this rolling back of these prosecutorial powers and techniques, which has led them to really be rendered unable to to investigate people at the higher echelon of corporate america. Host this is peter on our republican line. Caller mr. Eisinger, no comment, this was a failure of government basically. I would like to give context to the situation. In the late 1970s during the carter administration, they develop the Community Reinvestment act, which made fannie and freddie about three percent of their purchases of the prime mortgages. In 1995, there was a lot of pressure on the Clinton Administration to increase the amount of mortgages that were given to poor and minority people, so clinton developed these publicwrite it harder ships, wh
Launch an offensive against the city of baqubah less than 40 miles from baghdad. We will speak to professor juan cole of the university of michigan. He just wrote a piece titled dont trust the bombers on iraq shock and awe never works. Then 50 years after freedom summer, Voting Rights are under attack again in the south. They have attacked early voting, making it harder to vote with voter id laws. Every one of those reforms voter repression laws and tactics have the same effect of driving down the black vote. We will speak to former naacp president ben jealous on true south voters of color in the black belt 50 years after after freedom summer. And on the First Anniversary of the death of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, his widow publishes the novel she found on his computer after he died in a fiery car crash. It is a scathing critique of the news media today called the last magazine. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace re
Colorful, fascinating vulnerable character that ive ever written about. He was orphaned in a certain sense by his father. His mother came and immigrated to america. He lived in incredible poverty but dreamed of becoming a journalist. He has a dream when hes a young man of creating a magazine that will be a cheap magazine, so its not the atlantics and the harpers, but 10 cents, people can read it. It will be a powerful good. He will hire staff, pay them for years to do research so they can come up with real pieces of fact and stories to persuade the country they have to do something about the industrial age. What year . He started in the 1890s in the magazine, 1893 in the midst of the depression in 1893. The magazine flounders for a while before it grows. When did you know you were going to feature these muckrakers. Im not sure i can remember what happened. I started with teddy rose vel. I knew so much had been written, i needed another story. Got into taft. Knowing they had been friend