What kind of news theyd be getting however now just a few months into this pandemic according to pew research here in the United States numbers of majority feel that the u. S. News media has handled coverage of this pandemic rather well in fact 69 percent to be exact in fact the percentage of those who say the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus has dropped from 62 percent in march to 48 percent in april that includes a decline in the portion saying the media have greatly exaggerated the risks as well from 37 percent to 24 percent but these numbers do not mean the u. S. News media has been beyond reproach in their tactics nor have they seen the upswing in profits either as the Washington Post reports people are consuming news like never before but spikes in readership are coming alongside a huge drops in the advertising revenue a New York Times count estimated 36000 media workers have experienced furloughs pay cuts or even layoffs from vice to buzz feed to corks the conde na
Greetings and sal you take shims want to know all right with country after country nation after nation citizen after citizen on lockdown do its due to stay at home orders all around the world for many their only real connection to whats going on in the world outside their own neighborhoods and communities comes from the Television News and online and print journalism they consume but given the partisan and carnival nature of the ratings and click hungry United States news media going into this pandemic many were as you can imagine right bully concerned about what kind of news theyd be getting however. Now just a few months into this pandemic according to pew research here in the United States numbers of majority feel that the us news media has handled coverage of this pandemic rather well in fact 69 percent to be exact in fact the percentage of those who say the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus has dropped from 62 percent in march to 48 percent in april that includes a de
Do not do that again, mr. Shanahan, or i will not take your name up for a vote before this committee. Cspan programs are available at cspan. Org, right on our home page or by searching the video library. And now Energy Secretary rick perry on President Trumps proposed 2018 budget for the Energy Department from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. This is about an hour 40 minutes. Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize for the delayed start, but hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the secretary and learn of the president s views for the department of energy. Secretary perry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation here in the senate. While it took us a little bit longer than wed hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full compliment of folks there at the department as well. The budget request for the department of energy ta
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize for the delayed start, but hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the secretary and learn of the president s views for the department of energy. Secretary perry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation here in the senate. While it took us a little bit longer than wed hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full compliment of folks there at the department as well. The budget request for the department of energy takes a different approach this year than weve seen in the recent past. The president has made a concerted effort to increase funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration to focus on our Nuclear Weapons program. This is a portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. The administration has also requested robust funding for the cleanup of Nuclear Waste l
Here. We are excited to be joined by our children, griffin and his wife meredith, and our granddaughters. We have been on quite a journey. It started about 55 years ago. Yeah, i know, he looks it, i dont. 55 years ago, i sat by him at a piano beside him. Six years after that, he asked me on our first date. To his football game. He rode on the team bus. I rode in the car with his parents and his sister. I figure that is about what every girl dreams about for their first date. 16 years later, with the blessing of my father, finally i decided to marry him and say yes and go on a journey where i had no idea where it would take me. Back then, he was trying to farm, fix some airplanes. We were living in texas. Halfway between abilene and the end of the earth. [laughter] then one day, he decided to run for state representative. He ran and he won. Around that same time, we welcomed griffin and then sydney into the family. Family has always come first for rick and me. But it is not just about b