This panel coming up is called freedom of the press. It will contain three authors who will be talking and that panel will begin in just a few minutes. It is live. Well, hello everyone. Welcome to the 9th annual tucson festival of book. A few things to get out of the way before we get rolling here. We wish to thank you for coming. Hang on to your questions until then. After the session, the authors will be signing autographs in the sign and sales area at the bookstore tent on the mall. Books will be available for purchase at that location and we hope you are enjoying the festival and consider becoming a friend of the festival and support the festival and the critical literacy programs in Southern Arizona. You can text us or find the tent out there on the mall and help out if you can. Really encourage you. That is our big ask of the day. Out of respect for the authors, if you could turn off your cellphones that would be great. We have maureen dowd, evan thomas in the middle whose latest
This panel coming up is called freedom of the press. It will contain three authors who will be talking and that panel will begin in just a few minutes. It is live. Well, hello everyone. Welcome to the 9th annual tucson festival of book. A few things to get out of the way before we get rolling here. We wish to thank you for coming. Hang on to your questions until then. After the session, the authors will be signing autographs in the sign and sales area at the bookstore tent on the mall. Books will be available for purchase at that location and we hope you are enjoying the festival and consider becoming a friend of the festival and support the festival and the critical literacy programs in Southern Arizona. You can text us or find the tent out there on the mall and help out if you can. Really encourage you. That is our big ask of the day. Out of respect for the authors, if you could turn off your cellphones that would be great. We have maureen dowd, evan thomas in the middle whose latest
Part for journalists in America Thanks to her mustread column times, talking of the road not taken, even a quiet life is a barkeepers life back in clare. Talking about your mother, your family, your irishness. Ms. Dowd that would be my dads family. Mr. Lamb what about the most powerful journalist in america . Ms. Dowd that is what irishamerica would say. [laughter] dowd i am sure there is another magazine that thinks paul krugman is and another that thinks Paul Friedman is. They were giving a boost to one of their own. Mr. Lamb how important is it to be irish . Ms. Dowd it gets more important as i get older, funny enough. When i was small, my dad would make us recite irish poetry into one of the old initial tape recorders. My brothers name is kevin barry, so he would have to recite barry and i would have to recite things, you know, at the time, a lot of it seemed kind of corny, but as you get older, and now the nation is obsessed with ancestry and of finding out things, as you get olde
Part for journalists in America Thanks to her mustread column times, talking of the road not taken, even a quiet life is a barkeepers life back in clare. Talking about your mother, your family, your irishness. Ms. Dowd that would be my dads family. Mr. Lamb what about the most powerful journalist in america . Ms. Dowd that is what irishamerica would say. [laughter] dowd i am sure there is another magazine that thinks paul krugman is and another that thinks Paul Friedman is. They were giving a boost to one of their own. Mr. Lamb how important is it to be irish . Ms. Dowd it gets more important as i get older, funny enough. When i was small, my dad would make us recite irish poetry into one of the old initial tape recorders. My brothers name is kevin barry, so he would have to recite barry and i would have to recite things, you know, at the time, a lot of it seemed kind of corny, but as you get older, and now the nation is obsessed with ancestry and of finding out things, as you get olde
Yeah, this is over. applause maureen dowd, welcome. Thank you evan. Nice to see you. Thank you. Here we sit a few weeks from the election. Please tell me its going to be okay. laughter what reassurances can you bring me . I cant bring you any. [evan] no . I think were headed for a Zombie Apocalypse here. Do you . And thats regardless of the outcome . No, im teasing. I just think that weve never had two candidates who were so unpopular and everybody is trying to decide who to vote against rather than who to vote for. Not everybody, but many. Well a lot of people are saying this is really gonna be about the nonloser. Yeah. Right, as opposed to the winner. Right. Its depressing when you covered 2008 where there was this wave of positive feeling, not in the clinton camp but just people really wanted to vote for people. [evan] right. And now its all against. Yeah lets take them one at a time. You know both of them. Yes. Youve known donald trump, Hillary Clinton. Youve written about them, yo