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Economy. The economy is the bedrock, the foundation of so much else that we will talk about and have talked about tonight. In the basic Building Block of the economy is jobs. This government is pursuing policies right now that are killing job creation. We have 8 Million People as of a few weeks ago that have dropped out of the search for a job and despair. 7 Million People are stuck in parttime jobs command we have millions still unemployed complete. And there are things there is no silver bullet, but there are concrete to make immediate things that this government can do to improve and foster...

think, actually the better metaphor would be we areer s playing on a basketball court or football field from an end of the way our game unfolds to pence on the sheet -- shape of the field and where the media ande communications policy comes in. it is my hope that that with that generates the interest in these areas and in so doing we would express the journalistic interest in these issues which i hope to get too tonight. . . journalism, so the test is how much we can bring to the surface. it's one of the pleasures of being a columbia university is you get to be colleagues with the pe...

>> make nicholas lemann, welcome everybody. this week is maybe every week is a little bit this way, but this week is a lot this way. this is her sort of media and telecommunications policy wiki or. we have an event tonight. we have another event thursday night, featuring a speech by fcc commissioner mike copps, with the number of respondents to that. so what's all this doing on a journalism school? when i was just starting as in the fall of 2003, i was sitting at my desk one day and the phone rang and i picked it up and it was the young woman who was a senior at harvard and she said,...