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press as people regarded it as part of the dissident press of america throughout its history, and i think that these examples really give enormous hope for what can be done overall end of media system. and so i think that clearly, i have been privileged to work with democracy now and the whole democracy and now through all of these ears. years. i tell you, commercial newsrooms in america today, there is nothing but pessimism and fear. in the noncommercial and community press, there is hope, there is a sense that change can be made. there's a sense that you can make a difference, that...

>> you know, as important as this project has become to my life, i can scarcely remember the first time i learned about this historic congressional race between two future presidents in 1789. but what i do remember is reading about it in a book, and it was treated with the typical one or two sentences that you would see about this congressional race. and i thought to myself, way to bury the lead. all of a sudden we're in this race between two future presidents, james madison, james monroe, they're debating the most important issues we have ever talked about as a country, whether we s...

a greek tragedy. this was amazing and, you know, if only we had escalus here to write about it. and later on we got more information about it and the victims, we got information about some of the people who had invested with the madoffs, i started thinking, no, shakespeare should have done this, only shakespeare could write this fully. well, now, sometime later -- three years later -- here we are, and i came across laurie sandell's book. and i want to say that it's utterly fascinating. i mean, we thought we knew everything, but we didn't. and just reading about the family and finding...