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Some of the discussion about the dangers of reporting in the middle east. This was held recently by the council on foreign relations. You can watch it in its entirety tonight at 8 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Tonight on the communicators we take a look at how the Music Industry works. Professor of music business at Berklee College of music discusses how the new music forms of impacted the way musicians are paid and wants Reforms Congress can implement to make the pay structure more transparent. Certainly the narrative of artists and songwriters healing like they do not understand where their m...

Its meaning, and ive always liked to write about real people who are in a situation whether it be averill hairman after world war ii and you have a create a new world ordinary like nato and the world bank and the Marshall Plan 0 steve jobs who says were now in a digital revolution, we have to make it personal. These are people who to use steve jobs words, were able to think different, think out of the box. I want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. Host one of them themes themes in your book seems to be a connect to spirituality. Guest everybody believed they were part of som...

I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you r great devices or great ideas but after a while you realize it is not how much you take out of the river but how much you put into the river, what you leave behind so your spirit is so manifest after you have been gone. Whether it is Robert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin or anybody else they did have a connection to som...

Greater understanding of the conflicts of challenges we face in the middle east. I understand the logic. We were told to hug our kids and defy the terrorists, to go out and shop. I understand all of that was a necessary response to the trauma of the moment. But it was a crisis that i suspect escaped real purpose. And we find ourselves, 14 years later, it seems to me, in many respects, still adrift. Host pat joining us on the republican line. Caller my question is, the country is grown up. The west has opened. Everything is done. I have seen more with clinton, clinton was the first person, but ...

Less polarizing at the same time bring the kinds of legitimacy that, National Conciliation process, under an arab umbrella will have, especially with the different components of Iraqi Society. Very quick comment. I agree the u. N. Might be the most credible party. But its about having a party with well intentions we need a party that is able to enfold them, to oblige them. Agree first because i hope the egyptians will work on their own National Conciliation. I dont think they have that force. Credibility is very much derived from the power you have. And on religious institution, one sentence c...