Charlie Rose

JohnGelles  10/20/2011 04:11 PM Report

As with all my comment, prize juries, inflation protected savings, real full employment, life long training (in the useful arts, crafts and sciences,), etc., are all financed by some debt-free tax-free monetary systems. They are Keynesian systems on steroids. And we need them yesterday. The NY Times has been silent in this matter. Have thy never heard of Wray and Forestater at the Univ.of Missouri, Kansas City? The digital news needs digital money. Get with it Jill !!!

JohnGelles  10/20/2011 04:04 PM Report

In the digital age we have a right (and duty) to ask the Times to be a "read and listen" and a "write and talk" global media leader.

And we have a right (and duty) to ask ourselves and our government to develop a prize subsidy system to defray their costs with subsidies grounded in their performance -- beyond their popularity and price.

These may be Utopian thoughts in a world evolved under the "popularity and profit" practices of American economics. So what. The practices we have reward inferior products.

Do we not owe it to ourselves to examine the results of business and government real-world evolution. Having looked at the results, why not make improvements?

So many of our popular profitable products keep our culture relatively ignorant, we ought to try subsidies to improve all outcomes.

The Times gathers news effectively. It does not gather and improve popular notions to solve practical problems that would be solved if we opened capitalism to concious financing of prize products. Patent and copyright law have been corrupted by corporate organization, law and practice. We need radical change to accelerate the means by which economic democracy can finance our best not our cheapest or most initially profitable.

The NY Times is succeeding under the systems in place because people like Jill Abramson are where they are. But she needs help too. We need a lot more prizes judged by the type of experts who awarded the Vietnam Memorial to a young meritorius designer and not someone promoted by capital and advertising.

The American dream needs to be rescued by dreamers not losers. We are at a stage in history where the losers are in charge. They may have success in a losing culture: but we must change the culture before our dream itself is dead.

robdverity  10/19/2011 05:45 PM Report

Sharp lady. Maybe she would consider making the cross-word puzzle more lower-class friendly.

tomodaman  10/19/2011 11:05 AM Report

Loved the interview! I love her passion for the printed Yew York times. Thank you Charlie!

JohnGelles  10/19/2011 06:03 AM Report

A most precise and delightful interview. A guest of the highest order.

I will soon receive the Kindle Fire I ordered weeks ago. I hope to get a NY Times application solely on the basis of this interview. (In my youth the NYT was important to me and my education.)

I may even get another dog, (it's been 40 years since Bevo our family beagle and I were swimming partners;) and Jill Abramson's book may not be enough to qualify me as a SWSD (second "s" is for swimming). My children are ABBWD's but live too far from here to make me walk their animals.

Jill exudes a habit of precise thinking that says to me "no wonder she's Editor of the top American newspaper." It's been years since I read it, but that is my fault mostly.

Jill was most concerned with the revolution now in progress in global political economy. Is the NYT ready to broadcast that our failure to finance the Second Bill of Rights, via money reform itself, is the root of our pain?

..... (Such reform would feature rational liquidity easing to maintain full employment without involuntary taxes? Voluntary taxes are true luxury, sin or anti-inflation taxes, hidden or disclosed, which no consumer has to pay if they forgo the taxed purchase.)

Is the digital Times (or press) an answer to quality reader input or the need we have in democracy to expand the power of the vote to reach the process of thought by which nations become more learned and less brutal? I am looking for an issues wiki to turn opinion into wisdom and spread it around -- together with the wealth required to enjoy it.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/19/2011 02:15 AM Report

How about the New York Times as fact checkers?

Michael Moore uses them for his documentaries.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/facts/capitalism-love-story

Perhaps Charlie you might employ some to check the content of your shows. This would be a value add.

Look what the St. Petersburg Times has done:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/18/2011 04:26 PM Report

Yes, deep analysis over pushing an opinion.

Yes, bring readers into the story to further their educational process.

Cute dog--so how did a top leader of the fourth estate save us from ourselves? WikiLeaks? Some other story?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/18/2011 04:22 PM Report

Charlie,

Whose speech pattern needs more work Henry Kissinger or you know who?

First to "The Kings Speech" and then to a speech therapist for them both.

Saturday Night Live: you might put them both together for some sketch comedy.

Charlie, you do have great patience.

REMant  10/18/2011 10:57 AM Report

You know, it doesn't really matter where "the truth lies" in the Thomas-Hill confrontation, or rather, it couldn't have added anything to what was perfectly clear on its face, that the two of them did not see eye-to-eye and made no bones about it. I would not want to say we can do without facts in the construction of theories, drawing conclusions or rendering verdicts, but the world doesn't work on precedent as the legal beagles fear. Nor is it a novel. Personally, I've always appreciated wire services minutiae more than any paper's, magazine's or network's distillation even without considering the bias that so often accompanies them. I don't know what the world would do without those reporters, yet they don't get either the recognition or the opportunity to write what they'd probably like to. I suspect she, herself, regrets not having gone into lawyering, and I hope she never gets the idea to go into television.