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Renowned journalist Marvin Kalb warns of Trump’s challenge to America’s free press
By attacking a free press, President Trump is threatening to turn the American democracy into an authoritarian state, veteran newsman and National Press Club Fourth Estate Award-winner Marvin Kalb said in a special presentation to Club members Thursday. “It may be too dramatic to say that American democracy rests in the hands of a free, though at the moment, uncertain press, but I believe it does,” Kalb said. “I also believe that the press will ultimately prevail in this dangerous, running war the president has launched.” Kalb was the chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS News from the 1960s…
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DeGette optimistic about future of bipartisan health care talks
Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., minority chief deputy whip, said she optimistic about bipartisanship in remarks made at the National Press Club on Wednesday. “Democrats and Republicans can and should work together on solutions for our healthcare system,” she said just days after the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a Republican effort to replace the Affordable Care Act, was abruptly pulled from the floor of Congress due to lack of support. “Disease doesn’t just strike Democrats or Republicans,” she said. “It strikes everyone.” DeGette said she sees the universality of disease as a key driving…
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Dickson discusses Durocher at Club Book Rap
Other than an umpire's call against his team, if there was one thing Leo Durocher detested was the spotlight shining on anyone other than him. In a Book Rap on Wednesday to talk about his latest tome, "Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son," veteran baseball author and Club member Paul Dickson said Durocher's drive to hog the spotlight led to feuds with such luminaries as Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth and Ernie Banks. He called the Hall of Fame manager "probably the most interesting character and most controversial character in baseball." Indeed, Dickson suggested, one reason for the Chicago…
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Pfizer CEO bashes Obamacare, defends drug pricing at NPC
Pfizer CEO Ian Read gave a tough assessment of the insurance industry and the Affordable Care Act while defending the pharmaceutical industry’s aggressive pricing practices at a March 23 speech at a National Press Club luncheon. Read said Pfizer has not taken a position on the Republican’s now unsuccessful attempt to repeal and replace the ACA, but indicated the elimination of the Obama-ere healthcare reform is not a great concern. "No one is using our medicine on the exchanges because the exchanges don't provide them access," he said. Providing everyone on the exchange with Pfizer…
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Budget experts slam Trump's 'Skinny Budget'
The Trump administration's budget document with its cuts in domestic non-defense programs to offset an increase in defense expenditures is not a real budget because it lacks economic projections and contains $18 billion of unspecified cuts, a panel of veteran budget analysts said Friday at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference. "There's more that's not here than is here," said Stan Collender, executive vice president of Qorvis MSLGROUP, noting that the "skinny budget," as the document is described, addresses just a third of federal spending. It is "more ideology than economics," he…
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O'Rourke skewers both sides of the political divide at his book event
P.J. O’Rourke, The New York Times best-selling author of twenty books and former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, gave an equal-opportunity skewering to all sides of the political spectrum while discussing his newest book, "How the Hell Did This Happen: The Election of 2016." at a National Press Club book event March 16. “Imagine playing a round of golf with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,” he said “The scorecard would end up on Hillary’s email server. Trump would nudge the ball with his foot to create an alternative fact.” “Hillary,” he said, “carried more baggage than her Boeing did…
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Actors Equity President opposes defunding federal arts grants, cites job creation
Kate Shindle, president of the Actors’ Equity Association, spoke against defunding the National Endowment for the Arts at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference March 16. The “intersection of art and commerce” driven by NEA grants not only provides Americans cultural enrichment, it is an “economic engine for growth and jobs,” she said. President Donald Trump’s budget proposal cuts domestic programs, including eliminating the NEA with its $149 million annual budget. Cutting the grant-making agency means that job creation in more than 16,000 communities “is on the chopping block, and…
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Mexican presidential contender deplores Trump's immigration policies and proposed wall
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leading contender in Mexico's 2018 presidential election, spoke against President Donald Trump's immigration policies and proposed border wall at a National Press Club Newsmaker event March 15. “Trump is blaming migrants for problems in the U.S., and we are not going to permit this,” he said. “In the end it’s Neo-fascism.” The problems in the U.S. stem from “great inequality” and its tax system, which he hoped will become “more progressive and fair to all Americans.” Bad government and income distribution are to blame, he added. López Obrador, the founder…
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Panel on cyber security urges encryption to protect sources, but warns of vulnerabilities
Despite its potential vulnerabilities, reporters should use encrypted communication to protect their sources, an expert panel on cyber security urged at a March 13 event at the National Press Club sponsored by the Club’s Journalism Institute and the Professional Development Committee. “It is incumbent on us [the press] to protect our sources from the beginning,” stressed panel moderator Rachel Oswald, vice chair of the Club’s Press Freedom Committee and a reporter for CQ Roll Call, as she opened the event by noting a recent spate of leaks to the press and Trump administration efforts to find…
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Symposium probes balancing facts with context, press and president relationship
Fact-checkers, former White House officials and working journalists weighed the balance between facts and context in reporting and compared present and past relationships between the press and presidents at the 2017 Missouri-Hurley Symposium at the National Press Club March 9. Michelle Lee, one of two Washington Post fact-checkers who seeks readers’ votes on Pinocchios for false claims, noted that facts can tell an incomplete story, referring to the “half-truth realm” while Louis Jacobson from PolitiFact and the Tampa Bay Tribune noted that readers have a legitimate concern that they…
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