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Author Max Brooks urges journalists to educate Americans
Author Max Brooks at a Club Newsmaker. Photo: Alan Kotok Max Brooks, author of the recently released Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, implored journalists Thursday “to get away from the rants and the opinions” and teach American voters why institutions exist. “As a citizen, as a voter, as a taxpayer, when I turn on the news, I need to be told what I need to hear instead of just what want to hear,” Brooks said at a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Newsmaker. He said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., having her hair done in a salon is not news.…
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Commemorating Harry Truman and the end of World War II
Changing his glasses, putting on a hat and modifying his voice, Clifton Truman Daniel transformed himself into his famous grandfather, President Harry Truman, and told a Sept. 2 National Press Club audience, “I never saw myself as president. “I was just in the right place at the wrong damn time," he said. "Lots of folks could do a better job, but it became mine to do, and as long as you put me here, you will get the best I’ve got. I’ve always considered myself an ordinary man. I don’t have any special personal endowments. I don’t waste my time worrying about what I don’t have. I just try to…
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COVID-19 poses challenges to college student voting bloc
Paul Loeb speaks at the Aug. 31 Headliners Newsmaker. Photo by Alan Kotok. The coronavirus pandemic is presenting new obstacles to many of the 20 million college students wishing to cast ballots this fall, voting experts said at an Aug. 31 National Press Club Headliner Newsmakers. event. “Any number of barriers already exist for people who wish to cast their ballots," lawyer Thurgood Marshall Jr. said. "All of those challenges are amplified by the pandemic in general. But there are a number of very pointed challenges facing each student who wants to exercise their right to vote.” Even…
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Author Soboroff calls forced family separations an ongoing American tragedy
Club President Michael Freedman, left, introduces reporter Jacob Soboroff at a virtual event Thursday. Photo: Alan Kotok NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff said Thursday at a National Press Club Headliners event that he wanted the world to know of children ripped from their families, how some were caged and some were babies in diapers that social workers were ordered not to touch or hold under the President Donald Trump's “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. The reporter described visiting an immigration detention facility in Brownsville, Texas, in June 2018, with only a small…
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'Twas Ever Thus: Harold Holzer on presidents and the press
Club President Michael Freedman interviewed author Harold Holzer Tuesday. Photo: Alan Kotok "This combative relationship is not new. It's in a way healthy, as long as long as one side doesn't yield. Both institutions -- the presidency and the press -- are crucial to the democracy." That's how Harold Holzer summed up his new book, “The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media – From the Founding Fathers to Fake News," during a virtual Newsmaker event Tuesday hosted by National Press Club President Michael Freeman. Holzer is author or editor of dozens…
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National Press Club honors Linda Tirado with Press Freedom Award
Linda Tirado, Press Freedom Award recipient, was injured by a police foam bullet May 30. The National Press Club is honoring Linda Tirado, an author and freelance photographer, with a 2020 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, Club leaders announced Wednesday. Tirado was taking pictures of a street protest in Minneapolis on May 30 when a policeman’s foam bullet hit her left eye, costing Tirado most of her sight in that eye. Tirado is suing the Minneapolis police department, and she faces mounting medical bills for her injury but has no health insurance. "There's no way that they could have…
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CBS News, National Press Club produce documentary commemorating the centennial of radio
One hundred years ago today, on August 20, 1920, WWJ Radio in Detroit (then known as station 8MK and owned by The Detroit News) launched the age of electronic media, broadcasting a series of musical selections by connecting a megaphone to a phonograph and sending the sounds through its transmitter to some 30 homes with receiving sets throughout the city. With that, the station launched the first regularly scheduled programming on radio in America. Less than three months later, on November 2, 1920, radio’s ‘big bang’ occurred when station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast live coverage of the…
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NPC in History: Gram Robinson, women’s suffrage and the Women’s National Press Club
National Women’s Party leader Alice Paul emerges from the Lafayette Square headquarters holding a banner that hurls President Wilson’s World War I rallying cry back at him. It is a Wilson quote that reads: “The time has come to conquer or submit. For us there is but one choice. We have made it.” Photo: Library of Congress At 21, Alice Gram Robinson was arrested while protesting for women’s suffrage in front of the White House, held at the Occoquan Workhouse where she took part in a hunger strike, and two years later helped found the Women’s National Press Club before launching a six-…
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Bolton criticizes Trump, calls press biased toward left
Club President Freedman offers the National Press Club mug to author John Bolton. Photo: Alan Kotok Coupling his criticism of President Trump with a sharp critique of press campaign coverage, John Bolton, former national security adviser to Trump, told a virtual National Press Club audience Tuesday he will vote for neither Trump nor Joe Biden but rather for a “yet undetermined Republican conservative.” Bolton was interviewed about his new book, "The Room Where it Happened," by Club President Michael Freedman as part of the Club's Headliner programs. When Freeedman asked Bolton for his…
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Dickson book reveals why U.S. was prepared to fight after Pearl Harbor
Club President Michael Freedman, left, interviews Paul Dickson about his new book. Photo: screen shot by Alan Kotok. In his new book, "The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1942: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor,” Paul Dickson sheds light on steps the U.S. took in the years preceding World War II to establish the army that withstood the century’s greatest conflict. Speaking with Press Club President Michael Freedman during a virtual Book Rap conversation August 14, Dickson credited decisions by former U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall and…
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