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CNN host Piers Morgan tells NPC audience he favors aggressive interviews, loves Twitter
British interviewers are more aggressive and controversial than American TV hosts, CNN host Piers Morgan told a sold-out National Press Club audience Friday, Oct. 18. Morgan, host of CNN's Piers Morgan Live and a former British tabloid editor, discussed his new book, "Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney," a memoir about his life, career and rise to prominence as a news host in the United States. He was interviewed at the event by Barbara Cochran, president of the board of the National Journalism Institute. Morgan said he loves social media, especially Twitter, which he uses…
Type: News
Players in 'Saturday Night Massacre' recall upholding rule of law
The 'Saturday Night Massacre' that shook the national and started President Nixon's slide to resignation pitted power against rule of law, several of the key players said Oct. 17 at a National Press Club panel commemorating the 40th anniversary of the event. On Oct. 20, 1973, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox as his investigation into the Watergate break-in revealed secret White House recordings that captured the president's role in the scandal. When Richardson refused and resigned, Nixon tapped Deputy Attorney General William…
Type: News
Do the Media Elect the President?
The panel was part of a series of seminars co-sponsored by the National Press Club and the Smithsonian Institution. The full title was "Does the Media Elect the President? Candidates and the Press." Monroe was the moderator. One topic discussed by the panel was the media's inattention to substantive issues during a campaign. Also discussed were the advantages and disadvantages of using polls. The panelists criticized the built-in biases of the media including the need to sensationalize news, the assumptions made by editors that some candidates are not viable, and the media's attention to…
Type: Media
Horde of Trekkies hears 'Star Trek' star George Takei defend gay rights at luncheon
Trekkies flocked to the National Press Club to welcome actor, activist and TV cult figure George Takei at a National Press Club luncheon Oct. 18. The Japanese-American actor's long-running role as Lt. Hikaru Sulu on the 1960s TV series "Star Trek" and the six subsequent, successful Paramount feature films that were an outgrowth of that small-screen phenomenon have made Takei a cult-figure among sci-fi fans. It was Takei's role as activist and his trademark humor that took center stage in the Club's ballroom, which Takei described as looking like an "elegant Star Trek convention." Takei has…
Type: News
Club to hold 'JFK' film screening, discussion Oct. 30 near anniversary of his death
A prominent panel will discuss his life and presidency of John F. Kennedy and show clips of the upcoming movie, "JFK," at a National Press Club event Wednesday, Oct. 30, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of his death. The panel will also examine how the press treated Kennedy and how the media’s treatment of presidents has changed throughout the years. Purchase tickets here. National Press club members pay $5, non-members pay $10. The film "JFK" premieres on the PBS series, "American Experience" on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 11-12 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time. (Check local…
Type: News
Combine the Book Fair, Roast Beef Night at the Reliable Source Nov. 19
Of all the monthly buffets served up at the Reliable Source restaurant, one always sells out -- the Roast Beef Night spread that is held in conjunction annually with the Club's Book Fair and Author Night. This year's renewal of the buffet is slated for Tuesday, Nov. 19, starting at 5:30 p.m. It is open to National Press Club members and their guests. Following Club tradition, the buffet will be open both before and after you've shopped for your Christmas book gifts at the Fair. Price of the buffet is $22 plus tax and gratuity. Because of its popularity, it's smart to make your reservation as…
Type: News
Nov. 27 is date for pre-Thanksgiving magic at Reliable Source, Fourth Estate
Magicians from the Society of American Magicians, who meet monthly at the National Press Club, will perform table-side magic in the Fourth Estate and Reliable Source restaurants on the night before Thanksgiving, Wednesday, Nov. 27 (not Nov. 20, as previously announced). Bring the family for a pre-Thanksgiving meal and amazing magical entertainment right before your eyes. Reserve your table now: Call (202) 662-7638 for the Fourth Estate, which is open to the public, (202) 662-7443 for the Reliable Source, open to NPC members and their guests only.
Type: News
Budget deal does not solve problem, debt-ceiling expert says
Americans may be breathing a sigh of relief as a result of the stop-gap budget deal reached minutes before the Oct. 17 U. S. default date, but unless the nation’s political parties can agree to repeal the underlying debt-ceiling law, Congressional gridlock is likely to recur, warned constitutional scholar Neil H. Buchanan at a National Press Club Newsmaker Oct. 14. "As a constitutional matter, the debt-ceiling law is defective and not enforceable – [and] not just on 14th Amendment grounds,” said Buchanan, a professor at George Washington University Law School and a leading expert on the…
Type: News
National Press Club backs reporter under pressure to divulge confidential Source
The National Press Club expressed Thursday its support for a New York Times reporter who continues to fight a government attempt to force him to reveal in court the identity of a confidential source. The National Press Club honored the reporter, James Risen, with a John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award last year. The award recognized Risen for his reporting work and for resisting for years efforts by two successive administrations to compel him to testify in their case against Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer who's accused of leaking classified information about an unsuccessful CIA…
Type: News
Gun control impasse is topic at Newsmaker on Friday
Paul Helmke, former president and CEO of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, will address the political impasse over national efforts to reduce gun violence at a National Press Newsmaker event Friday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. in the Bloomberg Room. Helmke - also former president & CEO of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, former Republican Mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., former GOP nominee for U.S. Senate and currently a professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs -- will discuss specific proposals intended to break the impasse on the…
Type: News