PICS OF THE WEEK - January 2019

Bloom County

Bloom County Wall

Animal Farm

Waiting for Noah

Politics

Latest RBG Exercise

MISC

'Winter Lake'

NEWSHOUR'S STUDENT REPORTING LABS - What We Want To See 2019

"The stories student reporters want to see in 2019" PBS NewsHour 1/1/2019

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SUMMARY:  Participants from the NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs, a project that teaches young reporters about journalism and media literacy, share what they’d like to see from the media in 2019.

OPINION - Shields and Gerson 1/2/2015

"Shields and Gerson on 2015’s foreign policy issues, Mario Cuomo’s legacy" PBS NewsHour 1/2/2015

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SUMMARY:  Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss 2015’s most pressing foreign and domestic policy issues and the political legacy former New York Governor Mario Cuomo leaves behind.

MARK SHIELDS, syndicated columnist:  I wait and hope that we will have a debate on this subject (wars).

I mean, the Congress, both parties, has not forced the issue. I mean, this should be national policy.  What it has been in the sense is a delegation to the President.  You can delegate authority, but you can’t delegate responsibility.  And the responsibility under the Constitution is with the Congress.  It’s with the people.  We should have a national debate exactly on what we are willing to do.

We have had ouchless, painless wars, with tax cuts, for the past 15 years, and coffin after coffin has come back, and congressman after congressman and President after President has not gone to the funerals.  And Gold Star mothers are not comforted, except by letters and an occasional phone call.

And this is not a broadly shared sacrifice.  It’s a violation of the great American principle of the universality of shared sacrifice.  And that has been totally missing.  And we do need a debate on this.  And it’s been — it’s been dereliction of duty on the part of our leadership and on us, as a people, in not demanding it.

TRANSITIONS - That Was 2014 and What's to Come 2015

"What does 2014 promise for the year to come?" PBS NewsHour 12/31/2014

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SUMMARY:  What will history say about 2014?  As the year comes to a close, Hari Sreenivasan gets insight from Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, Helena Andrews of The Washington Post, and Evan McMorris-Santoro of BuzzFeed, who take stock of 2014 and make predictions for next year.

GWEN IFILL (NewsHour):  Well, the fireworks and the champagne corks are already popping in other parts of the world, as 2014 leaves and 2015 arrives.  So what should we be expecting during the next 12 months?

We thought we’d ask.

Hari is back with the questions.

HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour):  Every December 31, the world arrives at a time of reflection.  T.S. Eliot said next year’s words await another voice, though writer Robert Clark said that the new year is exactly the same as the old year just colder.

To find 2015′s voice and discuss if it will be really any different than 2014, we brought together Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent with “The Atlantic,” Helena Andrews of The Washington Post’s Reliable Source, and Evan McMorris-Santoro, White House correspondent for BuzzFeed.

So, let’s start with something we don’t talk about too much on the program, which is entertainment and really the consequences of the Sony hack.  We were talking about it a little bit off camera.  What do you think is going to be the sort of giant repercussion?  On the one side, we saw really how Sony executives think and talk about their actors behind closed doors.  And on the other side, we launched a movie without having 3,000 theaters, and it didn’t do so bad.

"What 2014 global conflicts and challenges will carry over into the new year?" PBS NewsHour 1/1/2015

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SUMMARY:  In 2014, ISIS, Boko Haram and Crimea became household names and Ebola re-entered the scene as a medical crisis.  Gwen Ifill speaks with Indira Lakshmanan of Bloomberg News, David Ignatius of The Washington Post, and David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee about this past year’s biggest global challenges, and what conflicts to expect in the coming year.