Brinkley & Ivins Together

  • Lindy Boggs Introduction
  • Freeport McMaran
  • Anne Rice Home
  • Louisiana Endowment of the Arts & the Humanities
  • Cokie Roberts (Lindy's daughter)
  • Intro ends
  • Molly begins with David Brinkley
  • Journalism
  • "It's all my fault, I'm from the media."
  • Journalists will go to hell due not to sins of comission but sins of omission
  • U.S arming Sadaam Hussein
  • BNL in Atlanta
  • "I'm a liberal that Dan Quayle has warned you about."
  • Migration of southern black people to northern cities.
  • Stories that seep and creep
  • Molly as a "prop" on a Nightline episode
  • Diversity of opinion is narrow
  • Republicans foment a theory that there is a liberal bias for election advantage.
  • Local papers as "Bastions of non-liberal journalists."
  • Makes fun of USA Today and the Wall Street Journal
  • Advocacy press but also a mirror on society
  • Trickle down Economics
  • Molly as an "unemployment statistic."
  • Donald & Ivanna Trump
  • Public singularly ill-served
  • Molly ends.
  • David Brinkley starts.
  • David Brinkley zings Molly
  • Turn up volume
  • Television as a poor medium for exposees
  • The S & L Scandal
  • A trillion dollars in the S & L scandal
  • The importance of writers
  • Austin as a "civilized city."
  • Washington D.C as a "government reservation"
  • Molly begins again.
  • Molly discusses the constituion.
  • Depth of cynicism and disgust is alarming.
  • "You've got to dance with them that brung ya."
  • Q & A begins
  • Molly is a snob about television journalism.
  • "Television journalism is an oxymoron."
  • TV journalism is cut by (?)