(I have a life outside of this website.)

The actual talks begin just before the 19 min. mark with an introduction by Steve Coll - love his voice! - the school's dean.

I've watched/listened to most of the more than six hours(!) talks, and found it both interesting and enlightening. Not least listening to those representing N.Y.T and WaPo talk about the whys and hows and whynots re their covering of OMG! Emails! And I'm quite a bit surprised  that everyone actually seems to agree, that publicing stolen, private emails is both legal and legit. But then I'm not part of 'Media', so ...

One of the participants in the last debate of the day is Jonathan Peters, attorney and 'CJR's press freedom correspondent' , whose article Putin, Politics, and the Press, is discussed and referenced in the talk. Just a small snippet from his long article:

Overall, the biggest deficiency in the email coverage, based on my review of it and the interviews I conducted, was the failure to contextualize the contents and to judge their significance. That might not have been a big problem for a frivolous story, because by definition it was superficial--but the implications were big for a serious story, which had the chance to be informative about a legitimate public concern.

As we will demonstrate (1) Clinton's unexpected
losses came in states in which she failed to air ads until the last week and (2)
Clinton's message was devoid of discussions of policy in a way not seen in the
previous four presidential contests.

"What's being set up now is a system where there are certain races that are going to be in a second class-type of environment, and there will be a superior race that is running everything. This is the first time that a president has made such a broad, sweeping kind of executive order that bans people purely based upon their nationality. It's saying if you're from one of these six countries, you are presumptively a terrorist. To us, that's bringing us back to a time before I was even born, a time that our prior generation lived under, that's a dark chapter that I don't believe we should repeat. [This lawsuit] isn't a Democrat thing or an agenda thing. It's a racism thing."
- Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin, speaking to local reporters about the State's lawsuit to overturn the Trump administration's travel ban (March 10, 2017)

Boston Globe | March 9, 2017
The tawdry triumph of talk radio - "In the last half-century, driving across America one could hear the screech of anger -- first, as tinny rants amid the static of a fading AM signal, later as the frenzied yet insinuating voices of talk-show hosts who enriched themselves by peddling lies, slanders, paranoia, conspiracy theories, and unreasoning rage meant to create a hothouse of hysteria. But the frenzy has burst its bounds. The malign ethic of right-wing talk radio now pervades the White House.

"The Visigoths of talk have breached the walls of civil society to implant an alternate reality, in which America's enemies are everyone outside their tribe: Democrats, moderates, Muslims, minorities, immigrants, mainstream conservatives, the media, the courts, Congress, and, until now, the president. In this existential cage match, facts are inimical; ignorance invaluable; reason contemptible; alienation indispensable. For the war can be won only when millions of Americans believe in nothing but their own hatred.

"The reckoning draws nearer."

  Sonny, whose name is not necessarily related to his disposition, was an "ethics reform" governor who put in place ethics laws that he often failed to honor himself.

 Sonny continued to own or help run his family farm/farm-related businesses while governor--apparently, making him a good fit for the Trump Administration.  By the time Sonny's tenure as Governor ended in 2011, 13 complaints were filed against Perdue by the State Ethics Commission and on two occasions ruled that the governor violated state ethics laws, and fined him (the executive secretary of the State Ethics Commission was fired in Jan 2006).

   Also, with the benevolence of his lawyer/state legislator, a special legislative provision gave Perdue $100,000 in state tax relief. He also managed a deal for use of state ports for family businesses.  

Rot-a-Lago:

One would be small, 10 plots overlooking the first hole. It was intended -- or so they said -- for Trump and his family. "Mr. Trump . . . specifically chose this property for his final resting place as it is his favorite property," his company wrote in a filing with the state in 2014.

The other proposed cemetery would have 284 lots for sale to the public. There, buyers could pay for a kind of eternal membership in Trump's club -- even if it isn't clear Trump himself would ever join them.

What would they have done if they hadn't been granted the privilege of working 28 hours in a row?  Refused to stop working?

"America's Grand Strategy did not come from nowhere: it followed from our deeper conception of ourselves and our American identity. Who are we Americans? What is our nation?

"We are not an ethno-state, with identity rooted in shared blood. The option of a White Man's Republic ended at Appomattox. On the contrary, we are 'a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.' We say this more often than we consider its significance. Our nation is based on an idea that, when embraced, makes us Americans. We fought a Civil War over whether that sentence - that all men are created equal - was meant literally." (Emphasis is mine.)

It's worth a read, if only to consider what's being lost by the Trump administration's current shortsighted efforts to hollow out the U.S. Department of State, perhaps at the behest of its Russian benefactors.

This is what resistance looks like:

"For those of you remaining in government service, I say this: serve your nation and this Administration as you serve all Administrations: with loyalty, dedication and courage. Help Secretary TIllerson. He deserves it. And he needs it. And help the President as well, putting your backs in it.

"And as you serve, you will, as I did, always remember your oath to the Constitution, and to that principle behind the Constitution: our nation is dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

"Have faith in our nation, in our Constitution and in that proposition. Have faith in yourselves, thus inspired, and in each other.

"And therefore, as Lincoln said, 'Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.'" (Emphasis is Mr. Fried's, and not my own.)