Update 5

Journalistic Negativity

• He says that a journalists ultimate bias is to prove that they are smarter than the people thy are covering.
• People have a bias towards bad news. Studies have shown that people see critical opinions as smarter.
• I am sort of amazed that 80% of the country thinks we are going in the wrong direction. 60% of Iraqis think they are going in the right direction.

Bogo Class

• It is a hyper-involved class of parents. (he polled the audience on who had contact in the past week with their parents, nearly 100%)
• There used to be a huge generation gap and that has been diminished through better communication, at least in that class.

Why do people hate Hillary Clinton?

• Brooks thinks hatred towards Clintons has actually declined.
• Deeper issue of animosity goes back to the truth. She views politics as war, and approaches it much differently than Obama. Brooks describes her as becoming a tough person very early in life and that only strengthening in the 90s.