Live from my Room with C-Span TV

Live with Dick Parsons, Chairman/CEO of Time Warner, multicomgomerate especial. He's addressing the journalists at the Diversity [in] Media conference, a multinational, multicultural, and quite socially civil, audience of very informed individuals, who thought their commingling would be of benefit. Seems more like a free-mind lecture in some class at U or State, or if lucky, community college.
Parsons considers journalists as teachers with a noble responsibility to be diverse, open-minded, objective and fair. He is a high-power broker, former lawyer for Gov. Rockefeller (NY) and an African American. Much of the discussion is about any perceived notions of discrimination both culturally and personally. He is certainly someone who expresses himself in a humanistic way. He speaks frank and when faced with a question about being a token (my word, not his) he approaches it in both pragmatically and in historic perspective. He does tout his favorite mass media outlet, and baby of Time Warner/AOL, CNN, former creation of yes, Jane Fonda's ex. Weird. (Something in me always knew ol' barberella" was a creation of something else, entirely...not Ted Turner). Parsons has an enthusiastic audience who quickly engages in comfortable verbal inquiry and answer. This guy comes across as though he actually realizes what American people, believe,think,feel at least culturally, and also knows that change is a process that may take many generations. He encourages diversity, respects dialog but he is also of the elite,by virtue of the purchasing power he represents. When asked by an attendee in an open forum (immediately proceeding what I thought was a personal revelation of the man), who talked of "stupid", (my word not his) racism wherein the cultural collective respective has been fed for many years. Here is an extremely powerful head of one of the corporate power brokers, probably representing a seat in the secret cartel that conspiracy theorists go on about. Wow, Jesse Jackson has now taken the microphone and asked about stupid racism vs. deliberate bigotry. Dr. J says the media construes the facts "to set the agenda" so that what is important to them, (the mass media) becomes important to their audience. Rant/rage on Dr. Jesse. He knows a sermon-opportunity when he sees one. He's a superstar, maybe not quite expressing all his passion altruistically (my impression only).
Jesse obviously likes the guy...I hope it's not just because he is a man of color, who grew up simply...but he did go to College. Best Line of the night equivocated his party years in College with acceptable CV for President. The "dialog" goes on between this articulate man who leads one of the Big 5 in Corporate complexity, and the rest of us po' folk.