David Brooks Blasts Media Coverage of Giffords Shooting January 15, 2011

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/11/David_Brooks_Politics_and_Culture

New York Times columnist David Brooks critiques media coverage in the wake of the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. By focusing on political interpretations of the accused shooter's motives, says Brooks, media commentary shifted focus away from his apparent mental illness. "Journalism has been guilty of a great wrong."

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New York Times op-ed columnist and American political and cultural commentator Brooks offers a fresh perspective on politics and culture in the age of President Obama. Is the country moving further to the left, right or center? What is the future of the tea party movement?

As author of a twice-weekly column for The New York Times, Brooks has written extensively on regional and intergenerational differences in America, America as a consumerist society, the benefits of a free-market economy, and foreign policy.

Brooks regularly appears on PBS' "NewsHour" and on NPR's "All Things Considered." A prolific writer and editor with a long career in journalism, he has also served as contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, senior editor of The Weekly Standard, and editor for The Wall Street Journal. Brooks is the author of three books, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. - The Commonwealth Club of California

David Brooks became an op-ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He had been an editor at The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic.

Currently a commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, he is also the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. His latest book is The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement.

He has contributed essays and articles to many publications, including The New Yorker, Forbes, The Public Interest, The New Republic, and Commentary.

He is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, CNN's "Late Edition," and "The Diane Rehm Show."