how facebook toys with your newsfeed and your emotions, and how the hobby lobby ruling was spawned by red and blue media outlets this week. but let's best gin with pie brand-new reporting of diane sawyer and her replacement. you've heard the story about the big transition, sawyer abc says will want to step down to focus on --, sawyer was on vacation all this week, so he was filling in. as for george stephanopoulos abc's story is he was not passed over, rather listen the chief anchor for the whole network, coming in whenever there is big breaking news. but i don't believe it, and neither do a number of my most reliability sources at abc. for example, here's a big question they are asking -- why isn't diane being guaranteed a certain number of primetime

special each year, or being given her own production unit like an curry. so let me about ink in another reporter who has been digging around, lloyd grove, an editor at large, an authority on all things media. lloyd, thanks for joining me. >> pleasure. >> do you think diane sawyer is leaving of her own choice? >> i think these discussions have been going on for months. diane is 68, so obviously they had they needed to look at a generational change. on the other hand she's done very well for abc news, she's beat brian williams in the all-important 25 to 54 age demo on which advertising is sold, so they'll be very respectful to her. if they brought it up first, i'm sure she agreed, and if she agreed, i'm sure it was with a lot of sweeteners and her new gig will be pretty wonderful for her, i would suspect.

>> that's where i'm skeptical. she doesn't seem to have a dedicated job, she's have an anchor title, but not a staff or things like that. tom brokaw when he stepped down ten years ago, i think he had a ten-year contract and a special correspondent title. so are you as skeptical as i am that she will in fact have a clear role at abc? >> i am not as skeptical as you are, but you might be right. who knows, it's a crazy business. she comes from the era of the rune arledge tenure. and she is not somebody that's to sort of take anything she doesn't like laying down. plus they have great respect for her. she's -- the last quarter she beat brian williams in the demo for the first time in six years, so they're going to treat her with great respect and deference. >> people at abc says she's

going to do the biggest interviews in the country, do the biggest specials, those will be the goals for her going forward. jeffrey toobin was thankfully filling in for me. he talked to dan rather about the idea of the evening news fading away. here's what dan rather said. >> what young mr. muir has inherited is an honor and a great opportunity, but in the great scheme of television and television news, it is now a diminished medallion, that the principal medallion goes to the main anchor of the morning news, which in this case is george stephanopoulos. another person said to me he's a blank slate. would you agree? >> i don't think so. in terms of the numbers he draws when he subs for diane, he sometimes improves on those numbers. his weekend news anchoring, he has healthy numbers. and he has, you know, a young guy, only 40, and he has a

rather distinguished reporting career. so he's no dan rather. he doesn't have the sort of larger than life movie star personality that anchors like dan and diane have had, but, you know, he's a young guy, and it's a long game, and we'll see how it develops. >> i was struck by the fact when you wrote about the announcement, your headline was about george stephanopoulos, that he wins abc's chief anchor crown. you are focusing on that part of the news than the evening news. why was that? >> this is a whole new configuration. usually -- or always on these broadcasts the person who has the evening broadcast is the lead askor, and gets the big interviews, askors all the big news reports. here's a case where they split the baby, essentially. david muir gets the anchor of the evening news, and does i assume, some interviews, but george has first crack at

everything. interview with his president obama, election night, inauguration, and breaking news stories. if there's another school shooting, george gets first crack. that's very unusual. >> there's a rivalry forming? my sense from the last ten days is there's been a camp for george and there's a camp for david, each of them saying different things about how involved the other guy is going to be. >> i don't think there's a personal rivalry, at least not yet between george and david, certainly not the kind of personal rivalry as between diane and barbara walters, but definitely the camps are working it hard. i've had heard from both camps myse myself, the muir camp thinks that george's role has been exaggerated in the press and, you know, george's camp thinks that, yeah, i'm the late anchor, or he's the lead anchor. >> what does that tell you about how abc tried to split this baby? is it something that's destined

for failure? >> i wouldn't say it's destined for failure. it does create creative tension, but this was a condition of george's for a reupping on his contract. he came with a position of strength. for the past two years, good morning american, his principal job, and robin roberts have beat the "today" show almost every week for the past two years. so they don't want to lose this guy. so i suspect that george wanted to have the david muir slot, with all the trimmings, they didn't give him that. instead he got this title and the first crack at all the breaks news. >> you mentioned personal rivalry between barbara walters and diane sawyer. now we see both of them stepping aside, barbara walters officially retiring, though she recently came back with that interview of the father of the santa barbara shooter, and diane

sawyer, we don't know exactly what she'll be doing. what about the new leadership at abc, the new news president, james goldsen, and the new head of the division, are these guys who come in and aren't as willing to -- or as interested in protecting the status quo? >> you can't protect the status quo. you can't protect anything in this business. you have to be future forward and you have to sort of what are we going to be doing five years from now? and horrid how are we going to win? at this business, a ratings point, that could be worth $100 million in revenue. so these guys are in a business and they're business people. >> there'sen a compose dulles of talent from abc, we saw several people come over here to cnn in the past year or two, and now george and david both having two jobs.

i wonder if this just says something about the end of the star anchor, that maybe abc believes it can make do with just a couple big heavy hitters in george and david? >> yeah, i think so. by the way, george has three jobs, because he also anchors the "this week" program a sundays. >> right. >> it mite say something about that, but you've got to say these people are getting star salaries everything i here is he has a 1 or 10 in front of his salary. that's not bad from a guy i met 20 years ago when he was a young compare aide for bill clinton. >> what does it saying for the aspiring, the folks in a local market, who want that job in 20 years? does this say something about the ladder and how it's going to change in the next 20 years? >> i don't know what things will

look like, whether we'll all by watching television news on our mobile devices, or maybe have devices implanted. >> that's a refreshingly honest answer, we don't know the past anymore. >> you're asking me an impossible question, brian. shame on you. >> that's a perfect place to leave it, then. thanks for joining me. >> a pleasure. they continue to battle for first place. in my contacts at abc they say that david muir is even more competitive about this than diane sawyer, even more determined to beat nbc, so i do think a new ratings war is about to kick off. when we come back here, this week's horrible news for president obama, but is he really the worst president we've seen since world war ii? i'll try to fix the wrong headlines and talk to historic who can really sort it out for us, next.

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dramatic headlines about the president's popularity. worst president since 1945, with an approval rating in the 30s. did you think i was talking about this week's poll? this is a headline from a 2006 story about a quinnipiac poll judging george w. bush, eerily similar to these headlines from this week's poll judges barack obama. look at that, story after story, saying obama is the worst president since world war ii, even though 33% of the people surveyed said so. i've got to say i think all the hyping of this poll was a big media foul this week. all these headlines seemed determined to get clicks, but not provide context. the press should know better. here's our reliable sources policy question. are we actually learning anything? let's brill in julian zellezer, a professor at princeton.

he's in new york this morning. thanks for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> i think sometimes headlines are too good to be true. and in this case it was too bad or too good, depending on your view of the president. what effect do you think all these inflationed stories have? >> i think the biggest effect is the -- it will create some political problems for him potentially as people make these comparisons, but i don't think it tells us much about his presidency or how his presidency compares to those who came before him. i hope you can read the headline on scribe -- why america just voted obama the worth president in seven years. that's factually inaccurate. that didn't happen. i wonner if there's some response on the pollsters to not ask the question in a way that's going to get warped by the press. is that crazy? in all on the press? >> i think both are accurate. in the end the pollsters give

them the material and know the media environment in which they're operating so they have to be very careful to explain both what they're asking and what the findings are. here it's a small percentage who answered it. republicans are the wujz who, not surprisingly feel this way right now. >> what it says to me is presidents are judged so did you havely in the moment than later on. has that always been true? >> always true. the representation of a president changes over time, very dramatically. there is no presidential reputation or presidential legacy. it will erove, but the way in which presidents leave office is very different from how we remember them. harry truman was very unpopular when he left office in 1952, now often considered one of the great presidents. ronald reagan was not doing so well. many conservatives thought he was doing a horrible job, but now he's revered as one of the great presidents and one of the

leaders of the right. we see thinks kinds of changes all the time and the way we make these comparisons is not static. what causes people to generally only remember the good and not the bad? >> well, it did go the reverse, but i do think the more we learn about what happened during an administration from the archives, the more we have time to get away from the heat of the moment sometimes we start to appreciate the different environment, or we start to see the effect of some of their policies, which isn't clear at the moment, but takes some time, and then, you know, there's nostalgia. that's the bad part. sometimes we forget the bad stuff and only remember the virtues, and the nostalgia in some ways down the line is as dangerous as these kinds of polls which we have at the moment. >> interesting. tell me more about that. why is that? >> even with ronald reagan, we remember how he made peace with soviet leader mikhail gorbachev,

but we forget the iran-contra hear hearings, and i think we're so frustrated with the gridlock, we're so frustrated with the partisanship, so we try to tease out the best parts of the past. we remember how reagan and tip olympic kneel, the speaker of the house liked to have a beer after work, because it reminds us maybe things could be a little better. >> i do wonder if this poll -- by the way an organization usually very well respected that i have relied on for years, i wonder if it does tell us something about the current political climate. abc news did a similar poll when bill clinton would you say in office. when it did its surveys it found nixon to be number one, then reagan, then clinton at 16%, so the sitting president was considered one of the worst, but near lieutenant to the extent obama is currently. i guess the difference is about

double. it's always dangerous to compare two different polls like this, but does it say something about our politics? >> i think there's something to that. the fact he's rated worse than nixon is very telling, and i do think there's something about this that indicates how polarize our judgmenting are good everything. >> let me play a clip from fox's cover a coverage. >> what's devastating for the white house is this is a nonpartisan, highly respected poll in terms of quinnipiac. interesting, quinnipiac also asked what do you think if mitt romney had been elected instead of president obama being reelected. 45% said in this poll the nation would be better off. >> what that says to me, and tell me if i'm wrong, is romney voters still prefer romney. should we surprised by a finding like that? >> not at all.

we're in the final years of a presidency. even some of obama supporters are frustrated, the economy is weak. it's not surprising. people who supported romney would still want romney in office. others might wonder would things have been better in but it's not a shocking piece of information to hearing that. >> julian, thank you for joining me. >> thank you. my advice to reporters in 2022, don't fall for the poll that says president clinton, bush or paul is the worst. i'm reading your comments right after the show. and speaking of facebook, that site came under fire this week for the mood manipulation study, but the trust is, they toy with us every every day. my next guests tell us how, after the break. in keeping the denture clean. dentures are very different to real teeth.

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welcome back to "reliability sources." let's now turn to facebook. the news this week that had users outraged. the social media giant revealed for one week back in january 2012, it allowed researchers to manipulates almost 700,000 news feeds.

and the experiment worked. the people who saw more positive news seemed happier in their own facebook posts. facebook sort of apologized this week, but not totally. but the story is so much bigger than that one experiment. i'm intrigued by the loarger, long-term, can they influence who you vote for or what kind of news you see during a big political decision? joining me to discussing that in austin texas a researcher and associate at the university of texas. and zanev as unc chapel hills. welcome to you both. i want to hear from both of you first. were you outraged? surprised at all? zanev? >> i wasn't. this is not the first study facebook has published, showing its enormous power.

it's one of many this is the first one that caught the imagination. i think this is the tip of the iceberg. >> why do you think this is the one that caught the imagination? >> because i think it was involved with emotions, the way the study abstract sound that it created an emotional cajun, i think made people realize facebook is a primary way in which they interact with their friends, a lot of people get news around the world. the idea that they're the product that facebook is manipulating to make sure they come back to facebook, this idea hadn't been very public before, i think it was the first realization that facebook does experiment with them, and there's all thinks algorithms that filter what they say and what they don't see. i think it made people step back and said, wait, what else is facebook doing? what else and why am i seeing that post? and not the other one? those are very good questions. >> should we be more bothered by

this than, for example, how advertisers manipulate emotions? >> i don't think so. there are certainly legitimate concerns. i agree with zeynep, that you hear people talking about manipulating emotions, and it seems like a potential dangerous thing, but you have to remember that advertisers have been doing this kind of thing more or less for decades. when you go to the supermarket, there's a reason why the chocolates are by the checkout and flowers are not. >> but that's not as effective. the advertiser doesn't come between you and your friends. that posted chocolate doesn't know that much about you. facebook knows your personal type, facebook knows whether you're a republican or democrat. facebook knows which of your friends you like, so the kind of power it has, when you see the chocolate so blatantly placed, you react against it. that's why advertisements don't work that well, whereas when

there's stealth, when you don't know to have your defenses up, that's when you're so vulnerable. this isn't just facebook, this isn't just this study. that's why sort of the internet platform's power to change how we feel is very important. that voting study that brian talked about, that's very important. it was actually a very interesting study. >> for viewers at home, tell me what it found. so the study found that facebook can make people vote. it had different voting message. one was a social message. it was very neutral, it was partisan. the other send go vote more in an informational sense. and since facebook knows whether you're a rep or democrat without even asking you, because it has so much information about you, it doesn't have to asking to know they see things, you can imagine a scenario in which facebook and other big internet

platforms could throw an election by nudging the right kind of people to go vote in those few swing states. >> is she overstating the situation? >> no, i more or less agree to that. one, there wasn't anything unusual about the study. so in some sense it's relieving to see that people weren't aware and they do care, but i hope the takeaway message is not, look, facebook is one bad actor, they'll change their terms of use, problem solved. the broader issue is do we need new legislation to protect consumer data and what companies like facebook can do? >> and google and twitter, many others. >> exactly. >> i agreed that facebook. we got the one study in facebook in our crosshairs, but that is

not the only question here. if you as a person are worried about this one study, i read the study. i mean, it's okay, in the sense that there should broadband better consent procedures, but it's likely you didn't see that much of a change. that's the gull news, but the bad news is this is the tip of the iceberg of what's called ab testing, in which online platforms test you all the time to make sure you come back. remember, you're the product they're selling to advertisers, your eyeballs is what's being sold. >> i want to read another quote, dana boyd wrote -- on a personal level i hate the fact that facebook thinks it's better than me deciding which friends' posts i can see. i hate that i have no meaningful control on the site. the idea that this supposed to be curated, when in reality it's not that good a summary of the world. do you athinksh do you think

that facebook is aware of and is working on? >> it's curated to keep you engaged. it's curated to keep you coming back to it. inned constitutiony that the study we're talking abouts there's an interesting line. they found that neutral posts don't get as much other people posting. that might be why your facebook feed is full of drama, because drama, good or bad, seems to keep people engaged. that's a finding i thought was interesting, that neutral posts are not getting people engaged, might be why they're suppressing some of the neutral -- >> at a counterpoint to that, i think it's very easy -- it feels right. it feels like i would like all these different settings i can adjust and play with, but in some sense that's the whole point of ab testing so ultimately you could argue the reason you end up where you end up is precisely because people do like the settings they like.

>> a billion people don't like the same thing. a billion people don't like the same thing. >> that's true. >> maybe what we like, even if what you say is true, it should be transparent and say we're showing you highly emotive content, is this what you want? i would like as an adult a little more say. i have family all over the world and they're on facebook. i would like to hear from my quieter rely 'tis and friends. you do have that control, actually. there are options when you can explicitly say that. >> i have tried. >> but you know -- >> it's not transparent. >> i'm not arguing that facebook couldn't do better, but i think they test precisely this kind of stuff all the time. these are i think certainly you

can always argue reasonably there should be more transparency. if nothing else, it should be the ability to opt out, but the defaults i think are actually biand large people don't actually mind, they actually like them. what they don't like is the realization after the fact that hey, this is what's going on. what we have to ask ourselves is, it's a trade. on some level you accepted you're going to give up some control, and the question is where do we draw the line between wait, i didn't know you were going to do this, and i really like my shopping experience on amazon, and i like the interface on facebook. >> you have to keep in mind that facebook's customers aren't us, it's the advertisers, that's the important realization, is that facebook isn't necessarily giving us this power, because what if we don't do something and it's not as suitable to the advertisers, so that is a

tension that facebook has to come to terms with. they're in the business of getting money from the advertisers and not from us >> before we do, since we've had a week of public debate, what's the worst possible outcome? what's the best possible outcome? imts i think the worst is people come away thinking this is a problem specifically about facebook and now facebook will address this by tweaking some of the terms and dassa use policy and we'll forget in a week, and six months later something will happen similar to this and the cycle will go on on. the best possibility outcome, there has been a conversation and we have to say we need to decide collectively how much do we give up? do we have to pass new laws that regulate this kind of stuff? or do we want to trust facebook to do the right thing? >> i completely agree. the worst possible situation would be facebook comes up and

says we teak tweaked the terms and stops publishing. all that happens, is they'll keep doing it, but just won't tell us. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you for inviting us. the supreme court delivered one of the its most controversial rulings this week, a huge difference in how that news was reported in our weekly look of red news/blue news, right after this. ups is a global company, but most of our employees

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. there are demonstrators who support the mandate. they say that companies should be required to provide comprehensive health care coverage of birth control for its employees, and then the demonstrators behind me who say that religious liberty rights should trump that. the rule that ruled that closely held companies can't be required to pay for all contraception if they claim it, on msnbc the mood afterward was grim i6789 the contest this an all-outassault. >> so doesn't it just put the government between you and your doctor? if you're a woman? and isn't this just a huge issue

of discrimination? >> watching all this coverage, you probably would have missed a crucial piece of context. hobby lobby was not resisting the government man dade. it was objecting to only a few contraceptive drugs and devices, the ones they say are tantamount to abores. that's why some were blocking -- here's deroy murdock, listing the forms that they do cover, before writing this. liberals are living in a cartoon of their own making. >> on the right meantime, there was a focus on one thing, one word -- abortion. >> the obama administration wants all corporations to fudged things like the morning-after bills, which many believe is an abortion-inducing medicine. the disturbing part of the opinion is the four liberal

justices apparently believe that american taxpayers should fund abortions. >> when o'reilly says abortions, what he's talking about the medication known as plan b, the morning-after pill. frankly these are issues best left to scientists, not cable news upon continue indicators. now, i can't conclude this red news/blue news without a little -- let me show you a rush limbaugh sound bite from wednesday afternoon. he apparently is still bothered by the 2011 contraception man dade. >> pregnancy is something that you have to do to cause. it doesn't just happen to you while you're walking down the street, except in the case of sexual abuse, but in the normal everyday flow of events, pregnancy requires action that has consequences. and yet we treat it as a great imposition that women need to be

protected from. it's a sickness, it's a disease, and there's got to be a pill for it, and yet they wouldn't have the problem if they didn't do a certain thing. >> if they didn't do a certain thing. rush, the wore you're tiptoeing around is sex, and it takes two, buddy. it's not a they thing, it's a we think. i know i'm due to the broadcasting business, rush, but i think you should tread lightly. yes, americans are divided about abortion, but they're not divided about sex. i can't think of any bigger audience turnoff than sounding anti-sex. so now that i'm turning alternates rumsfeld here, we'll end red news/blue news, but stay with me. i have a story you just have to hear to believe. an incredible story with a reporter right here in washington, d.c., who was too close to the story. he was addicted to drugs himself.

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welcome back to "reliable sources." my next guest has a shocking story to tell. he was a national newspaper reporter who, for years, led a dangerous double life. his name is reuben castaneda, he covered d.c. for "the washington post" during the turbulence of the early '90s when a crack cocaine epidemic plagued the

city. rival gangs fought over territory, mere blocks from the studio. at the time d.c. was run by the original crack-smoking mayor, who was famously caught on camera in an fbi sting operation in 1990. as reuben reported on drugs and the carnage, he was a crack addict himself. he tells the story of addiction and redemption in a fascinating new book "s street rising." welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> you write about first trying the drug. >> it was when i was working in los angeles for "the herald examiner." i was in a pretty rough neighborhood on the western edge of downtown for an assignment having to do with an immigration story, so i was out looking for interview central american immigrants, and a very attractive young lady, who was

standing under an awning in front of a motel, smiled at me and kind of beckened me, so i put my reporting on hold and crossed the street to flirt with her. >> you say at this point you had a substance abuse problem, the substance being alcohol, and that went on for years as well. >> yes, i was at that point in my life, i was 27, i was already drinking heavily. i had been for a couple years. >> at the post, you were coring the crack epidemic. tell me what happened in those years when you were both covering and using. >> as i arrived in washington in september 1989, and i really was determined to stop using, because i didn't think it would be a good idea for a post crime reporter to take the chance of being caught by police. >> i would say no. >> holding or buying crack. my pledge lasted about four days. i got drunk on a saturday, went

out to explore in my neighborhood, and rather than be summoned by an attractive lady, this time i puck up an attractive lady who i sensed was a crack user. it turned out i was right. she directed me to s street west. we developed a routine. and a good portion is about s street and how it changed over the years. tell me how a person is able to do both. how were you ability to function as a reporter day to day. >> well, i compartmentalized my life as best i could. when i was at the post and even -- when i was on my work shifts, even when i wasn't working, as a young night crime reporter, you're always thinking about the job, and calling people, making contacts. so i was very focused on doing

as good a job as i could, and i rationalized to myself that what i did during my off hours, on my weekends, going out for a couple hours, getting drunk, making crack buys, using crack with these, you know, young women who traded sex for crack, was recreational. >> your editor started to get involved in 1991. at one point one of them cooking to rehab? >> that's right the four days before christmas 1991, milton coleman who at the time was the post's ame, assistant managing editor for the metro staff, the man who had hired me, he and an eap counselor confronted me when i came in for my work shift, and they told me they had made arrangements for me to go to the rehab unit at suburban hospital in bethesda.

milton drove me in his black toyota suv. we made a quick stop at my apartment so i could get a few things, change of clothes, toothbrush, and he drove me to suburban hospital. >> about as generous as i can imagine a boss being? >> yeah, milton d. i'm convinced that my life would have been at risk if i had been left out on my own for another week or two. i was just using more and more and using at unpredictable times. at that point i was no longe just using on my weekend. i was using on days i was supposed to work, before work. >> so it was affecting work? >> oh, yes. it's a progressive condition. >> do you think you are ever betrayed your audience then? >> only be the sense that by the summer of 1991, el began missing days of work.

because i used drugs, and in some instances i -- drank alcohol before i started my shift. so there was some. well, assuming you survive it. >> i have a much better greater -- what happens distressed city neighborhoods. so let 'see a typically reporter.

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and, finally this morning, could fox news owner robert murdoch some day own cnn? it's a wild thought but it's being talked about because murdoch is in hunting mode again, possibly looking to acquire a big content family like cnn. why you may hear more about this in the days ahead. first take a step back. we're in the middle of a wave of tv distributor consolidation. comecast is merge iing with tim warner cable and directv is merging with at&t. those are the companies that make the tv shows and movies you watch, as opposed to the comp y companies distribute them to your smart phone or living room. how might the content guys respond? naturally, they might want more muscle, too. wall street analysts think more

consolidation is coming, this time on the content side. see this wall street headline a few days ago, entertainment companiesmergers. a lot of this is speculative. but it's heating up because media mogul summer camp is coming up this week. yes, summer camp. an annual conference in sun valley, idaho, that tracts people like murdoch and others. describing murdoch's interest in time warner. quote, he still covets the owner of hbo, among other potential targets, according to a former news corp. employee, told by executives recently about m. rdoch's interest. the source did not know if murdoch made an approach. can you imagine that? the empire that ted turner built? many people shoulder at that thought. on the other hand, many people, myself included, admire

murdoch's business judgment and his ability to surprise and survive in this cutthroat media world. time warner and fox have declined to comment on this or any other potential merger or consolidation. a very, very big if, i think he would have to divest cnn. i will eat my remote control. no. better. i will eat my copy of the new york post if murdoch becomes the owner of cnn. that's all for this televised edition of our reliable sources. we continue on the blog on cnn.com. record world cup ratings and much more. we'll see you right back here next week, next sunday at 11:00 am eastern time. if you can't join us live, set your dvr and catch up with us later in the week. news update follow bid state of the union with candy crowley.

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