we are adjourned. >> next, the 29th annual national press foundation awards dinner. then house members pay tribute to donald payne who passed away on tuesday. after that, weekly addresses by president obama and governor jack dalrymple. now, results from the republican presidential caucuses held today. mitt romney was the winner in miami, along, and the northern mariana islands. he adds 25 delegates to the

total. rick santorum is the winner in kansas and will get 33 of the 40 delegates at stake there. all of the candidates turned their attention to tuesday's primary votes in alabama and mississippi as well as caucuses in hawaii and american samoa. visit our web site at c- span.org/campaign2012. >> the national press foundation held its 29th annual awards this week in washington, d.c. the foundation provides educational programs are journalist and awards for excellence in journalism. recipients were chris wallace, david new house, and i watched news. -- eyewatch news. >> we are delighted and lucky

tonight to have eric schmidt, the executive chairman of google. he is quick to talk about the future of mobile communications and the movement of information. this is the first in a series of talks we want to present at our awards dinners for leaders who live at the intersection of technology and media -- which is where we all live now and where we are going to live up for some time to come. eric is a member of the president of a council of advisers on science and the prime minister's advisory council in the united kingdom. he joined google in 2001. eric will speak for about 10 minutes and take questions for about five minutes. there will be some microphones down the center of the ballroom that way. please do not go to the center aisle until he has finished speaking. eric schmidt. [applause] >> thank you.

this is a fantastic group i am glad everyone is here to support the foundation. i wanted to talk about what will happen in the next decade, in particular about how so many new people will join the conversation we are part of. last year the population of the world reached 7 billion. the number of people on line is still roughly two billion. just 1 billion of those people have -- the line >> the world wide web has yet to live up to its name. imagine another 5 billion people on line. more innovation, nor -- more opportunity. the best -- the past decade has taught us that if you connect people with information, they will change the world. a new kind of the jewel -- digital divide will emerge. in the next decade, we will seek three distinct groups emerged differentiated by connectivity

the first group -- connected to the. the first group is all for it- connected people. pretty much everybody here. it is hard to stay off of our smart phones, blackberries, whatever. the will and resources to embrace the cutting edge of technology. for the most part we started with huge advantages in life -- education, economic prosperity, a democrat government, a lucky birth. for this group, the future is prescribed only by the limits of what science can deliver and society deems epochal. it will look a lot like science fiction. the people who predicted intelligent robots, a virtual reality, and self-driving cars will be right. some cars have already traveled 2,000 miles in states like nevada and california. they are changing the law to make this possible. it is real.

the technological advances will define the way we live and interact with each other, but the ultimate achievement in this future is this technology will actually disappear. i do not mean it will become less relevant, it will become part of everyday life. people will have to spend less time getting to work. wondering which cables work for each computer. a lot of us spend a lot of time doing that. it will be seamless. the world will be everything, it will be nothing. it will be like electricity. second group -- just below this first group, the privileged few, is a much larger community -- the connected contributors. this generation grew up with increasingly sophisticated technology as part of their daily lives and gathered the skills to use them. they have the same level of technology as these privileged few.

this new technology will still give connected contributors new ways to exchange information. for example -- holo- presents technology will allow you to experience activities in places as if you were there. beaming information from phone 2 phone. being invested in the common spaces of the web, these connected contributors will speak with a loud voice to defend those shared spaces from attacking freedom of expression and basic rights -- things we care so much about. it will force into the open actions that would a wise remain hidden. quickly designed to respond to extreme circumstances. a perfect example -- developers and engineers. by combining a passion for this, they create pools that are used

by dissidents and activist all over the world to overcome government restrictions. i have always believed that the web is more than a network of machines. it is a network of mines that is evolving a collective conscience, intelligence, and a global conscience. look at the way people came together last year to help in the japanese earthquake. there are no barriers to our imagination or our compassion. that is the second group. a much larger group is still coming. think of these -- this next future, this connect 5 billion is. to be very interesting. in committees all over the world, there are only pockets of productivity, digital oases in a long line -- in an online date -- in a on-line desert.

they are skipping out dial-up modems, dsl lines, and broadband and going straight to mobile devices. imagine in the future the world will have a different computer and a smart sidekick rolled into one in their phones. today we are seeing smart phones successfully converted for scientific capabilities in places that have no electrical power at all. in 2020, the same devices will diagnose medical conditions, a detective are metal hazards, and everything people care about. mashed networking provide connections for all of these new devices and allow the deployment of these wireless networks in the most remote regions of the world, well beyond large data centers and fixed-line infrastructure. in this model, the network becomes a digital watering hole

where people meet and hang out. every village will have an internet cafe for people to connect and talk to each other. i want to be clear -- no one is suggesting this technology will suddenly transformed the social, political, and economic conditions of communities. technology does not create miracles. connectivity, even modest amounts, changes lives. in times of war and suffering, it would be impossible to ignore the voices that call out for help. think about the extraordinary pictures become out of syria every day. sad's s botero -- as brutality online for all the world to see. a high-speed train clutch was shown last year. it was highly criticized. with information comes power and with power comes to toys.

the smart the citizens that demand a much better deal for their community, more ethical and responsible behavior from all of us. pretty good. what are some of the problems? this world is not quite yet mixed. there will be some obstacles. the internet is not a utopia. it reflects the good and the bad. i worry about three things i want to briefly mentioned. the first is the internet was built -- we did not think they would show up. honestly. i know. we were in graduate school, right? the inherent vulnerability is in our design will exist for at least another decade. it is a huge task and except for military networks, every single modem on the web will need to be upgraded with new technology.

the biggest problem is going to be activity stemming from nations that seek to do harm to others. it is very difficult to identify the source of a cyber criminality. problem #two -- the fact that there is no relief button on the internet as policy problems and we do not understand. the public's right to know and the very important right of individual privacy. you have a situation were false and accusations used to fade away, but now they remain forever. i certainly hope that ranking and other things like that will emerge that distinguish between truth and falsehood and will allow people to start over on a new footing. finally, i worry about governance filtering information they fear or they prohibit. it is easy to see their logic, but where do you draw the line?

last year we saw what happens when a government try to turn off the internet. now many governments are trying to build their own wall-internet -- a web in which you and i do not see the same information and no one knows what has been censored. not only does the offering not work, it creates dark places where hate, radicalism, and crime can flourish. it is better to find and stop the criminal rather than merely bought his or her's web page. the filtering technology, which i do not like, will never be more effective and we face the possibility we could lose a society where our thoughts and cultures are deleted i want to conclude by saying -- part deleted. i want to conclude by saying this is a struggle. i firmly believe that technology will ultimately be a force for

good. and the next decade, we will see a new generation of technology that will extend the frontier of human existence and society. we have a chance to build a truly exclusive global community and technology will be a great leveller. they will not have a monopoly on progress and opportunity. those with nothing shall have something. we are proud of this and we all should be. some governments are going to try to fight this transition and use technology to suppress and not enhance access to information. i think they will fail. internet and technology are light water. a will find a way through this. no system of censorship can ever be absolute. there were always be chinks for our citizens. as you all know, the truth really will win out. the future can be delayed, but

it cannot be denied. let us resolve right now as leaders and journalists -- i think everybody here would agree -- we need to get there faster and to fight for a future where everyone has a chance to be connected and that information is the birthright of everyone, all people everywhere. this will be a tough fight and a long one, but this is a struggle to achieve the highest principles and greatest qualities of society -- the quest for the ineligible right to let us all here part of this wonderful foundation. in this century, we all have a part to play connecting the world. we will free the world. thank you so very, very much. [applause] >> i think we have time for a couple of questions. comments or questions on this or

anything else? we do have 1000 journalists in the room. i assume we are on the record preclu. [laughter] just kidding. there are some microphones in the center aisle. go-ahead. >> he. -- hi. today i saw a study that shows content -- a lot of people who have moved to mobile are playing games -- spending their time on games and social media, talking to friends. is there anything we can do to get people more engaged in content so as we move into this more mobile future we are getting the eyeballs on the news and not just on the angry words. -- angry birds. [laughter] >> we love angry birds, too.

think about your children. from the moment they are awake till the moment they are asleep they are on line. this should be a concern. i think the reality is this is. to be addressed by new -- this is going to be addressed by new forms of content. the gaming paradigms' are a new way of learning and the games have produced some very stellar educational opportunities, just not about the right things. i believe or the next few years, you are going to see a whole new generation of information services and opportunities to be targeted at your age range. i am concerned -- i want to be clear here -- this world that we have all built -- i certainly am a part in that -- is taking us away from reading and deep thinking. we need to fight for that. the best way is to invest more

and more in education at every level ultimately, learning how to read, learning how to think is related to that. that is never going to go away. >> i am with c-span. and we are live on c-span2 right now. >> thank you. >> i am wondering about google -- what are your goals for the media? what do you hope we can do with it? >> up from the standpoint of oogle + asuilding, globa0 1 million users. what is interesting, because of its authentication and other technical matters, i get better and more informed comments than i do on anything else.

it looks to me like google + has started with people who are pretty passionate and pay a lot of attention. i think that will be a good differentiator that will serve as well. i think you should talk to all of the audience. -- audiences. we are doing what to make it more interesting. hangouts where groups of people have been ad hoc video network. i'd like to hang out with my fans. those are probably the two things i would do. >> last question, please. >> china's central television. imagine the world's population of 7 billion. about a fifth of that lives in china. i am wondering if you could address possess where you think

the chinese -- what role the chinese population will play in the integration of the world wide web. will it be parallel or do you think china is becoming a part of that? >> we do not know china's future web plans because they do not tell everybody and they certainly are not going to tell google. we are not on the phone call list. [laughter] technically the at -- the way the internet works in china is something called the "great firewall." it has the packet inspection. they look at the packet to see if it contains printed words or so forth. they do it that for all information services. it is also the case in china that if you run a site where you published information which is on an actively policed censorship list, you are ordered to take it down and to do so pretty brutally -- under threat of criminal prosecution.

it is censorship at its worst. of course, google does not like this. the next thing china can do is begin to close off access to all the sites, not as part of the information. to do so would expose their censorship more directly to their citizens. they run the risk of annoying their citizens more than they already have. my guess is they are going to go down this very tight censorship model or they are actively prosecuting bloggers, but not shut down the entire internet. we do not know how far they will go as information seeps into the country. the more they shut off that barrier, the more they hurt themselves. one thing we have learned about the internet is if you want to run a global economy, you need access to what is going on in other countries. we are critically dependent on that. the countries that try to shut down the internet because it is a source of free information,

audibly discovered the cannot run their countries without it. i hope the country will sort of and that the citizens will say enough is enough, we really want free speech. thank you so much. [applause] >> talk about a tough act to follow. our next award is the berryman award for editorial cartooning. this year it goes to nick anderson of the "houston chronicle pe." [applause] >> thank you. i feel like obama with these teleprompter is up here. a little joke for the

conservatives in the audience. do not get too comfortable. [laughter] first of like to thank my editor, jeff cohen. he asked me to recreate the role of the editorial cartoonist in the newspaper. a lot of newspapers are eliminating them. i feel very thankful i have one that believes in what i do. second, i like to thank rick perry, governor of texas, for providing me so much fodder over the last year. [laughter] third -- i cannot remember the third. [laughter] sorry. i cannot let it go. i am still in mourning and that he dropped out. one of the ways jeff has inspired me to do different things -- i use -- i do full- page cartoons and i do animate -- i do animation. a lot of cartoons are getting into flash animation. i was too lazy to learned to do

that. i decided to go retro and get into a clay-natmation. i found that i can get them done pretty quickly. i have got this first one that is on rick perry, as a matter of fact. can we take the lights down and show the first animation? >> we have law -- we have all lost our train of thought before, but not many have done it on national tv. if you want to clean house in washington with a balanced budget amendment, a flat tax, and a part-time congress, i am your man. i am rick perry and -- what is that line again i am rick barry and i approve of this message -- what is that line again? i am rick perry and i approve of this message. >> that was just one day. i can crank these out pretty quickly.

i have got one dozen cartons as well to show you tonight -- still cartoons. with campaign season in full swing, it seems like early on there was a new player of the week every week. this first cartoon -- it is a good thing you finished eating bread go-ahead ensure the first line. the net flavor of the week was -- nex5t flavor of the week was newt. there have been 28 gop debates. donald trump won a to have his own, as if we needed another one. the main issue or going to talk about what donald trump, i am sure. here is three trump debate. first, i depicted gingrich as a newt. romney is a bit of a commission. go-ahead and show the next slide. -- that of a chameleon.

go-ahead and show the next slide. sex scandals are always really challenging. the jokes are easy, but most of them are unpublishable. that is where my editor comes in. he likes to trim my cartoons when i do on a. ones. anthony weiner -- here is my anthony wiener cartoon. twitter trouble. [laughter] incidentally, i think that was my favorite cartoon last year. it shows you my maturity level. [laughter] the neck cartoon is a little more cerebral. -- next cartoon is a little more sober real. the first one is federal spending -- some security, defense, etc.. the second is federal spending as viewed by the average american. things that benefit me personally and waste is everything else. [applause]

thank you. most people when you talk to them do not know what government spending really is. where am i? the tea party has been a big theme park cartoonist. here is the tea party driving us and to the tea party -- tea party congressman drawing us into the debt ceiling issue. i do pick on obama sometimes. i want to show you both cartoons i did on obama last year. [applause] -- [laughter] the first one is on solyndra. shell already. taxpayers cleaning up the solyndra scandal. obama has a penchant for pushing difficult issues into the future. go ahead and show the next slide. we constructed the pipeline to push the local issues out past the 2012 election. it was popular in houston. most of my cartoons are not very

popular in houston. i cannot imagine why. social issues -- cannot ignore social issues. the dust -- we execute people are not using their turn signals in texas. be careful when you are driving there. the texas justice system is saying raise your hand if you think race played a part in your death sentence. there is another texas one that will ring true for those of you who has been falling -- what the other thing in my uterus? the state of texas. this will bring preach to to you -- rain pretty true to you. here is an old cartoon we republished on the 10th anniversary of september 11. it is a little more subtle. you can see the shadows of the people who did not come home on september 11. i did a cartoon of the 10 year anniversary, but it was not as good as this.

this is the one i did on the first year anniversary. we ran it again this past year. -- reran it again this past year. the last cartoon in the raid on bin laden's compound. as a stash of pornography. i have one more animation to show you. herman cain was probably more fun than rick perry. herman cain what the former ceo of godfather's pizza. i bring stormed out to pull this together when he was making excuses about his alleged affairs. i spent about eight hours going through video footage and splicing little pieces of it together and i came up with this animation >> i can only recall -- animation. >> i can only recall one thing i was aware of a that was called

sexual harassment. i was not even aware of it. i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i was aware an agreement was reached, yet there was some sort of settlement or termination. no, i just started to remember more. here we go again. they are going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time. no. no. not going to do that. no. no. no. no. no. you are the same height as my wife. [laughter] thank you very much. -- thank you very much prepare. >> all right. congratulations. >> thank you very much.

>> there we go. ladies and gentlemen, mr. knight kiplinger, editor in chief of kiplinger's publications. [applause] >> talk about the ridiculous to the sublime. our next honoree is a remarkable organization. the reporters committee for freedom of the press. it is equally remarkable -- it's equally remarkable director, luch dalglish. it has been the go to organization -- the 24-7 defender of our first amendment rights. the committee was born of crisis in 1970 when our profession struggled with the fate of subpoenas seeking to disclose

confidential sources. that year a group of distinguished and concerned journalist from all meat -- from all media met in washington and decided to form a posse, a quick response team at the right to the defense of beleaguered journalist, especially those without the funds to defend themselves. to this day, thousands of journalists have been held by the reporters committee and none of them has ever been sent a bill of this valuable legal advice and counsel the committee's help covers the waterfront, a small-town paper -- small-town paper hit by a baseless libel suit. reporters pressing action against the secretive government agency for fighting subpoenas from local police and judges. there is even a 24-hour hot line when there is no time to

spare. this entire list commando squad was built by the committee's courageous early director, jack landau, and they continued to grow and prosper under his successor. for the past decade, it has been headed by a woman who is uniquely suited to this task because she is both a journalist and a lawyer. knowledge of as media law is rich, but happily for us, she writes as a journalist and not a lawyer. her editorials in the committee's magazine are a model of legal wisdom and journalistic clarity. if our profession needed the reporters committee in 1970 -- and it certainly did -- we need it even more today. to "lucy, "in these days of a

dwindling legal budgets in traditional news rooms, it is important that we teach journalists to be knowledgeable about their rights and confident enough to engage in self-help to defend them. reporters working in traditional news rooms were long accustomed to having attorneys on call via in-house counsel or special relationships with a local media lawyer. but now that many of these journalists are on their own, they need a free alternative. that is usually the reporters committee. we are ready and willing to help." let me add that ready and willing is one thing, and able is something else. the committee is able to do its work because of generous donors

to the reporters committee for freedom of the press -- both from the media world and corporate america. if you are not already a contributor to the reporters committee for freedom of the press, it is high time you were. i cannot think of a finer recipient of the kiplinger award for distinguished contributions to journalism than the reporters committee for freedom of the press and its allies guiding light, lucy dalglish. lucy, come on up. [applause] >> thank you so much, mr. kiplinger. i would like to thank the national press foundation for its wonderful education services for journalists and for the

recognition of both the reporters committee and myself. the reporters committee has been very proudly providing free legal, educational, and advocacy services to journalists all across america for 42 years. we exist to serve you and we are committed to ensuring we provide comprehensive, up to the minute services to you for your to come. we try very hard to stay on top of your needs and development. like most of you, we are trying to do more with your resources. we have never been so busy. in many states, we are picking up cases that local publishers and broadcasters no longer have the discretionary dollars to pursue. we are fighting access to public access and meetings and again court closures, frivolous libel

suits, and subpoenas. you can call our hotline 24/7. you can find us on the internet. every year brings a new challenge. this year it seemed to be the bewildering number of reporters and photographers are arrested across the country, while covering protests, demonstrations, and typical crime stories. we and our local volunteer lawyers who will be at the nato summit in chicago and at the political conventions in charlotte and tampa in coming months to make sure those journalists who will inevitably be swept up in mass arrests are back on the street covering the news as quickly as possible. we survived on contributions by media related companies, foundations, and folks like you. many of our supporters are in this audience tonight thank you. we are appreciative and grateful

for every tax deductible medical you give us. in addition to banking our wonderful 30 member spirit -- 30-member steering committee for their support, there are a couple of staff members who share this award with me. with me tonight or our freedom of information director and the jack of all trades abreact g-20 -- behind our legal defense work, our publications, and our internet services, greg lesley. i thank them for all of their hard work and i thank you for this wonderful award. [applause] >> sadly, the national and international journalism

community lost many colleagues since we met here a year ago. many of these people have joined us at this dinner. many of them were friends of mine -- many were friends of yours. we would like to recall them now tonight. andy rooney, the popular a set -- the popular sas far "60 minutes." christopher hitchens. blankley, who headed the editorial-page of the "washington times." the cartoonist who created the cartoons "out of bounds" and "croc." charles waldo bailey, the former editor of the "minneapolis star tribune."

the former ap reporter who later served as press secretary for the democratic national committee. frank jackman, a newspaperman for more than 50 years. jeffrey -- wall street journal columnist and book author. the former cbs news producer. richard propelled, a cbs news correspondent. earl h. ross, a journalist with the "washington star." his daughter martha, the national public affairs manager for toyota, is with us tonight. she has been a member for many years. [applause] 3 course on its many of you knew who died covering the conflicts in the middle east. anthony shabbib, most recently with the "new york times sp."

back at home, ander bright are, the commentary and political provocateur. finally, cbs correspondent robert powerpoint, a distinguished reporter and one who did not take himself all that seriously. [laughter] they all made an indelible mark on their profession. thank you for letting us honor them tonight. [applause] >> our next award is for excellence in on-line journalism. it is given to eyewatchnews.org. receiving the award is christina montgomery, chief digital officer for the center. christine. [applause]

>> hi. i am absolutely honored and humbled to be standing up there accepting this reward on -- on behalf of the center for public integrity and especially for our executive director, who really has the vision and the courage to come out last year, completely transform the center for public integrity. 22-year-old non-partisan investigative news group. i think 22 years in nonprofit years is like 100 in journalism years. they have the courage to say we need to leap headfirst into the 21st century. we launched eyewatch news. we tried some new revenue models. we survived. this award recognizes that risk. to me, i think that is the most

important thing we can do right now. we talked about the future of news, mobile news, global news -- i think the biggest since a journalist can do is not adapt. i am proud to represent the center. thank you for this award. [applause] >> nick, can i say i am not using the teleprompter? just in case there's any doubt about that. our next award is the benjamin bradlee editor of the year award, the oldest award for editorial leadership in the united states. this year, the award goes to david new house. -- newhouse. he broke the story of the sexual abuse scandal at penn state

university and stayed with the story for many months. the was criticized for looking at the activities of a beloved football coach, his team, and his coaches. after we selected a before this award, we called ben bradlee's office to tell him about our choice. he immediately dashed off the following note. "dear david new house, i turned 90 last summer. to tell you the truth, i have forgotten there was such a thing as this award. this is just to tell you i am glad you won it. better to when these things than to lose them, i always say. it was a hell of a story, was it not, with meaningful reverberation. congratulations and best wishes per "david, we are happy to have this note for you tonight as well as your well-deserved prize. [applause]

>> thank you. thanks. thank you. i am trying to figure out how i will get that thing in my carry- on. may i have the first slide, please? i like to thank the national press foundation for this truly unexpected honor. my father, norman newhouse, was editor of the long island press. he died many years ago, but he was certainly my inspiration. i would like to think that this is for him. this honor belongs not to me, but to all the journalists at patriot news. our publisher, john kirkpatrick, who is been a personal mentor to me. my partners in crime and, of course, our lead reporter on the

sandusky story. she has crime and integrity -- as much drive and integrity as any journalist i never met. is a joy to work with her. may i have the next slide, please? i want to show you a few pages from november, but i will not talk about how we landed the stories because i think it would be boring. there is no magic formula. long hours and shoe-leather journalism by sarah and her colleagues. the funny thing was how the national media kept describing it. -- cap describing us. they called us the "small patriot news." it is true that with 19 full- time news reporters, our staff is not large, but it is equally true that this story did not

come out of nowhere. last summer, as you all know, we had an earthquake here on the east coast. when the news room stopped shaking, all of us being earthquake illiterate, we rushed outside. in the 45 seconds or so it took us to reach the parking lot, we learned the following -- the quake was relatively harmless, it stressed not only across pennsylvania, but all the way from new york to virginia. we learned all that not from any other journalist, up from facebook and twitter. much later, we have the information posted on our own digital platform. next slide, please. what does that have to do with our coverage of penn state? everything. today, information is instantaneous and ubiquitous. or as one of my daughters who is actually here tonight used to

say, information is icky- biquitous. if information is everywhere, having information is no longer enough. a public that is stuffed to the gills with information is starving for real reporting, including real local reporting for reporting that digs, that eliminates, that makes connections. i know that can be a challenge even for the great news organizations represented in this room. on behalf of all of the small news rooms in america, it can be a huge challenge when you have 19 news reporter to cover five counties. there are days when i look up and say, lord, if you did not want my staff to spend most of their time covering meetings, why did you create zoning boards? next slide, please. seriously, the tragedy is that at this exact moment when the

public is desperate for a real local reporting, budget cuts are leaving many newsrooms to choose the opposite -- to cut back on enterprise and to chase the exact same information that everybody else has and increasingly our readers already know anyway. years ago we made the decision to hop off of that merry-go- round's. though our reporters have to master their beats, they have to report information -- preferably first. that is not their job. that is the precursor. it is the context of their job. if someone asked you what did you do on your vacation, you probably would not say in what dishes. what did you do? next slide, please. our reporters gather, post, and tweet plenty of information, but that is not what they do. they have won a sign above all -- bring us the stories that no

one else has. bring us the stories that no one else has. of course, here in new sarah would take me seriously, right? my kids never do. next slide, please. people have responded. in november, our digital leadership tripled to about 6.5 million unique visitors. we have retained many of them. we now have readers in all city- state's and 223 foreign countries. a story like this one does not come along every week. that is probably not a bad thing. i received an e-mail last fall from a reporter who said "keep up the great work, you can sleep with you are dead." next slide, please. but when a news organization with a circulation of 67,000 can continue to attract 4.5 million unique visitors per month, mostly in central pennsylvania

thanks to our advertisers, it says something that makes me optimistic about our industry. it says that even with the digital information, what readers want more from journalist is what we do best. for recognizing that kind of effort in harrisburg on behalf of our entire staff, i thank you very very much. [applause] >> this dinner tonight marks the end of my tenure as chairman of the national press foundation. i have been happy to contribute to the work of an organization that does something important for our industry at a time when news organizations cannot necessarily do for their own what they used to do -- provide institutional support, training

for professional journalist in the field. we step up and try to do that and succeed more often than not. i am leaving npr in great hands. john walcott will take over. john? >> thank you, sir. [applause] thank you, gery. let me just say a brief word about gery's leadership of the foundation. i do not need to tell anyone in this room that this has been a time of transition and, in some ways, a difficult time for the news business. we have had to cope not only with the business side but also with some of what dr. schmidt bought about. gery has provided extraordinary leadership for the foundation as we try to make the transition towards a new age of

information. the best i can promise is i will try to continue in your footsteps. that is what i will endeavor to do. our next award is the award for excellence in broadcast journalism. this year, the judges have selected chris wallace of fox news. i am pleased to tell you that chris had donated his award winnings back to the national press foundation to help us continue our educational work. chris, thank you is very much. [applause] here is a brief video about chris and then we will hear from him live and in person. >> the white house admits it. >> nbc nightly news with chris wallace. >> good evening.

you said the u.s. had nothing to do with israeli army gen as to iran when you knew that was not true. what would you say that? quest chris, i am glad you asked that. >> i am certainly not saying it. >> from washington, nbc news presents "meet the press" with chris wallace. >> how much allowance do you get? what do you have to do to get the allowance? >> [unintelligible] >> i understand the game. please do not let him win. that would be "dog" would it

not? >> i have known chris wallace since we were together in the house of representatives nearly 35 years ago. he was a terrific correspondent then and he is gotten better since. he is brought an enormous strength to fox news in every way, especially in hosting "fox news sunday per "he is the king of sunday morning. >> why did you not do more to put bin laden and al qaeda out of business when you were president? >> you did your little conservative hit job on me. what i want to know -- >> with a perfectly legitimate question but i want to know how many people in the bush administration have been asked this question? >> what do you say about the

bush in administration ignoring this problem? "you never stair very far away from the job. i feel somewhat out of the bubble. >> long time no see. >> i have been preparing for these questions. i think it is only 771. >> for all the and the excitement about barack obama, there is also talk about his inexperience. they said the same thing about your brother in 1960. do you see any parallel? >> first of all, my brothers are my heroes. >> we are talking to chris wallace. we thought she would sit down and shut up. >> where do you stand on the return? >> the return? >> palestinian right of return.

mcpherson, i am brow -- >> first of all, i am proud to exercise my right of return. "yes, you are insane. your agenda is more out there and you are approaching more of an agenda then you intend to. >> if it is not work what i do. i get up in the morning and i think i am going to have the opportunity -- i was not that happy about waking up. [laughter] >> congratulations, chris. winning an award is an amazing thing. we are all very proud of it -- we are all very proud of you in the news division. you are a great journalist. every guest that comes on page you, which is good. that makes people watch.

you may president clinton angry. and prevent obama. but that means you are really good at what you do. it is possible to make it to 10 years. all i occasionally do you have a case of diva-itis. when you did the cookbook and started hustling back on our show, that was sort of irritating. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you, all. i have to say watching some of those early videos from literally 30 years ago was kind of interesting. it is like seeing a sign you never knew you had. i want to thank our great staff at fox news sunday for putting together that wonderful and an overly generous a video. you put it together just the way

i wrote it. i also want to thank the national press foundation for giving me this award. as has been made clear earlier, you do a great job in providing educational programs for young and aspiring journalist for this country and around the world. i am honored to receive this. as you mentioned, as john mentioned, i want to donate the money comes with it to the press foundation to continue your programs. [applause] thank you. i want to note that this is the saul award -- named after the founder and editor of broadcast magazine. he was a dear friend of my stepfather, bill leonard, and it means a great deal for me to receive an award, especially in his name and especially with his

grandson here on the dais. waved to the crowd. [applause] i want to thank my dear wife, lorraine, aka mrs. sunday. she feeds me soup on sundays after the show. she also feeds me chicken on saturday nights before the show as all of you will learn in her new book "mr. -- misses sunday's saturday night chicken," which will be available in may. i am not kidding. she said if i did not find her not to come home. i cannot think of anything worse than not being able to come home to my dear lorraine. [applause] i want to talk briefly at -- briefly about three men who and giants in broadcasting and have

meant so much to me most in my life and career. first of all, roger ailes, the chairman of fox news. he is the best boss i have ever worked for. think about it -- this is a man who has created an enormously influential source of information from the american people out of nothing. 15 years ago -- 15 short years ago fox news did not exist. now it is, whether you like it or i central part of the national conversation. roger also communicates a sense of mission more effectively than any other boss i have worked for. the highest professional standards and unrelenting drive to win and a continuing sense that we are the little guys. but when people come to fox news, what surprises them most is not any of that. it is what a nice place it is to work.

roger likes to say that-people like to make positive people sick. -- that negative people like to make positive people sick. as roger once wrote to the staff -- "we contribute -- the second thing i want to talk about is my late stepfather bill leonard he was the single most important person in my life and it was all because of p be news. back in 1952, my mother was watching coverage of the democratic national convention on black and white on television when she saw a handsome man reporting the natalie stevenson from the place where he was staying around the corner from our apartment. she used me as bait.

she put me on my tricycle for a ride around the block to see the excitement. five years later, they married and bill leonard became my stepfather. any of you who knew him remember what an absolutely wonderful man he was, what a kind man, in a business filled with sharp elbows and even sharper words, he was a truly gentle man. here is also a great journalist. he invented exit polls. he invented election night projections. u.s. largely responsible for the creation of "60 minutes" and "cbs sunday morning." but the broadcast that i remember the best of the ones that we did in our oldsmobile whenever the car would reach a milestone -- 10,000 miles, 25,000 miles -- writing in the car, which it -- riding in the car, we would do a cbs news

report. in thed saidsend it to me back seat. i would be on the assembly line in detroit with the automaker to put together our oldsmobile. yes, the specials were overproduced and they always came in over budget, but i thought they were just grand. finally, i want to talk about my father, mike wallace. you know, it is funny. i spend so much of my early life trying to get out from under his shadow. now, as my father nears his 94 birthday and is slipping away, i don't want you to forget him. he was not easy. any of you who knew him could testify to that. but he was a vibrant and funny and demanding and a truly great reporter. as someone once said, he had an

underdeveloped sense of other people's privacy. [laughter] can you imagine coming home as a teenager from a date and mike wallace is sitting up waiting for you? [laughter] where did you go? what did you do? how would you like to explain these hidden camera videos? [laughter] maybe one of the reasons that fox has been such an easy fit for me is because he was such a contrarian. i remember one classic story he did for 60 minutes back in the 1960's at the height of the busing controversy. he came to washington to see where all the liberals, the folks that were telling all the people were to send their kids, where all liberals were sending their kids. ted kennedy, private school. jesse jackson, the same. the only democrat he could find who sent their kids to d.c. public schools and you did it

because it was the right thing to do was a so-called conservative democrat henry skipjacks and. my father taught me so much about this business. he told me to always pursue two sides of the story. to prepare so fairly for an interview that make it clear to the subject that there's no use in even trying to spin you because you know too much. what all these men did is to teach me how what a great way it is to make a living. but a big responsibility is, how hard we must push ourselves to meet the highest standards of professionalism, but also -- and never forget this and i think i speak for everyone -- how lucky we are. the opportunity to travel around the world, to meet key players, to ask questions that all americans would like to ask, and to be an eye witness to history. i've had the opportunity to travel with the great cold warrior ronald reagan to moscow

to meet with mikhail gorbachev. to play horse with michael jordan and even to interrogate the olsen twins. as roger ailes likes to say, it surely lay -- it sure beats laying pipe in ohio. never forget that. thank you so much for this very special evening. [applause] >> and hope this program and the award winners appear have helped provide some answers of their own to the question we were asking -- why general -- why journalism matters.

please join us in the lincoln room where you can dance to music of my friends in nobody's business. prop -- i promise you you will not be disappointed. see you next year. [applause]

>> next, house members pay tribute to new jersey representative donald payne. then a discussion on internet piracy. tomorrow on "washington journal," john hofmeister discusses the future of gas prices in the u.s.. tom baxter looks at the influence of southern politics in presidential elections. kalev sepp talks about the mission and training of u.s. special operations forces. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span.

>> fired j. edgar hoover? i do not think the president could have gotten away with it. >> tim weiner details the fbi's 100-year hidden history and j. edgar hoover's fight against terrorists, spies, and subversives. >> he is like the washington monument. he stands alone like a statue encased in grime as one of the most powerful men that served in the 20th century. 11 presidents, 48 years, from woodrow wilson to richard nixon, there is no one like him. and a like deal of what we know or we think we know about j. edgar hoover is a myth and legend. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's q&a. [captioning performed by national captioning institute]