used as an encroachment on the rights of any individuals. i asked my children and trustees to recognize these obligations. we have other things that make money and one thing we do not forget is the legacy left to us which is the fourth estate accuracy and championing the best interest of our community where we live. so hopefully hopefully we will continue doing that. in some ways the future of news has never been brighter. if you think about the access to information, people are not dependent upon the one newspaper at their local newsstand. whether it be in a revolutionary state in tehran or somewhere else. also -- so the technology and the access to aggregate data, cookies and google, and apple,

all the data as creepy as it sounds, is being accumulated. there is different ways to bundle it and look at anomalies and trends. it gives us information that we used to have. the atlanta public school story started out as a discovery that test scores had dramatically turned around in a short time. data allowed us to discover it was statistically impossible for that to happen. that was what the team uncovered. putting those scores together paint a picture that was impossible. >> they had dated different from data different from the data of others that you recall. i would say something about families. the sulzberger family owns the

"new york times." those families have maintained their commitment to quality. that is an exception in an america today. so many families, for many reasons, tax reasons, sold their companies. thank god for the sulzbergers and the cox's. i can't tell you how many few owners would make the statement that alex just made. we understand the role of the watchdog in our newspapers and journalism. we are profitable and other areas of our company and we can support excellence in our newspapers. i would say there are 5% in america -- there are some, like jeff bezos, and there is some hope that he will restore that in "the washington post."

we don't know what will happen to my old newspaper, " the los angeles times." a once great american paper is in a precarious state. tell us to what extent, what is the future? [laughter] >> um. >> i started with a lot of praise. >> going back to the public school story, and recent stories about our elected officials, charging personal expenses, credit cards to the taxpayers, things like that would not get uncovered if our folks weren't there to uncover it. i can tell you we have a large business. the atlanta newspaper part of it

is a couple of percentage points. it is 90% of what we hear from jim kennedy every day. he reads every word of the paper no matter where he is. the phone rings and you know he is calling to talk about something he read in the paper. it has to do with the politicians that think they can charge their cell phone bill to the taxpayers. the passion around watchdog journalism has never been greater in our company. we intend to stay committed to it. we believe that news and business can make the world a better place, if you don't focus solely on profit, if you have a values-based culture, where you spend the money on the right things and are willing to take a

hit on some things in order to do it right. we intend to invest heavily in watchdog journalism. we hope over time as print the declines we are able to make the switch to digital effectively. our digital subscribers are up 25%, which is a huge growth rate. we need to see that continue. we need to see people do what they are doing at "the new york times." you can build a business off that for the future. >> will there be print edition of "new york times"? >> i think there will be. i don't think there will always be. but i think that it will be around in 10 years. there are those, and i am not sure how accurate this is, but there are certainly those that think at some point some daily papers will be eliminated and

the sunday will live on, the lucrative one with the advertising and it and the biggest editorial effort. there is no discussion of anything like that that i am aware of. but, there is no question that is the trend. we have no way of knowing exactly how quickly that will happen. you don't have to go back far to realize, 10 years ago things were very different in the newspaper business. it is difficult to look out 10 years. >> in the past, most newspapers generated 85% of revenue from advertising. 15% from circulation. you can imagine the tremendous difference. for those of you who have questions, and we take questions on all topics, i want you to

work your way over to this microphone if you will. i will ask you to identify yourself and your organization if you are proud of it. [laughter] if not, just give us your name. >> am i the only one? georgia public broadcasting. this is a wonderful event. i admire your contributions to our industry. i'm a working journalist. i have been guilty of editing while female many times. this is a great conversation about the future of news. i am particularly interested as a journalist and as a broadcaster, what is the future of the news consumer? of the service of news? >> i will take a crack at it. nice to see you here. i think you can't make a sweeping statement about what consumers want.

i think different consumers want different things. they will find those things. they are all available. but i do think that if you are going to ask people to pay for news, you have to have it at a very high quality. as things begin to settle out and differentiate those organizations that can provide the values that i was talking about, and the attributes, those will be an absolute necessity. individuals want to read pretty much about foreign affairs, and some people want to read about jennifer aniston's baby. there are different audiences. you can't really generalize completely. >> it is tough when during my era, we would want to do straight news, hard news, and then comes o.j. simpson.

the audience levels went absolutely stratosphere. we would try to shift back. an important speech by president clinton at columbine. we had total meltdown when people wanted to continue on the o.j. story. i don't think public television has ever been better than it is. [applause] i take great pride. i am just delighted. >> if i might ask a follow-up question. my question is about the balance between what the audience, giving them what they want to know, and giving people what they need to know.

what is the expectation of americans about first amendment and what they want to know? >> we did a study about people's changing perceptions of the news, where it falls in their daily needs. it was fascinating. there is a few pieces of it. one of the things that stuck out with me, what do i need? this sounds funny but it is true. people said their cell phones ranked higher than water. they didn't think of it as something they needed to get on about their day. so, obviously it is not true but it is what they think. a lot of people said they believe news was an inherent right as an american.

you are entitled to news. it should not be kept from you. it should not be edited. facts are in the public domain. what people don't know is the difficulty it is to uncover facts. there are people in power who hide them, and left unchecked they will hide a lot of them. it gets rampantly out of control without some kind of a good for the state. -- good fourth estate. over time, in the grand scheme of things we are in the early years of the internet. if you look back through the emerging technology, electricity, transportation, most of the money and business models were solidified in the last half of that era. not in the beginning. right now we live in the wild west and people don't think about where information comes from. you just pick and choose. if you want good, reliable research information yet the

-- you have to think about who is giving it to you, and not trust everything you read. google doesn't do that for you. organizations like ours go through, and this team will take any big investigative story and talk it over. are we sure we are right? they go through laborious discussions about where did you get your facts, how did you research this? are your sources accurate? are they telling you the truth? google does not do that for you. >> without an owner like this they could be dinosaurs. i'm serious. >> thank you. >> hello. i'm glad you are here. thank you for having this conversation. i am lisa calhoun.

i'm the founder of right to market, which i founded after i was fired as the managing editor. best thing that happened to me. my question is in the "new york times," mozilla is building a platform of reader contributions. i was curious about your comment on this platform that is uniting amazon, "the new york times," and mozilla. thank you. >> i don't know the specifics of that project. i do know things are far different now than they were when "the new york times" was competing with these organizations. now there are partnerships. it is all part of this experimentation. many of these things don't work out.

someday. it is a question of trying different things and seeing what will work. i think in the general sense that is what is happening. i can't give you chapter and verse on that particular experiment. >> david? >> i'm a former cnn journalist. current video production company owner. i think there is a deep and growing cynicism in the news consumers, that the very standards that you profess to have don't really exist. maybe it is best personified now by the glenn greenwald theory that let's just admit we have biases, and we act on them. it is impossible to be "fair." what are your thoughts?

>> i would love to start. >> maria, don't leave. [laughter] >> i very much disagree with the idea that no one can be fair. it is possible, there's a debate happening about the extent to which it is important to come off as if you have no beliefs. can you let your stripes show, or do you need to be neutral observer? that is a valid and interesting debate going on. a deeper value is fairness. that goes without saying. you can be glenn greenwald, or a opposite end, a reporter who would never vote, and there

are people like that. glenn greenwald is the journalist who did the work regarding edward snowden and all the revelations concerning the national security agency, and the surveillance. he has done a great deal of civil liberties journalism, but most prominently he was one of the chief contacts for snowden. and, his view set, a believer firmd as you said, a believer that you stand for something and you can know exactly what it is but i can still do journalism. i think there is -- i could argue both sides. my position has moved a little from no, the journalist must be completely neutral to yes, it is ok to have feelings, beliefs, and to let them show. you need to be transparent about them.

the catchphrase on that is that transparency is the new objectivity. >> does that apply in local tv? >> i can say every human has bias. your experiences are your bias. i can say at our news operations, when bias comes up at a table of discussion around news it sticks out like a sore thumb. you are looked at as an abnormality if you're sitting there saying i don't like republicans or democrats and we should cover this angle of the story. you would never see that in a newsroom. it is so completely improper.

>> critics don't believe that. >> a lot of that comes from a long history of opinion writing. a lot of influential and powerful opinion writers that are brands with legacies. the "journal" and "constitution" used to be two separate papers. they were combined. all the legacies tie into your perceptions of the newspaper. the "new york times" is no exception. they all have a brand of bias. it should never get involved in their news coverage on the front page. i will say, however, people who have biases, and i know what they are, and they share facts that are well researched, i don't find a problem with it. transparency is the new objectivity.

one of my favorite publications is "the economist" and they are biased economists. [laughter] it is like your old wife's uncle telling you things. you know what he thinks. >> interesting about the history of opinion writing, as readership migrates online it is very difficult to tell what is an opinion piece, what is an analysis, what is a reported piece? it doesn't come with signifiers that print did. this is on the front page. this is on the opinion page. this has a tag with a logo that tells me it is someone's column. these things have blended in. with that these traditional differences have started to go away as well. >> the next questioner is anita shaw, the president of the atlanta press club. she coordinates investigative reporting for bloomberg.

>> thank you. i don't have to say anything. [laughter] quick question. what new technologies are you both watching closely and think will potentially be the most disruptive? >> this is not a new technology but i will say i have become a heavy user and a fan of twitter. i find it an indispensable source of news and information. i haven't seen anything that is as useful to me as twitter. twitter has only existed for less than 10 years. well under 10 years. as i watch what is happening, that is something i am weighing against. what is going to have the impact of facebook? what is going to have the impact of twitter?

i have seen interesting things, but i haven't seen anything that looks like it is as dominant as that. >> social media monitoring allows you to see trending, stories trending that sounds pop-culture-ish. but in the old days, it was an editor's job to find out what people had on their mind. what story should you put in front of people is what they wanted to know. it's easier to know that now because you can put out a package of information and by the end of the day everybody is tweeting or chatting about a particular group of stories. it gives you good direction on what to follow up on. your news tomorrow will be more relevant than it was today. >> are you worried about apple tv and roku? >> to those who don't know, it

-- that allowsterface people to stream television without going through a dbs provider. they don't have as much content. netflix is an example of a company investing in content. "house of cards." i particularly enjoyed it myself, my wife and i did. but they don't have espn, cnn, fox. you can't get current news. it is part of the changing technology. we have our own product called contour, which allows you to stream it to your tablet. you can slip through the channels and like a particular show. push and hold it and it will go onto television interchangeably so we are trying to get our user . interface out there now.

apple has lots of billions of dollars to spend. it is over-the-top video, where video is trending. >> the power that comes from being a moderator. i'm going to make one switch, if i could. i would like to bring maria up for a moment. there's a reason. in my old days in washington there were reporters who were the stakeout reporters. you couldn't get away. they were standing outside the door, and ice, rain, sleet. helen thomas was a good example. atlanta has one of those. they can't get out that door without maria being there.

i have had tremendous admiration enterprise, and maria, please. >> what you are saying is i'm a pain in the ass. [laughter] i have my own website. supporterreport.com. >> that was a commercial. >> i have a foot in both doors. you talked about it being the wild west. i think it is an apt description. i'm on the board of the atlantic -- atlanta press club. one of the things we wrestled with, because there is a lower barrier to entry, what can we do, and this is more traditional news world, to help the consumer be able to differentiate what is credible news, and what is either made-up or not substantiated?

i keep thinking, get it first, but get it right. i think there are certain standards not everybody plays by the rules. what can we do to help the public understand there is a difference between solid journalism and all the clutter? >> i would just say having these discussions is good. i don't know if you can have enough of them to reach enough people. but telling people that you go through great lengths to fact check stories will allow them to see the difference between that check and not fact checked. i think talking about it is important. for us, i know i have great faith in our news organizations. i have watched the discussions that go on.

if they didn't go on that would be of great concern to us. we internally know when it is happening and when it isn't. we get phone calls and e-mails, bombarded with them. people will send you an article from some source. they say "you blank, blank." i have no idea where that came from. who is saying it. there is no editorial judgment going on. but it is out there and people are reading it. that is dangerous. that is why it is the wild west. in time people will want less static and more signal. >> it may be the biggest issue. will people, thinking about our granddaughters, will they realize the importance of the "new york times" feed?

the option, all the other information streaming into them, and realize this is fact checked, and they were to get accuracy? it is a tremendous need of our educational system, and our parenting. there is more garbage coming at you then there is solid information. >> i would like to see schools bear down on teaching news literacy. to the extent that an organization can support that and foster it, it would be very helpful. when i was in buffalo we had a

publication called "next." what we found was geared towards teens. those preteens and teens who read next were much more likely to become subscribers to the paper. they understood from an early age that -- kind of what this was, so get them early and teach them, and support the programs that do that. >> i hope you will take a copy of her article which is outside. you will find it one of the best. we are going to take one more. i asked that it be a question and not a commentary. >> i'm going to take two minutes of your time. and tell you who i am. why i came here 45 years ago, and since the title of this

gathering is "the future of the news," i feel i have moral obligations to you all to tell you a brief idea about the past of the news. it is crucial for the troubles this country faced. i will add one more thing. those troubles have their seeds in georgia. atlanta, georgia. i'm a structural engineer. i came to the united states in spring 1969. 45 years. i got my masters degree in 1971.

with one mission in life, degrees are not important. money is not important. positions, not important. rule one in citizenship, i am right now citizen of two countries. the united states and iraq. rule one in citizenship, never subordinate your country to a pocketbook. once you do that, you violated rule one. and, when i came to speak here, ms. strauss told me i'm not supposed to carry those documents in my hands.

i'm going to give those documents to those gentlemen. they will see the horrible things going on. >> i want to be very respectful. this is a q&a session. would you put the question to our panel? >> i'd be glad to. if somebody told you that some of the major media in this nation kept the american people in the dark about major events, and this question is addressed to all three, if somebody told you that, intentionally kept the american people and the world in the dark, if somebody told you that, what would you tell him? >> that we have failed if we

have kept the american people in the dark about any significant event. i have served in several positions, chairman of cnn. if we have kept the american people in the dark on any major significant event, then we have failed our jobs. i hope that we have not. i would be pleased to answer specifically what topic we may have kept from the american people. >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> i would agree with what tom said. we would have failed. sometimes there is information we don't report on because we don't deem it to be newsworthy, or verifiable. >> no comment either.

"the new york times" please. >> our job is to get out the facts and not withhold them. >> i'm going to give you three documents. you study them and research them. if there is an accuracy in them, i am liable for them. if you find your answers were not satisfactory, i need you to apologize to the american people. >> we will see. we have time? one more question? >> i have a question about google news. does the press media love google news or hate it? would you rather have a penny a click for looking at your stories? from the business model, where do you see google news? >> google in every business we

have worries me. [laughter] we spend billions of dollars providing internet across the country and they are starting up with new google fiber business. in newsm they disseminate news around the world. in general they motivate philosophy to positively impact a billion lies. they seem so sinister. there is nothing bad about it. it just disrupts all of our businesses. in the grand scheme of things, disruption is a good thing. [laughter] >> it reminds me of power you would feel asking if he or she was asked, would you rather have the internet around or not? in some ways, some people might say, i wish it never came about.

it has destroyed our business. others would say, it is the best possible thing to happen. >> this is a panel of why and how should we cover the asian-american community. those are good questions. the question is not, should we cover the american -- the asian-american community? i am the moderator of this. thank you. [applause] let's see. let me talk about this panel. i was on last year's version of this panel as a panelist laster, and when i was asked, it was something that the title of the panel was something like covering the asian-american

community. i said that seems really broad. yes. through the course of the panel, wasderstood what the panel about. i do not know if you are familiar with what i am doing on angry asian man blog, that is what i do, but i realize a lot -- orple attending here some of you might find that to be a challenge in your own newsrooms. willully this panel -- you be able to walk away with some insight in ways to tackle that and some tips to better cover the asian-american community. do, that mether a d introduce our panel. we discussed ways we could do

this. everyone decided upon a story then covered in the last year, something that they can use and concrete and use as a example. why don't we go down and i will let our panelists and reduce themselves and talk -- please introduce yourselves and this particular story that you are going to be drawing from this session. you.ank i am reporter at npr in washington. i'm part of a new reporting team. we are a team of nine people covering race, ethnicity and culture. i produce regular features that and also things for our blog. my take away kit for folks

interested in covering the asian-american community and working not on this particular -- beat is to embrace the stereotype which is ash maybe that is not the right word -- i'm thinking the lunar new year is a very big holiday in a lot of asian-american communities, and a time when newsrooms want to find this year he -- find a story about the chinese new year. i have been given that assignment two years in a row. also amecause i interested in -- i see it as a challenge, because i think we pretty much have all seen the chinese new year story with the , learned this phrase, learned this week, and i see it as an opportunity, a peg, moreu will, to explore issues to the community that

relate to other communities. i will give you a story. i do not know if everybody will be able to hear. troupebout a lion dance that is all-female in boston. this is one of the members. life.ecret she says her father was not very supportive of it at first. her mother? >> she told me i was crazy. i said, mom, if you had a chance to do it, would you do it? no, no, no. said if she had the chance to do the lion dance when she was over, she would have been it. in china, women were seen as less -- now women in america -- we do whatever we want. this, long story short,

this was an opportunity to do a story about lunar new year that was not just about lunar new year. it was about a tradition that performed this lion dance. specifically the leaders of this report wanted to break that gender barrier that prevented a locker of women traditionally from doing this type of martial art, and was really a story about a group of women who came together once a week, and these are teenagers, high school students, who came together, it wased themselves, and a story about that, and it aired on the lunar new york. it is an opportunity to do stories like that, to think more creatively about what is happening. >> hi. how is it going? i am the general producer for international's

program called "the world." coverr immigration, but i various immigrant groups. among them, asian-americans. i try to take my advice, and it is a little bit opposite of what hansi said. one of the things i talked about when i was interviewed for this job, we are having conversations in these communities, having conversations among families and , and that is all we are doing, we are having these theersations, but that is only place they stay. if we are covering immigration, why do we not just have these conversations among ourselves, t --ht aboue hav

write about it? i would get -- i would tell people my nickname is shef. we are all having these conversations. we invited for one story reached out to a comedian. i'm sure you guys have heard of him. he has posted something that he a status, because people not take the time to pronounce my name. we interviewed him about it. he said he does everybody makes it appointed pronounce his name robbery. --they struggle with that. now people are making an effort to say mining properly. we had a conversation about

that, apart of my job as producer is we are taking this radio program and try to figure out how people interact with it on the web. most of the audience is online but we did a social chat them on twitter, we asked people, how do you pronounce your name? htag in the has world. we have people submit things like videos here and they're saying this is how i see my name . this is what this conversation is about. the funny thing is when you have those kinds of stores that are like everybody knows this and it is like those pharrell moments, moments, nobody's talking about this. we all know it. so irritating. that is the kind of story that i feel like we bring that to our radio program, if we bring that to you, an online conversation,

that to me is good coverage of immigration communities, because they are conversations we are all having. it is just we wall ourselves off. it is the tricky thing, where you have moments that i will talk about this only with myself asia friends. like, people? [laughter] whatever. it is true, and it is interesting. with a story about the name pronunciation, we got people from all walks of life you are like actually, my name is this and it is from an irish background and nobody commences it-- nobody pronounces pretty. suddenly irish folks are like, oh i did not know you were american. so fascinating. [laughter] we are bridging gaps, so that is

my few cents on what might help in terms of covering immigration -- or immigrant communities, excuse me. >> hi. my starbucks name is alexa, actually. i have a starbucks name. i am a reporter at fox. lunar new year every year. i'm filipino, where we do not have lunar new year. a professor,nure, at st. peter's university, january 2013. the vice president of -- the of suny,cellor the executive in charge of television production asked me if we could start a program

called asian life. they wanted me to be a part of a program that will focus on the fastest growing community in new york and united states. we were basically given the opportunity to create a show from scratch. team, and it is new york so we got this team of veteran broadcasters because the suny is we dout not have money. media so companies in a lot of the folks have to have other jobs if they are going to work for our show. we are able to find some part-time months that wanted to come back to work and some other folks. we credited as shown with an amazing team of veteran broadcasters from new york, and a monthly is it is magazine show focusing on the asian-american community, which is 40 different ethnic communities in the tri-state,

140 different languages. folk say, are you going to do any kind of transition question -- ? how is that possible? we do segments from five minutes to eight minutes line. another cool thing about working tv is you can go on hiatus, monthly, our september which will be viewing in two weeks, we are focusing on a number of segments on education. one of our segments we are working on, and this is a sentiment that i think pertains .o the community at large for all new yorkers, it is about diversity and literature, diversity and children and why literature. i'm sure you have read the books like -- you wonder, what happened although asians in the future?

they just disappear, right? we interviewed a number of young authors coming out in september, and they started a campaign. times" did a sore on it. asians make up 13% of the population. the numbers of asian characters is less than 2%. it is ana story that isn' 8-minute piece. we like to look at ourselves as show."s "morning we are talking about the president's office. what happened although asians in the administration at that level? we talked to a couple of

presidents that were recently appointed. another story that is going to air his -- it is tonight -- the south asian spelling bee. many of the winners of the met life spelling bee have gone on to win the big one, scripts. we're going to talk about, why indian-americans and particular dominate the spelling bee. we do a wide range of different aories, covering really massive community, when you think about it. what is interesting, because we are kind of korean heavy on our show right now, and we just happen to be, and one of our -- >> staffwise. >> yes. every segment in our june show was about a korean-american. that is something we have to think about. we have to make sure that we include other tomb unities that also -- communities that people

do not think about. there are 40 different groups in new york alone. for us, that is our biggest challenge, reaching out all these different communities, emil,e i was just telling there is more than one chinatown in new york. that is it. >> i name is emil guillermo. we can create a fifth chinatown. this is the filipino side of the chaitable. filipino american. you have to read my columns to figure out why i am saying that. i am reporter, longer. i blog for the asian american legal defense and education fund . my reporting days began a long time ago, more than 30 years ago. this is the veteran side of the

table. i could relate everything these guys have said on this side. i have mispronounced my name professionally. i've corrected people professionally, and my very last story on npr was about how to guillermo. because of you say it that way, it is mexican is spanish treaty , i am asian.mo that is the thing about the filipinas. them not the filipinos to call a minor stomach and that is what i say guillermo. is guillermo. this is a special commission because 25 years ago i was name the first asian-american host of npr's "all things considered." i had to do it several time.

25 years ago. i left in 1991, and since that o posts.re have been zer maybe that is because i did a bad job and maybe that is because there has been bad management, but i see her from this convention a number of here onood npr voices the panel and out there in the audience, and i hope that day, sooner than 25 years, become a post at npr. considered,"hings the flagship show. it was odd to go back to npr at the reception. i was not expecting a red carpet. i was not expecting even a yellow carver. they did not give me any carpet. he did not even know who i was. [laughter]

this is the thing about diversity. we still have a fight and we still have a long way to go. first in 1989, this is going to be breakthrough, but we still have a lot of breaking through to do. now, the story i wanted to relate, a short one, and this my cousin was murdered in san francisco. i did not cover the initial story. i was too close to it. i gave it to "the separate cisco chronicle -- "the san francisco chronicle." they stopped the store after the first day because it out about the law and the legal issues. they could not talk about the historical context, which is what you can bring as an asian-american. ousin, 26 years old, came to america at age 8.

my father came to america in the 1920's. are's my cousin who lived in one-room apartment, five to a room. that is less than my father, who lived 10 to a room. 2014 who cousin int was murdered in a tenement in center cisco, ashley recycling kind of life that my father had almost 90 years before. this is the kind of context in the community that asian-american porter scampering to the story if they have the courage to tell that story and if there are editors have the kurds to let them tell that story. so many times they do not, and i have to say, tell you a very disheartening tale. i went to the investigative reporters and editors conference in san francisco in june before this. an asian-a american copernican to become and her parents were reporters in the south and she

had a fairly well off upper-middle-class like him and she said, i do not know how to be an asian american reporter. i do not know what to do. i did not know how to cover this story. she was a chinese-american. her parents were chinese intellectuals. there are asians in far-flung communities, and their stories need to be told. they be the first story they need to learn is what it means to be asian-american. what it means to be an asian -american now in 2014 as well as an asian-american in the first got here. we have been telling the stories over and over how, and in 1989 i thought i was going to be telling the story the last time. we have to tell these stories over. you have covered these lunar new year stories several times. i have done that. if you are a young reporter, white reporter from old white reporters tell the young story,

you put a new twist to the stranded 20 years ago. we're just telling it now with a different flavor and a different tone, because we are asian-american and we have a different perspective. that is really our goal. that is our commitment, to diversity, because diversity, or inclusion, equals coverage in employment, and if coverage is zero and coverage is zero, then diverse he is zero and we have got to improve that. realized, everyone is telling you about stories that they have related, and a lot of them are success stories. i want to hear about -- i want to know where the things went wrong. let's rethink this a little bit. i wanted to know maybe there is an opportunity for you guys talk about stories that you thought i be -- that you really wanted to pitch from an asian-american perspective, where you were

talking down or you had to put a different way or there was resistance on part of your editors are on the part of the people you wanted to talk about, you know. can anybody recall, perhaps, obstacles? >> or do we exist? a true story, and he goes back a ways, and maybe it is different now. i practically had to give a census book to my editors and say, look, asian-americans really are here. -- i'm not talking aquino was assassinated in 1883. i was in newsroom, and they do not know what to do with the story. 200,000 filipinos in the bay area and he did not know what to do with the story. today send a filipino-american in the newsroom? no, but they asked me, and i sent this is a story, and they

said, they are not sure, and i practically had to give them -- we did not have the internet then, so i cannot just go to the website -- but i had to give them the census book to say look, look at the numbers. then they finally send me. and it actually was 1983, in august. quino was when a assassinated. i was able to cover that for the local affiliate. when marcos was toppled from anchorstation sent an n to report that. that is way the failure was turned around and it became a big story. >> you backed it up with numbers? >> yeah. they expect numbers from asia. >> when i was on "the morning in new york, i remember

pitching the story because i have heard from when i first moved to new york, i do not believe this, that there had never been an asian-american in either state or local level in politics in office. i was talking to the news director and they said this is a great story. there is this young person liu,ng for office, john who eventually became a councilman, and i think he is running for something in. that does not sound like something like a good story. do something about who you are pitching to. so you go to someone else. yes, i just pitch to someone else. just keep repitching. the executive producer of "good day" said this is a great story. show," so"the morning that meant working super long days i should be sleeping. i worked on the story can and

sure enough, the story ran and the ratings, a big lead, and went up. they saw the bike. i was able to do a3-part story after that that did really well. sometimes it just has to be pitching it to the right people, because sometimes, the newsroom is so diverse, so the people in the newsroom may not really get it. you got to go and find the people that made it and find this would be an interesting story. and also like me, having to work on it on almost all your free time. >> ok, i'm drunk to think of a good example where it bombed terribly. -- i am trying to think of a good example where it bombed terribly. i thinkg immigrants, you can sometimes be your own worst enemy. i mean that in a good and bad way. is we wanted to do a

story about the smithsonian bollywood, andng they had the jersey of the first turban-wearing basketball player. i do not do radio. -- a digital producing for producer for a radio show. they said, why don't you do it? why? i said i could do this. he is based in texas, so we did an interview. we asked him a lot of questions. the great part was my mom is the one that taught me basketball. older, indian, sikh woman who was six feet tall. oh, my god. i talked to her, and she was the biggest --

help me -- [laughter] >> mavericks or the rockets? >> basketball, cool, so she was the biggest thank him and she talked about how she was shouting at ames, and basketball players would tell her to tone it down. interview, his interview, things were going well. does ok. pretty well, i guess. i think it is all right. didt showed on the web and really well. we had a lot of sikh groups who shared it. newsroomis guy in our who would upload the audio at the end of the day, when everybody was gone, and he would upload the audio and he left. he said, you did that story about that best ballplayer. i play bass law, and you did not

asking -- i play basketball, and you did not ask him if he got sweaty while he plays. when he wears his turban he plays. we have this mutual misunderstanding and i am not going to be, what is up with that? i was not going to do that because, i am like on this soapbox doing this sort. then i was like that would have been such a great story to ask. so you wear a turban while you play basketball. that is crazy. you get hot? do you like powder? i never thought about it. should you have asked him? so it wasly curious, one of his missed moments where i was too busy pretending to be we are allroud and

politically correct here and i seem property. -- proper. >> a simple question that a lot of people would -- >> one of the things he mentioned is he said i am glad to see more people playing other sports who wear turbans. that would have been interesting to address. his --about >> no -- >> we did not ask that. >> the little dagger. >> i do not think he wears one, though. i asked that, but not on their. -- on air. that was a missed opportunity. >> the story that i can think of story. danny chen i was a producer before i became

reported. this was when there was a trial appening when chinese-american soldier from new york's chinatown, within months after he enlisted and being stationed in afghanistan, he committed side to side -- suicide in afghanistan after subject to racial slurs and being physically abused by comrades. it was a case that, a lot of asian-american activists are concerned about this treatment based on race in the military. this was a story that went on people were of the prosecuted. we should do it interview checking in on this case. it has been a few months since it happened. we should check in and i did not much of a response. i felt this is a story that amongst the asian-american community, this is a

conversation, people are focused on it, talking about it, what does this mean, what does it mean when an officer when there are so many few asian-americans serving in the military, and here we have an example, and this is the ending to it. what does that mean? away from that, there was an opera that premiered in washington in that had. the opportunity to retell the story. i had colleagues who told me for us about that, thank you, and it is still something really fresh in a lot of peoples asian-ith in the american community. persistence, if you really believe in a story is it unfair that you have to think so creatively or wait for another day, but it is about getting the story out there, and if you get thisd you really believe

is a solid story, and this is talking about an issue, about our community, keep on going on it, look for another opportunity to do it aired the other thing, at npr we are multi-form. we are radio, but we also have a robust online reporting. the stories that will not fly on the radio, because often we need a news peg because the piece offered would be up in the middle of a news-driven news magazine. pegs is maybe a blog post or social media. there is different ways of getting the story out there. if you get no, look for other ways. >> that is a good point, but that was not around back in 1990 ofand this is an example what persistence will do. it is also a function of how the media works. we are followers.

you go to your editors, and what do they do? they have the clips, and they look about the competition is doing. this is a story about a guy el, filipino, he was in honolulu, and he was hired by the city of honolulu because he talked like this. he talked with an accent, and he will did notl understand me. they fired me. i'm going to sue. he sued. you did not laugh at that. people are used to hearing badnt and saying it is a name morning d.j. kind of thing. back then, here is that guy who sued the case, and went to the supreme court. i said we ought to cover the story. they do not want to do it. we really need to cover it. times," they did not want to do it.

look, it is in "the new york ."mes after several weeks, the spring court throughout the case and they do not want to cover, so you could still be sued because of accent discrimination because the supreme court did not pick up that case. manuel, look it up. 1990. you do not hear about it much. we ultimately covered it because the editors at major news organizations do look at what each other -- what they are all doing. finally, when it was in "the new two-wayes,": we did a and his voice was on npr, on the weekend, but the story, was out. you're doing a great job right now. >> on weekends. [laughter] code be fair, part of the switch, which is part of a

larger unit, the culture and identity unit. we have teams in place. that sounds like a story that we would run with. >> you would run with it now. but 25 years ago? go down another round, i wanted to open it up for questions, because we're running down on time. i want to open it up to you guys. have at it, questions for our panelists, or me, too. yes. >> i will make a comment, because hansi and i were talking earlier. i love all the stuff you and your team are doing. we are needed to do that, because and dr has a long tradition of not being very diverse in its coverage. they had to hire a vice president of diversity to adjust the news coverage a few years ago. i guess my comment is that the goal should be

that we do not have to label these stories code switch stories. it is great to mix in, whether "morning edition" or throughout the day, throughout the week, and the stories are dropped in, and when you go to the web, you have to look for them. they be it is good. maybe you look for them under a category. i feel like it is a little bit raceghettoization of stories. if you are a liberal and interested in issues, you can go here. so i look forward to the day when we do not have to do that. we could stories and they get covered and they are important stories, and he did not have to be labeled a certain way. i love the stuff you are doing. i applaud you for that. quickly, to respond, i totally hear you, and what we are striving for echo switch

come and another project with michele norris, we are trying to tell stories about anyway in that no media outlet is doing. try to come up with ways we are stories that are in the headlines. like trayvon martin. we are trying to get in ways that no one else is doing. another thing we are doing at npr, to help other news organizations are doing, is a push for diverse sourcing, not just within our units, that the business desk, that national desk editors, reporters, show producers are thinking about stories about the economy, about beats that regular we are looking beyond our regular go-two people. that is equally as important. >> yes.

>> could you talk more about arer stories recently that impacting the asian-american community that should be covered in the national media? i would say almost everything. danny chen was a good store, and for asian-american life, i interviewed the parents. it took a lot of work to get this parents to talk to us. grieving from the loss of their son, and they do not speak english. they do not speak mandarin or cantonese. we had to find someone to do the interpreting for us. that was difficult to find. it was also the aftermath. it is like the mainstream media -- i worked in local news for so

long. you are in there when it it is bad and then you do not follow up. did anything happen since then? what laws are passed? obama signed the anti-hazing law, and then they unveiled danny chen way in chinatown. that is where he was born. we were able to do that follow up, but you are not going to see that in mainstream media. >> there is a lot of homogenization when it comes to asian-americans. it is just not important. if there is an asian figure, they will not mention it. take the story in santa barbara. i did not know -- i had a sex he half. he looked half. on his mother's side. on the blog, i started writing started asaspect, he

one of the most undercovered aspects of that story. that is most recent. asian aztecs of stories, that are not important enough. story.ight-graph [laughter] long walk off a short pier. it is up to the asian-american reporters to identify that come and if there are asian-american editors, that would make it easier, and hopefully that is the failure of the generation that came before a lot of the millennial's, that a lot of the reporters did not get up to that status, or not enough, so that they can make those decisions. more are, but we still have these stories that are undercovered. that reallyly -- feels a society that needs to know what america is becoming. they need to know these stories. >> i think numbers.

we do not have a lot of numbers data about asian have american communities. the reason is because of the vast diversity of the communities, the language issue we have been talking about can you find enough survey takers who speak so many different language to get a comprehensive look at all the different communities within the asian-american community? we need to do more stories about where are the holes and the specifics, and that has some implications regarding -- and it about what policy, politicians are thinking about what is going on in in their communities that have specific need within the american -asian communities. community isrican a small group within the united states. there are parts of the country where asian-americans are becoming the majority. adid a story about

congressional race in the silicon valley, and it is a fascinating, fascinating look at the only second congressional district in the country after hawaii that is asian majority. hows fascinating to look at are voters being mobilized, what is the conversation when two of your candidates for congressional seats are asian-americans? what does that mean for asian-american participation? things we have never seen before, it has not happened before. this is happening, and it will have more so. this is going to become the new reality. i am not saying news right now. this is not breaking news. unfortunately a lot of newsrooms, it is. >> do not forget the diversity within the asian have american committee because you will see it in the affirmative action story where you have more conservative asians, asian-americans who believe they have been the victims of affirmative action rather than

people who have been helped. i think you will find that asian-americans in general have been helped more than they have been victimized, but that is the ongoing debate. especially among young people in the the numbers college admissions level, trying to figure out where are asians on that issue? it is a difficult story to get at. i am a journalist in the san francisco area, and i just did a story -- i produced a two-part asian-american high school students. how would you have covered that from a mental health aspect or how would you have handled that? >> the mental health story there is that he rejected treatment.

he did not take his medicine, apparently, if you believe his manifesto. he had a dim view of treatment. i think that you covered the facts as they present themselves, and i do not think -- then broadening it out to the general asian-american community, i would have taken the approach about how asian-americans feel about mental health in general, which is they usually see it as not something for them. i would rather go see the show mann aman. i would rather see a close family member. that is sort of where i think a lot of the communities are, and it depends on which wave of immigration you are on, if you are a recent immigrant. you will keep it within the family, and if your third-or

fourth-generation,-- >> we are not just talking about immigrants, people who just got here or people who have been here 90 years. i think that is important to figure out. i do not think there is a good answer for that. it is something to consider, and mission, whatbal are we talking about when we say immigrant communities? are we talking about children, those children's children? >> this is one of those holes, because when you talk about depression, depression comes up because robin williams has committed suicide. there is no asian-american take necessarily, but if you

are reported you might find a way to delve into that topic. what i liked to, like to take a national news story and talk about an asian-american perspective. on ferguson for my root something on the blog today about how i was in kentucky recently and nearly got arrested because i was demanding my consumer rights at a rental car place. i was considered unruly. that guy called the police, and the police showed up, and it was like, he did not say, can i see your papers, but he asked me for my i.d. legally, you can refuse to give him your i.d., but you will incur the wrath of law enforcement. so i gave him my i.d this is a similar situation was right up and lying, because if i did one false move, unruly, he probably

would've thought i was an oriental. n unruly, nonwhite person, some serious stuff would happen to me. these are kinds of approaches that as a columnist i can write an asian-american perspective about these kinds of stories, and i try to do that, try to take something in the headlines. i wrote something about gaza by talking about an asian-american who lives in israel, who has taken an opposite view from when he was living here in america. as they used to say when i was young reporter, there are no uninteresting stories, only dull approaches to interesting stories. and if you're beat is asian-american, it will come from there. >> a couple more questions. you are not mainstream media.

you're a blogger, but one that i would guess most if not everybody in this room reads. you are a source for a lot of information. you pass a lot of information through. what is the role of asian-american bloggers? we have a really strong voice in the blogosphere. evenainstream media -- american mainstream media tends to look down on bloggers. what do you think is the role of the asian-american lobster in covering our communities? considered myself a traditional journalist and never intended for that to happen. without going to the journey of the blog itself, it has evolved over time. now i see myself -- i never really rake stories, but i come across stories that i would like

to amplify, i would like to get out, and i understand there are a lot of asian-women americans -- asian-americans who read my blog. they're not coming to other mainstream sources. i sort of composite, it in one place quoting one person's perspective. i said that before, but is the role of the town crier in a lot of ways in that i see a lot of stuff -- i feel like a lot of my audience is not strictly asian-american, but there is some value in having this asian-american community news in one place. that is the role -- i cover a lot of different kinds of popgs, crime, a lot of culture stuff, because that is hatei am personally in, crimes, also racist stuff come up with another popular stuff is

asians behaving badly. [laughter] people like to see that stuff. a little more well-rounded version of our community, i do not know. >> are you talking about immigrants or real asians or -- >> it does not matter. >> think of my own sanity. most of my coverage is based in the united states or north america. to extend it out all of asia, there are plenty of crazy -- [laughter] asians behaving ballet. -- badly. >> that is the problem with mainstream because sometimes there is a confusion between asians and asian-americans. like asian-american baseball players. aren't asian pictures -- they are immigrants -- not immigrants, they are here, their nationals. are they asian-americans? i think if there was an

asian-american all-star came out cum, he put tim lince had a no-hitter this year. >> i covered that. >> who is that guy on the yankees was really good? the japanese -- >> you do not even cover sports. >> one more question. when you were making pictures for stories, or on the blog, so media is focused on diversey for african-americans and latinos. other than saying it is a passes-growing americans -- asian-americans are the fastest-growing immigrant, what are the strategies that you would -- >> have a lot of [indiscernible] >> nbc just started "the

vertical." is all that there's only so much diversity to go around. >> within the store, it has to be an interesting story. ofn you talk about the myth the model minority, and you hear one out of four kids in new york city are not graduating on time. wait, i thought they were all going to harvard. that is something that could pique the interest of some producer. it is finding interesting stories that make users say, wow, i had no idea that was going on. >> they also have to know the world is not just like my. ferguson, 50 years after civil rights, we are still black and white. i lived in st. louis. i know that community. i used to be a broadcaster there in st. louis in the 1970's. this is incumbent on the asian-american journalists n i did in thehaeh

census,show them the show them the numbers. the poll numbers, and they have not figured out a way to get at , substantial -- something that is really valid scientifically, on the sample size. the sample size is hard. if you look at filipinos, we are because theypoll think we are latino, and that is the hardest thing to do a filipino poll. is this guillermo filipino oir hispanic? i've been talking about po ll methods the last few decades. ofe of the guys like -- out uc riverside, a great election

poll, and he takes the time to get the right sample size so that you know that you are dealing with something that is scientifically valid. it is hard and it cost money. >> i would say it is about education, two. monday to"the world," friday, happening right now, the other thing is that when the dust settles, you asked a great question about a story that was not getting coverage, and i shooting inhe sikh wisconsin. we did not touch it because we were covering unaccompanied minors crossing the border. also a great story, and a lot of issues there. done, wethe show was said, why did we not touch that? why didn't we cover this? we have a very diverse newsroom. there were a lot of questions that came up. people were like i still do not

know what it means to be sikh. those were basic questions. you're in a newsroom where somebody would say, is it ok to ask? if somebody has a question, figuring out ways to anchor a story around that. it has been two years since the sikh shooting in wisconsin, what do we not know yet? i agree about the numbers. likee have basic questions what does it mean to be sikh or is there a cultural tie in. that is a big issue. it is hard to do that especially in a fast-paced newsroom.

something needs to be done to get it or coverage. i am 1.5 generation born in asia. [indiscernible] todayinteresting that managers do not like accents or people who look a little too wild or exotic and i guess my question is how do you strike that balance that you know is just emanating and managers should be considering other voices, the voices of the people who have lived in the u.s. for decades to

continue to be a big part of america but do not have a voice. npr?id you leave how do you navigate that? those of the new voices and your stories. ask your managers have told you we do not want that on the air. >> your accent? >> i worked in sacramento and orange county and i never had a manager say that. if it is difficult and it does not matter what language they speak. we could put subtitles.

i am amazed because i can hear it. -- the audience they presume is all white and not very patient and will be turned off by this and this is why there is this mad rush to get into these other channels and it is not going to be mainstream unless you -- there are people who are visionaries who will say this is mainstream america. this is what america looks like. when people realize that california is not an anomaly but it is the way of american society. but then the accent thing will not be a big barrier. they will say we will just what

-- subtitle it which is a little insulting but if it helps in the communication i am all for that but i have seen that, i cannot recall. i was shocked they went to that extent. there are some people who are american and white and from other parts of this country who are native americans so i would put a subtitle. >> they -- why don't they honeyle -- they subtitle boo's family. >> thank you for coming in. follow us, that would be awesome. i would like to plug the

site. >> follow #globalnation. they are amazing stories. if you want to hear accents. rex thank you. cap -- thank you for coming.

>> if you missed this customization you can find it on our website. c-span.org. two blocks on the u.s. capitol the u.s. department of education is holding a bullying revenge and summit. you can watch earlier sessions on our website as we join this panel in progress. >> tips for creating an action plan, tools and options to help resolve situations, facebook.com/leading. we have created a safety guide in our safety center and a guide

for teachers and community leaders publicly available on the website. this is what our family safety center looks like. we have racers straight hair and we talk about our safety philosophy, the community and to haves and resources people have the most positive experiences they can. at -- we think about all these kids who have had to navigate to situations and a lot of these -- tragicrack it outcomes. bullying is not as prevalent as reported but when it does happen to that child it is very serious veryt is something we take seriously. we are invested in figuring out how to get the most appropriate resources to the right people at

the right time to help them resolve their conflicts. . am going to pass this over we will talk about the research that is done at yale and the work they have done to help us, the why behind the decisions we have made. thank you for your time. [applause] things i ame hearing is that facebook through the social resolution process is teaching sel. someard there are policymakers are legislators, some of them want to put a big red flashing report button on every page.

and we'lls showing talk about that, that will not encourage people to make reports. kids do not want to be seen as snitches or telling on people when these people are their friends so we needed to come up with another way to help them resolve their issues. social resolution is our solution to encourage these conversations. we're going to find out about the research behind all this. rex thank you. i am excited to be sharing some of our findings from the collaboration and facebook. know, technology and the internet is changing the way adolescence is navigated and experienced. worldhave not known the

without computers and the internet and smartphones and facebook. these are development contexts in which typical development tasks are unfolding and next for day one of the key tasks is positive peer laois and ship. this offers teens a unique opportunity to explore. she is. any -- whereore they fit in the social world with healthy relationships do not come to us naturally. few of us have had a sophisticated education and social and emotional skills. much like their experiences off-line teenagers are navigating cap located and personal interactions.

skillsg teens emotional in online spaces seems a good step in addressing cyber bullying. keeping this in mind our team at facebook and our team at the yell center for emotional intelligence were together, foster, understand though unwanted experience that have teens have and then to develop ways to manage these variances properly. thenevelopment is ecological silence. we use language that teens use in their everyday lives. we want to make sure that this

was more like a conversation. focus moree able to on their experience and understanding what was going on so they can taken appropriate action. emotionalewed intelligence skills which is the first at incorrect appraisal say can take action that is meaningful to you on the other person. we provided ways to take positive actions. we gave them guidelines based on what they told us, what happened, and how they felt. we created models for teens to address conflict with their peers. we also worked on the

[indiscernible] for all stakeholders. in what andulted why should us. offer teens an opportunity to tell what is happening and how they feel about the poster that we give them options. this is to move kids away from the emotional reaction and leave the lead them to a more critical .pace i want to show you a bit of what we learned from how teens up in using these tools. found,st thing that we we collected data of 50 days

from teens using these tools. -- of the billions of pieces of content we found that 17.5 million were curated. i know want to see this about withmillion percent toilets teens who are here and it was girls, predominately girls. they were more representative than the people creating the .onflict we wanted to look at what was being curated on these pages so you can doing the things. you can post the status of eight which will give his investment to everyone or you can see say so on particular to someone at on this -- it is promoted on

other peoples news feed. is eliciting different reactions. -- photos are little more ambiguous and harder to interpret. we were wondering if different types of content had different impact and how teens are responding. 60% of the content that teens were photos and 40% text. we asked kids why they did not want to see -- why are you managing this content and the first thing we noticed is most seem to want to hide the content.

point million -- 5% uses -- you were using the tools that are provided great we pray thatwith all the options -- they clicked we did not want to see it in the hit it in the hit. they were reporting as inappropriate for facebook. that it violated the terms of service. [indiscernible] and enter the resolution flow. they felt that someone was bothering them or bullying them. both of them are evident in why teens are reporting content or

hiding content. if the teen think someone is bothering her bullying them we ask them what is happening. is pestering, the second is mean, there is someone is spreading rumors and the fourth is feeling they were threatened and the fifth is there were gender differences. girls filled someone was based thus it was and because of emotional investment. voters may not be so explicitly can be used to create similar negative experiences. werethey told us they

being bullied and what was happening we wanted to know how it made them feel. andou can see feeling angry embarrassed for most represented. you might not want that online but you might feel that that is close to the intentionally. photos and text are creating different reactions but also covering the range of emotions. boys reported being angry and girls were reporting seeing -- being san -- sad. we're finding these spaces are off-line behavior. the take-home messages it's that feeling bullied elicits a wide range of emotions.

lay idea for solution might not be sufficient because each child is interpreting these experiences differently. moving toward providing skills for the social and emotional to navigatekills these experiences might be a more meaningful response. what happens next, what do teens do when they're provided with these tools? they're provided with a range of often -- options often based on what they told us. they can message the person, they can get help from someone they trust. they can unfriend the person and one option is unfollowed. you do not see their content.

submit it to facebook of you think this is not approved written for the site. most teens seem to go through this and be happy with hiding. only 14% are taking the risk to reach out to someone and say that post was embarrassing, would you please take it down? was to unfriend and that is not what we want. we do not want kids to stop interacting if they do not know what they're doing. we find that given the tools and .6%opportunity all a .0 -- chose to unfriend the hersen. given a choice they would maintain their relationship but not as many are ending their relationships. experience is someone felt they were being

mean, they were more likely to miss the other person. if they felt embarrassed or angry they were less likely to which is fine best. we do not want angry messages. going back and forth. a few felt sadder embarrassed to were most likely to unfriend the person. even if these numbers are small it is important that we support these kids and give them the emotional support and resources

to learn to navigate these experiences. we find that girls or than boys are active. seem to be curated by the teens. there is a range of emotions that are elicited and they vary by interpretations of what happened and the emotional reactions they have. teens want to resolve things, they want -- they are finding ways and if you are providing them with tools and support they seem to be taking them. technology offers opportunities and challenges. rather than restrict how teens use this technology it seems more valuable to teach them the skills and equipment -- equips them to navigate the spaces in healthy ways.

this is our first step in this direction. ourave also since we have this resourcese where someone who has and through this, if they want to learn more, they can go there and learn how to start a conversation. if it weren't feels something is happening they can learn to talk to their children. a lot of hard work has gone in and they are really great. thank you. >> a quick question.

social resolution is a meta-moment. giving people a chance to work through what is going on. thisry few cheap opportunity, a fairly low percentage go through the process will need education more than ever. they can have a chance to think things through. is ansome ways this opportunity to do that. there not that much time to think about what is going on. we can help them about it and .alk them through the steps some of the things that are just about -- usage manages can be

used in positive ways. get kids to do what we want them to do. thanks to an end ingrid for inviting me to speak. i will try to give a view of what digital bullying looks like. i just graduated from high .chool this past june there are presented 184,000 students at the fairfax county school board and they made an active effort to take an interest i could best represent my constituents at word meanings and other meetings throughout the school year. bulliesre three or four who bothered me most days. they left a man bothered me but

the did not curative ticket online. some days were little miserable but it could have been even worse had they chosen to extend it to the online arena. forms ring page where people could ask questions but the worst thing i ever got was an awkward question about middle school crushes so not too bad. for me personally. i have had the experience of watching my friends at my school and other schools goes through cyber bullying and various consequences of it. the fundamental problem with kids and the internet is the feeling nuisance of control when you open up this great tool to them. they can create the fake e-mail

and suddenly become someone else. whatever existing social pressures against bullying that we have managed to establish disappear under anonymity or false identities. some use this as an opportunity to bring others down. asked -- asite is k.fm. guise ofr the anonymity feel a sense of power where they can ask river they want. they do not have to be questions, they can just make mean statements.

one friend of mine put out her page and got a nasty remark saying she should have gone with her father who had passed away five years earlier. she managed to shrug it off with which isrong response incredible. i do nothing i could have done the same but not everyone can. you do not have to post or theent but at the same time kid is seen that comment and it does emotional damage. what i found interesting was upon seeing that comment others posted supporting my friend and calling out the bully saying that the things they were saying were ridiculous and more people more than had been any bullying on her page.

critics anonymity helped because people felt they could stand up for the person because they could do it under the veil of anonymity? >> the -- it is not like they were watching it happen in person. they did not have to risk any social reputation. up. could anonymously stand on twitter and facebook people can create accounts without even fakes, pages, or accounts with fake e-mails. one nasty one was a countywide confessions page but it ended up being gossip. postnts would anonymously

and whoever was running the page would take the answers from the form and post them as messages. tobecame an anonymous forum poke about anyone or anything. at the same time i just to a countywide audience. they were just seeing sometimes it was a twitter page 140 characters and asked to make an impression. this judgment was no longer just around the schoolroom but it ofadcast to thousands students across the county. >> there is this