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that's it for this week's edition of the journal report. i am stuart varny. paul is back next week. work together to do their jobs. mr. obama signed the debt bill into law. >> tea party and republicans in the house are crazy. >> you are not dealing with people here. >> strapped explosive to the capitol. >> feparty guys are like dynamite. >> contentous coverage coming with main stream calling hostage taking terrorist. >> they don't have an ounce of originity. one person said terrorist and they jump on >> stock market
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takes a drop and causing concern and giving the media a chance to play the blame game. who caused the pain. >> and a reporter gets arrested for doing his job. >> when it comes to cameras and the cops. who calls the shots. >> a new spiderman makes the debut and spends a web of media controversy. >> judy miller and national editor rich lowery . jim with the american conservative mag wreen . host of the upon combs show. fox news watch is on right now. ♪ despite the bipartisan support for the deal, it is a deal no
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one want to take credit for. >> there was not much joy either in washington. the showdown over the debt ceiling has been averted but the fight over the national debt and deficit has only just begun. the debt deal dominated the news conference after president obama signed the bill in law after months of heated negotiations. leading up to the deal, the media seemed like everybody was on the same page. they wanted the deal to get done and have a bill to sign . then he signs it and then the story is different, isn't it? >> you could think they are dancing to the tune of wall street to make sure they are maid off and we wake up to realize nothing was aleviated. the media are only now catching up to that when jake tapper asking jay carney.
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can the president walk and chew gum. the media is turning on him a bit. >> the deal gets done and these are the headlines. spending cuts could further weaken the economy. deal risk undermining fragile growth and offers little to boost the economy and these were headlines in the broadcast media. which is it? >> the message is getting through. people understand that we are in a recession . the economic unemployment numbers were slightly better but not better enough . people are frightened and i think the market reaction had a huge impact on the media coverage and yeah, people are waking up to what happened in an economy that is fragile as ours when you threaten to the cut the spending. >> i want to get to the market reaction. talk about the name-calling and we heard in the introhere.
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terrorist lines, and allen, strapped with bombs in the capitol. >> we heard insyndary rhetoric . reload and we hear that on both sides and all of the sudden, when liberals do it they are complicit with the liberal media. we have heard violent rhetoric propagate for the media for years and years. it is just rhetoric and met phorically and not real. >> when in doubt. i will give you a chance to respond to maureen doud on who is with the new york times. tea party republicans, were like cab bals eating their own party and leaders alive and like vampires draining the country's reputation credit rating and zombies mindlessly coming back to assault
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victims. boehner and president obama and they were like the metallic beast in the movie alien. slashing mouths of teeth inside other mouths of teeth. >> make it stop. where is that wrong? the writing is entertaining but what you think? >> what is galling about this in january when you had the horrific shooting of a congresswoman, you had all of the liberal journalist saying it was the fault of the tea party rhetoric. because sarah palin putting a cross hair on the map and then using the language of terrorism and strapping bopes in the capitol. it is hypochrisy . utterly detaed for what happened. you had 88 percent of the republicans voting for the
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deal . the majority of the conservative caucus was voting for this deal and what it was negotiating all along . that is negotiating. >> you are making my point. where were they when that came out of the right wing. >> no, they said they put a cross hair on the map someone could get killed and therefore they should say their own rhetoric. >> fire point in america. >> you go after the right wing. >> alen has his yob and i are mine. my job is to mention the new york times and tina brown in the daily beast . of course, chris matthews who never misses a chance to smear the tea party. what about gabby giffordses and the surprise appearance on the floor returning to washington for the first time since that terrible attack in
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tucson. what about the coverage of her appearance on the floor. >> i think it was predictable . made for television moment and a good news story. they were looking for something to agree on and it turns out to be gabby giffords. let me ask you about this. we have seen the market drop preceptously. there was a major nose dive on thursday. the house recovered in the end of the trading week. but robert wright righting -- writing in the huffington post tried to blame the republican. john boehner and his colleagues should take responsibility for the drop in the dow jones industrial average. he claims he was being fasitous, but only a bit. >> if there was not a market drop it would have been blamed
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on republicans. this is the responsibility of broader market conditions . the idea of how bad the deal is for the economy. cutting 20 billion off of the projected base line of spending and that is a horrific affect on a 14 trillion dollar is surd. >> he got 98 percent what he wanted and the. >> what is going on is that obama administration -- think about it. >> they are struggling to come back to the nork times report. obama administration after trying to cut cap and trade and do back door deals is going to open up the arctic ocean. again where was that two and half years when unemployment went above 8 percent? >> it is not clear to me that opening up some pristeen water
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to oil drilling is going to solve our problem. >> it might create jobs and revenue. >> two of them. >> and catching up on the media stories go to the watch list section. should police limit media acess to breaking new's stories . go go away. >> a police officer forces a journalist away from the story and arrest him. do police call the shot when is it comes to cameras and press. what about when american citizens record the actions of officers is that a crime or our right. that is next on new's watch. so l and some antacids. we're having mexican tonight, so another pill then? unless we eat later, then pill later? if i get a snack now, pill now? skip the snack, pill later... late dinner, pill now?
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i want you to go away. you are about to get locked up. away. all right. leave. leave. i can't film it? leave. because it is a current and you are leaving. >> that was the scene in long island new york when a credential member of the press arrived following a police chase and he began to videotape. that's what they do. the police officer didn't like it or aware he was doing it from and the photographer videos it again and the police
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raced over and arrested him. after review the superiors dropped the charge. if something is happening in plain sight and in public view, the media can't be prevented from cover thag? >> that's right. we depend on that as a check and balance against the illegal or inappropriate activity by law enforcement. we are over and over this. this reporter was following the rules and protocol and doing what he was told to do and good his superior sided with the journalist. >> and is there a bigger issue where public officials whether we are talking about police officers or politicians trying a little too hard to dictate the coverage. >> sure, it is a clear case
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was a police officer abusing the authority. in the first place he shouldn't have told him to stop filming. but chasing him when he continues filming is ridiculous. anyone in authority want to control the view. but when they are abusing and tries to turn it off you can post it on youtube and talked about it immediately. >> we know when public officials want coverage and feel like they have a message to help them in some way, they invite us in and give us coffee and bagels . right. especially if they have a smear. >> and photographing brections and we have to work in public and private like you are on videotape . it seems like the authorities need to do that, too.
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if you are out in public you can't have the reasonable expectation. this was as the police officer say. it is an active scene and investigation . where is the line fars the media intruding and getting in the way. >> literally got in the way one thing. are they arresting gawkers. every citizen has a cell phone camera. this is information and videotape of a crime helps the police . plenty of police cars have video cameras in the windshield of a car. when they give a ticket and the guy shoots the cop. >> i got two words for you. rodney king. >> the entire video of rodney king is shown, back in 1991 that would have made it, too. they bowl it down to a snippet
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of the king getting clobbered and so if the cops had the entire video of themselves. they would say he deserved it. >> he had the camera and citizens with cameras. you make sure they are not distorting the video . got trackers to videotape them and have the candidates camera man tracking the tracter. if you get more information in the long run, it is do you walk around thinking you are on camera. >> yes. >> it is it a secrete thing. >> he's right in new york. you are being filmed. >> and sorry. time for another quick break. if you see anything that shows evidence of media bias. give yous an e-mail. new york's mag wreen frank rich and now mag wreen and talking about the uk phone
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hacking scandal. i think we are deluding ourselves if we think that the murder culture has not spread to america. >> new york magazine frank rich try to tie it to news corp coption. is it time for a bias check. and competing with the b.b.c. to deliver a liberal bias with the news. will it work. details next on news watch. taste. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. with a variety of flavors, multigrain pops with pringles.
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bernie kerik was on the murdoch patrol. i talked about the bullying things they do. not just politics and fox being right-wing. it is about them going after personal enemies. producer of bill o'reilly stalked on the street. trying to tie the uk phone hacking scand although to the news corp u.s. properties. news corp is the parent company of fox news. >> franch rich works in new york magazine and then they say that piers morgan now working strange enough to cnn might be the next to called to testify just like murdoch said yesterday. if it is a wideping issue. it is every newspaper in britain are under strutiny .
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this is the culture. it is piers morgan who listened in on a proist phone message that paul mccartney lined to it . played in the news room of the daily mirror. that is getting lost in all of this. they are talking about this and denying he had ordered or condoned it. we have an investigation of two issues and how fair did it spread in britain and whether at all it spread in the united states. >> there is no proof it has . i am glad frank rich made up his mind. i will wait and see what the investigation shows. >> i think it is an open question. he made an assumption and
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assume you know but we need more information. tabloid culture . we have tabloid said like the post in the united states. it does not stop at the water's edge. regardless of the tabloid. that statement from frank rich indicted and convicted and obviously part of a desperation on the part of the left to enforce. >> make it the whole left. >> and to enforca -- a scandal from britain over here. >> here's the problem. someone like frank rich makes a statement and the whole left is indicted. >> you have other left-wing type things. >> there are other public cages that said along the same lines. >> democratic politician that are tout of being allies. they are calling for an
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investigation. we'll talk about pbs. they are delivering a channel to air the programs in the united kingdom and al-jazeera is now available to homes in new york city. pbs only runs stuff from the united kingdom. >> i think the fear of loss of public funding may have something to do for a new market and outlet and new revenue stream. it is fun. why not put a little onus on now on the b.b.c. to compete with cbs and pbs is doing well. viewership was up sevenpercent and 23 percent among two-11. >> it is concerning the public funding. >> they could do find without public funding. >> anybody watching the al-jazeera english. >> do i. i do?
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is it a problem that it is on time warner. >> no problem . think their coverage in the arab-israeli conflict is outrageous. but they provide unusual cover of the arab. >> don't we believe in the free market place? >> is there a threat by having al-jazeera? >> no, they have coverage in places like latin america and they have a big budget and if the present trends continue and free market shrinking down traditional . public media and chinese and french will grow and expand because there is a hunger in the public for foreign coverage. >> i can't say what i am watching. upstairs or down stairs or news broadcast for al-jazeera. >> a different shade of spiderman.
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