hope everyone gives something a try today. great to have you here. >> good to see you. "media buzz" with howard kurtz is next. he has a lot to say. shear howard. >> this sunday, it was just a local scandal involving bridge traffic until a newspaper dug up evidence that chris christie may delivery have called a traffic nightmare in new jersey as an act of political retaliation. suddenly, the presidential hopes for 201 are road kill and he held a marathon news conference for nearly two hours. >> i am embarrassed. and humiliateed by the conduct of some of the people on my team. >> i am who i am. but i am not a bully. i'm saddened. i'm sad. that is the predominant emotion

i feel were sadness. i have absolutely nothing to happen. that is a crazy question. >> the question now, the media and the governor. the book is a bombshell, problem gates ripping rebound over war policy in part by recounting private conversations with the president and hillary clinton. should the former pentagon chief cash? >> dennis rodman loses it in an interview and why should we care? >> now proof of how young models are influenced with anorexia. now we have proof. this is "media buzz" right now. >> most scandaled are

complicates, the story of chris christie and the bridge, not so much. contrary materially denials some of the aides relative inned the traffic might their caused by closing two access lanes to the bridge, creating a might their for ft. lee new jersey, whose democratic mayor has the gall to refuse to back chris christie. then the mails with an aide writing "time for traffic problems in ft. lee." a text to an appointee saying, it is wrong that i am smiling? this caused a media firestorm many casting doubt on chris christie's 2016 hopes and pumping up the scandal. >> governor chris christie ran into a traffic jam today on the road to the white house. >> good evening, new jersey governor, chris christie is angry, embarrassed, humiliated but he is innocent. >> it reinforces a stereotype that he is just a bully at hard.

an e-mail pops up with his name on it copied cc, sent returned relied, he is dead man walking politically. >> now, we have fox news contributor and author of 207 twitter column on the fox site, and columnist dana milbank. along with brit hume. >> we could not stand the 108 108-minute press conference. >> what he did right, he slapped reporters an empty. >> not like he usually does. >> no, they like when he was firm with them. he was almost contrite. there is nothing more the media

loves than to bring a politician way down. >> he said he was sad. >> but to bury him and say this guy is done. he's toast. then building him back up. >> bright, -- we did not see the full chris christie on displace. >> when you are announcing you are humiliated it is hard to go from there to the bully boy, but it depends if the outcome, and the extent of the coverage, the length: did he tell the truth about what he knew? he said he did not know. if anything surfaces to contradict that, that will further the story and if it turns out to be a fact that he did know his national political career is over. >> i would say, dana, when you have to say "i am not a bully,"

it is not a great day but christie was blaming the press for a nothing story but the press was right. >> the press was right and even in his disgrace he made a go case for the 19,000 cases, 680 of the words were "i" and many other "me." we use documents and did a search --. >> he was too self absorbed? >> even in defeat like this, he felt a certain self absorption. on this show two months ago we talk about the media swooning over chris christie and that is -- what is happening we were building him up and now was the chance to take him down. >> you set up the next question christie was the press' favorite republican especially on the east coast they like the pragmatic approach to conservative politicians and his personality.

now that is changing, everyone is sabotaging him. >> golden boy to "punching bag." people love to see this. they love to see politicians getting it and getting whacked. here is the other thing, the same things that people loved about chris christie earlier, that is what they hate now. he was brash. he was a jersey shore kind of guy. >> get off the beach! >> get off the beach. but here it is a liability. >> brit, we have the stories about, is he a bully? "new york times" says bully image trails christie. and "los angeles times" says this underscores his bully image with a senator who had a program canceled and all the videos which were christie unplugged are cited as evidence of a man who has a temper problem. here is one 69 "greatest hits."

>> let me tell you something, after you graduate from law school you conduct yourself like that in the courtroom your rear end will get lone in jail, idiot. >> that was an ex navy seal who challenged him at townhall. >> i would have to say in this fell niced atmosphere in which we exist today muscular guys, old fashioned tough guys run some risks. what i mean, men today have learned the lessons the hard way if you act like a guy's guy, you are in constant danger of saying something that will get you in trouble and make you look like a sexist or like you are a thug. that is the atmosphere he operates. this guy is an old fashion obtained muscular guy and there

are political risks associated with that. >> we are used to blow dried candidates who don't say anything that is outside of what should be political speak and they have their harper picket and if you think about romney the image was so carefully crafted. >> they lose weight at re-election guy and chris city a big guy. who has lost weight. how much is too much? on wednesday, the day the mails surfaced, but the day before the news conference that went on before, msnbc was covering the story every eight minutes and cnn did a lot, fox news did very little the first day. your take? >> it follows the usual pattern. someone did a tally, two hours and 40 minutes on msnbc, two hours 20 minutes on cnn and 14 minutes on fox so i think fox realized they have underdone but when this happens and if

reverse, when a democrat is on the receiving end you will see maybe not that listen sided but you will see the mirror image of that occurring. >> a fox commentator wrote, mainstream media hyper ventilating over a traffic jam? >> that is dead wrong. this is why. that is a traffic jam. that is no ordinary traffic jam and that is no ordinary bridge. it was an on-ramp. when you think about the number of people in this country who have traversed the bridge, the busiest in the world, it is on -- part of the major north-south traffic artery of the east coast and millions of americans who have never lived anywhere near new york, new jersey or connecticut have been over that bridge and they remember it because it is so unpleasant on the best day and people read about this and they can remember the bridge and they can picture themselves stuck in a traffic jam because much of the time there is a traffic jam. my view is this is something

like the i.r.s. scandal for president obama: people can feel it. they can imagine it. they can feel if it doesn't affect them they can imagine it. >> there everyone the callous e-mails in the midst of this, i worked for the bergen record some time ago, eons a ago and it turns out it was old fashioned newspaper digging that, idea it open. >>burgen --bergen record gets commendation of the year. chris christie said it is not that big a deal just because the press writes about it. i know why it is. so do you. he said that as recently as december. the port authority chief stonewalled, said he was going to say something, then he wouldn't, and christie blamed the democrats in the beginning of december, and the port

authority was silent and then we have this. it goes to the reporter who covered the port authority since 2011 for continuing to push and ticking with the story. >> if it is a democrat or republican, i am hearing a lot of chatter, what about the various obama scandals and the press' interest was not that much of a national story until the e-mails made it somebody and christie, by holding the entertaining two hour extravaganza provided a lost visuals to replay again and again and again, but is it fair to say 9 i.r.s. scandal should is gotten more coverage? >> the press love as scandal. the love of scandal is greater than any sort of ideological division. brit hit it in terms of why: people can understand the waiting in traffic thing, they can understand the i.r.s. thing and the website problem but to take benghazi, that is complicated and it is harder for

people grasp and less appeal for the press to follow. >> the only question, brit, as you say, what did the governor know and when did he know it? you get into the press saying, did he create this culture? >> this is a new feature of our legal landscape where politics, politicians are responsible for what they have done or ordered, but they responsible if these "climates "or "cultures," or "atmospheres." you can nail someone even if they didn't do anything if you can establish to the satisfaction of enough people that they created a culture and climate and atmosphere. >> the buck stops at the top. send me a defeat during this hour. >> did robert gates expose vital information about the obama

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bob gates has gotten good press by the media so the media was stunned when "duty" came out with harsh criticism of president obama who kept him on from the bush cabinet but because of the confidential conversations that immediately became news. >> robert gates is harshly questioning president obama's leadership and commitment to the afghanistan war from the start of the surge he ordered. >> betrayal or act of emotion? if he was so seething and so angry, why did he stay?

>> is there something disturbing about a former presidential advisor revealing private connections? >> yes, obviously, whether it is to sell books or to tell the truth, it is a long book, there is a lot that is favorable, but there is a lost confidential conversations that the people in involved would have hat a seasonable expectation of privacy as described bird the supreme court and now they are revealed. something could be lost in terms of the candor with which the aides around a president are feeling they can be comfortable to speak. >> how can a president conduct war and peace sensitive conversation if he thinks people are gathering material for a best seller? >> and the other question, occurred to me immediately, if he felt this strongly and thought it was being managed this badly, and that the process

was this dysfunctional, why did he stay on? look, toward the end of the bush years i knew from talking to him he was dying to leave, he stayed on very reluctantly. it is not surprising he had unmess an experience and what he suggests described why it was more unpleasant. manage is lost. >> i want to be clear --. >> i am not questioning the veracity. he has every right to speak his mind but the business of the private conversations and the criticisms he makes in the book he did not make at the time angry over the budget and how the we white house was stealing authority from pentagon, he has saved a lot of this for the tell-all. >> it seems poor form. he was a guy that was revered as fair and honor build. in his defense, the excerpts could be played more harshly

that he intended. most of us have seen the excerpts, particularly of woodward's portrayal of that in my paper which sent the tone. he could be a little more on the one hand, on the other hand nuanced. >> it could be true but the idea of putting out excerpts is pretty old. >> it is boring. you read the book and the justy stuff is out there and you just have the "b" material out there. the p.r. has to choose but i am done with it. i don't want to reads the book. >> in fairness, although i saw gates as a guy because he worked for above republican and democrat, he is hardly the first to write such a become. >> george stephanopolis, paul o'neal, they have all done this, but my point, my question to you, does it affect the

long-term reputation of the person who is being written about? i say "no." >> stephanopolis was going back to the clinton years and, rice, of course, in the wake of lewinsky, that bill clinton was not fit, and he was self deinstructive. >> bill clinton is an elder statesman and george stephanopolis is the "good morning america" anchor but it didn't really make a difference. it did the at the time and maybe others canning a again that but it doesn't now. >> >> ezra: it have the potential to tarnish a little bit gates' reputation. >> i think so. as much as on the question of whether he should have written the book at all at this stage, as on the question of why he stayed. the question of whether he should have written the book doesn't go to veracity. the question of why he stays, goes to his character.

the book says he came close to quitting. but he didn't. that question hangs in the air. >> naturally, the press has pounced on the stories such as hillary clinton according to gates saying in a private conversation, she opposed the bush surge in iraq in 2007 because of the presidential campaign show was to mount and that will keep coming up in her presidential campaign like christie's bridge. >> is it a public service? >> he did himself a disservice but all information to get out there --. >> the truth of the matter is, there is no real contradiction between the questions that go to whether the president can expect candid advise and the fact that the public is served by having this information about the president which is backed by certain facts the way the president did things particularly in afghanistan and he was half hearted.

it is really a damning charge. >> we look forward to the book and the many, many interviews before the book. >> den first rodman loses it on the we air and the media wallows in it. [ male announcer ] this is the story of the little room over the pizza place on chestnut street the modest first floor bedroom in tallinn, estonia and the southbound bus barreli down i-95. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had thpower to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world's great stories. that began much the same way ours did in a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪

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dennis rodman was back with kim jong-un in north korea which would have zero news value but for the interview asking if he would intervene with kenneth bae. >> would you take the opportunity to help kenneth bae? >> what i know about politics,

kenneth b bae, if you understood what he did, do you understand what kenneth bae did? >> what did he do? >> no, no, no, you tell me. why is he held captive? >> they have not released any charges. >> my gosh. i am saying, i don't give a [ blank ], a rat's ass what you think of the look at these guy. look at 'em. >> everyone ganged up on rodman. >> the latest now on rodman's bizarre bask diplomacy. >> he went on cnn to defend heading to north korea. >> join us from new york is media corporate for the hollywood reporter. how does cuomo handle rodman's ranting and raving?

>> as best as he could but when you ask dennis rodman a geopolitical question you cannot expect to get an intelligent coherent answer. and the media should know this. i thought cuomo handled it fine because he country pressing him and i love that rodman later apologized saying, i was drunk. >> drunk and stressed out or maybe not used word "drunk," but he said he was drinking. >> i will translate that into he had too much to drink. this was a legitimate scoop for ccc did they go heavy in flogging it the next day? >> and they had kenneth bae's sister. they realize what they had and they could get people to comment on it because of rodman's comments about kenneth bae implying he deserved to be in

north korea in a labor camp so that gave it legs. certainly, having john mccain call rodman an idiot made a good headline for other media outlets. >> it is a slam dunk of a story, easy, colorful, but should everyone have picked it up and treated the temper tantrum as news. >> he has always been catnip because he says such outrageous things, that is like his purpose, right? the fact that there is a victim in this case, kenneth bae, who has been held in a labor camp since november of 2012, that really gave it legs and his comments were inappropriate and outrageous. the first thyme he went to north korea and met, maybe that was real news, he went on with george stephanopolis, they debated it but now he has done this more than once, isn't it

kind of a stunt we all buy into. >> he has been there four times in a year and now after this episode and the follow-up comments about drinking and stress and the comments from the family of bae, now hopefully the media can shut the door on this guy. >> there is a serious aspect, in lending the celebrity presence to the dictator of north korea he is legitimatizing a brutal strongman who had his own uncle executed which gets lost. >> it does get lost in the hoop although but this did bring more attention to the plight kenneth

kenneth bae. a lot of people did nut know who this guy is and when there is more tangipahoa cussed on someone, that is a good thing. i don't think that, hopefully, that dennis rodman, he is starting to exhaust the media's patience because he doesn't say anything coherent. you don't get an answer in him. >> but he did unintentional shown a spot light on an imprisoned american. >> executely. >> more pundits leaving big media to cash in on their fame. can they make it on their own? the place where altering pictures of anorexic-looking models is illegal. that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian.

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>> jump lifteds are about building their personal band, with one leaving "new york times" for espn and two others jumping from the "wall street journal" and the guardian is now working with a media venture, and two may fix the "washington post" after k lien was not given $10 million for a new website. how many can make it open their own? now, we have editor and chief of pando daily. >> i don't know if k lien will leave to go on his own, it is not so easy to rain money. >> it is not easy. raising money is actually the easy part. the easiest thing i did with that company was raise my first round of capital. you are just selling a promise. what is hard is building a

company. a big media brand and twitter following is table stakes. you have to have that. it does not mean you will be successful. >> when you have those who may have gotten corporate backing, even though they helped the "wall street journal" but is this a new game where you build up your brand recognition and say goodbye? >> old media needs new media starts and needs brands. just because someone is worth millions to the "wall street journal" or to the "washington post" doesn't mean they can create a multimillion dollar company on their own. i have seen it over and over again whether it is my country, at business week, i have lived it myself you cannot confuse yourself with the platform. the best journalists with the best brand, the magic is them plus a platform, and when you break it ups sometimes it turns

into a bigger business and sometimes it doesn't. what journalists underestimate is time, it takes 5 to 10 years to build a media economy, i don't care if you are jesus christ with eight million twitter followers. >> there is the soundbite. andrew sullivan want on his own and asked the readers to give him money and raised $800,000 the first year but silver became such a big traffic driver at not that went to espn and a new media venture funded by the founder of ebay, are there a lot of rich guy whose want to invest in media. >> thank god. back in the days of luce and graham you had to have big family money to absorb losses for 10 years to build a media company. a last people can say, well, tech billionaires are funding

this. you need to be accountable, and there are serious questions and you have to watch your talk, but it is great that you don't have to be one of the wealthiest families in america to start a media company these days. the fact that people are putting big money into content which we have seen through the fall, that is an amazing trend. seriously. i am a journalist. no journalist will hate that trend. >> jump in, that is fine for anyone who wants to help the business. it helps to have the big media platform, are there a lot of people who say, look at all the hits i am getting on x and y and z and i must be a genius but the fact is, they are not as famous at they think. >> you know this because you have lived this, too, we are in the business of being flattered. everyone tells us we are a genius because they want favorable coverage. you cannot believe the noise things people say about you because you don't want to believe all the horrible things people say.

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>> we usually talk about what is on tv but i want to focus on the tv set from what was on display at the consumer electronics star but t is n has had no new ideas in hardware that are worth paying for. good tv's are cheaper and the more the tv makers become feeling sets with more and more useless stuff. we have a columnist who wrote a piece about this you have a 42" flat screen and you are bored. is that what this is about? >> i have had the tv for four years now and i have looked

around for better things but there isn't anything than my 42" tv. that is the story of tv. have they have reputation of 10 or 15 years ago and since that time, what has happened they have gotten cheaper and better at producing them and they have not come up with a new idea we should pay for. there are some new ideas, curved screens, and ultra super high definition but you were not excited about those. >> so, the curved screen is silly. i have no idea why you would want to have watch a tv that bends on the sides. it doesn't make any sense to me. but it is just one of those instances where like tv makers can do that, there are no innovations that allow them to

curve glass but it doesn't make any practical sense. 4k is a new resolution they are trying to push but there are innovations in media but there is not much content and there is content catch 22, you have to buy the 4k tv's to make the programming work the. >> why they they not make the tv connect to the internet or netflix? >> this is a huge problem the standard living room set. if you have one of the older tv's with terrible menu systems and such like that. the problem for tv makers they are not very good at software, of user interfaces.

the better companies like microsoft and apple makings add-ons, and i say what you should do is buy an old tv, buy a cheap tv and get something like apple tv or xbox and get your media that way. that adds intelligence do your tv. >> but in a larger sense, maybe the problem is tv is fading and we all looking at our screens and stuff on our smartphones? >> this is the other problem to tv. for the tv maker, we have gotten inundated with screens. we have a big screen in the living room which works fine enough and if you going to spend money to by a new thing, why not spend something, on, something, like the new ipad that has a lot more intelligence and can do a lot more than just a bigger or slightly sharper screen in your living room with limited dollars, we have other things to spend it on, other electronics that are actually more innovative.

>> imam -- i am old enough to remember when colored tv was the biggest thing but a lot of the innovation has already taken place. >> thanks for getting up early and joining us. >> good to be here. >> ahead on "media buzz" the use of anorexic-looking models is so bad that media outlets actually adding on a few pounds.

time now for our digital doload fashion magazines are obsessed with women who are thin, so thin, they border on annexic. a study finds seeing anorexic celebrities and models leads to twice as many searches for the

people and for information about anorexia itself. >> we used to speculate but now we know that people who see these images of ultra thin models online, what do people do? they search for information about anorexia, and this is young women. >> the two statistics made my blood boil. 80 percent of ten-year-old girls are afraid to be fat. 42 percent are 1st-3rd graders when to be thin. >> where do they get that from? >> obviously, from magazines, from television. >> did you think about this? >> not that young. >> when you are 15 or 18? >> i remember in high school trying desperately to maintain the what the weight was. alower weight than i have right now. but i remember taking, doing

slimfast which was popular among people trying to lose weight rather than eating lunch and a lost friends were concerned, too. >> what is fascinating to me, because everyone knows that magazines do a lost digital retouching so, israel, in 2012, banned photoshopping to make models appear thinner and band the use of anorexic models. i don't think you can do in the united states. one country made it illegal. >> illegal. and the limit is that you have to have bmi of 18.5 or higher in order to be in tv you also have to do the same thing. here in the united states models, the 5' 11, and 110 pounds. how tall do you think the average woman is? >> probably 5' and 3". >> close, 5' 4".

there are a million men in this country who battle anorexia and binge eating. >> there was an article written by the former editor of cosmopolitan, or cosmo, reverse retouching is fascinating term, now some of the models are so thin that she says she faced the dilemma of what to do with those models frightingly thin. >> they did that for cameron difficult -- diaz. >> you never hear of the horrible and hungry down side of being a model. you don't see them starving and binging. >> the media have a lot to answer for, everyone looks to look at nice-looking women but the idea you cannot just run a

picture of them but you have to add a few pounds or take off the pounds because there could be a bulge knowledge, it is unrealistic. >> tv is to blame. i was at a dinner party and someone said, wow, you lost weight is that because you are on on tv a lot more. >> the antiis, probably, yes. i would love to hear from women. they can get me on twitter about what they think of the study and what role the media has. >> you will get a lot of feedback. >> the big time network who is not as famous as we thought and the division frigid winter warriors. what are they doing? farmer: hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer.

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have a few of the top tweets whether the chris christie scandal is a big trail. >> chock it unto main street media malice. >> this is not a fair addressing of the subject by the media, nothing on obama. >> and another, it was a big story but fox news spent the time down playing this story. >> network anchors are world famous by definition. well, a few people asked folks to identify this man, a regular on several shows and posted "saturday night live," and only 27 percent knew who it was. 2 percent thought it was joe biden. >> if you own a television set you may have seen something about this week being cold. very cold. in january. so counts have been hitting the pavement for teen coverage. >> it is six degrees.

a balmy six. it just went up a degree. it is very cold up here. seven degrees. negative 13 wind chill. >> in 15 minutes, the water this this bottle froze. >> so cold this couple of boiling water instantly freezes in midair. >> here we go. >> i made snow. >> what are they accomplishing out there. >> people love to see people freezing. i remember in a blizzard i was standing on top of my car because i could. and because that is what news director want. the weather is an integral part of local news. people always love to know what the weather is. >> i will put on my parka and standout there can see if you are right. that is "media buzz" and now we will continue the conversation on twitter give us a "like" on

facebook 11 a.m. eastern with the latest buzz. i'm john robert for congress runs to work amid continued gridlock on capitol hill, while outside the beltway, scandal throatens a possible g.o.p. frontrunner. >> i am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team. >> we'll look into the fallout over the traffic jam for political payback fiasco in new jersey. plus, take a deeper look inside the tell-all book by former defense secretary robert gates that's putting the obama administration on defense. >> i can just tell you what the facts are. you can decide for yourself what you want to believe. >>ur