kindness. i can't think of a better way to celebrate easter or passover. [ cheers and applause ] from all of us at. >> on the "buzz beater" the finger pointer is getting ugly commentators accusing barack obama and holder of exploiting race. liberal commentators accusing conservatives of race baiting. >> to those two men, race has been a shield and a swore they have used i to defends themselves and to attack others. >> today the right wing media is proving the point, one site accusing the attorney general of pray the race card and fox news accused kill of playing the victim and whining how he is treated. >> are the media aloomnating or inflaming the situation?

>> a confntation with a law breaking nevada rancher is a major media authority. edward snowden has a bizarre question-and-answer question with vladimir putin as the n.s.a. receives pulitzer prizes. has this evershad dead the reward? we ask a winner. >> more of the endeavor with an investigative reporter that is leaving nbc. is this violate work in decline? this is "media buzz." >> happy easter, everyone, it begun with attorney general holder getting grill asked complaining of the treatment and at sharpton's annual convention bringing chart crux it is from those on the right hammered by those on the left both decrying the use of race.

>> what attorney general has to deal with that kind of treatment? what president has had to deal with that kind of treatment? >> do you think that the house of representatives committees called him in and said get the black dye today? does anyone believe that? get the black guy? the black guy? >> bridge human is race baiting by presenting the position that both president obama and the attorney general holder have used race as a shield and a somebody. >> i am sick and tired of your friends and your party playing this b.s. race card. it is mean. it is evil. it is divisive. it is slanderous. >> everyone who is racist in america and there is a percentage that are, voted against president obama in 2012. >> are the media making matters most? we have fox news contributor who

posts "social buzz," and jim pinkerton and special correspondent for "the root." what explains the media fixation on race cards? >> it is like cat nip because when you discuss iteratings go up and reflects a divided country, reflects a divided media. example, huffington post, holder said he is not playing the race cold. and then, hold are plays the race card and then new york manage says rate has been the real story of the presidency. >> when it comes to the incident involving eric tolder who did not mention race but brought it up talk to the audience, a conservative commentators are they injecting race into the political dialogue? >> the tone that holder took in front of the national action network was playing for victim sympathy from the audience and i

would now cuss on as the editor, why is al sharpton the go-to person for racial discussions including on msnbc? this is a man who shows recently, he was an informant to the file. >> he said he was helping to catch bad guys. >> the allegation he was an f.b.i. informant and busted in a cocaine rap goes back to 1998 it was reported in news day and rereported in 2002 and now, again, why wasn't he knocked out of the box as a credible authority on anything decades ago is beyond me. >> this is more than reverend al. are the liberal commentators injecting race by denouncing the conservative pundits for race baiting? everyone is talking race. >> everyone is talking race. no to director first question. the initial question, does the media make it worse?

the answer is yes, resounding yes. there are a lot of stories having to deal with race that are covered that should be not. we argue over that and wait time. we have all of the horrible statistics regarding race and in housing and the workplace, and they do not get the coverage they should. >> because they are not --. >> i say, in terms of who is inflaming who, the reality is, there have been countless stories on g.o.p. efforts reaching out to black bests and i am rooting for them, hour, what is frustration, is this perception that liberal media bias are ston -- stoking the fears of racism, it is not true. the real obstacles for the g.o.p. reaching out to the black voters is not liberal media or

bias, but it is things that are rarely covered in the news outhealths. >> you mean stupid things that some republicans say. >> yes. >> i listen to the echo chamber, whether it is the media world that pounces on the stories and the real world with a lot of average americans talking about the questions and what does holder say? what did the pundits say? >> this is mostly an inside the beltway political story and there have been polls that show that people in the country, the flyover country as we like to say, are concerned about jobs and puttinghe table, yes, maybe, they are discussing racial continuics but it is not the primary agenda. >> i agree. i would add what she said, if you want to take an issue whether african-americans, republicans, want to take the

topic of public choice like eric cantor and rand paul have gone out of their way to advance charter schools and won major victories including in new york city but i agree with lauren, it is more money to cover the latest food fight. >> is it lets responsible? >> look at this thing and can you not think of easter company, peeps or whatever they are called. >> peeps. >> peeps. peeps. >> racial baiting stories are the "peeps "of the media. >> also, echoing this, that is where the issue of school choice where wednesday and democrats, including the different races have worked across the aisle which is why it gets less coverage. kumbaya and everyone is getting along. >> i am all for more coverage of housing, and a lot of issues where race discrimination is a factor or where it affects

people of all rates but what about the conservative argument that we sometimes hear that anyone who credittizes president obama or eric holder is branded a race it. >> the word "racist" is thrown around too casually. that takes the power out when people like me try to write about it. another word thrown around race baiting, colin powell was called a race baiter because he said some of the criticism is racist. i don't think anyone thinks he is a liberal activity. that proves that term is thrown out around too in race baiting. >> you have to agree a o'reilly. he is making sense when we saw on the clip that he said that people didn't like to go after the black guy today but after the attorney general and i think the controversies that we cover, the controversies as we call

them, are ginned up because people don't like what eric holder or anyone else a person of color has to say it is automatically a race issue in the media which then spreads. >> i am not saying he shouldn't be criticized but if you go back to the first answer it is cat nip and everyone pounces and that fuels cable ratings. >> now, a slighter topic that stuns me with all of the political news about chelsea's baby, announcing she is pregnant and you have all of the smart analysts saying, what is the impact of this on 2016, and are we perhaps analyzing what ought to be routine joyous occasion that a daughter of a woman who, yes, will probably run for presidential, is pregnant with her first child.

>> you have been in town for how many years and you don't have a cynical bone? a lot of reporters probably think this was: the planned. >> landed? you don't think chelsea and her husband are entitled to have a baby when they want. >> if it was landed it would be planned for next year when the campaign could be underway. >> it could be that the pregnancy was a happy event and the many stream media trying to help the presidential campaign decided to milk this the royal baby. by contrast, look, the bush first grandchild got no attention to speak of. >> if we are talking about media conspiracy theories the only conspiracy is that others have seen how much coverage kate and prince william's baby has got subsequent they know that is a story, a friendly "people"

magazine story that people love to click on and that is why the news outlets ran. >> this is chelsea. he is not running for anything. >> people have been doing america's royal baby. this was overcoverage, absolutely. am i pleading guilty? absolutely. i was in the room that day when they announced and i went there to cough the event and i thought, well, what happens when i leave not covering the one change that everyone considers the news. >> this is hillary clinton. she is most likely running for president. it hasn't been good. a lot of people say she is too hold. so there is coverage. >> the guy who ran in 2012 is a grandfather. how much coverage did that get? >> people didn't say he was too old to run. >> isn't this sexist? >> yes. are you baiting me, is that called secretary baiting? >> of course not. >> you are wrong. we have to take a break.

>> send me a tweet. >> an armed stand off and the stuff of tv drama or was he turned into a hero and my interview with the "washington post" who won a pulitzer prize thanks to edward snowden. clear

>> federal federal authorities got in a tense confrontation with a rancher who failed to pay grazing fees on the land, bundy was granted an interview to shawn sean hannity prompting credit u.s. athank you is days after hundreds showed support

for their ranchers saying this is battle is not about his cattle or unpaid grazing fees but state rights and government overreach. >> the government is bullying this cattle farmer, mr. bunly who i am sympathetic with trying to make a living. >> he is a tax dodge. >> what happened if they came in the early morning to your ranch. >> you turn me around your ranch and you keep out, if they come we will deal with them. that is what we got to do we will deal with you. you got the guts do do it, come obligate. >> fox news and hannity should be ashamed of the coverage of lawmaker and sean hannity is cheerleaderring for remain add confront with the federal government. >> those are strong words. >> they are and the mainstream media has done their best to slim bundy, calling him

deadbeat, deadbeat, deadbeat. why does the government own all of the land in nevada? where is it written that every farmer has to be a federal tenant? how did that happen? >> the notion that fox has become a champion for bundy, fair or unfair? >> sean hannity has been a champion, no doubt. >> he speaks to a lot of people who think this is something that erupted in the 70's and 80's and became an important part and now with the fracking, the stakes are a million times higher. the research for energy research shows that there is $120 in oil and natural gas under federal lands and it is not being used because of the restrictions that bundy is up against. >> that is not drying the coverage. is fox overplaying the story? >> this is a thursday story and should not be covered as major. that is the criticism.

it is treated hike it is...i cannot -- war coverage warrants that. that is the misfire. >> it is similar to what we talked about which race. this shows this story shows the divisive media consultture, right? a reporter from msnbc who is saying, well, no one was shot, and i bet fox news was disappointed about that. that is a horrible, horrible, horrible thing to say and the fact that she would say it just shows that she wants if do the blame game and not cover the story. that is the soundbite that was covered. >> i don't think i can recall another incident where a guy who everyone knowledges is a lawbreaker and hasn't paid the grazing taxes or fees for 20 years has been, even if there was a severe reaction has been

made if not and a hero sympathetic. >> part of it is the fact that the bureau of land management manipulating the endangered species to use the desert tortoise... >> listen, we are going to wipe out your livelihood and you have to deal with it because we are the government he looks bad if you say why does the government own the land and use the endangered species to crush this guy, that is legitimate, too. >> bundy said he doesn't recognize the federal government. if it was a left left wing their said that --. >> i have do stories on plenty of people who were in arrears of child supporter whether they didn't know, or they were dealt a bad hand. this is someone fitting the

demographic disillusion oned by the government and feels this is not the country they want, more urban and racially mixed, and that is who the story is targeting and it is not a major story. this is egregious. >> but there is a major store in salt lake about the western lawmakers to talk about why the government owns their land. it is nothing to do with this at all. >> thank you both gore joining us. next, if edward snowden broke the law how did two newspapers win his highest honor? bart goal men in you've tried to forget your hepatitis c. it's slow moving, you tell yourself. i have time. after all there may be no symptoms for years. no wonder you try to push it to the back of your mind

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bart gelman andhe bart gellman won a pulitzer prize for reporting on n.s.a. spying and some of it focused on edward snowden involved in a

bizarre spectacle calling into a russian tv show and why the -- and asked the question of vladimir putin. >> they also found they unreasonably intrude into the private lives of ordinary citizens. individual whose have never been suspected of wrongdoing. does russia intercept, store, or analyze, in anyway, the communications of millions of individuals? >> joining me now from new york is a three listen time pulitzer prize winning, bart gellman. first, the fundamental question: any hesitation at going in publishing documents, n.s.a. documents that someone who broke the law to give them to you? >> we had all kinds of hesitation about what and when to publish as far as verifying and considering the security impact. our source was not allowed to give us the material, am i supposed to pretend that?

one of the most significant consequential stories of my lifetime and i would not hold it back because someone gave it to me without authority. no one has. school after school 9 last decades have depended on people who broke the rules or the law in providing that information to reporters. >> it is true that journalists deal with disreputable sources but some criticism over the pulitzer prize calling this is disgrace and some question whether the two newspapers, the "washington post" and "the guardian "should have published the secrets on the theory that it hurt the country and hurt the administration's antiterror effort. >> a great majority of the commentators and americans think it has strengthened the country to have this debate. the president said so himself. we have two supreme court justice whose say that the legal challenges raised merit supreme

court consideration, a federal judge found part of the program unconstitutional, silicon valley is on fire with criticism of what the government is doing and taking activity efforts to thwart it. congress has intremendous doused all sorts of legislation to change the boundaries between secret intelligence and public accountability and between secret intelligence and the privacy ordinary members. it is hard to say this debate should not have happened and i know very few who say it sunday have. >> you are not edward snowden's advocate but when he criticized the united states program and gave vladimir putin a propaganda coup, does that make you reconsider your opinion of him? >> it is irrelevant to the coverage, to the quality of the material what he gave me. and that he gave other

journalists, what says conduct is, whether he broke the law or whether he is helping vladimir putin and i am not his advocate there have been a lot of loose statements about edward snowden as a russian agent or enabler of russia. they have no supporter evidence. what he did on russian tv is open to debate but it is most on ten debated by those who want to deflect attention of what he uncovered. >> some call this a document dump to you and to greenwald. can you talk about the challenges of item this story a story that could be published. >> first he didn't want according to him and i didn't went to just put it all out there. there are many thousands of documents, nothing like that quanity have been made public. it is hard to understand them. it is hard to understand the

significance of them and what i and the "washington post" have been looking for or stories that raise public policy questions. is it okay for the u.s. government to be sweeping in large quantities of content and data about content of ordinary americans? is there a bargain we knew we were making after 9/11? the answer is "no." there was absolutely no evidence on the public record that the government was sweeping in this vast volume of communication that the government was breaking into the private data links of google and yahoo. >> let me jump in, you interviewed edward snowden in now for 14 hours but in the beginning greenwald went to hong kong to talk to him and you decided not to go. were you concerned about sources and getting too close to edward snowden? >> i certainly was concerned about boundaries between reporters and sources and would not do something that crossed

the line. my role is to receive information, to vet it, to check the motivation, to check the accuracy, and not to do something else were i am not saying anything else happened in hong kong. by staying in new york where i live and work i have more time to go through the material and prepare stories for publication. >> bart gellman of the "washington post" and new three time pulitzer prize winner, thank you for sharing your views today. >> a big spat over another p price won by center for public integrity on coal miners denied black lung efforts and the word should have been recognized although the tv nets would are not eligible and the center says that work was limited and mainly geared to producing a television story of the version, abc said it was thrown under the bus and the center said they will not be bullied by abc.

too bad it ended this this squabbling. >> sharyl attkisson made news last week talking about battling cbs and the obama administration. what about the hacking of her computer? that is next. ek. to mediat the macking of her

buzz. >> we had a tremendous reaction last week to the interview with sharyl attkisson on why she felt compelled to leave cbs and the difficulty reporting on the obama administration. i also asked sharyl attkisson of the decline in the investigative reporter but we have a mystery from her tenure at cbs. >> your computers were hacked and never resolved and you suspect it was the n.s.a. or outside organization. >> i am still at the point where i am letting my lawyer only speak to this and he is not ready to speak to it but i think

there will be more information about this before the end of the year. >> are you suspicious? is that fair? >> it is fair to space numerous independent analysts have confirmed what we said earlier that unauthorized intrusions of my work computer and my home computer and apple computer which i consider hugely problem 134 and a number of investigations going on right now and i think there will be more information to be heard about that and we are making progress. >> the state of investigative reporting, is it easier now, with the big news organization would want steps to go viral online to get a lot of clips to pursue light we stuff, miley cyrus, popular lists, than to do the hard digging or the other part of doing investigative reporting? it is controversial almost by definition? someone is making a charge, or had are sources that cannot go

on the report. >> if you don't have the stomach as a manager to support and against investigative and original reporting, it is a lost trouble. nothing more than that. i can see it from the viewpoint of someone not committed it is simpler and easier and fewer headaches to doing the celebrity stories and day of air stories and weather stories they rely on. i get that but i felt part of our job is to serve the audience by giving them information material they are not getting elsewhere. >> and i do think there has been this whole turn about where lighter stories that get the clicks and they see on the web, and the popular websites, those stories are rewarded more when you bring them to the table and they don't draw any negative

feedback, by and large, and it is an easy way to cover the news. i'm not sure that is news and i'll not sure that is serving the public. >> in the case of television network and stations that have to worry about the fcc and getting license renewal, obviously, that is a powerful tool abused during the nixon administration, this administration was a study about bias that was pulled back, a lot of questions i would say about how the newsrooms operate, do you think that is so the of a break on aggressive reporting? >> corporations that own news divisions have approximately ships with advertisers and other corporations. >> they have the relationships outside of the news division and it is hard to imagine they do not in some ways impact what the news decision or news decisions decides do do whether it is explicitly said or understood, i do think that comes into play

and there are reporters that if they speak frankly will tell you they have receive seen evidence of that and when they go to reporting conferences some of them feel it is more heavy handed than prior years. >> how about newsroom cutbacks? investigative reporting by definition is time consuming, it is expensive, you might not come up with a story in the end, you have to deal with lawyers. i wonder whether that aspect -- i can remember when the networks routinely broke big stories and now not so much. is there an economic aspect? >> i don't think so. why spend a lot of money, why have a big staff i work with one producer. we are productive because we do short-term things while we work on long-term projects and i don't think it is advertise to spend a lot of money and use a lot of resources to do great

investigative journalism. some aspect of that in some cases if all resources are removed, if producers are withheld and cameras are not assigned can you not do a great story. >> sharyl attkisson thanks for joining us. >> we will pick this up next segment: is investigative storying decline? is it true that conservatives will not take over for stephen cobert>>aryl

>> sharyl attkisson is not the only high profile correspondent to quit in frustration, two others have left nbc with one saying the network is moving in a direction giving fewer opportunities. is this a trend? we have columnist here. you her sharyl attkisson, when you look at menu of what the news shows offer do you think reporting is more of an afterthought or a liability? >> happy easter. i love numbers and let me give you a couple numbers here: in 2007 100 airs were logged of air and two-thirds of the air time was gone for sharyl attkisson and lisa? why?

because investigative reporterring is no longer a profit center. what is easier, take a reporter, producer, higher security, satellite uplinks that cost thousands and maybe come back without a store or put four or five around the table and give opinions on news that already exists be it is a matter profit because more corporations are in the news business. >> i am told there was frustration in getting investigative pieces on nbc particularly more recently but i don't think it can only be claimed by the fact that it is more expensive. i have a sense that maybe because it is controversial, and i mentioned in my interview with sharyl attkisson is skirting away. >> that is true. you look at the exit interview of michael and he said and i quote, "it was increasingly clear they were moving in directions there were going to be fewer opportunities for my work." so, michael, 33 year veteran saw the write on the wall and the reports were not on the air because they are not profitable and he had big stories he broke.

wraps there is a headache aspect to this, like we don't want to deal with the backlash we may or may not receive. >> exactly. let me switch to stephen cobert. he will take over letterman next year and some on right say conservatives are not going to watch this guy. as one of those, bill o'reilly. >> he is a mouthpiece for the far left, hard to fathom that 40 percent of americans who screen them service as conservative will wall -- watch stephen cobert. >> when he goes to cbs, that character will be retired so i don't know what cbs think those are buying here. they are getting a stephen cobert that has hosted zero late night talk shows during his contrary. he is playing from behind, i am

not say 4086 of the country will tune him out but if he loses 10 percent of those who say he is a liberal and i will not give him a chance that could be difference between 1st and 3rd place for late night when you have kimmel and fallon who play apolitical, being equal opportunity offenders so stephen cobert has to move to the instrument. >> letterman does not hide his left of center views. >> he is in third place. >> nbc is teaming with "now this news," and cbs is producing 15 second news videos. let's look at one from nbc.

>>iguesi i give you a 15-second answer. is this the future? >> seven in ten young adults get their news on the phone, digitally but you are fighting for screen space. have you been to a restaurant lately with that age group? they are on the phones and getting the important e-mail or taking a phone call so you need 15 seconds and that is all you get before the next e-mail or text. this is how you get to them but you are fighting for a lot space on the phones. this is the future. >> got to go. i refer 30 seconds myself. thank you, joe. the x-rated tweet from united us airways in response to angry customers. how come no one has been fired for t

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f dig >> when a custom complained of the service at us airways slow got back an offensive tweet. >> offensive doesn't begin to describe it. not safe for work doesn't describe it. twitter posting featured a pornographic image of a woman with an airplane. >> i am not buy this is a pass take. >> are you kidding? it was a mistake. can tweet that? it hurts their brand and it is showing they don't "get" social media. you cannot go that quickly on social media that you allow something like this to be tweeted. >> because a staff member was kicked off and thought it was amusing.

>> the problem with social media and tweeting there is no editing, a copy editor is not saying wait. i goes so quickly and you want to stay in the conversation, and that is how wig mistakes are made. >> airlines are using this for mistake, i think the person should have been fired. >> kenneth cole, and the war in syria and they tweeted "boots on the ground, what about heels and loafers o that was dumb. >> how about the bomb threats. >> troubling. a 14-year-old girl who claims to be from al qaeda saying there is a bomb on board and the airline tweets right back, saying we take these threats very seriously and we are going to the f.b.i. and getting your i.p.

address and she has a meltdown and said, wait, wait, i am just 14 years old from someplace else and i didn't do it, please, please, don't hurt me. they arrested her. >> american airlines did the right thing. i am troubled by arresting a 14-year-old but what got me is the explosion of copycat tweets which are something like a bomb goes o.f. in three hours. and another tweeted, well there is a bomb on the paris flight, that is why the airline has to take these so seriously. i would love to continue this discussion online because people are split about whether you should arrest a 14-year-old for playing around but with bombs and planes you don't play around. >> 14-year-olds need to wise up. still to come your best tweet and a pink slip for the airline

expert that cnn made fame out.

>> a few of your top tweets on the pulitzer prize for the leaks on edward snowden "stain on the pulitzer prize committee, neither paper distinguished itself, important story was the only reason for award, not

surprised the best way to get the prize is to crash america." fellow conspirators should not be given prizes and after being on russia tv, i think less of "the guardian" and their role the. >> you interviewed we gellman who said he is trying to raise public policy questions and nature in the tank and that it came to -- put president obama in the hotseat. >> i think edward snowden is a russian pawn. >> now, talk about click bait the banner headline "supreme court crisis coming this fall," but only a link to a new york magazine opinion piece saying if republicans and if there is a high court nominee, just pure speculation. i am not going to poke fun at

cnn for running a banner on the anniversary of the sink of the titanic because maybe some didn't hard about it but a sat development from the missing airplane, mitchell casado has been fired by the canadian employers cited for being late but the boss was quoted sass saying hiroshima us canadians and my company with the way he was dressing like he was 15 years old and people complained it wasn't professional if you go to any plane you do not see them in shorts and sandals. >> he was pushed out for plaid shirts? a society back for cnn and the world. >> in a city, toronto, where the mayor is rob ford who doesn't exactly dress like a...and lies

about smoking crack. it is not a plane. he is not flying. it is a similarity. >> why didn't the company just say, hey, put on a tie. >> you do not know he didn't do that it is his company. he is allowed to fire him but it is lame. >> this is more dangerous work than flying a plane. that is it for this "media buzz." we post original video on facebook and let us know what you think on twitter. see you next sunday. >> it is monday april 21st. panic as a car plows into a packed church driving over people gathered for easter services. what went wrong behind the wheel? and boston feeling strong today

ahead of the marathon. >> with a record number of runners and spectators expected today we will go live to the sweeping security plan taking place. >> a student suspended for asking miss america to prom. the beauty queen is making a personal plea to the school. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪>> good morning to you. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. hope you had a terrific peek end. >> yes, i did. >> thank you for starting your

brand new week with us. we begin with chaos that happened at an easter service in florida after a car plowed right into the church injuring 21 people. more than 200 parishioners were inside when the lex i say slammed into the building pushing over tables and trapping people. >> i heard some people were under the car. >> yeah. >> the driver told police her break failed as she was turning into a parking lot. >> a new jersey family's easter egg hunt. it was cut short when a sky diver came crashing into a nearby yard. it is unclear if the man's parra chute failed to