active. my father is none and he is playing on the computer right now. >> you don't use it you lose it. that does it for us. >> nine days before the midterm the media are increasing and making the elections about one issue: president obama. >> it is like obama has ebola virus. >> in the end the president really can't get his head wrapped around the fact that he is over. >> will the president's role determine whether republicans can win the senate or is that an easy store line for the media? >> new leaks in the killing of michael brown describing the struggle for a gun that made the police officer fear for his life. is the press being fear on ferguson? >> the death of ben bradlee a giant of journalism and had his

shortcomings and i talked to bob woodward about his role and the challenge of investigative reporting then and now. >> not naming the stories, you believe you have good sources but we don't have documents and we don't have tapes and we don't have videos and you go hope with a lump in your stomach. >> on the lessons for journalists investigating the obama administration. >> monica lewinsky goes online about bullying. >> people would refer to me as "tramp." "slut." "whore." "bimbo."

>> will the media let her move on from the chin tock sex scandal some this is "media buzz." we thought the elections could turn on isis or midterms or ebola but they turned on president obama because so many don't want to be in the same zip code as the president. >> the bottom line are these are folks who vote with me, they have supported my agenda in congress, this isn't about my feelings being hurt. >> it is all about his feelings being hurt because in the end the president really can't get his head wrapped around the fact that he is over. >> he was a citizen with the most interesting and sought

after rockstar, political rockstar on the planet and now he has to hide under his desk until november. this is a totally humiliation. >> we have so many different candidates, democrats, who are giving at best, wishy washy answers about their relationship. >> is the press making this about the president? >> we are joined with christina from "roll cause," and joe tripty democratic strategist and fox news contributor. jonah, is obama making this about himself? >> this is one of the "all of the above." the media likes to talk about president obama and president obama likes to talk about obama and the setup you said is the economy and i still think it is about the policy and foreign policy. that stuff is setting the

background radiation for everything of how the election will play out and i don't know the media is doing the democrats or obama any favors by making this all about obama because a lot of people are tireed with obama. >> democrats are blaming the president in advance for the loss of the senate and he is being called president pariah. >> reality is, in every midterm, it is the president's favourability and approval ratings that have the biggest impact, the one measure you can count on that tells you which party wins or loses and his numbers are low and the rest of the election, the rest of the candidates is how far and i get away great him or how do we tie him to them. >> it is easy for the media to point out studies which show how often anyone voted with or against the president.

that is a very easy line for the president campaigns to use against whatever the percent is against president obama. he isn't looking for that, and he has been raising money. >> doesn't the story line miss the fact that these are a collection of state and local races and state and local issues and personalities as well as the overrideing or support for or running away from the president. >> i talked to a democratic pollster who said that if we can make it about local issues in a place like north carolina where senator hagan has attacked the house speaker on education, if she can win on that issue and we know she can win early by a hair, maybe we will be okay and get away from the fact. >> that would be in the local coverage but not the national.

>> if you are a democratic candidate you are trying to get local coverage and make it local. the national media has a tougher time. the narrative is obama. that is easier. >> what president obama was dying was trying to get out the base talking to sharpton and you usually do that a couple of days best election telling the black vote which is the one block that is with him, don't listen to the guys trashing me. >> you cannot microtarget. >> everyone knows about the interview. >> pulling back to the national media, a study by 9 the conservative media center, september 1 has not done a single story on the midterm. cbs, 14 stories, and nbc, 11 stories compared to a combined total of 159 back in 2006 when it was clear the democrats remain on the verge of taking over both houses. >> it is outrageous.

it is perfectly legitimate -- those numbers are the numbers, not conservative or liberal. i am sure i know this for a fact that a lot of people are turned on by politics and it doesn't get great ratings but if you don't have a national news media to cover the major national news elections what do you have them for? the fec license, or heavy it is, they should be required to recover political campaigns and they are not because it is a bad story for obama and democrats. >> i don't think it has anything to do with bad story for democrats and obama it it doesn't carry. everyone is disinterested or disenchanted with both parties what you see in the coverage is a reflection of if we did a she, a segment every monday about the senate races, who would watch? in last cycle, with the special

report by bret baier i was on every week and i don't remember being on once or twice this year. >> more air time for joe tripty. >> it is legitimate. it is just not so interesting. >> a lot of coverage of the midterm. including, --. overall a story in the "new york times", the stories make it clear we have an unpopular president and we have democratic party not wanting to tied to the president but zero stories on the midterm. >> i read the numbers, that was very surprising so i went on the apps and looked under "politics," and the lead story was three awkward interactions between celebrities and john kerry so you get the media you demand. stories like that are clicked on. this also is a resource issue. i run a newsroom and there are

choices you have to make. we focus on the elections and the campaigns we send reporters but if you had a ton of resources in 2006 you have fewer now you are not covering and everyone and trying to save for what they now will be the blockbuster presidential year which is still getting more interest. >> i add in 2006 it was almost a national debate and referendum on the iraq war and you had mark foley and the sex scandal. i thought media fever broke with ebola virus but...then it has come back in a big way. >> breaking news, a major scare in new york city with a possible case of ebola. >> he comes back into new york city. he knows he has been handling ebola patients and he is here

for a week? he doesn't tell anyone? he is still out this bowling and taking taxis and not quarantine ed? >> she is talking about dr. craig spencer who went to africa to treat el potential patients -- ebola patients. >> how much of the coverage of ebola is partly driving the campaign? >> certainly feeds into the right-wrong track feelings for good and ill reasons and feeds into the sense of government overpromising and underdeliverring in the science they are not competent. whoever is planning obama p.r. strategy was bill want for having the next case in new york city because the self-absorbed

media think it is worthy. >> it gets 100,000 more times coverage than omaha. >> ebola coverage is show up in ads and debates. how much does it color the election? >> it is shaping it. you are seeing governors start to do their own bans to show how tough they are against obama -- ebola. the other thing, but it is an easy place to say, here is me saying obama is not doing enough if you are a democrat. it is a give me for the politicians. >> sunday the media criticize the dr. craig spencer, people who go to africa and risk their lives and it is lost in those who --. >> a it is ridiculous and you are freaking out america for

know reasons. there are 18 things that are way more risky in this case whether that is the flu virus which kills a lot of people each year, whatever, it is a sensational ridiculous story. >> freaking out america puts it as colorfully as i have heard. it can be hard to avoid that sensation. >> remember to send me a tweet about our show twitter@abc7newsbayarea. www.

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when michael brown was killed two months ago, there was a missing piece of the story, what was officer darren wilson's side? this week, unnamed government officials are saying wilson told investigators that he was pinned in his police car and feared for his life as michael brown reached for his gun and he fired twice. the st. louis dispatch obtained a leaked copy of the autopsy report showing michael brown had been shot in the hand at close range. >> ironically, i gets leaked. this is all in an attempt to paint michael brown in a negative manner to set up a defense for officer wilson. >> christina bell, tony,

journalist love these. are these sources and the "washington post" sources, as well, on this whole narrative, giving this stuff to the press? aren't they basically subverting the grand jury process? >> i don't know that i would go that far with an accusation like that. but they're working the rest, in a way, they are trying to paint a different picture. look what they were up against. all they had was what was on social media which looked real, real bad. if you had a photo of a kid laying in the street, you know, and an officer standing above him, like this is the only thing they have to combat that. so i don't blame them for leaking it. but, yeah, it completely colors the investigation. >> for the record, the justice department has denounced leaks and the other said says it is not responsible for the leaks. but the commentators, nationally about this missouri town, are they refusing to seriously grapple with this new evidence? >> yeah. look, in the setup, we asked is this undermining the narrative? it's not undermining it.

it's completely refuting it and destroying it. >> that narrative being unarmed teenager gets shot six times, some witnesses say with his hands up? >> yeah. the whole -- barack obama talked about ferguson and -- the u.n. im pleasitly conceding this was a narrative about america's fault and buying into this narrative that, you know, we talked earlier about lack of resources complained why network news isn't covering midterm electrics. lack of resources didn't keep them from flooding the zone in ferguson for months, putting on base speculation, talking to people in the streets, fuelling this idea that this cop of 60 years just decided to be racist one day and shoot a black man because he was black. >> the press only had what they had, which was people out there, witnesses saying what they saw. >> it was frustrating to me, to interrupt you for half a second, that the police department didn't put out what the officer's side was.

but now it almost seems like no more riots in ferguson, some of the peat ya have moved on. >> well, no, but the other thing is, i think i don't mind obviously you get a good leak, you report it. but there's no real look at -- hard look at the motive and why these leaks are happening and question what's going on and educating the public about that, as well. you don't see that on the other side. it's just now go, run with the league. >> and you saw a similar reaction with the trayvon martin situation in florida. you had one side of the story, then they release it, whatever was in the kid's system. it was a terrible circumstance, right? and everybody acknowledges that and the investigation should play out as it is. both people are getting information coloring that investigate from the press. >> it's true that the media can only report what they had confirmed, but looking back, it may be that we rushed to judgment in this case? >> it's obviously the case that the bulk of the media rushed to judgment. they very much wanted one story line to be true. they very much wanted to

protesters in ferguson to be champions of racial justice versus a racist law enforcement system. >> why, because they don't like cops? >> i think they like narrative civil rights. a lot of people go into journalism because they see themselves as pure vaers of truth and justice on the civil rights agenda and -- >> but there were parts of that story that were true. it's a city that's overwhelmingly african-american and there are no african-americans on the police force. >> but the media goes -- >> hundred oefs journalists camping out for weeks on end in ferguson, missouri. >> the town was in fire. >> that's why the media are attracted all these outside people to set it on fire. >> journalists get arrested and journalists tend to flock to their own. but nobody is wantsing for one narrative. >> we still don't know was going to happen. we'll have to see what the grand jury comes up with. up next, monica lewinski trying to rebrand herself as a crusader against online

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to survive. >> she wants to lead a crusade against online harassment. joining us from san francisco is founder and editor of chief of a website. i have sympathy for monica lewinsky but is she a flawed messenger? >> i have a lot of sympathy for her and i heard the story and i was anticipating "take your story back," no one should have to pay for their life for a mistake they made between consenting adults when they are 24, but a lot of people are going to hate her no matter what and she has to get the message right and she doesn't in my opinion. if she said fat shaming our slut shameing it would have work but sheered by saying cyberbullying because that is, to me, a kid who is gay in middle america who can't come out, someone who is

driven to suicide or the feelings of suicide because of who they are and they have done nothing to cause it. this wasn't cyberbullying. >> not by any means but with bill clinton traveling around the world for the foundation and in demand by democrats as a campaigner should the media let her move on or is she using what happened to her to extend the brand of her and what happened in the oval office? >> look, i don't think it is totally fair everyone who says, she just wants to be in spotlight making all this money as she detailed, she has turned down a lost opportunities to make money of what happened and she was very silent for 10 years and she is at least trying to do it for a good cause but everyone in the media feels, the timing is more than a little suspicious with hillary clinton running for president and part of me thinks, you know, good for her if she

has to live with it, shouldn't the clintons? >> could lewinsky be likes an ex-felon who takes up the cause of prison reform and bring a lot of attention to the comments that mar the neighborhood of social media? >> yes and no. her messaging was off here. what irritated me the most in the speech was saying i was a young girl in my 20's and fell in love with my boss. come on, this is now "scandal," you are not three people on a teamworking shoulder by shoulder long nights for 18 months but an intern in the white house working for the president and to try to say it was an every day situation, people don't buy it. the more she pushes it too far she is not a good spokesman. that said, what is interesting if i was looking at the relies to your tweet we would talk about this and how many sexist

things were written, similar to comments she wrote about people calling her the [ blank ] queen. as she tries to garner more sympathy than she deserves --. >> a colorful way to put it. >> that is proving her point. >> do you get a lost abuse and sexism? >> constant abuse and frankly, any woman who is in a public realm, whether it is internationally known or locally known, they hear these things and they are like, yeah, welcome to being a woman, when you are a celebrity, most women are numb to this as they get older. >> thank you forget up early to talk about this, sarah. >> ahead on media buzz, cnn

thinks audio of bristol palin getting roughed up is hysterical but, first, bob woodward on the challenges of investigative reporting in the nixon administration and the obama administration.

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but brother a boom that prompted jackie kennedy never to speak to him. bradlee and graham took on the nixon by publishing the pentagon papers but he will be remembered mostly for water watergate. when i sat down with him at the georgetown home it seemed like a place to start. >> when you and carl were deep into watergate and the nixon administration was putting so much pressure on the paper and the media was ignoring the stories what role does he play? >> he was the general. we said he had the courage of the whole army and the idea was, get to the bottom of this, a great believer in the truth, no sense of...he didn't approach journalism as a way of making moral judgments. it was a way of finding out what

happened. >> given the stakes and you were young pups we can now say, does you worry about keeping his confidence and what was three like to deal with personally on the difficult stories? >> he never suggested he would take us off the story. he said subsequently that we were getting new information from the nixon cam page treasurer or the bookkeeper or those who witnessed the massive housecleaning and destruction of documents after the watergate burglars were arrested and we had someone in the justice department as we now, mark felt, the number two in the f.b.i. giving guidance and assistance about what directions to look for and what the consequences might be for at the same time as

has been said, you are publishing these stories and not naming the sources, you believe you have good sources but we don't have documents, we don't have tapes, we don't have videos, you go home with a lump in your stem -- stomach and it is kind of, not a doubt, but graham wondered when the whole neither would never. and we thought maybe never. >> now it looks like the resignation of nixon was inevitable. how did ben bradley react when you made the significant error saying a witness named the chief of staff to the grand jury that must have been tough going? >> that was a tough moment. he said, why? how did it happen? what is important about that moment, we had lead story in the

"washington post" accusing the president's top aide of being involved in all of this and controlling a secret watergate fund and turned out to be true but we said there had been grand jury testimony to that affect and there had not because no one asked the witness about that, the witness would have said he controlled the fund there what no actioner appropriations or ao be calm and untangle it. there was never a thrown book or a fist on the tail, it was, more reporting is always the solution. there is a great lesson in all of this for older reporters like you and myself and for younger reporters: the facts.

who are the ones? how do they know this? do they have an ax to grind? it is a reality now that in the obama administration there are a lot of unanswered questions about the i.r.s., particularly. if i were young i would take karl bernstein and set up and talk to everyone. there have has been political spin put on it by a lot of people including fox news, including the white house, the question is: what are the facts? what really happened? that the bradlee method. get the facts. listen to everyone. see what the official version is. always doubt. always be skeptical of the official version.

>> are you suggesting that fox news is not trying to get the facts or the opinion people are on both sides are --. >> yes, i think there have been a lot of fat-based reporting and a lost political spin on all sides on this and bradlee, if he were the editor, he would be saying, what, exactly, did you ask these people? what did they say? what evidence is there? who else can we talk to? how do we verify this? he had a whole litany of questions and that is how you do good journalism. >> you mentioned mark felt known for 33 years only as "deep throat," and in 2005 his identity was disclosed and you

and ben had a discussion, should you go first or the "washington post" acknowledge he was, in fact, your source. talk about his role. >> he said he was "deep throat," and made it clear to the family and lawyer, mark felt. the question was, that is old earmark felt who had dementia to a certain extent and the deal i made of not disclosure of the identity was made with mark felt who was senior executive in the f.b.i. and the question ben asked, which is a good one, you make the deal with that person, do you have -- can you change the rules now even though he has acknowledged it and i was hesitant and both carl and i were worried someone was taking advantage of mark felt and we saw the picture of him with his walker, in his pajamas, with a

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[ expletive ] what is somebody going to go on the record in this story? >> you guys are about to write a story that says the highest ranking law enforcement officer in this country is a crook. just be sure you're right. >> jason robards, i asked bob woodward whether the film had been good for journalists or overly glamorized what they did. >> first of all, robards and bradley, it's almost as if they were brothers. you know. you saw the movie. i mean, it is stunning, the mannerisms, the confidence, the kind of, hey, what's going on here, you know? it was the style that he

captured and it was real. and i think if you look at all the president's men, you talk to journalists, you say, you know, that's the way it is, and it's not about -- it's about the hard work, one of the things in seeing that movie, it's all at night. you have to go out in the night and you have to go to people's homes. you have to go into the underground garage, you have to do, you know, we almost came up with the cliche, lies during the day, the truth at night. >> you were an editor at "the washington post" during probably the biggest embarrassment, the fabricated tale, the heroine addict. how did ben deal with that? >> well, i wasn't just there. i was the supervising editor of janet cook. let's put the blame where it belongs, on me.

and i wasn't skeptical enough. and when it turned out it was a fraud and she won the pulitzer prize and we gave the pulitzer prize back, then solution was a typical bradley solution. he said we've got an om ombudsman, bill green, saying you are going to investigate this, you are going to talk to everyone, you are going to go as deep as you can and he published this volumus article in the post. it went on page after page and it was tough on bradley, tough on me, tough on the culture of the post. and what ben said afterwards, there's nothing about janet cook affair that wasn't in that article. no one found out anything more about it because he turned the ombuds pan looks like he turned

his reporters loose. and he had to take the punishment. i remember the new republic wrote a very mean article about ben and the post and the whole culture and so forth. and ben ran into the editor of the new republic. and this is the bradley we knew. he looked at him and he covered his privates and smiled. >> now, bradley stepped down as executive editor of the paper in 1991. i remember because i wrote the story. two decade webs he was the vice president of the president company. he still came to work almost every day. >> yeah. he would go into the cafeteria. look, he's a presence. he's a symbol and people think of the glamourus bradley, which was there. they think of the persona, the charm, the laughter, the, hey, you know we're going to have -- life is great, his memoir was

called a good life, and it was a good life. but it's the nitty-gritty of journalism. >> he was an editor who rolled up his sleeves. bob woodward, that you can very much for helping us remember ben bradlee. i conducted the last interview bradlee did. he was scar castic and funny. they don't make them like bradlee any wore. coming up, meredith vieira and her producer get mammograms and it doesn't go according to script. and bristol palin got mauled in a scrap in alaska. our video verdict is next.

the brawl in alaska involving sarah palin's family has gotten a lot of media attention. they played it and, boy, did she think it was a hoot. >> i'm just going to come right out and say it. this is quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we've ever come across. sid back and enjoy. >> tell me what happened. >> some old lady just pushed me -- she just hit me. some guy gets in my face, pushes me down in the grass. [ bleep ] you [ bleep ]. i get back up and he pushes me back down again [ bleep ]. >> how on earth is that funny? would carol costello said enjoy

if chelsea clinton was getting roughed up? they have both said this is an example of media hip pock racy and they're right. to make fun of the woman is hoshbly insensitive. she's apologized. meredith vieira went for a mammogram with her producer and cameras. the visit took an unexpected turn. >> part of this is being able to open up the breast tissue and see all the areas clearly. >> i have to have a biopsy on the right side. >> i was a little stunned. i thought, this is kraicy. the doctor said let's stop, which i thought was the right thing. then i thought, we can't do this and not do it. >> my mom had breast cancer, my

grandmother died of breast cancer. >> good for her for admitting she had stupidly not gone for a mammogram for years. that had to be hard to cope with a diagnosis of breast cancer, but to do it on television. we wish her the best. still to come, the new york times columnist apologies.

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press picks this media fail. they doubted the conservative new york times columnist, an organization with an aggressively anti-gay agenda. the group's event was a fundraiser. he has now apologized saying, i didn't know this was a fund raising. this is my fault for not doing due diligence.

glad that he came to that conclusion. time for your tweets. the question, first of all, why would the media so respected, because most of the media would not cover the same story today, especially with obama in office. not a serious question. big 3 network news, a few major newspapers, political correctness very series hate obama. most people in the middle. two things, they drew attention to the story and not themselves and they didn't traffic in rumor and speculation. years ago, i was working on the jason blare story. i ended up working my wedding weekend. bradlee said, i wonder how long that marriage is going to last. >> we hope you like our facebook

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