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seton hall sophomore gunned down days before. which story the most media attention and why? trouble in the peacock pen, harmony turns to discord when msnbc.com wants to get far away from tv counterpart for take ago extreme left turn. what could the first lady, martha stewart and lady gaga possibly have in common? ♪ ♪ don't call my name ♪ >> on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller. conservative columnist, jim pitcher ton and fox news radio host alan colmes. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on, right now. >> the president: they figure obama is not on the ballot you are not going to come out and vote. maryland you've got to prove them wrong. let's show washington one more time, change doesn't come from

the top, it doesn't come from millions of attack ads, funded by expression interests, change happens from the bottom up. change happens because of you. >> president obama working hard to get young voters back on his hope and change bandwagon for the midterm elections in november. an election which according to most predictions does not bode well for democrats. mr. obama is said to appear on mtv next week in a town forum. let's talk about that. >> the company putting it together put out a casting call. they are screening the applications for the vent asking what issues the person is passionate about. requiring a short description of your political views and requiring a recent photo. >> conspiracy. >> you think? any chance mtv is trying to stack the deck? >> maybe they are stacking it against him, ever think about

that? >> mtv is going to do something to make obama look good. not the white house casting it is mtv, let's be clear. at least obama exposes himself. he stood up in front of republican leaders, he goes to homes and stands and takes the fire. unlike tea party candidates who won't face the media. >> he makes a point it is a private company. >> it is. what if this private company had been asked, surveying it audiences for that kind of question you think the mainstream media would have gone nuts? a private company which is publicly traded and hans responses you think they would have more integrity but it is mtv. >> m tv has made a major contribution for years now to getting out youth vote that's what they do. they do it by asking presidents or presidents -- whether they wear boxers or

briefs. and they are good at it. they raise voter turn-out 20% the first time they did rock the vote. >> what about that andrea? the president has been trying to get young voters engaged again. everybody seems to think they are not as excited as they were two years ago when he was running. he's trying to get young voters as well as black voters back into the tent. >> i think young voters it is going to be difficult to get them out. a lot were part of that digital movement. something he did so well. the thing about a digital army, you have to energize your army, communicate. he left them for dead avenue in office. you need tell an army where to go and what to do. he has left the young people disencouraged. dash dash disengaged. it will be tough to motivate them. a group put out a memo saying president obama you should be concentrating on getting the moderates out and stop focusing on this base. he's lost the youth. they are not with him like

they were before. >> he needs the youth. they voted 2-1 for him the last time. he's got to energy vice this -- energize this base. >> good move to go on mtv? >> absolutely. >> boxers or briefs? >> i predict viacom which owns mtv will have zero trouble with the fcc for years to come. >> why presume a conspiracy?"/e >> based on the in bed relationship between the obama administration annual look at their relationship with abc news. there was questions around the town hall. this administration has a history of having a cozy relationship with the mainstream media >> look at all the presidential candidates who work for fox news on the republican side. >> let's talk about the -- >> there's four if you include rick santorum who really is -- [ talking over each other ] >> at most there is three,

palin, huckabee, at most -- >> that's plenty. >> how many democrats? >> at least 15 republicans, seriously thinking about running. [ talking over each other ] >> i love newt gingrich. personally not politically. >> all right. let's talk about the delaware senate race. christine o'donnell came out with ad this week how did it play in the press? >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you've heard. i'm you. none of us are perfect. but none of us can be happy with what we see all around us. politicians who think spending, trading favors and backroom deals are the ways to stay in office. i'll go to washington and do what you'd do. i'm christine o'donnell and i approve this message. i'm you.

>> and she is not a witch. she says the media was assassinating her character. judy? >> i think she has done enough of that herself for her various s. she's the gift that keeps -- various gaffes. she's the gift that keeps giving. you never know what bill maher is going to unearth next. >> i went through life thinking she wasn't me. now i find out she is, i'm leaved. >> that wasn't a good ad. i am not a witch. i think election cycle -- christine o'donnell has become a much bigger issue than she would if there were other things to to talk about. >> time for a break. first, you gotta check out our new website. keep an eye on the big media stories in the watch list section. go behind the scenes and listen to discussions we have in here during our breaks. you will hear thoughts our

panelists don't share on tv as in perhaps the answer to this question. anchor rick sanchez gets booted at cnn. what took them so long? >> raucous rick sanchez gets canned by cnn for his rant against jon stewart and people like him. >> i think jon stewart is a bigot. >> was he fired for his remarks against jews? what do michelle shell -- michelle obama and lady gaga have in common? the answer is next on news watch. [ male announcer ] when it comes to energy bills,

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up to five free nights at any of our properties or double points. >> this incident with jon stewart is where i think what i was feeling got into the way of what i should have done and said and that's why i think i'm going through what i'm going through now. i take full responsibility. it is not cnn, it is rick sanchez. rick sanchez screwed up. i went in with a chip on my shoulder. i was a little angry. i will be honest. i hope you don't mind my saying this. if you look at the landscape right now our media in primetime there's not a single hispanic. there's not a single african-american. >> liz vargas. >> hosting a primetime show in the united states. >> 20/20. >> i'm talking about newscasts. in cable news. i'm refering to cable newscasts, straight newscasts,

not magazine shows. not a single hispanic, asian-american or african-american. >> rick sanchez appearing on "good morning america" friday. lightning rod for controversy fired from cnn for calling jon stewart a bigot and implying the media are controlled by jews. >> did cnn get rid of rick sanchez because they didn't like his show, fine. we weren't that crazy about it either. but if they fired him for making some statements and some jew-baiting. i'm not sure sanchez believes what he was saying. >> there you go. rick sanchez said as we just heard in that clip it was his mistake not cnn's. you buy that? >> it was cnn that gave him two hours. it was the jewish leadership of cnn, the jewish editor who

gave him two hours to do his thing. i kind of liked looking through the tweets, which were overwhelmingly hostile to rick sanchez. i liked our fox's own andy levy who said he's leaving cnn to spend less time with the ews. that's the way to handle this. >> is the june -- is -- as the jew here on the panel i want to thank uncle rupert for letting me sit. >> cnn dumped him after he called jon stewart a bigot. he made remarks about rush limbaugh earlier and remarks that appeared to be racist. is there a double standard? >> no. look, double standard between what limbaugh and him? >> no, just that cnn let him get away with things for a long time or was this the straw that broke -- >> there is probably a a back

story maybe they were looking for an excuse to get rid of him. unless cnn had some other reason. >> there's a lot of other things that sanchez did leading up to this point. pajamas media put together a montage. one thing he said going into a commercial break he put up a picture of the president and he said we'll be right black. and he got away with that. this is a common with chronic foot in mouth disease, given a pass by joe klein the outgoing head of cnn. i don't think this behavior will go on with ken jones he's a different leader. >> that would be john klein. >> john klein, i'm sorry. >> it was interesting that he said my mistake was i said what i was feeling. sort of lining okay you were dumb enough to say what you've been thinking all along, good-bye to you. >> it was worse when he lab rated on sirius xh he said i'm from miami, some of -- xm, he

said i'm from miami, some of my best friends are jewish. be quiet. >> geraldo rivero hosts a primetime. >> half jewish and half hispanic. >> and he's on the weekends. i'm sure rick sanchez would take issue. >> i thought this president issued in a post nation -- post racial nation. i see it is president's fault. i get it now. >> it was -- he was playing inaccurately the ethnic race card. he's clearly angling now to get a job. to say you gotta prove you are not racist and the best way to prove it is by hiring me. >> did he get canned because of the division within team liberal? he took on another liberal. he took on jon stewart -- >> let's be clear it was a

stupid, thuggish anti-semitic rotten thing to say. of all people jon stewart even if you don't agree with him is a decent fair-minded guy who was generous in what he said. although i predict sanchez will be on the stewart show and we'll all watch. >> also, howard kurtz jumping ship from the "washington post" heading for the daily beast. >> interesting in terms of all the trends we've been talking about on this show from print to the electronic media. what is interesting, he remains as several commentators pointed out, a walking conflict of interest. now instead he have writing for the "washington post" and appearing on cnn, he's going to be appearing on cnn talking about the daily beast. so we have not eliminated the conflict here, not at all. >> time for another break. first, if you come across a story you think shows media

bias, e-mail us at newswatch. >> when picking which stories to cover, do the media play fair? >> his story made headlines and national attention. her story did not. how does the news media pick and choose? >> this company wants nothing to do with this company. is there an image war inside the peacock's pen? details, next on news watch.

. last month, rutgers's student tyler clementi committed suicide after his roommate streamed live video on the internet of his gay sexual encounter.

days before, jessica moore a sophomore from virginia was shot in the head and killed at an off campus house party. two tragic stories. two extremes in media reaction. i guess the question jim, the bredth of the coverage of the clementi suicide and what led up to it. he's on the cover of people magazine. anderson cooper are doing tributes, all kinds of teary-eyed examine kphrapl makes from hollywood stars -- examine lamb makes from hollywood stars. >> we talked about in before it is kind of a cruel truth of the media that certain elements of the story will get attention. one is the gay bashing angle, going back to matthew shepard lots of people get murdered every year. murdered 10 years ago made national news still is a national figure. another angle is the internet and the weirdness that you can

videotape something and put it out there. the clementi story had more elements that a produce worry say are important. >> in the jessica moore story she was a hero in that. her friend was about to get shot she jumped in front of the bull left >> narrative is there have been a number of issues in the last three weeks three gay students have been bullied and committed suicide. it is part of a larger narrative. bullying has become an issue particularly -- this is the upshot, the sad tragic upshot of a series of these stories that do have an anti-guy theme. >> is it a double standard? >> i think it is pretty much what jim and alan are talking about. this is a story that has a lot of dimensions, especially the online internet dimension which is so important now. where a fellow student, a student whom he trusted, innovated -- invaded his

privacy in that way and exposed him. it may result in the kind of legislation that matthew shepard resulted in. that president obama signed in 2009, making gay murder a hate crime. i that i one was -- cyber bullying is a real issue. >> the young irish immigrant who was bullied in massachusetts that a lot of coverage. it made the cover of people magazine. i would agree there's a lot of cases that completely go unnoticed. this one is a little different when you have hollywood outpouring now, filming this psa, because he was gay. i think there are certain cases where if it is a young gay boy or girl it seems to get a little more attention than just the typical bullying cases. >> moving on. what is in a name? it seems some ers are ruffled across the street -- some feathers are ruffled across the street at the peacock network. people at msnbc.com want

nothing to do with the cable channel that carries the same name. they call it bran insanity. one of the complaints is the far left liberal the cable channel exhibits daily with like those you see on your screen now. can you imagine being in the room for that argument, jim? >> knowing that comcast, the big cable conglomerate just bought nbc, therefore, msnbc they've got a lot of sorting out to do. why is msnbc the website for nbc news? i can't believe brian williams is happy to see he's being lumped in with olbermann everyday. >> we at fox news have our opinion shows and straight news shows. msnbc and web component between an opinion channel and a website which is a representative nbc news which

happens to be may i use the term fair and balanced. we do the same thing here. it is clear they want brand distinction. not for some nefarious distinct -- reasons you are implying. >> they are not cnn. whatever problems they have, a lot of their shows are more highly rated than cnn. i think with cnn you are getting a network that has really lost its way. you have pierce morgan to replace larry king who has all kinds of issues as a journalist. you have the sanchez business. >> msnb just has a little branding problem that -- they are going to fix that with this new campaign from spike lee. they are calling it lean forward. >> interesting name. if you lean too far forward you are bending over. >> you are going to fall flat on your face. >> they have rachel kneeling on the sidewalk as if she is

picking up a penny, get it. >> it is interesting that a channel would come out and try to brand themselves so progressive. it is fascinating. >> is it okay to brand yourself conservative? >> as an organization that prided itself on news for a long time then opinion. now they are officially saying we are going straight opinion. >> i was shocked by this -- [ talking over each other ] >> i thought going forward or leaning forward was a good thing. progressive or whatever leaning forward means. is that better than leaning backwards? >> hamilton nolan at gawker wrote msnbc's futile quest to beat fox at its own game. >> we have to take one more break. up next, interesting mix of women at the top of their game. of their game ♪ poker face >> queen of glam, lady gaga, first lady, michelle obama,

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