secret service and colombian prostitutes. at one special agent assigned to protect the president cheap you had out on payment for services. and a push by the press do irreparable damage to the elite force? >> another scandal involving the gsa and millions of taxpayer dollars spent been boondoggles, outrageous images for weeks and mainstream media slow to react. what was that. >> what is solved by saying he's a racist? >> bill cosby comments on the trayvon martin case contradicting black activists and race leaders who blame the teenager death on racial hatred. how did the media react? . the los angeles times pub shs two-year-old photos of u.s. soldiers posing with dead homicide bombers, did that do

more harm than good? >> and what members of the media are the most influential? >> and on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller, and new york daily news columnist andrea tantaros, jim pinkerton, american conservative editor magazine and talk radio service, ellen ratner, i'm rick folbaum. fox news watch is on right now. ♪ . >> we're here on behalf of our people and that means that we conduct ourselves with-- with the utmost dignity and obviously, what's been reported doesn't match up with those standards, but again, i think i'll wait until the full investigation is completed before i pass final judgment. >> that of course the president reacting to the news about u.s.

secret service agents. and the elite force, assigned to protect the president and his family caught up in a scandal, involving prostitutes and access to their hotel in colombia and of course, because the media loves salacious scandals, the story making big news as did the colombian escort who ignited the scandal and there she is. and what happens in colombia doesn't stay in colombia. >> and a sign of how the media operates now days, some of these evidenced here for both the gsa and secret service came from social media the wife of the gsa administrator posted photographs on google plus and one of the secret service agents posted some of his stuff on facebook, so it's sort of astonishing how you could be so careless to do that, but also, how the media worked a good reporter, let's definitely check out the social media websites and see what we can finds. >> the president engaging in

media criticism something we're doing today, saying that the media was focusing on the flashy prostitution scandal rather than the substantial of his south american summit. what's the president expect? >> duh? i mean, yes, you know, as we've been talking about meat versus cotton candy, everybody goes to the cotton candy and he knew this was going to happen and it's frustrating for the president and it's a big deal and trade with latin america has gone up under his watch and he want today highlight it and along comes the persnickety skoir. co story. and did the media go overboard and can the secret service, one of the last untarnished group of civil service in government, can reregain their stature and reputation? >> sure, they can. i don't think the media went overboard.

the secret service's job, protecting the president. the president was sensitive to this and he didn't want to blow this up. he doesn't want to embarrass our country. the prostitutes could have black mailed the secret service agents. it's a huge story and getting the appropriate amount of coverage. >> what about the president's point, flashover substance in the way that the media handles stories like this as compared to weighty issues. >> i think the president has a good point here, and the daily beast, we were a sleaze addicted media and public ap i think that's, now, and sex that sells, and i think that there were other issues that certainly came up around trade, around drugs, around all that have kind of stuff and it was like blanked out. >> and judy, and then there's the gsa story, and nbc didn't cover for about a week and a half after the story originally broke. you know, and certainly no one

in america really held the gsa in such high-- and didn't know the gsa existed. with an about the coverage of that? >> i don't think they knew what it was, i think this was a story that was slow to get off the ground and it was promoted by fox and others and i think here again, appropriately, because when you get spending, excessive spending like this in a time when the president and his administration are asking all of us to tighten our belts, and these guys are going off on-- intern related supposed training missions with glasses of sangria, yeah, we're not blaming obama personally, but we're saying, what's going on in the administration, how did it happen? and these are the questions journalists are supposed ask. >> jim, real quick, ten seconds, did this rub off on the president? >> there's three stories, gsa. secret service and travels. and the travel-- his travelling back home--

>> no allegations of illegality, but million dollars in private air fare. >> does it mean a bad manager. who is watching what's happening in the government not the president. >> and media never covered what the gsa and, uncovered it, that they saved millions and billions of dollars, actually and-- >> and ellen, over the years. >> wait a minute, on negotiating airlines, nobody put that in perspective. >> what? i have the budget increases year after year after year under president obama, not saving anything. >> ellen they say they're saving and that's one of the things that congress is investigating and we should be asking. >> and plenty more when we come back and mitt romney takes a shot at the liberal press. . >> if you have nothing to hide why not release 12 years as your father did? >> mitt romney takes a shot at the media, claiming a conspiracy of negative coverage aimed at his campaign. does he have a shot to unseat

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. >> jamie:. . >> jamie: >> therewould be an effort by the left wing conspiracy to put out the best effort to attack me and many in the media are inclined to do the president's bidding and you know what, i know that's an uphill battle we fight with the media generally. >> presumptive g.o.p. nominee mitt romney on his constant battle with the media which would have an agenda to derail his campaign he says. this could be one example, watch. >> you have nothing to hide, why not release 12 years as your father did? >> well, the president is going to try and do everything possible to divert from the the

attention being focused upon his record as president, but he wants to be able to get all the details on each year and how much i made this year and that year, i'm not going to get into that. >> jon: and andrea is he right about the left wing conspiracy. >> conspiracy is something done in secret and i don't think they're doing this in secret. they're open about it. we heard a couple weeks ago, john heilman who wrote "game change" said it the press biased towards mitt romney, yes. does the press have a problem with mitt romney? yes, even in the interview diane sawyer was somehow insisting that mitt romney was not relatable due to his wealth and somehow i felt ironic, an anchor to made 12 million a year and a husband makes exponentially more than that, and yes, i feel a conspiracy to take him down. >> in the boston globe, likeable is a hurdle for romney and see

these headlines. does the media have it in for any republican. >> no, for whoever could move ahead and all the things we read about romney, like the six blind men and the elephant. one talks about the likability and one talks about the women issuement and there's a good idea what is happening with the candidates right and left. >> jon: judy, will romney get a fair shake? >> yeah, i think he's going to get a fair shake, but no fact getting around most reporters acknowledge they're liberals and probably sympathetic, but on the other hand we have a vibrant social media and people on the left and right who are going to take issue at the enemy, and by the way, there is no conspiracy, it didn't work when hillary clinton used the same term for the right wing conspiracy against her husband, allegedly, in 1988. and it isn't going to work this time either. >> let's take andrea's point it's not a conspiracy, it's a

movement. and here is an example of the way the bias works. there's right wing and left wing media, both and martin brashear, held up a copy of the book of mormon, chapter verse and here it is, you're going to hell, and that was thursday, thursday. and ask yourself this, what if somebody got up on fox and said here is a copy of the bible and according to the precepts here, president obama you're going-- can you imagine the typhoon that would happen. >> ellen, what about the dog story, competing dog stories, mitt romney and the family vacation and that story has been out there. we've got president obama now, turns out as a young child as fed dog meat. what do you make of it. >> and they're saying that jay carney is trying to sweep the story under the rug, but jay carney said, makes a big deal out of it, it sounds like someone who's trying to get out of the dog house or something. and they said i didn't mean to say what i said, but in fact,

the dog thing has gotten way out of proportion on all sides. >> jon: andrea, have we heard the end of it now that there are dog stories about both campaigns. >> i hope so. i want to pun and say the race is dog-eat-dog, but there are more important issues, but back to the point you made, jim, it's a little weird when you have david gregory in february and you have bob shiver reporting the same sort of talking points about osama bin laden being dead and general motors being alive and it makes you think are they getting the same talking points? we know at that msnbc takes the talking points from the media matters, and they're off the same song sheet a lot. a lot of people in the press and said it and took flak for it, are lazy. >> jon: judy, want 0 weigh in. >> i don't buy it andrea, turn on to networks, people making the same points because sometimes the points are they are. >> talk radio. >> three liberal giant broadcast

networks have greater audiences than all the cable networks altogether. >> jon: talking about the broadcast networks. and if you see something that you feel shows evidence of media bias, he e-mail us at news watch@foxnews.com, coming up next, are the media forcing a racial divide. >> trayvon martin was murdered. >> black activist and race baiters claiming racial hatred and profiling was to blame for the shooting death of trayvon martin. bill cosby has a different take on it and how did the public react to him. and pictures of two u.s. soldiers with dead afghan bombers. was that necessary? answers next on news watch.

>> what is solved by saying he's a racist, that's why he shot the boy? what solves that? this, and what is he doing with it and who taught him and told him how to behave with this? because racist or not racist, if he's scared to death and not a racist, it's still a confrontation confrontational provoking of something. >> actor and comedian bill cosby countering black activists claiming the debate over the shooting of trayvon martin should be over guns, according to cosby, not race. the n.r.a. has a different take on the issue. >> u-but the media, they don't

care everyday victims aren't celebrities, they don't draw a rating. don't draw sponsors, but sensational reporting from florida does. >> so, judy, what is this? is this the media playing up the race aspect or the media falling into the same trap of, look, talking about guns and gun control? and what do you think. >>? look, i think that each side is doing what comes naturally and i like what cosby said, because he raised the question that i think some people at fox were asking from the beginning, is could we have assumed that race was a factor? should we have assumed that race is a factor? now, i thought it was pretty obvious that race was a factor given what we thought we knew from the tapes, but i am a little stunned by mr. laperriere who in his speech and his tirade never offered a word of sympathy for the parents of trayvon martin. >> jon: but andrea, you mentioned a minute ago the laze

necessary on the part of reporters, whenever there's a story about guns, a fall back for reporters to immediately trying to get sound bikes from folks who want tougher gun control. >> some reporters. i think that the details, and i admit, i was late in the game on the piece on "the five" and daily news, but the details seemed to be no one wanted to talk about the race and now immediately debating guns instead of actually debating what went on. this is a very, have he sad story and i think there are a lot of questions out there. >> i want to switch gears and talk about the pictures printed 0 this week on the front page of the los angeles times. two-year-old images of u.s. soldiers posing with the mangeled bodies of suicide bombers who killed themselves, by the way, terrorists in afghanistan and the pentagon urging the paper not to print them for fear of inciting more violence against our troops and times going ahead and printing it anyway and releasing a statement after careful

consideration we decided that publishing a small, but representative fl fill our obligation to readers to report vigorously on all on afghanistan including the images a breakdown in unit discipline that was endangers u.s. troops. and trying to justify what they did, saying that the american people have a right to know when there are problems with our troops. >> look, if you've ever read a memoir of world war ii, this stuff is common and happens and the difference now, there's pictures of it and the pictures get out, it's a losing battle to try and stop it from happening and the they said no, somebody else would have said yes. but would you have said yes? >> i'm ambivalent because i'm a chicken, but i'll say this, when he the l.a. times did their onair or on internet back and forth, they said part of the reason that moved them for the two-year-old pictures, this

particular group was september back to afghanistan and why they decided to publish, one of the main reasons they decided to publish the pictures and at that was sort of loss. >> jon: judy, would you have done it and published them. >> it's a tough call and they clearly made a compromise because they didn't publish all of them. given the american troops at risk every day and pressure every day, i wouldn't. each news organization would have to make its on decision. >> jon: and the l.a. times said they gave the p.o.ing, there were lots of discussions leading up to the publishing and the pentagon wasn't blind sided and gave them 72 hours to bring in additional security they said they thought they might need post publishing this pictures. >> that was the right way to go about it. they could have just published them. again, gets a focus, unfortunately, it gets us focused on the wrong issues and rather, the bigger issue with what's the plan in afghanistan,

which is something that i don't think we cover enough. the media doesn't focus enough on the war in afghanistan. >> to that point the end game in afghanistan, just publishing the pictures not complicating very sensitive negotiations that are going on right now between the americans and the afghans. >> sure, of course it complicates it, but it's not the media's job to facilitate the obama administration's or anybody else's administration foreign policy and the president himself said the other day, quote, transition out. >> talking to a friend ever mine sympathetic to the troops and thank goodness, they can't publish them. and more when they come back and who are the top 100, you have to wait and see. [ scott ] i grew up playing with little toy trains

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