he has released two albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the school in columbia university, and is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. the initiative put that puts race -- she designed the initiative that puts race on the table. she is the virtual scholar for teaching for change. she is the author o

my guest tonight professor at new york university's stern school of business, his new book which he coauthoredled "guaranteed to fail fannie mae, freddie mac and the debacle of mortgage finance." please welcome to the program matthew richardson. sir -- [cheers and applause] thanks for being here. >> feels good to be here. >> jon: the book is called guaranteed to fail. it feels like they haven't gotten a tremendous amount of attention as far as our entire mortgage debacle and crashing of the echmm. [laughter] what is your feeling -- are they primarily responsible for this collapse? partially? >> yes. i think there should be tremendous outrage at the mortgage finance system. fannie and freddie were smack in the middle of this. you took the two firms with public government backing. they went from just a little bitty players in the early 1980's to at the time of the crisis they owned 50% of mortgage market, $5 trillion of mortgage debt at risk with little capital underneath it and we're paying for it. you're paying for it. i'm paying for it. the audience is paying for it. >> jon: the idea is that

you know i have been teaching a long time at new york university. and that saddens me and upsets me. and not just that you learned enough to have a trade. but i see as many people don't get and your enterprise is evident every night is just the sheer join of learning. and to be cut off from that is not really not good. and in some ways i see that happening everywhere. even with people that have access to education. so i real questions right now about our values and how we can turn some of that around. tavis: questions are good though, i is -- i have a lot more questions and no more time. you are at berkeley now. >> berkeley repertory theater. tavis: and then at the stage in july, at l.a., i will see it again and decide if it's better or not. >> ok. tavis: good to see you, anna deavere smith, "let me down easy" is the play. pleased to welcome j.j. abrams back to this program. if you have been in the dark, because mr. abrams wanted that way, and the cat is out of the back, we have scenes from "super 8." >> and action. watch out! freighter derailed but

ryan of new york university studied the city's mandatory posting of calorie counts on menus.nd it had little impact on eating habits. >> people report liking this information, but we are not seeing that people are using it in a way that's going to transobesity thus far. >> mcdonald's will continue to transform its menu, cutting salts 15% by 2015. the new happy meals with apple slices will be in all 14,000 ,000 restaurants by next spring. wal-mart is challenging netflix and hulu. renting streaming movies online. many of the films will be available on wal-mart's website. the same day they come out on dvd. the move comes on the heels of the increase in rental rates and led them to led for cheaper alternatives. consumers can rent or buy movies on wal-mart's website. but it is not offering subscriptions. >>> it was warmer today than yesterday, but now the potential of a snag in your ,,,, >>> what a day across the bay area. i was take ago bike ride and i stopped and took a look at some of the grapes and they are nowhere near being ripe. i believe we could have a problem come crush

ryan of new york university studied the city's mandatory posting of calorie counts on menus and foundt had little impact on eating habits. >> people report liking this information, but we aren't seeing that people are using it in a way that transform obesity. >> mcdonald's will continue to transform its menu, cutting salts 15% by 2015. the new happy meals with apple slices will be in all 14 ,000 restaurants by next spring. >>> millions of airline passengers may be entitled to refunds ranging from $20 to $50 or more. several taxes expired after midnight friday. it's because congress failed to pass the faa reauthorization bill. so if you paid those taxes, you're entitled to a refund. purchasing them during the legislation laps though doesn't guarantee a refund. it's when you fly that counts. >> so according to the treasury department, the u.s. government collects taxes after the person flies. so anyone who bought a ticket before july 22 and is flying while the taxes are no longer in place, deserves a refund. >> so, how do you get your money? well, the treasury department says taxpayers

ryan elbelle of new york university studied the city's mandatory posting of calorie counts on menus butittle impact on eating habits. >> people report liking this information, but we're not seeing at a population level that people are using it in a way that's going to transform obesity thus far. >> reporter: mcdonalds will transform its menu cutting salt 15% by 2015. the new happy meals with the apple slices will be in all 14,000 restaurants by next spring. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >>> it's getting just batty in austin, texas. i want you to take a look at this. about 1 million bats are coming out earlier than ever to hunt for bugs. officials say the drought is forcing them to change their eating habits. i used to live in austin. it's quite a sight. >>> then there's this, a thief tried to make a quick withdrawal from an atm in louisiana. security camera video shows him smashing through the wall of a store with a backhoe but he couldn't get the cash out of the machine, so he left without taking anything. >>> and the butter sculptures are drawing big crowds at the ohio state fa

the new school in new york came in first with a net price of $3,900 a year. santa clara universityecond at more than $3,500 a year. st.joseph's university came in third with new york university and north eastern university rounding out the top five. >>> starting today the price of many cigarettes is going up. altrea group has raised the price of all its cigarettes by 9-cents a pack. marlboro is $7.75 plus a dollar cigarette tax here in california. the voters will be asked to approve an additional $1 tax. >>> australian researchers found that men who smoke for 23 years or more were half as likely to need surgery to repair their hips or knees compared to men who never smoked. but doctors caution that the theoretical benefits to a smoker's joints are far outweighed by the greatly increased risk of cancer and heart disease. >>> angina patients who could not be helped with drugs or surgery have shown improvements after being treated with stem cells made out of their own blood. >> it is scary to be confused too and to not know what's going on and to be filling like you're child is drunk.

bell of new york university studied the city's mandatory posting of calorie counts on menus but foundhad little impact on eating habits. >> people report liking this information, but we're not seeing at a population level that people are using it in a way that will transform obesity thus far. >> reporter: mcdonald's says it will continue to transform its menu, cutting salt 15% by 2015. the new happy meals with apple slices will be in all 14,000 restaurants by next spring. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> schieffer: well, here is something you're not going to find under the golden arches, but a bottle of french wine left over from the days of napoleon is the most expensive white wine over sold. today in london, a collector paid $123,000 for the 200-year- old bottle of chateau d'yquem. that works out to about $25,000 a glass. ( laughs ) a small town... small towns have been put on notice. their post office may be closing. we'll tell you about the ripple effects next. [ female announcer ] for frequent heartburn sufferers, summertime is now a happy time. a time when we can eat what

he taught english and american studies at northwestern university, barnard college, new york university and rutgers, and then in 1989 he moved to the city university of new york, and he is now distinguished professor of english and american studies at the ph.d. program in english at the graduate center. he's a widely published author, and his books have been recognized with awards including the bancroft prize and the ambassador book award. he was also the finalist for the national book critics' circle award. he was the editor for six books and is the author of "waking giant: america in the age of jackson," "john brown: abolitionist, the man who ceded civil rights." john brown also a connecticutan as stowe is, so you are already seeing some overlaps here. author of "wallet whitman's -- walt whitman's america," a book with the straightforward title, "walt whitman." he's the author of beneath the american renaissance in the age of emerson and melville, and i certainly found that that s word, subversive, came up quite a bit in his analysis of "uncle tom's cabin "and its impact. and david is

. >>> researchers at new york university says teens exposed to smoke are at a greater rate of hearing loss. scientists say the amount of hearing loss went up long with the level of chemicals from cigarettes. >>> turning to developing news. the board of director for clorox is turning down a bid to buy the company. he offered $10.2 billion, paying 76 dollars and 50 per share but the ceo says his offer undervalues the company and is not credible or adequate. they are working on a measure to wart off another bid. >>> nelson mandela supporters rallied today outside the san francisco federal building. the rally was called to focus attention on federal raids and criminal prosecutions in states like california that approved the medical use of marijuana. some said they were confused about a memo from the obama administration with a reminder marijuana is still illegal under federal law. >> we are wondering if we could get our meds, allowed to smoke our meds. >> according to one group the federal drug enforcement agency has a history of making large raids after it got its annual budget. >>> gas

he taught english and american studies at northwestern university and barnard college, new york university and rutgers in 1989 he moved to the city university of new york and is now a distinguished professor of english and american studies at the ph.d. program in english at the graduate center. he's in a widely published of reckoned books have been recognized with awards including the bancroft prize and the ambassador book award. he was also a finalist for the national book critics circle award and the editor for six books and is the author of tweaking the giant american in the age of jackson, john brown, al-awja nist the man who killed slavery sparked the civil war and seated civil-rights. john brown also connecticut as stowe so you see overlaps year. author of walt whitman, a cultural biography, e-book with a straightforward title, walt whitman. he's the author of believe the american renaissance the imagination and the age of emmerson and nels will and i found that that word subversives came up quite a bit in his analysis of ongoing tom's cabin and its impact and to david is the author

joining me now is professor at new york universities bob is rum. and ron christie. have you with us tonight. bob, is this proof positive that here she is surging in the polls, raising credible money, she's gone from 4% to 13% nationally. she's right behind romny. there you see the numbers. she's a force in gaining. is she a threat to the establishment republicans, and this is one of these stories they can't wait to get out there. what do you think? >> sure, ed, you're right. look, it is a hit piece, and i think a lot of people in the republican establishment are wishing that you and some of the rest of us have succeeded in getting rid of her in the 2010 election, but the tide was too strong. the real question here is, they can't say what they object to. it's not her headaches, her head is filled with dangerous fantasies that she makes mistakes, that she seems is far out of the mainstream. and they think she can't win, the problem is, she can win the republican nomination, because one person's fantasy is another person's fate, she can command a legion of tea party fa

he spent a few years at santa cruz before transferring to new york university. officially call him a slug, i guess. shark week starts sunday. >> do sharks eat slugs. >> he looked like bait out there. 5:11 right now. at first if you don't succeed, try, try again. stanford taking another shot at a twice rejected project. plus help wanted of the job that only six people in the world have and now one of those positions is up for grabs. >>> for all your latest news, traffic, weather follow us on facebook, search nbc bay area morning news.cc1:tr >>> welcome back, everyone. that's the fog we're talking about this morning hovering over the coastline, clearing skies, warmer temperatures. we'll check in a bit. 5:14 right now. stanford university hoping third time is the charm as they try to build miles of hiking trails. the $10 million plan would build a two-mile segment in the alpine road trail between menlo park and portola valley. it would replace walkways that are narrow and in some areas a shoulder on the road. the project has been shot down twice in the past due to

a fellow at new york university's center on law and security.ll us about what happened? >> well, the farm is in a very remote place. it's about two hours' drive north of oslo. it's down by a riverside. and the explosives seemed to be detonated about 50 yards from the buildings of the farm. and we're very close to the river. and it was just a very loud explosion. a huge cloud of dust came up. but what's happening on that farm, this forensic search for the fertilizer that breivik was using or is alleged to have used to make these bombs is critical to the investigation right now. because the police are trying to account for all the fertilizer that he purchased. and if they can't account for all of it, the implication is, there could be more out there. and there could be bombs out there, in fact. that's the concern. >> so they would be trying to find those other bombs if need be. you also learned a lot about the mindset of breivik today by speaking to his lawyer. what's the latest that you've learned? >> reporter: well, the lawyer says that he's see

now former pennsylvania governor ed rendell now nbc news political analyst and bob shrum at new york university, thank both of you for being with us tonight. i mean, it seems to me, aside from the fact that this is dead on arrival at the u.s. senate according to senator reid and dead on arrival in fact, the move this all the way now to where we are talking about, the balance budget amendment has to be passed through both houses and states have to ratify it. i mean, this governor ren dell is gone from bad to worse. >> it is an embarrassment. i mean, this bill is an embarrassme embarrassment. they couldn't have the second debt limit raised even if they wanted to. it is an absolute embarrassment. i think speaker boehner might have been better biting the bullet and losing on a semi reasonable plan. but i think this embarrasses him. it embarrasses his party. the only way it settle for harry reid and mitch mcconnell and other in the senate is to pass a reasonable spending reduction and spend it back to the house where enough demjanjuk krats where enough democrats, reasonable democrats, pass it. >> ho

>> i have taught at state university of new york, at sara lawrence college, city university of new york, brooklyn college. a year, a year at cornell. >> where did you get your undergraduate degree? >> undergraduate degree was from city college of new york. my m.a. was from brown university and my p.h.d. was from yale. >> what were all of those in? >> political science. >> where is your hometown originally? >> i am originally from new york. probably can hear it. >> from the city? >> new york city. yeah. >> manhattan? >> manhattan. that's right. >> what was your family like? >> my family was a blue collar italian american family. my grandparents were immigrants and very hard-working people, you know. and - doosh what did your father and mother do for a living? >> my mother worked in a dress shop and my father worked, well, we had a little italian bakery which he inthe inherited from hs uncle for a while. i have written storys about that. and he also for a while was a taxi driver. >> you don't know this, but for several years, some of our callers on our call-in shows have called up and adm

host: we are talking with paul light from new york university on the report, "creating high- performanceent," the report by professor light and the wagner school. a call from the federal employee line. caller: i have read paul light for years. the point he just brought up is the most poignant to me. we have political employees, my state director, who is politically appointed. when we look for change from president obama in the election, it was the congressional staff that went ahead and reappointed what we call clinton retreads, the same directors we had under clinton. but that may be good, but in my case it was not helpful. i keep hearing about the duplication of programs and how to eliminate them. each administration talks about getting rid of the waste and duplication, yet is the responsibility of congress. congress likes that power. they use that power regularly by pointing -- appointing their friends as state directors. the first day director i worked for had never heard of the agency when he was appointed. that is just one example. many of the employees work with their very profess

but as he told an audience at new york university, jimmy informed his dad he wasn't going back. >> hee said, i can't believe you're doing this to me, son, and he handed me all his monoand got in the car and drove off. >> young jimmy made the rounds of the l.a. music industry. his sheet music shoved in a paper bag. his first sale to motown records was a christmas song. >> there's a christmas tree. >> i wrote a song for the supreme, a christmas album called "christmas tree." >> i remember it well. >> i do. i find it utterly incredible that, and incredible that you remember it. but it went... ♪ oh my christmas tree isn't very big ♪ in fact it's kind of small >> see, after all these years i remember that. are you proud of that song? >> i'm not. not very. >> why not? >> well, it's no "white christmas. " >> but another song, recorded by the 5th dimension, was something to be proud of. ♪ up, up and away my beautiful, my beautiful ♪ "up, up and away," huge hit. what did that do for you personally? >> well, it transforms your life. at first it seems like magical thing because i remember from g

and economist mark fried will from the new school university new york says it makes no difference whether the debt ceiling is raised or not the u.s. reputation has already been strained. the situation is desperate even if the this whole crisis started as an opportunity of political theater these guys couldn't even choreograph success out of their fake crisis and so now we have a huge international failure that looms on the horizon which has already gone possibly lasting and certainly serious damage to the standing and reputation of the united states of america the debt reduction plan that president obama has endorsed does make massive cuts in spending more than two point five trillion dollars over ten years so these plans do reduce spending in ways that will be painful and for many communities in the united states transformative but it's worthy of note and somehow hasn't much been mentioned that not a single plant out there reduces the national debt they just change the speed by which it grows a downgrade which i think is quite possible and the sheer spectacular public failure of the amer

new york city's department of education blocked websites for what it called obje eed objectionable c. jennifer copalman hud a lawyer, and from sacramento, a professor of education at new york universityough, donna rice hughes from charleston, south carolina. should anything on the web be sensored at a public school? >> yeah, i don't like any sort of censorship of that kind. i think when you start to put software on a computer that blocks groups of sites or, quote, unquote objectionable content then their necessary content tends to get blocked. and kids can find their way around blocked content by using other words and things, and that becomes a time waster. >> what do you think about the censorship of these online sites at school? >> i actually agree, randi. i think that censorship is extremely difficult. kids are much more advanced about how to navigate the internet than most of the adults are and they will find ways around it. i think if there are reasonable ways to control access to dangerous sites then we should try to employ them. but i think censorship is a slippery slope and once we start down that path, then we end up really infringing on the rights of our children. we should

the financial reform project of new york university business school posted a daylong conference focusing on the implementation and impact of the legislation. next, remarks by the president of the federal reserve bank of kansas city. he discusses regulating so-called too big to fail institutions. this is 50 minutes. >> it's time for the lunchtime keynote and it's my pleasure to introduce president and ceo of the federal reserve bank of kansas city and the senior fomc member. he's a person whose practice law from colorado to misery and and mexico to wyoming. it's a big chunk -- there you go. i didn't study civics for no purpose. he's had a distinguished career within the federal reserve bank of kansas largely. he joined the federal reserve bank in 1993 and has been president for 20 years, since 1991. he has the legendary jackson seminar every year which we either have attended and enjoy your wish we had but were never invited. [laughter] and his kansas city federal reserve bank says a financial industry during the recent crisis. so to share his thoughts on why we haven't solved too big to

if the council >>> stanford is moving forward with a bid to applied sciences campus in new york city. the universityounced today it will submit a proposal by october. new york city is offering $9,500 to help the winner to build that campus. >>> mark is here now with sports, and the giants keep finding a way to win. >> playing slick baseball. really, really solid fundamental baseball along the way. you always hear baseball is the microcosm for life. the giants right now on the money. they call up brandon phelps for the brandon. guess who tonight's hero is. you will see him but check out the woman who gets the foul ball. look at the little boy behind. he's a little upset that he did not get that foul ball. and he is ticked off. you will see from him a little later. and ticket to ride, solo shot. giants lead it 1-0. down in the fifth, sandoval continues to sting the baseball. two more hits tonight. this one fetches the run that ties things up 3-3. now in the seventh. two on, cody ross walks intentionally. wrong he slices one down the left field line. that's a two run double that provides the game decid

>> with colleagues at new york university, parker built new tools to discover how a blast affects theyears before this leads to new treatments, but parker hopes eventually will have a broad impact. >> a concussion a football player suffers or a car accident and your head snaps forward or shaken baby syndrome. these are all examples of head injuries that can cause a traumatic brain injury. >> today his lab is humming with young graduate students. about half a dozen are veterans. >> we're very focused on this because these are our buddies. these are our guys. this could have been us. it might still be us. so it brings a certain level of urgency to what we're trying to do. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >>> and we want to take you to some breaking news in arlington, texas. nolan ryan, the president of the texans there, the texans baseball team, is making a statement following the death of a fan. the texas rangers, i should say. he's making a statement following the death of a fan who fell about 20 feet to his death trying to catch a foul ball. let's listen in. you know what, we're h

. >>> stanford is moving forward with a bid to applied sciences campus in new york city. the universitynced today it will submit a proposal by october. new york city is offering $9,500 to help the winner to build that campus. >>> mark is here now with sports, and the giants keep finding a way to win. >> playing slick baseball. really, really solid fundamental baseball along the way. you always hear baseball is the microcosm for life. the giants right now on the money. they call up brandon phelps for the brandon. guess who tonight's hero is. you will see him but check out the woman who gets the foul ball. look at the little boy behind. he's a little upset that he did not get that foul ball. and he is ticked off. you will see from him a little later. and ticket to ride, solo shot. giants lead it 1-0. down in the fifth, sandoval continues to sting the baseball. two more hits tonight. this one fetches the run that ties things up 3-3. now in the seventh. two on, cody ross walks intentionally. wrong he slices one down the left field line. that's a two run double that provides the game decidin

playwright, langston hughes who was almost from his adulthood from the time he came to new york in columbia university in the early 1920s was almost a continuous lifelong resident of harlem. we are in the library named after and build on the collection of a great afro caribbean bibliophile, arturo shown bird. we are around the corner from another harlem book fair venue named for another african-american poet, one of the leaders with langston hughes of the harlem renaissance and subject of my doctoral dissertation. i used to teach literature. sonia sanchez and i shared offices at spellman college. i look further down today's program and see not only my former office made sonya sanchez but dr. julien mallow of the college for women and a distinguished author in her own right and my colleague, dr. carlson around, from atlanta university and a distinguished educator for today. he will talk about humor. something african-american college presidents don't talk about enough. serving over this cornucopia of african-american accomplishments we can marvel at this curious thing to make a poet black and bid him o

the pew financial reform project and new york university's business school hosted a conference focusing on the implementation and impact on the legislation. in this portion regulating shadow banking system when nonbank financial institutions act as intermediaries between investors and borrowers in lending money. this is about an hour. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen, up to now it's been prologue. we now get to the meat of the issue which is systemic risk. it has become the meat of the issue in the last few years. everything else is sort of spinning around this target. greg, the floor is yours. >> thanks very much, charles. it's a pleasure to be here. it's kind of surprising that we've forgotten already -- the banking sector continues to dominate our attention and the headlines, this morning we're reading about the new capital surcharges in banks in basel switzerland. the volcker rule arguments between jamie diamond and ben bernanke dominate the gossips columns such as they are in the financial papers. [laughter] >> you would be forgiving thinking about the is the aftermath of the ban

new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: sir paul nurse is here, he is a nobel prize winning biologist. he has been president of rockefeller university in new york city sie 2003. hes now leang that post on march 1st to lead an exciti new venture, it called the united kingdom center for research and innovation. among its completion in 25 it will be one of the largest bmedical facilities in the world. he also recently became president, get this, of the royal society london. what honor. this great. >>t is great and it's goods to be here again charlie, good to see you. >> rose: thank you. the reason you have divide divided-- decided to leave one job for another great job is? >> well, firstly, it's a bit bittersweet because rockefeller university, wonderful institution, i've enjoyed my 7 to 8 years in new york and at rockefeller. >> rose: is that all. >> it is extraordinary. >> rose: i remember coming up to see you soon after y had taken the job. >> and it only seems a few days ago, doesn't it. great institution. great research organization. and so i'm feeling a little sad, quite frankly, at leaving new york and leaving all my colleagues

a sophomore at new york's prestigious cornell university had a bright future ahead of him with hopesfriends say, cut short this past february following a drunken hazing ritual at his fraternity. >> he just had this way that was so, you know, giving and loving. just very unusual in some ways for a teenage boy. there are week, his mother filed a $25 million wrongful death suit against sigma alpha epsilon and the former pledges she says are responsible for her son's death. the suit claims her son was involved in a mock kidnapping by pledges during their initiation. the complaint alleges they bound his wrists and ankles with zip ties and duct tape and compelled him to consume alcohol until he lost consciousness. back at the frat house, he was dumped on a couch and left to die. an autopsy later showed his blood alcohol was five times the legal limit in new york. cornell university took action and is not named in the lawsuit. >> since george's death, we've quickly acted to remove this fraternity from the campus for a period of not less than five years, and to re-emphasize the policies that

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. i'm kate snow in for brian williams tonight. on this independence day, there's a huge cleanup under way not far from yellowstone national park. landowners along the yellowstone river in montana about 140 miles downstream from the park are furious after a pipeline that runs under the river burst on friday. oil coats the riverbanks around the city of billings and the town of laurel, and that's where we find george lewis tonight. good evening, george. >> reporter: good evening, kate. behind me you see some of the workers involved in the cleanup. montanans love their great outdoors and they're not too happy tonight that part of it is fouled with oil. exxon says it has more than 200 people working on cleaning up the oil spill, but about 1,000 barrels of crude, 42,000 gallons worth, were released into the yellowstone river. enough oil to fill five tanker trucks. >> i want to personally apologize to all the people affected by this.

later, a new york university professor talks about a recent report examining the efficiency, accountability, and productivity challenges facing the federal government. "washington journal" airs live every day, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> today, on c-span, the dollar llama and vincent harding, martin luther king jr.'s speechwriter, talk about nonviolence. they spoke at the university of arkansas, discussing osama bin laden's death, the nuremberg trials, the execution of saddam hussein, and the death penalty. >> in the 20th-century, the number of people who kill each other through violence or -- is over 200 million. that problem must be solved. also exploitation lays down the seeds of hatred. these things i fear. >> watch this discussion at 6:30 eastern on c-span. >> tonight, on c-span, a look back at president nixon's foreign-policy, members of his administration, and the president's son-in-law discuss communism in china, invading north vietnam, and the 1967 war in the middle east. >> the discussion then in the newspapers were nixon's secret plan for peace. what was it? he n

new howard beal. joining us is jeff jarvis who directs the center for entrepreneurial journalism at the city university of new york salute to washington? >> it was the company know noir talking. i watched the news and got mad. i went to twitter and just said it's our money, our economy, f you washington and people starting responding. so i started to joke and people said no, you should make it a hash tag. and now there are 99,000 tweets with that moniker on them. >> that is remarkable. why do you think this took off on at which time tore the point it was getting network news coverage? >> i think there is a lot of anger and disappointment in the government and what's going on right now. some people got mad at me and said you should have been spoefk and said to the gop orr congress or whatever. the fact it was a blank slate allowed people to come in and say why they were upset, f you washington for this or for that, for not letting me marry who i want, making my parents worry about whether they can pay their bills. it brought out the anger and disappointment which i think means it brought out the hope of the people,

what's interesting on the new york times, a fellow, historian for the university of southern californiaaid, look, the tabloids play this important role and pierce the facade of all the spin and pageantry that went on and decided specifically-- >> middleton and william. >> the princess. and they play, a quote, a fundamental role in democratic culture closed quote. >> they said other than that everything we would get would be highly, really highly controlled and from media and without the tabloids, what would we be? >> take a quick break. first to keep up on media stories during the week. go to our website and check out the watch list section. coming up next, media coverage of the deficit issue, and the debt debate helped or hurt the effort? >> the great debt debate continues in washington. and in the press. as the mainstream media dismisses the house backed plan and blamed republicans for wasting time on getting a real deal done. >> my ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief. >> michele bachmann goes on the defensive following comments by