reality and this classic example of the mean world syndrome continues today in fact since that a.b.c. news report about falling crime rates justice department figures show that violent crime has dropped in an additional forty three percent to a remarkable thirty year low and. crime dropped. four point four percent. but despite this steady drop polls have consistently shown that most americans believe just the opposite to be true three quarters of americans say there is more crime in the united states than there was a year ago gallup's annual crime poll shows it's the highest level since the early one nine hundred ninety s. the poll also finds fifty one percent of americans say there is more crime in their local area. year ago when we see reports like this is it any wonder that american seem more intent than ever on protecting themselves speaking of heading home check this out i'm a firearms instructor in nassau county florida last weekend we had eighteen people go through our courses to get concealed weapons carry licenses the number of people getting these licenses is astounding everyone

a.b.c. or fox news by saying inconvenient stories that people don't want to hear you do it by talking about lady gaga or you know whatever the topic of the hour is and putting is positive a slant on things that you can definitely is a business these days but i think that it reflects on all this mike thank you so much for joining us a pleasure. still to come tonight and just a matter of hours president obama will deliver his second state of the dress well obama trying hard to compromise with the right or stand up to that and tens of thousands flocked to d.c. in recent days to protest roe v wade so tonight we'll look at how abortion is viewed as a wedge issue there. i. really believe something. from the ground. covered. the president will deliver the state of the union address tonight hours after tens of thousands of protesters left washington and they weren't here protesting the two wars that the u.s. is bogged down in or high unemployment and stead they held rallies for and against roe v wade the landmark supreme court case that made abortion legal in the u.s. artie's kalen for reports on t

a.b.c.'s world it runs them being stream new year's world in the morning so i think it's it's it's special around for a while i think it's just not as much about our media right now as it says about anything else but it does also say you know we're out here having these imperial adventures on the other side of the world we're just not equipped really with a cultural of relationship to be able to deal with this and be able to sort through you i think yeah the fact that we aren't really sure what's going on and have no idea definitely is discouraging but an interesting story here marcy thank you so much for joining us thanks for having me. well still to come tonight we have a story that raised a few eyebrows in our morning meeting today a hooker proclaims that a lot of women are really envious of her career we'll have more on that we come back and then a liftoff for space how much will it cost for a trip that's out of this world we're going to speak with commercial space entrepreneur jeffrey manber about flights in the space be getting from twenty thirteen. wealthy british soil the sun. the time to

new meaning an episode of n.y.p.d. blue from two thousand and three where when i first bared all left a.b.c.with over a million dollars in fines from the f.c.c. now indecency has always been an issue have held by the f.c.c. but it seems like the government has had a little change of heart in the peals court the fines have been overthrown the court decided the f.c.c. saying quote nudity itself is not per se indecent and that current indecency standards are unconstitutionally vague so now the f.c.c. alleged his case lied many claim the other networks might be more willing to push the government's buttons allowing for more nudie scenes but hey if the government is to get a fine you then would be holding back all those networks think about all the network producers out there this means their rules just became that much more lenient now i doubt they will be seeing the same amount of skin as we do on h.b.o. or showtime but i can guarantee more bare butts will be getting prime time i'm just curious which shows going to push the limits first to be glee maybe desperate housewives introducing new to t

a.b.c. stories about improprieties at disneyland is the world disney killed those c.n.n. and time magazine belong to time warner joining the media giants are c.b.s. corporation towering over c.b.s. news and viacom a global entertainment content company running among others comedy central they're supposed to flick the comfortable and comfort the afflicted but when you have journalists treading lightly around corporate and governmental elites it almost depletes the reason for their even existing the purpose of existence for corporations is profit meaning investors interests are police to head of anything else that would matter in journalism good business is bad journalism good journalism is bad business broadcaster laura flanders says counting on getting facts from the corporate media is simply naive because be reliant on military contractors gee to bring us news about the war any more than we can be reliant upon television networks that are run by disney to bring us the truth about what's happening in our economy media are increasingly monopolized the number of voices interested in bringing their viewers a little something called truth has decreased as a result instead of representing