you the reader viewer with more analysis here is a snippet from an internal memo circulated at the a.p. . it said quote we're going to be pushing hard on journalism with voice contact with more interpretation this does not mean we're sacrificing our deep commitment to unbiased fair journalism it does not mean we're venturing into opinion either it does mean that we need to be looking for ways to be more distinctive and stand out in the field so not just to what where but why and what does it mean or at least what do they say it means as much as the a.p. that's changing piers morgan show and c.n.n. will change as well he recently told t.v. news or that in his show's second year changes to him his program piers morgan tonight will include making it quite a bit more mysterious with more humor more opinionated piers morgan says he's no comedian like jon stewart will never be as partisan as bill o'reilly but he will nonetheless add humor and opinion there are more changes and examples to discuss and we'll be talking about a few of them today i spoke just a little bit ago with seton smith co

i will refer to at a.p. on steroids. the most advanced a.p. courses in country, and institutionalizing those in public schools that have a large military kid population. and not known to most -- most pub you -- well, most military children go to a public school that is not a d.o.d. school. this is an effort to cement for the long-term advanced educational opportunities. as we do that we're looking to cement opportunities that are sustainable for the long haul educating teachers. working with 100 universities around the country with the goal of getting them to commit to training all of the teachers and their respective institutions in some fundamental course relating to military child and what it means to have a military child in their classroom. simple example is, if you're a public teacher in hopkinsville, kentucky near fort campbell and have a couple of young kids falling asleep and you're teemping a sixth grade class, they're falling asleep in the middle of clats it would be healthy for you to have an understanding that, hey, this young kid

the reader the viewer with more analysis here's a snippet from an internal memo circulating at the a.p. . says quote we're going to be pushing hard on journalism with voice with context with more interpretations this does not mean we're sacrificing any of our deep commitment to the unbiased fair journalism does not mean that we're venturing into opinion either it does mean that we need to be looking for ways to be distinctive and stand out in the field so that says to me it's no longer just who what where but why and what does that mean or at least what do they say it means and i thought the only thing piers morgan show on c.n.n. will also change as well he told the news are that in his shows the second year he's already been on for a year if you can believe it changes to his program piers morgan tonight will include making it a bit more mysterious with more humor and more opinionated. piers morgan says he's no comedian like jon stewart will never be as partisan as bill o'reilly but he will nonetheless add humor and opinion to his show there are more changes than examples to discuss an

government the pictures that a.p. people took eddie adams a picture of the police executing a viet cong in the streets of saigon a nine hundred sixty eight nick but another a.p. photographer take your picture of a young girl with the clothes burned off by napalm running down a country road these were very negative images. u.s. media turned away from. reporting. from then on independent journalism was regarded as a collateral and a. after the terrorist attacks of september eleventh two thousand and one the bush administration took a chance on trying to control the media and manipulate american public opinion. i think the bush administration absolutely manipulated. the media in america at the time in hindsight of course their justification for the war were more spurious and best and it just they were they were falsehoods one of the things that was most disturbing about the nuclear issue was that. in november the inspectors went into iraq to look at whether there were weapons of mass destruction or programs for the. mode

it's the most advanced a.p. courses in the country. in institutionalizing those in public schools that have a large military population and not known to most, most public schools -- well, most military children go to a public school that is not a dod school. this is an effort to submit for the long term some advanced education opportunities. as we do that, we're also looking to cement opportunities that are sustainable for the long haul in terms of educating the nation's future teachers. so we've been working with 100 universities around the country with the goal of getting them to commit to training all of the teachers and their respective institutions and some fundamental course relating to military child and what it means to have a military child in their classroom. simple example is if you're a public schoolteacher in hospital kinsville, kentucky, near ft. campbell, and you have a couple of young kids falling asleep and you're teaching a sixth grade class and they're falling asleep it would be helpful for you to have an understand

for two thousand dollars they come with their equipment a.p.'s the pipeline and they put in a tap. the commissioner of this act of piracy then becomes owner of his own oil well. and sells the raw material to the buyers in the canoes to refine it further on. so all along the road you find tiny independent service stations consisting of three or four cans to supply the motorist. a flourishing black market based on chaos and man's inventiveness. out at sea it's a final stage in the process a giant boy will serve as a morning of supply point for supertankers from all over the world. two hundred kilometers off the coast the d.i.y. man and backyard refiners won't be piercing the pipelines pilots are responsible for that operation by hand and by hook. what spy to see going tugs the maneuver seems almost traditional. if. it would be. just a lot of no no to do that would push to split up without to talk of that would about if. it. is going to its way its dubiously if i. was asking us to do it without getting. it without it without. you know how many barrels i going through that. ever. stay.

that starts by being more selective in who becomes an educator a.p grade point average to iowa's teacher preparation programs is not asking too much. two, all prospective teachers seeking a state license should demonstrate content and teaching mastery to ensure they are ready for the crucial work of teaching our children. three, school administrator programs should be provide for principals to be instructional leaders. other staff can take on some of the management tasks to free principals to observe and coach teachers in their classrooms. four, iowa department of education will continue to improve the iowa core, our state standards for math, science, english and social studies. well-rounded healthy students need more than just our core areas. the department will work with educators to develop new standards for music and other fine arts, character education, physical education, entrepreneurship education, applied arts and foreign languages. five, new kindergarten assessments will assure that students start kinger garden ready to learn and leave prepared to flourish in first grade. sixth,

. >> just crossing the a.p. wires that michele bachmann is ending her campaign, according to -- excuse me, according to bachmann advisors saying that the presidential hopeful will be announcing, coming up shortly, that this will be the time where she says that it will be over for her. our chuck todd is joining me from new hampshire. we had audio issues coming off the top of the show. michele bachmann was riding high once she won the ames straw poll. now her popularity obviously has gone down. now that we know she is officially ending her bid, we have to ask the question, is texas governor rick perry going to follow, since he, too, chanced his events in south carolina today. >> no, it does -- it does seem as if that rick perry is getting advice from some of his texas aides that maybe it is time to pull the plug, maybe it's not worth going on and trying to move on. but they have not made a final decision on that front. as for michele bachmann, her campaign was doomed the day she won the iowa straw poll because ric

washington will continue to intervene militarily in foreign affairs i worked at newsweek and as goes a.p. and other major u.s. news organizations and the and what i saw especially in places like newsweek was this idea that the media was actually part of the establishment that it was it was it was that the american people were to be guided more than even informed it seems most american media are so used to talking wars that went after a decade of the inconclusive war in afghanistan the white house announced the necessity to negotiate with the taliban you have to have a political solution at some point the message and the words political solution came out a somewhat alien peace talks with the taliban it's come to this tell us more about these proposed peace talks and that may sound a little weird to some of our viewers it seems that words political solution don't belong in the u.s. media they can be larry two main reasons one moring and second some very powerful people are behind a kind of trigger happy pro-war journalism too many times in history the media did the bidding of war profiteer

deservingly be called the tournaments giant killer the unseated russian has already overcame the likes of an a.p. and combat veterans of all not all but she is now upset the five time champion serena williams in straight sets six two six three her quarterfinal opponents will either be maria sharapova or said this its key. elsewhere to be the a put a stop to the progress so former world number one on the evanovich the twenty one year old books this fall in the quarterfinals of his second year in a row following her six two seven six victory. at the next day she will play it out in sorrow iranian who thrashed china's yang in straight sets six two six one and the two thousand and eight champion and four seed maria sure of all that is currently up against said been this it's good to score in that so i want to go on sets and five two in the third set. and now on to the men's matches in on monday were a four seed and murray booked a place in the quarterfinals after his opponents. retired in the third set forty nine minutes fifteen games and a place in the quarter finals of the australian open that was

their state history from three states before they graduate from high school, or how they can get into a.p. classes, or even on to the sports teams, because they miss the tryouts. while we know, we have 39 states that cover 88% of our children, we also know that the implementation has been sketchy. so this next year we're going to be working very carefully to make sure that our states school superintendents know about the interstate compact and how it will impact military children. it's not just for military children. it's for all children who transfer, but our children move so often it was really an effort to protect them. as brad was saying, employment for military spouses is a particular interest and it falls into my portfolio. we know the financial stability of the family often hinges on the spouse's income, too, and we know that our spouses have an unemployment rate of 26% compared to their civilian counter parts and we know they're underemployed by about 25%. and we know that they're more highly educated. 24% of our spouses have bachelor's degrees. so we have a program called the mil

dean baker and matt welch also a few mainstream news organizations like the new york times and the a.p. are getting together to monitor and eventually charge for the use of their content on blogs and aggregators whatever happened to fair use we're going to all that and more for tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to miss. well it's official nonstop wall to wall campaign coverage is all the mainstream media is going to pay attention to for the entirety of this year as we head towards the elections in november i was already behind us this weekend there were two more debates before new hampshire and the primary train is just going to keep on chugging week in and week out if you like to know that anything else is happening in the world then you should just go elsewhere because this is the only thing we're going to get from c.n.n. and m s n b c and fox the countdown to the first primary of the twenty twelve race tomorrow voters in new hampshire will cast their votes for the republican nominee and mitt romney still leading the pa

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candidates got above-average votes, the only consistent factor there, higher ads spent, of course this a.pnto consideration. why we're talking about adds now? largely because of this. >> the u.s. supreme court today overturned laws on the book foss nearly a century and ruled that corporations with spend freely now on political campaigns. >> the two-year anniversary of that supreme court decision, this saturday south carolina primary, and voters aren't turning them off. new hampshire exit polls said that ads were actually important in their decisions. after saturday, leading up to march's super tuesday, candidates must cover 19 states, almost 2 million square miles in 45 days. humanly impossible to do. that's why, chris, ad surges may become ads sieges. >> i'm guessing if you're in south carolina you already think you're under siege, but i definitely understand what you're saying. lady lynn, let me bring you back in. we're talking about two different kinds to donate to campaigns. for the people who you have invited to some of they, who can spend $38,000 to have cocktails or dinner, say, wit

according to the a.p., he's hesitant to throw his support behind anyone right now.elf the tebow of the iowa caucuses. that didn't pan out. in pittsburgh when miracles happen in denver. the steele city mayor lost a bet after denver won sunday's football game versus the steelers. look at that. he tebowed in front of a historic landmark. we wonder if boston's mayor is doing the same thing next week? we will wait and see. >>> the ties of capitalism and the virtue of depending on it. remember this guy? >> greed, for lack of a better word is good. greed is right. greed works. greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of evolutionary spirit. >> michael douglas as wall street raider there. a liberal group is resurrecting him. a lookalike will do a campaign for romney. my next guest who wrote a book on this is josh ksoman. he's here to talk about this. we joke about the gordon gekko, the embodiment of wealth. this is what the opponents of romney will utilize now, this larger than life figure to paint him in that life. take a listen to what rick perry said today.

, a high school teacher in louisville, kentucky, they're discussing the caucus with his ninth grade a.pclass. good luck in explaining that to ninth graders. >> one of the harder things to explain. >> my colleague, susan paige, usa today, look forward after iowa. >> it's big. january. we've got a busy january coming up. jennifer, i saved you for last. >> i took this job in april, i'm a rookie at the whole politics job, i say thank you to iowa strategists who have helped me out and helped me learn this game. >> i tell you, you're following in big footsteps, the jeff selames of the world. you've done great. thank you all. what are we up to? ten more hours until we get hints. be careful of entrance polls, first wave had mitt romney ahead. remember, mike huckabee won. be careful when you hear rumors about so-called entrance polls. tomorrow on the show, i'll have full analysis of a -- all of tonight's caucus results. i'll be in manchester. coming up, "chris jansing & company." 1:00, miss "andrea mitchell reports." enjoy super tuesday on msnbc. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription.

quickly, you're a.p., supposed to count the votes. where the hell's location? >> we don't have anything. >> class warfare in the republican party, michael steele, how did this happen? >> it's silly, man. i mean, the 11th commandment doesn't matter. so gone beyond the pale on this. >> you think what newt's going is beyond the pale to romney? >> is targeted with what romney did to newt and opened up a can of worms nobody's going to benefit from ultimately. when we get to south carolina this will be a bloodletting unlike anything you've ever seen before. i think at the end of the day, the base is going to sit there and they're still going to take their time and decide who ultimately they want, and it's a process, and it's a good process, but the noise right now is not good. whether you're talking about, you know, how you feel about the unemployed or how you feel about african-americ african-americans, it's a silly conversation. >> this connection issue. good old producers at nbc found old archive footage of george romney, mitt romney's father, having basically a s

this is a guy who has been a respected political reporter for 25 years for a.p. and cnn. i thought that was beneath you. >> i think it's fair. i think the question was phrased in a very dopey fashion. >> maybe it was a dopey question. >> yes. >> you called him a dope. >> listen, it's twitter. in the midst of the moment. >> do you regret using that language? >> the question was dopey. if he hadn't thought through it, then shame on him. it was a setup. he should have -- newt gingrich should thank him for the largest in kind donation because he probably won the south carolina primary on that basis. for someone to ask a question in that fashion where you know he is going to hit it out of the ballpark, follow it up with a very defensive kind of silly argument that it didn't come from cnn i thought was beneath him. it didn't play to his benefit. it sort of transfecked the rest of the panel, subsumed the rest of the debate, and i think it was a mistake. >> let me pick this up after we have a chance to hear what john king said after the debate. this is him on the situation room s

. >> this is something you would never even study in a.p. civics but it's important now.re's been an argument about this for at least 100 years as to when is the senate? recess in such a way as the president can come in there and bypass the advice and consent requirements of the constitution for most big deal appointees. teddy roosevelt 100 years ago used a tiny couple of second break between the end of one congress and the beginning of another to put 100 people on the job that the senate refused to confirm. harry truman did something similar in the modern day for... there's been a different sort of fight since the 1990s when bill clinton and the republicans who had power to block his appointees in the senate went to war over this and most recently, since about 1997, when george bush put about 60 of his people on the job with recess appointments, harry reid said "from now on, we're not going to go into what is traditionally thought of as a real recess, one lasting three days or longer. we'll come back every three days turn on the lights in the senate and say the pledge of