plus we have arianna huffington coming up. she's created a new platform where she says it's going to be strictly for twitter. let's see if that can be successful. and we've got the harvard business students themselves who are going to present their twitter business plan, kind of give biz stone and all a big leg up ahead of their announcements later on this week. julia's got reporting coming up as well. >> once it's in the harvard curriculum, it already is out of date. social network is moving so fast. it interests me, though, that -- back to that 200 to 300-year-old model of advertising. >> do we know? we think it's advertising, right? there could be another layer of analytics. it's hard to know at this point. >> that's why a lot of people think perhaps they should have just sold. get out. as founders of the company. if you're going back to the old advertising model and still trying to figure out how to make money, did you miss the point at which you could have sold this baby, made a fortune and gone on to the next big thing?

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so let me hypothesize somebody who is not here, someone like clay art arianna huffington, people who talk about citizen journalism and people in their proverbial pajamas blogging away and somehow provided a function that replaces traditional journalism. and i would disagree with that person, because there is this the reducible role for these people, quote journalists. and these people quote editors who create these products that tell us things we didn't know we wanted to know until we saw the headline are a we saw the story there, and found it. it's very important and produce with professionalism. i think this is a public good. i think there's a very serious of market failure. and there is a tradition which susan alluded to, going back to the very start of the country it is inherent in the goals of the framers of the constitution and the first amendment to create a well-informed electorate to making sure that voters are informed about issues of the day and able to make wise decisions in the democratic process. i'm going to actually lead a couple of sentences from professor michael jo

here to talk about sarah palin and all of the week's new, george will, arianna huffington of the huffingtonam donaldson and cokie roberts. george, starting with you. white house officials think shorof ninating republican senator orrin hatch to the supreme court, republican senators are going to object and pate their nominee as a radical. do any have a point? >> i'm not so sure. i think it's important for us to understand how radically and recently things have changed i the confirmation process. 1939 after this new deal fight with the supreme court. after the pecking plan by fdr. roosevelt nominates felix frankfurter. 12 days from the nomination through the hearing to the senate vote. nine days later he nominated william o. douglas. longest serving justice from all. 15 days from nomination to confirmation. stevens himself. the first justice appointed after roe v. wade goes through in three weeks. he's not asked one question on abortion and hearings, there's a five-minute debate on the floor. confirmed 98-0. as is, in 1986, scalia. it all changed in 1987. and i have a feeling that we may have

arianna huffington is going to join us. she's starting a new stand alone huffington post exclusively for twitter. it's all about twitter. i know melissa knows all about twitter, larry. you should join, too. it is an -- >> i used to twitter. >> i haven't done it a lot lately either. >> i did some twittering. i felt that i was frittering away my twitter time. >> thank you so much, michelle. can't wait to see the show. >>> when we come back, going green from the ballpark to your backyard. >> our darren rovell at wrigley field in chicago with the story. >> reporter: writingry field's grass sure looks nice. this company is betting that you'll pay to make your lawn look like this. that story's coming up next only on "the call." >>> welcome back to "the call." the number of homes in foreclosure reach aed a new recd high in february of 3.31%. up 51% from a year ago. the total number of delinquent loans and reo or bank owned properties now stands at $7.9 million. economist robert shiler writes that evidence for a sustained recovery

arianna huffington has chosen this as her book of the month, which means i have to ask a soft questions. not really. i would like to ask her of two- stage. auriana -- arianna does not need much of an introduction. she is one of the great destructive innovators of our age, certainly to the extent no one in the media feels they're going to have any money in the future as a result of this brilliant "huffington post," and convincing people to read for nothing, but the subject -- to write for nothing, but the subject, is america a third world country -- it is interesting. almost my instinct was it would probably be better to be a third world country, because there are a lot of exciting things going on in the developing world in terms of new technologies and so forth. what lies behind your concern of america becoming a third world country? >> as matthews said, it is a great coach. >> i did not say the barrier -- i did not say that. what he says is a new way of addressing the issues i am addressing in this book i am writing about whether america is becoming a third world country. if we look at

can arianna huffington at is our guests the first half of the session started morale very nicely by a choosing the road to ruin as her book-of-the-month which means that have to ask questions during this interview session. i would take to invite you up on stage and she really doesn't need. [applause] she really doesn't say much of the introduction i think she has become in the media industry when a great disruptive innovators of our age it makes sense they wouldn't have any money in the future as a result without the brilliant insight this persuading people to write for nothing. [laughter] of but the subjects we have to broadly framed our conversations is is america a third world country? it is interesting thinking about that title almost by instinct probably better to be a third row country because there are a lot more exciting things going on and so forth. [laughter] what lies behind your concerns of america becoming a third world country? >> it is great to be here and it is a great book. >> i did not say that. >> i definitely said that. [laughter] >> and in no way i am grasping som

he has to get bob shearer and arianna huffington to stop talking. [laughter] and he has succeeded admirably. he's also a weekly columnist for the washington post online edition, a senior fellow at the center for american progress, his new book is "the tyranny of dead ideas". please welcome mat miller. [applause] >> thank you, john, and i'm so fascinated by michael panelists. i want to read all these books. it's actually good to get a taste of them. i want to say that even though i'm center on left, right and center i'm wearing my chinese communist party cufflinks. [laughter] this is actually my little sartorial not to the future of capitalism which we can talk about in a second and in any event and the guard chinese creditors will require this as standard issue uniform for us before long. [laughter] and my little time today i think i got good news and bad news when it comes to the question does the american economy have a future. i think the good news and that although you can tell from this audience's response there's lots of pain and suffering goi