as we reported last year, there was one meeting that got so contentious that dean baquet walked out of jill abramson's office and punched a hole in the wall at the "new york times" headquarters. so clearly it was up and down. they managed to sort of weather whatever that relationship was and get through it and produce what is still a great product. but i don't think they were you know hanging out on the weekends. >> rose: yes. they weren't partying together. it is the notion, though, that he, my impression from people who know him that he's a very popular manager. >> he's very popular man within the times news room. if abramson suffered from this view she was sort of cold and unfortunatable dean certainly loved to be the sort of guy who everyone in the news room liked. morale in the news room was something that was very important to him and that he let people know was very important to him in a way that jill abramson clearly did not. and i think that won him over a lot of fans in the news room. >> rose: it's fair to say everyone was surprised by this except the people who had made the

tried to break-in on an executivered tore from "the guardian" to be a coe managing editor with dean baquet, now the executive editor, and she went about doing this without talking to anyone about the process, and that was the tipping point after a few months of tensions within the "new york times" newsroom, leading to her departure. >> a lot of her defenders, talking about the role of women in the work place, whether the adjectives hurled her way, would have been used for a male editor. in the past haven't they - press. >> definitely. >> there was an executive editor who was pushed out in 2003, after the jason blair scandal. that was as bloody as an execution. there was no big public embarrassment that preceded jill's departure, which is why her exit is a shock. >> there was reports that jill abramson confronted the "the times" leaders about her pay, after learning she made less than her predecessor. that exploded turning it into an issue of women in the workplace. "the times" denied it, but it's been fuzzy in the denials. >> they deny saying she was comparably paid. the "the times" is dif

she is been replaced by managing editor dean baquet, who has become the first african-american to takep the post. both abramson and "the times" have signed non-disparagement agreements and sulzberger has insisted her firing was due to "an issue with management in the newsroom." denied new york times" the charge saying abramson's total competition package was copper ball to that of earlier executive editors. only after she protester was her salary raised again. she learned her salary as managing editor, 390 $8,000, was less than that of the now managing editor for news operations john gatti. she also learned her salary as washington bureau chief from 2000-2003, was $100,000 less than that of her successor in that position. >> the development drew attention to the pay discrimination women are still widely recognized to face. senate majority leader airy reid cited them thursday when he renewed his call to pass the paycheck fairness act, which republicans blocked a vote on for the third time last month. the bill will prohibit retaliation against employees who share their salary information

baquet. back in 2011, when he was in his previous position at the "new york times," spoke here in washington, d.c. at a george washington university event. he talked about the demands that is met for managing print paper and an always changing website. here's mr. baquet's comments from 2011. >> it's tricky. it's funny. a lot of what we do today balancing the website and the print paper reminds me of the afternoon paper, where it started in new orleans, where it was remarkably similar. when you came in in the morning, you had to come up with a way to move the ball for the afternoon editions in covering the story for the morning paper. it's tricky to manage. it requires a lot more decision-making, faster off the mark decision making. you asked earlier how i describe, what do i see my role at the front page meeting? and i said i see my role as sort of picking the two or three most important stories of the day. i think that that shifts constantly through the day. you have to work harder to manage

this is around 2007, baquet did not feel like it would be the right message to send to our readers toreally be in such a chummy and festive setting with the people we are covering. i think that is obviously a view that some hold, but not everyone. we don't pass judgment on those who do go. obviously, when i did used to go and i worked at another paper, i got a lot of work done. .here's lot of fun to be had it has been the philosophy of the paper for a number of years now. i don't see it changing, at least not this year. [indiscernible] >> you saw attorney general eric holder and senator patrick leahy arriving. the annual white house correspondents dinner, the speaking portion begins in about an hour and 20 minutes at 8:00 eastern. we are watching comments on facebook and taking your tweets speakingn chat areas of the combination of celebrities and politicians, john f. kennedy junior magazine, it was devoted to the marriage of celebrity and politics. c-span interviewed the president of the white house correspondents association and he talked about the history of the dinner and how the

the company named former managing editor dean baquet as her replacement.e is the first african-american .xecutive at the paper said the change should help improve management in the newsroom. samsung issued a rare public compensate will workers that say they got cancer after working in a semiconductor plant. dozens of workers say they contracted leukemia and other blood related cancers after being exposed to chemicals that several samsung plans and south korea. however, samsung fell short of technology a connection between the cancers and the chemicals used at its plant. our lead story of the day. google is opening its glass doors. after opening sales of google glass to the public for one day last month, the company is now letting anyone by google glass as long as they're willing to shell out $1500 a pair and while supplies last. they are moving to a "more open beta," and it comes as google is making other ventures into hardware. the self driving car is being tested in urban areas. there is the question of what google plans to do with all the robot companie

announcement on wednesday afternoon, she was dismissed from her position and promoted managing ed dor dean baqueta pelkts of jill's management of our newsroom, which i had previously made clear to her. but that doesn't seem to be all there is to this dismissal what ch has raised questions about gender roles in the workplace and the the challenge women still face in achieving actual pay. the announcement came after she made waves after discovering she made less than her predecessor. she had even earned less money than a male editor who worked under her. my panel is back to discuss and we are joined by leslie bennett, who left "the new york times" in 1988 over what she says was a gender basal ri dispute. i want to start with you on this question. we'll kbet to the specifics of the jill abramson story, but it did strike me that the language was disturbing that we heard used over and over again to describe this behavior and to then describe that behavior as inappropriate. >> it's always the same language. the female editor of france was also forced out of her job this week. and what is always said ab

abrahamson has been replaced by whoging editor dean baquet becomes the first african-american to hold the post. he was accused of quashing a story on the involvement of phone companies in the bush ministrations domestic servants program while working at "the los angeles times." he received complaints from top u.s. intelligence officials at the time, but says that played no role in his decision. the french photojournalist camille lepage has died while covering the conflict in central african republic. her body was found murdered after french troops stopped the vehicle driven by christian militants. friends and colleagues say camille lepage was dedicated to documenting africa's overlooked conflicts. she was 26 years old. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to the future of the internet. the federal communications commission or fcc is scheduled to vote today on new rules that may effectively abandon net neutrality, the concept of a free and open internet. the fcc announced plans last month t

she will be replaced by dean baquet. >> a lot going on there. first of all, the gender issue.ooked at the salaries at "time" magazine. found out women weren't being paid for comparable jobs and sall ris. now this. >> my instinct is to believe it just given my experience in the news industry over the course of 30 years. not talking about necessarily here, but we have our own story here that we've written about. so we can put that aside. that's out there. but, no, i read that. i was not surprised at all. >> a lot of deeply disturbing questions here. there's also the church/state issue where separation from editorial from business. jill had expressed concern for some time that business was creeping over too much into the editorial side of the newspaper. and she got big pushback from that, too, and was seen as a troublemaker. >> "the times" along with other newspapers have had serious financial problems over the past decade. "the times" also has a new ceo. formerly head of the bbc. he's been here about two years. i assume his way of doing business is a little different than americ

masthead.is morning's is now see dean baquet the executive editor.hat is the public policy issue on your mind this week? thank you, c-span. you have donehat about the net neutrality and the articles that you read, i feel that that is a very interesting -- probably one of the most important decisions made by the commissioner -- he did not make it, but it was 3-2 as described in the article that you read so excellently. -- theuation is this protesters, i consider their point. concerned that capitalism was trying to take over the internet. well, it's not. it is really freedom. freedom is trying to take over. it is open-source. so there is a lot of misunderstanding by the republican commissioner, there was misunderstanding by the democratic commissioner, and i am glad that the vote of 3-2 120 days of proposal writing so issues can be resolved and freedom and capitalism can be maintained in an open-source fashion in the internet. as commissioner wheeler stated, one of the most important rulings -- well, it is not a role yet. it is a proposal now. --andr t

dan baquet has been appointed to replace her. he was also down in, i this i we may have been down at a new orleans paper at one point, too. if you read all the background, he was butting heads with her because she appointed someone that was going to be co-head. there's a story about him slamming the door. >>. >> there was also a story about her that came out a few months ago, that was very detrimental. >> the whole thing, you can say that. >> that's not what i'm saying. i did not say that. that was to raise an eye from steinberg. i did not. lots of speculation, including, i've seen this on dredge. i don't see it anywhere else in a report that she discovered the guy before her, what was that guy's name? >> bill keller. her pension benefits were slower than a lot of her pred secessop. t"the new york times," i think it's triquarterly they do their compensation guilti iguilting c >> there's journalist aenvy. anybody making over $250,000 basically. here it is. >> right no house the head person didn't make enough money and she's mad. i