but first, bened -- ben edelman is up to his old tricks.hat's so ben edelman of him. >>> he has been an ass in the past. internet infamous ben edelman created a fuss after they charged him four bucks. a former manager of a sushi joint said he had a similar exchange with edelman. he received a pissed e-mail outlining at length why it was valid for the price fix menu. he threatens, if i don't hear from you or if we can't resolve the matter, i will forward my complaint to the city of boston licensing board. the owner pushed back replying none of your requests will be met under any circumstance and threatening to inform harvard business school about edelman's negotiating tactics. a local tv station caught up with edelman when he was dining in cambridge. >> how can you say no to that face? >> that was not edelman. >> you went to the other school in boston for smart people. it was up charles river and we called it up chuck. >> would those professors do something that was awful? >> no, they would have rounded it off to the percentage. i went to mi

. >> that is what ben edelman hated most. >> if he did this to my friend sal own as pizza place -- melissa: i love it. let's end on that neat. thank you, guys. jonathan gruber went to washington but not to all the networks. glaring omission from top news outlets. we report, you decide. no snow, no problem. the snowboard for all seasons joins us in studio. charlie is growing to ride it. more "money" coming up. ♪ melissa: jonathan gruber on the so the heat in capitol hill. not so much in mainstream media coverage. fox news airs the congressional hearing for a total of 55 minutes. cnn, msnbc, zero. no gruber for you! here is how, now is howard kurtz, host of "mediabuzz" on fox news. thanks for joining us. what do you make of this. >> i don't think a cable network has to cover a hearing live in order to adequately convey news value. i sat through too many things and can be dull and repetitive and lawmakers giving self-serving speeches. but, this is very interesting hearing. gruber denies being architect of obamacare, yes, i was inept, i was dumb, i was inexcusable, i was arrogant. thereby vali

ben edelman is an associate professor at harvard teaching negotiation. that is relevant.ordered takeout from a local chinese restaurant and noticed he was overcharged by $4. he sent an e-mail saying, i ordered takeout from you this evening. below are my notes on what i ordered. then the price quoted on your website. it seems like an increase of $1 on each and every item. the manager apologized saying the website prices were out of date and offered a refunnel. but edelman called it a serious violation and asked for a refunnel. three time the amount of the overcharge, citing massachusetts consumer protection statute. now he is threatening legal action to refund every customer who might have been overcharged. what does this look like? does he have a leg to stand on? >> i don't think he will sue but i have to tell you, i thoroughly enjoyed reading the e-mail conversation between him and this restaurant's manager. and he is a consultant, he consults people and companies on preventing and detecting online fraud. when he saw that he was overcharged $1 for each and every item, wh

harvard business school associate professor ben edelman decided to order some chinese food last week.ined 11 e-mails between the restaurant owner and edelman and they're going viral. more than 9,000 retweets on that story. he says he wants three times the original amount of the overcharge. see, this is why i got a law degree, to harass chinese delivery establishments. >>> finally and certainly not least, "time" magazine announced the person of the year for 2014. that is going big. they chose the ebola workers of west africa. ebola fighters began trending on twitter almost immediately after the news was released this morning. right now with over 21,000 uses on twitter just since earlier today. beats the time they had just like a shiny cover in the caption "you." >>> everyone's yakking about these stories. we want to hear about the off the radar stories you care about. the gates are open for your underreported submissions. that, you may recall, is where you nominate stories not getting their dues in the mainstream media cycle and we sic our best reporters on it. we're going to give you