the project was authorized by bill keller. it was taking place in the newsroom, so we did submit request to both the publisher and the ceo to do interviews, and they declined. perhaps that is for the best, because really the journalism and the journalists are what rise to be highlighted in the film. the corporate side was not part of the production. >> i want to show you some 28- year-old video that we did with the managing editor. >> tin years from now, what will the new york times be? >> i think it will be probably, i think and hope it will maintain itself as a newspaper of continuity. i think it will be a great deal like it is now. i think there will be a lot more color. the news, the magazine section, and business. i don't think he will pick up the paper and say this is a different kind of newspaper, that it is politicized, at least i hope not. if i am not around, i am coming back. i think it would "be the new york times." >> what did you hear there? was he right? cracks in a sense, i think they've rosenthal was a pioneer

took 160 years but the new york city "times" is about to have a woman running the news room as bill keller saying he's stepping down as executive editor, the paper says jill abramson will take over the top stop, she ran the times washington bureau before becoming number two editor eight years ago. jill abramson joins me now from new york. good morning. >> good morning. >> you've been part of of the "time" team running "the times" with bill keller. tell me one or two things you'll do differently that readers may notice. >> well, i think, you know, just the time period that i'm going to be leading the news room will mean an acceleration in what bill and i have been working on, which is making sure that the times is in the strongest position possible, kind of making the transition from print-dominated world to a digitally dominated world. >> since you are the first woman to get this job, in a century and a half, do you think you look at some stories a little differently than a bunch of white guys might? you know, talk about the female perspective. >> you know, i'm not sure it's a female persp

she will succeed bill keller, who will return to writing full- time for the paper.was a "times" managing editor under keller for eight years, and before that, the washington bureau chief, among many other things. she joined the "times" from "the wall street journal" in 1997. jill abramson, congratulations and welcome. >> thank you so much, jim. >> lehrer: first just on the personal level, what does it mean to you to become the executive editor of "the new york times"? >> it means the world to me. i grew up here in manhattan and "the new york times" was worshipped in my family. and what the times said was true, was the truth. and so i became an avid reader of the paper as a young schoolkid. and it seems scarcely believable to me that i will hold the top editorial position in the newsroom. >> lehrer: did you ever find yourself longing to be the boss or dreaming about it or just, i mean, is this a fulfillment of something that you saw coming some time? you didn't know when but maybe? >> that's a great description, jim. i hoped that it would come. but felt like definite

she replaces the veteran bill keller. abramson, born and raised in a "new york times" reading family, will be the first woman in the top job in the newspaper's 160-year history. >>> a big find in canada. we heard about it in these parts. a lobberman in prince edward island pulled up his trap and found a 4 million to 1 shot. a blue lobster, extremely rare. they really stand out when they're with their friends. huge social stigma, of course, among lobsters. the restaurant business, all the advertising doesn't help. you'll never hear a jingle, blue lobster for the seafood lover in you, for example. this lobster will live out his retirement in an aquarium. >>> when we come back here tonight, wait until you see what is happening in one of the most beautiful spot in the lower 48. >>> san francisco's fire department coming to terms with the death of one of their own. we'll have the latest on this deadly fire. hyoo l wathyandv ascen i fire technology could be putting crews in more danger. >>> the folks who run our national park s

i didn't want to do it but it was presented to be by bill keller my boss, i said enough of my reportersd to do it i would go along with it. but i wasn't in favor of it. >> jon: it sort of a democracy at the times. >> yes, that's exactly what it was. >> jon: very exciting. >> yes. >> jon: like a velvet revolution over there. that's exciting. >> yeah, you saw the page 1 scene, to see how democratic they are. >> jon: exactly right. you live like ants in your cubicles. does the times, is the fear there that you know, the documentary is sort of capturing this obsolete time in america, it's like we'll look back years from now and be like the old horses used to pull all the wagons and then the automobile came by. >> i don't think the times looks at itself that way. i don't think the film gets that particularly. you know, i was skeptical because i thought well, we cover the media. we're not the most important part of the times. nobody is shooting at us. we cover fox news. which is-- by the way, they love you guys. i was over there on sunday. >> we don't actually have to drive through check poin

always burger and bill keller and these people of this current staff, to be the bestaper, better than the papei worked for, i worked under great editor abe rosenthal, where he alive he would hate what i am saying now but the times of this e.r.a. of keller and abrams, abramson and salz burger, jr. is a better paper than it ever has been in my lifetime and i have been affiliated with the new york times as a copy boy and i read the paper every morning, i take three hours, two hours to read that wonderful, awful paper and i stand corrected what i said about salz burger, so it is mea culpa time for me. >> rose: good for you. >> one thing you mentioned that is brought out, it relyovers whole range of things, and it also has people from the outside talk about it. wikileaks. was that a big deal for the morning times? >> i think it was, because it captures the tension of the fact that anyone now can be a publisher, anyone can put content on line, can do acts of journalism, even if they are not journalists in that case, you know, we are getting all of this raw material on the internet anyone ca

did the sign in with the guest book and the only two other names other than andrew breitbart were bill kellerabrams. they were in the building at the same time. >>- q. i that's -- >> that's funny because they work for me. who is this person? >> i don't know, bill. >> i am not bill. >> to the greg-alogue. it is starting and going downhill. it is going downhill fast. it is a greg-alogue, a bear chest of brilliance on a congressman of confusion. >> so the perfect narrative for any movie is david and goliath, the tough reporter versus the corrupt politician and the half naked talk show host versus a team of rambunctious house boys. when these roles are reversed it confuses the crap out of the mainstream media. andrew breitbart was accused of trying to destroy a congressman and hacking social networks. these accusations were pushed by the left and a congressman. so when breitbart took the stage at anthony wiener's prerser. it may have been the most truthful moments. wiener imploded. as i tweeted earlier, if breitbart was a leftist, sean penn would die to play him. since he is not, it would be phil

. >> the executive editor you are replacing bill keller has been publicly very distainful of websitesd arianna huffington in particular equating her business model to piracy. do you agree websites like the huffington post actually hurt journalism? >> i wouldn't go that far. i think that, you know, the aggregation of pieces of journalism that other news organizations have paid dearly to get the story, get it right, tell the story behind the story, is, you know, poses a threat to us in some way. but i respect the fact that an awful lot of people like to read that way and in some cases i think the huffington post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well. so, you know, i don't see myself -- i've known arianna huffington since the early '90s in washington. she is an inventive person. i certainly don't want to be in a war with her. >> i detect a change in tone at the top already. jill abramson, we wish you well. thanks for being with us. >> thank you so much. >>> sarah palin's one nation bus tour rolled into new hampshire stealing somewhat the political spotlight from mitt ro

guest: i think bill keller is rewriting history. i think ronald reagan would gotten less than 10% of the vote in the -- from the new york times. now they have decided and he has passed away and was president long ago and was successful, saying reagan was different. we always like reagan. nonsense. look at the coverage, the contemptuous coverage from 1964 through 1980 and indeed, through his administration. they don't -- the reason why they dislike sarah palin is not that she does not like the meeting, it is because she is a strong conservative. some of criticisms of sarah palin may have been correct in some other criticisms of right and have been correct. to throw and howard dean to make it look like it is bipartisan. first of all, howard dean got very good press coverage in 2003 and was a favorite of the press for quite a bit of that time. no, the mainstream media does not like conservatives, they don't like successful conservatives and they don't like conservatives threaten their control of the narrative. they like jon huntsman fo

but bill keller, a man i respect enormously, the outgoing editor of the "new york times" did a famous attack on twitter a couple of weeks ago. i really thought twitter was basically, you know, teenagers in the back of study hall, twittering messages to each other. it's got to be 140 characters or less. that encourages talking without thinking and how would you really have. of a conversation. it really turns out to be in my experience very unlike that. although i think teenagers spend a lot of time texting from their cell phones. i think twitter attracts somewhat older audience, you can find obviously a range of people. but the people that i sign up for and the people who follow me tend to be fairly serious about politics. some of them so serious about politics that i can't understand them. but there are a lot of statistical sights at 538.com. i'm sure some of you know it. they spend their time just analyzing and talking about presidential elections, outcomes in states in the past, what demographic changes will mean in order to -- that might affect the outcome in 2012. and those are ju