why is blogger jeff jarvis revealing so much about his personal life? we'll ask him. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> every week it seems there's another one, and there are at least a dozen more to go -- televised drama featuring mit and rick and herman and newt and michele and the rest of the gang. but these primetime programs, are they really about chris wallace and anderson cooper and wolf blitzer and brian williams and charlie rose? >> it's time now to meet the 2012 republican presidential contenders. >> here's the format for our debate tonight. >> let's get to it and meet the candidates. >> good evening, candidates. we're going to get right to it tonight. >> the next question is for you -- >> we debate this evening about spending and taxes. >> it's no secret that rick perry has had a tough time during the debates and his campaign has been hinting that he might just take a pass in the future. >> these debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. it's hard to lay out your ideas and concepts with a one-minute response. i

i sat down with journalist and blogger jeff jarvis, author of "public parts: how sharing the digital e work and live." jeff jarvis, welcome. >> thank you, howard. >> the incredible outpouring of tributes about this passing of steve jobs, around-the-clock coverage, the newspaper stories, the special news magazine editions. is there any level on which this is a little over the top? >> it's hard to be too hyperbolic about steve jobs -- >> because? >> to consider that he is our gutenberg, our galileo, our da vinci, our instein, our edison. and we can find over-the-top metaphors work for him because he changed technology, he made it accessible to so many people. he enabled everyone to create things. he changed business and how it operates not just technology but music and media. he changed retail, he changed entertainment, he enabled a culture -- he didn't invent computer, he didn't invent the internet, but he did make them so easy to use that we are all creators. he's a big deal. >> now of course it's apple that did these things, but steve jobs is apple. or the creative force behind apple

jeff jarvis, author, blogger and of all ching r things college professor. >>> jeff jarvis writes andgs about things the rest of us don't always talk about. in his new book "public parts," all the worry about privacy on the internet may be misplaced. we should be more open about who we are and what we're doing for the public good. jeff jarvis is the author of a number of books. he created entertainment weekly magazine. he teaches journalism at the university of new york. he is also one of the french presidents nicholas sarkozy's least favorite people. joined by john schwartz of usa today and rich joeslowski. we learned over the break while you were talking to marissa meyer that you may have been responsible for google buying the gatt. we needed that on camera. >> i opened the journal and we decided to have marissa and tim on the show. that was at the university of new york. and who better to have on than marissa and tim armstrong. she came and she said that the gatts were there. she thought they were conference stalking her. they weren't. they had lunch afterwards and the rest is a de