bloggers have increased the number of voices in our national political debate and dialogue. they're questioning the political reporting by traditional media. one blogger we spoke to, beth perry, posed a question for our panel. >> how does the concept of a postracial america affect your day-to-day reporting? and for those of us who have lived experiences that prove that we might not be there yet, how do you plan to address that? >> sam? >> that's a good question. i mean, i came to washington in february of '61 and participated in some extent covering the great civil rights movement and the marches and what have you. and of course, we looked at it in a different way--talk about conflict, talk about the danger and all of that. now, with our first african-american president and with the country moving more rapidly, i would hope by geometric progression, toward nirvana, where we hope we'll eventually get, the coverage is different, and the way we look at things have to be different. >> jim, pew center for people and the press surveyed and asked people where they get their informa

. >> time is running out for a young egyptian blogger jailed for criticizing the country's military. he has been on a hunk of -- on a hunger strike. his health is failing. he is scheduled to have a hearing next tuesday. >> he is the younger brother of the imprisoned blogger. he is visiting a group of activists in a small apartment in downtown cairo. michael is accused of insulting the military establishment and spreading false information. his supporters say he is the first prisoner of conscience in post-revolutionary egypt. >> michael is the only one who was arrested because of his remarks. many others were put before a military tribunal and set free by a military court. why is mark -- what is michael the only one to be imprisoned. his pulse do not contain insult. -- insults. the question is whether people's can accept change. >> protesters have returned to to rear square to demand -- ta hrir square. many fear his life is in danger. >> they have no right to try him. >> michael's case has attracted international attention. his family fears he may die before his hearing next week. >>

i said speaking of which but we earlier told you about the story about the blogger who was traveling who had a vibrator in her bag when she opened up her bag turns out that somebody from the t.s.a. had written out a little note get your freak on girl and now that's actually been animated because the story went so viral i think we have a clip take a look julie public was flying to dublin and checked one of her bags at newark airport. the bag was open for inspection by a t.s.a. agent found a vibrator and wrote a message to the. i mean it's now she's been more to lies i guess you could say animations but we actually ended up happening is the t.s.a. apparently fired the person they went look who was on the shift who did it they lost their job you think. that's of course that's a firing offense i mean come on that's a private issue and i think the funny part is they didn't leave a phone number so if you did go to the trouble of making a ridiculous comment like that leave your full interview man up. find out if it was a man or woman oh i just i guess i sexually harassed discriminated again

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

we can't depend on bloggers for our news, we need real reporting and editorial oversight more than evernd i'd love to find a way to help people create digital products where they actually can make money. why so much media interest in this biography, monica? >> well, for the obvious reason that steve jobs was a true technological visionary and created so many products that most of us use in our everyday lives from the iphone to the ipad. he revolutionized the way we see animation in movies through pixar and to that extent he was a transform tiff figure so they're fascinated by that. i think from the political angle, most left wing journalists also had an ideological affinity with steve jobs, waste a hippy, sort of a self-avowed hippy and his politics leans left even though he had critical things to say about barack obama and to barack obama's face in a couple of the meetings that isaacson reports. so i think there's an ideological connection with steve jobs as well as a fascination that he truly could transform technology of the world. >> the media can't get enough, judy? >> it seems not

archie sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so thanks so much for joining us it's nice to be here let's get started with the occupy wall street movement we've seen many media outlets try to ridicule them marginalize this movement as something that's temporary and really an artist teenage behavior and you've essentially called this bogus in your blog let's talk about that what is your take on occupy wall street well first of all i think it's hilarious that all of these scolds in the media are shaking their fingers at these young people and say oh you don't you can articulate your position you have any agenda we're living in a time in the united states when the consensus about reality is so fractured even among people who are supposed to know what's going on that we cannot construct a coherent story about what's happening to us and what we're going to do about it so to expect the young people to be able to construct a coherent narrative when nobody else in the culture is capable of doing that i think is a little unfair. but what's more you can tell ju

anti greed movement attracts more attention as the reports of allegedly groundless arrests emerge blogger christopher greene believes american cities are likely to witness even more violence as the marches spread from coast to coast. there is going to be some kind of martyrdom in the near future we are going to see violence in iraq we could already do we already have the violence in this country with the police pepper spraying protesters with you know innocent teenage women and be you know but taunted you know on kiro this is what the alternative media showcasing right now again this is a revolution this is this is a change in psychology this is an evolution in human consciousness the people are waking up and we're demanding change this is no different from what we saw overseas in the middle east and northern africa the revolution has now come to the united states of america what started as a one determined to protest in wall street has this weekend become a worldwide phenomenon galvanized into action in one of the largest collective movements of its kind tens of thousands have come out i

there right stephen one man radio host author and blogger thank you very much for your analysis. as concern grows that the eurozone is falling deeper into recession finance chiefs are hammering out plans to safeguard the region's banks e.u. commission president jose manual bro so said there were plans to recapitalize them there's no doubt that the next battle out installment for greece will actually go ahead and fallout from the country's resulting to fault would deal a severe blow to europe's banking sector in greece itself the latest twenty four hour nationwide strike turned violent as police fired tear gas on angry crowds of anti austerity protesters the government is imposing more cuts on its people trying to cap a massive debt of some three hundred fifty billion euros the country ground to a halt as workers walked out in a general strike leaving flights grounded in hospitals and lying on the staff party sorry for the greek capital as it boiled over. syntagma square once again bearing witness ok clashes between police here is protest is. that the background here. the right th

argues sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so things.

the us are accused of marginalizing the protests and observers say that not surprised us activist blogger. explains why washington wants the occupy movement in fact what's happening is that they're the ones using its least forces to crackdown on these legitimate protests there are no guile and they're peaceful and they're responding to it by arresting protesters pepper spraying them and preventing them from actually airing out their grievances it's a protest against the current status quo it's a protest against this system you know it's a protest against. this from stole from party establishment that own both houses or other old republican and democrats as a protest against that that's why you know i don't consider this to be approved a movement a system like this if so. but with the u.s. based and corporate occupy movement going global reporter laurie oftenest into the streets of new york to ask european x. what they think about the protests. as the occupy wall street movement sweeps the us what does the rest of the world think of it this week let's talk about that the banks are stronger

commentary from blogger christopher greene well earlier we spoke with an occupy wall street activist in the u.s. who tells us it's high time for changes to how major corporations are treated because she says the people's patience is starting to run out. what we're facing now in the united states is a critical situation a dangerous situation where corporations are truly running the country they're very blatantly out politicians and that's why we're out on the streets all over america to say that this corruption and graft within the business community that ronald's over into the political situation it's a creative time it's a time for people to really look closely at what the pressure points are on these politicians and on the corporation says as obama said you know he said some of the things they're doing is not illegal but they are immoral and that's really the the crux of it when you have these here more on the greedy pigs that are taking billions for their personal wealth and don't care when we have homeless all over the world that we have kids that don't have good education anymor

of pessimistic because there was a lot of defamation and a lot of like negative press online by bloggers and other activists who thought that the elections wouldn't actually the turnout of the elections today or the polling stations would be very low but actually on the contrary seventy percent is a great number and i don't think the people here in tunisia have ever been so happy it is a celebration right now in the city you were a freelance journalist just how does the media affected the campaign running up to these elections. well basically behind the pennant committee for elections also known as the i.s.i. which is actually co-chaired by mr b. who is actually the chair of the committee and the president at the same time he actually stated in several press conferences this month that major restrictions were quite high they were afraid that international media would intervene with regards to propaganda or basically publicizing or overly publicizing a particular political party that's why every single journalist international and local has to take credit their paper work if they were goi

revolution has now come to the united states of america and spoke to los angeles based political blogger. who believes the protesters can bring change if they are given enough time. i actually heard one of the protesters here your but exactly right he said we've been here for thirty days our government's been there for two hundred years give us a chance to figure it out so i agree that it is an issue but i think that it's something bad as people spend more time in the open to be leaving the strong first and we'll come up with real workable solutions now where there's the political will to deal with this you know it is still a problem but i do think that these people need time to figure out exactly how to solve these problems they're just now becoming aware of. how widespread the anger is how widespread the sort of unfairness this. what started them all straight has now spread worldwide this weekend galvanized into action in one of the largest collective movements of its kind tens of thousands of spilled on to city streets across the world protests have already taken hold in more than eig

r t is sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so thanks so much for joining us it's good to have you here let's get.

for more on this then giuliani is here he's a reporter and blogger at think progress so welcome so what is what is this what is this new c.r.s. report not serious the congressional research service it's a nonpartisan it's what all of congress uses to figure out how much things cost you know the effect of certain legislation what does this new serious report tell us about unfair taxes in america i'm sure of the sierras put out this report to basically test the thesis that president obama and warren buffett are opposing which is that there's a heck of a lot of millionaires out there that actually they're actually getting away with paying a lower rate than this ordinary middle class americans and what the sierra support found was that there's actually ninety four thousand between ninety three ninety four thousand millionaires in the united states who are paying less in taxes than about ten point four million middle class americans people who are in less than a hundred thousand dollars a year so what you are saying is that warren buffett unfortunately is an outlier in this here as support f

blogger christopher greenberg and artie's correspondents will make sure you can get all the latest details around the clock so to follow what they're saying right as it happens check out our twitter streams at r.c. underscore com and also r.t. underscore america and in some of her tweets kathleen o. says people in new york have been arrested just for drawing in chalk on the asphalt find out the latest on the protests that r.t. underscore. russia is ready to give a helping hand to the debts tricking the euro zone according to a presidential aide arkady dvorkovich and he also said moscow is ready in principle to considering buying spanish debt bonds but only when euro zone leaders develop a concrete and clear strategy to exit the crisis after which the brics group of nations could also help if required and an e.u. economic crisis summit has been delayed by a week to allow more time for a strategy to be worked out archie's talk about the details. of this news comes from the presidential economic aide who said there have been meetings recently focusing primarily on spain in those meetings a ra

longer or small reaction to the occupy wall street protests let's talk to chris of the green is a blogger and founder of independent media treme joining someone from phoenix arizona christopher. international you're looking almost from phoenix first of all is it happening where you are and we've seen these protests grow grow in strength since they began last month how far is it going to go. this is spreading all across the country this is a a movement no different from what we saw with the arab spring protests and let's stop beating around the bush here this is a full scale full blown revolution it's spreading across the country we're we're not just talking about thousands of people here we're talking about millions of people and it's taken three years for the american people to wake up and to realize that we've been robbed and over fifteen trillion dollars in two thousand and eight was extorted from the general public and siphoned off of the top point zero zero one percent club go krauts in this country rice a club joe kratz i'm talking about the politicians i'm talking about the corpora

while the show airs live i read something to look forward to you know well that was at canonical blogger at our a team contributor and we take a look at. all that doesn't for now for more on the stories we covered go to ours you dot com slash usa and check out our youth to page if youtube dot com slash r c america there you can catch my interview with the independent filmmaker oriole divvy he made a short film called i am not moving about the occupy wall street protests and.

talks to author and blogger james calls lore about the phenomenon and how it could influence america's future. are two sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so thanks so much for joining us it's good to be here let's get started with the occupy wall street movement we've seen many media outlets try to ridicule them.

spreading in the united states i'm not joined live from new jersey by investigative journalist and blogger george. moore and today so more people joining the protest geographically speaking it seems to be turning possibly national could i could that be the case do you think. that we definitely spreading the protests actually on our street last week. this week it has grown immensely and just to reiterate what marina previously said you know this is just one incident many the n.y.p.d. gone wild last week with mace in the face of women protesting they will someone run they were protesting peacefully when they were mace in the face. and right the n.y.p.d. said the internal affairs unit is investigating the incident i mean ray kelly the head of the n.y.p.d. was on sixty minutes just last sunday bragging about these are hundred and fifty million dollars surveillance studio that he has which is no secret. and instead they have two thousand cameras in new york city and soon to be three thousand camels so also a highly expensive method of observing the people monitoring the people but then again as

website pajamas media these homemade ashton symbols constitute insignia that resembles swastikas as the blogger wrote don't these people see the acro of the swastika on their new pin power symbol now they realize that the early nazi party was also overtly and work out but almost now they know the early nazis try to garner sympathy with street rallies and margins they can't we're talking about baghdad symbol the pound symbol the same symbol it's in every trending topic on twitter it's on the bottom right hand corner of your telephone dial a did you know your phone may be a nazi communication device and you know the tick terror toas a secret nazi game is the game board is a hash tag was the real question here is a republican satan worshipers after all the stars in the party logo are upside down a queer sign of the devil. coming up the things we could learn from listening to the one percent chat with each other is their reaction to occupy wall street born out of ignorance or now it's more of this inside still a thing. that drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions

collapse there a fact our already troubled economy here here to help me sort this out is economic blogger an r.t. contributor and eat your coffee cup in us. dimitri it so how are these two economic catastrophes types of our own most common thing they have in common is that so the u.s. and europe are both drowning under a mountain that banks don't want to take right downs they don't want to liquidate that they don't want the leverage there because they're afraid if they do that it's going to cause a chain reaction of bankruptcies so i think that's that's sort of the problem they're both facing right you know in slovakia one of the european union nations is not doesn't seem to be so concerned about the problems in glorious country stall the expansion of the bailout fund to rescue the eurozone why aren't they on board one of their in the minority leader for one of the parties. came out recently did an interview with their spiegel i think it was and he talked about how the country basically did not believe or he did not believe that the e.u. could solve a problem of too much that by adding mo

else here's some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't know i'm charging bloggers a big picture. see . if we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i like to tell the truth. i confess and i am a total get of friends that i love driving because he is economically and politically. but he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the role with al-jazeera has played. tonights by your side you are who. they three winners were announced for the nobel peace prize for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women for women's rights to full participation in peace building work that's according to the nobel committee three women that have been fighting to bring about peace and change in liberia and yemen but since we're on that subject i want to talk about another name that didn't win but somebody who was nominated for this year's peace prize and a fact is somebody who won in the online poll for the guardian which was chosen by their readers the private bradley manning the un american accused of leaking more than two hundred fifty thousand state departmen