then the old bloggers live in their basement kind of joke but realistically i think the bloggers have been coming up in the world quite a bit since the days where they really maybe were people just living in their mom's basement but let's go to a story in oregon there was a lawsuit filed there it gets complicated because it was about defamation but essentially what the court said is that this blogger couldn't you know use certain protections granted to the press because although the defendant is a self-proclaimed investigative blogger and defines himself as media they said that because there's no record that show that he's affiliated with a newspaper or magazine or periodical a book yada yada yada she doesn't count as a member of the media what are your thoughts i think it's absolutely ridiculous i just you can't just a judge this law based on like the smell test of what you decide is there is a need. i mean that it's just a slippery slope i think necessarily i don't have to be signed up with some type of organization in order to get that title and especially for freedom of informatio

and are bloggers putting responsible journalists in danger? on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller. syndicated columnist cal thomas. jim pinkerton contributing he understands tore the american conservative magazine and the daily beast columnist, kirsten powers. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >> now, if you're a family making about 50,000 a year, this is a tax cut that amounts to about a thousand dollars a year. and that's about 40 bucks out of every paycheck. it may be that there's some folks in the house who refuse to vote for this compromise because they don't think that 40 bucks is a lot of money, but anyone who knows what it's like to stretch a budget knows that at the end of the week or at the end of the month, $40 can make all the difference in the the world. >> that's president obama in front of the media making his pitch to persuade the house of representatives to pass the two month extension of payroll tax cuts. the white house making an allout effort to swing things its way, creating a web

any is difference between a blogger and journalist?ger live in seattle. this is something we all encounter whether we work in a newsroom or not. >> reporter: the line glean blogger and journalist is blurred with so many people doing both. there is also a rise in conflicts where wlogers want to be -- bloggers wanted to be treated like the press but are not. l.a.p.d. decide to move uncredential reporters at the occupy protest before throwing out the protesters. bloggers and citizen journalists threw a fit saying because they can't get credentialals they have less access to knew events and first amendment rights are out the window. the l.a.p.d. is now reviewing its policy. there is case after blogger, critical cox. she was sued for defamation. during a trial she claimed she was be journalist and had protections under the shield law. a federal judge disagreed and that she didn't have any training and journalistic fact-checking. >> we're in the business of criticizing people. at that that's what journalists, that's what bloggers do. we have

a pro-abortion blogger campaigns against tim tebow. "the five" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: our top story, bad news for white house. rasmussen report has mitt romney with a six-point lead over president obama in a 2012 matchup. to make matters worse, obama is upside down in the gallup daily tracking poll, a couple of days after bob beckel was down right giddy. only 41% approve of obama. 50%, i don't think so. all right, andrea, what do you think about the numbers? >> andrea: he is in big trouble. he saw a very short-term bounce. democrats were starting to rally around him in payroll tax. the optics of that fight helped him because he stayed out of it. now, he has to deal with an economy he hasn't fixed. contrary to what democrats say, it's still in the gutter.

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as analyst admit it but you kind of says i would say not violent he has has a good reputation as a blogger as an effective blogger but he has still to prove people that he could be just as effective as a politician. i think by this popularity so far as most with the internet community and that was yes man this to raise interest to his version of to recentre as much will depend on his behavior in the future because one thing leads to the more people into that hero and the other thing is to become a politician so far as look you have showed that he is ready to again take responsibility to take the challenge and to become political. in response to the claims that the election has been wreaked diminishment order to the investigation fifteen criminal cases have been filed or alleged. elections fraud election violations also the results of twenty one polling stations have been counseled but of course twenty one polling stations are out to ninety thousand to cross the whole country is not enough to cancel the results of the vote and this is why the first duma session took place today or i thought

this is more web 2.0: harnessing hundreds of bloggers all over the world to cover the world. go to "countries" to see what is being covered. here in china, we can see in the map that the blogosphere is really covering china: 10 articles and 29 links. nothing says it better like the global voices tagline: "the world is talking. are you listening?" now, global voices is a great example of citizen media covering stories that are often ignored. frank? >> often ignored, but we are listening. are bloggers better than traditional reporters at bringing us the world? is this the future? so we spoke to ivan sigal, the executive director of global voices online. he poses this question for our guests here. >> my question would be, are we really--are we best served by having information that is american news, or are we served by having information that comes from all over the world and gives us a variety of perspectives that we might not have considered? >> ann? >> i think we're best served by having opportunity to hear from all voices. i think that people should--in the future, they will

an anti-semitic e-mails accompanied by three thousand word opposition document on some of those bloggers so what exactly is the kind of material that gets one labeled as anti israel anti-semitic and how often do we think of this kind of thing goes on here discuss with me has been armbruster national security adviser for think progress or i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight now to tell everybody to we reached out to josh block we tried to get him to come on the show so maybe we could have a conversation about this haven't heard back so we're sticking with you and what you have now i know that cap has responded at least to politico the people of out there also been trying to reach out to josh block but tell me exactly what it is that that was labeled as anti-semitic or anti israel reporting what kind of material well. coming from the politico. there were there were two bits that ben smith had picked up on one was our own reporting and another was our stance on israel and palestine first of all there really wasn't anything controversial in our reporting on israel palestine ou

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a blogger called it tebow syndrome.outh. >> let's examine the book review of hundred percent american thomas r. pegram. a review read, imagine a political movement created that moment of terrible anxiety, shrouded in a peculiar combination of manipulation and grass-roots mobilization. it's ranked dominated by christian conservatives and self-proclaimed patriots. and a agenda nationalism and moral regeneration with a whiff of racism going through it. no, not that movement. apparently the professor is trying to compare the ku klux klan which is the topic of the book to the tea party movement. >> if ever i have read anything less fair and more bigoted i'm not aware of it. >> jon: we have to take one more break. when we come back an unexpected interruption during the nightly interruption during the nightly news. forty years ago, he wasn't worried about retirement. he'd yet to hear of mutual funds, iras, or annuities. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future but fortunately, somebody

what it's telling us so let's bring karl denninger back in to try to sort this out he's author and blogger on the markets here dot com so mr denninger back to what we were talking about with all of this leverage and people being concerned then about lacking confidence and being able to get their money do you think that's why we're seeing u.s. depositors pull their money out of foreign owned banks because they're worried they're not going to get it back well sure i mean if you if you have a bank that is a huge amount of assets and those assets or or. there's no reserves just doesn't hold against them in the way of capital if something goes wrong and you've got to leverage ratio of forty fifty maybe even sixty to one you're not going to get your money back and watch the government steps in and takes tax revenues and compensate you for that well when these banks. times the size of the government's budget and even the economy size that becomes rather impossible doesn't settle the best thing to do in that situation is run away before the happens yeah you don't want to be a turkey but moving on

do you know there is a blogger on huffington post who was watching this segment a couple of weeks agou made a remark. we were talking about women's fertility, the fertility math. you said to women, trust me, you should have a baby on your own if you want to have a baby and, in fact, men will find you more attractive. let me tell you, melanie was watching, a blogger for the huffington post, and has something to say about it and joins us on the phone. good morning. donny is his lening. >> good morning, melanie. >> donny deutsch, what is the big idea telling women they should have a baby on their own voluntarily? do you understand the amount of financial backup you need with that, the type of family you need behind that to help you do it? and then really, honestly, so many of us just dream of falling in love and have a baby with that man. >> that's it. >> okay. >> therein lies the problem. >> that's what donny -- let donny respond. >> first of all, ideally obviously with a man doing it with a partner is the way to go. there is just no question about that. what i'm saying though is that f

, on the blogger side, validate what i have been thinking and in nro poll of conservative bloggers favorewt as opposed to paul and romney. >> paierry the conservative favorite when he got into the race. he had bad debate perform 's and said other things. he's trying to rebuild, starting in iowa. and one of his appeals is -- it's more of a niche than you expect, a broad based candidate but he has to start to rebuild. he's made a sharp evangelical appeal in advertising. this came up today. the questions back and forth whether why was he putting so much emphasis on the role of faith in his public life. let's listen to some of this. >> if americans want to elect a president who basically says, look, i'm not going to -- i'm not going to let my faith inconvenient in anything that i do and would be a bit, from my perspective, a bit scary. i want a president who is faithful and that believes that there is a greater being who has an impact every day in this world. >> now there are a lot of liberal whose say my go -- i shun say god, he's talking about god. out in the country most americans would b

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yet thank you so much for your thoughts on that that was a blogger and truthout contributor dr jack k. . and we're going to take a short break but coming up as the exact right that continues to ravage europe italy continues to cut costs yet some in the government have other ideas on how to tackle the debt crisis a military action that has many crying economic spots out bar that next. the state or so police production of eight but the fact that nobody seems to know. that every pepper sprayed the face but the argument that they're being overly dramatic. by. given that we've had enough hard hard work. i think. either one well. we're never going to says they're going to be safe rather. than freedom. of the euro zone continues to try to claw its way out of economic collapse italy finds itself in the middle of a severe crisis with a country that nearing the two trillion euro mark now has the talent to prepare themselves to tie and end their belts and save the government has other plans one that critics consider economic suicide are birth as more. this is the day by me playing the combine to

the answer may be mommy bloggers.those are women who write on the web about all things related to raising children. and they've gone well beyond how to get kids to eat more veggies. they're now penning product reviews for the $22 billion toy market. today, toy companies send out about 70% of their samples to bloggers. tom, as recently as five years ago, almost all of the samples went to traditional media outlets. >> suzanne: that's "nightly business report" for tuesday december 20. i'm suzanne pratt. good night, everyone, and go night to you, too, tom. >> tom: good night, suzanne. i'm tom hudson. we hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

there is an abortion blogger urging bloggers to donate to planned parenthood when tebow scores a touchdownott of hbo. i have to tell you, i just learned about him recently. i'm not a big sports gal. even my husband is like he's a good looking guy. to me, let me tell you. he and i may not agree politically but what he does is great in the sense he gives a lot of money. this is what i want to say. you know, this is an opportunity for pro-lifers to rather than be offended, take out their checkbooks. what i think is america, if they want to get on board with this, when he scores a touchdown, everybody give to your, talk about donation, left or right, to where you think the money should go. >> kimberly: that is kookie. >> cookie to give money -- kookie to give money to charity? >> andrea: i love tim tebow but what i love most he reveals the hypocrisy of the left. the left says that the right is intolerant. why can't the left just let tim tebow be tim tebow? and be tolerant if the left is so tolerant as they say they are. his mother didn't give him up. and have an abortion. what i get from this,

the answer may be mommy bloggers.those are women who write on the web about all things related to raising children. and they've gone well beyond how to get kids to eat more veggies. they're now penning product reviews for the $22 billion toy market. today, toy companies send out about 70% of their samples to bloggers. tom, as recently as five years ago, almost all of the samples went to traditional media outlets. >> suzanne: that's "nightly business report" for tuesday, december 20. i'm suzanne pratt. good night, everyone, and good night to you, too, tom. >> tom: good night, suzanne. i'm tom hudson. we hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

the answer may be mommy bloggers.those are women who write on the web about all things related to raising children. and they've gone well beyond how to get kids to eat more veggies. they're now penning product reviews for the $22 billion toy market. today, toy companies send out about 70% of their samples to bloggers. tom, as recently as five years ago, almost all of the samples went to traditional media outlets. >> suzanne: that's "nightly business report" for tuesday, december 20. i'm suzanne pratt. good night, everyone, and good night to you, too, tom. >> tom: good night, suzanne. i'm tom hudson. we hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

well let's see where this is going in the new year some of the predictions being made by banks and bloggers around the world saxo bank outrageous predictions for two thousand and twelve the perfect storm they predict e.u. declares extended bank holiday during two thousand and twelve they predict that the december e.u. treaty changes proved insufficient to solve e.u. funding needs particularly those in italy and the e.u. debt crisis returns with a vengeance by mid year in response the stock market finally caves in and drops twenty five percent and short on. i predict that the first country to declare a bank holiday will be the u.k. you predict that absolutely here's a headline from the news in the past week or two which proves that they might actually be correct in predicting that all center on italy exclusive italian banks tap one hundred sixteen billion euros of e.c.b. loans so for the first time ever remember the e.c.b. just issued over four hundred eighty nine billion euros of three year loans this is our first ever for the life of the duration of the loan it's one percent but more than

scot free but let's move on to the other big prediction a lot of people a lot of banks a lot of bloggers are making this one the chinese economic miracle falters too many u.s. t. bills tying it to post-industrial western economies is part of the reason but in fact they say that the most serious economic damage will come to australia who's basically gone long all in on this bet china sustaining their economy and their housing market bubble yeah this is interesting because a couple years ago the theory was decoupling the china's economy would grow fast and that it would leave america's economy in the dust then as it started to come clearer that with all the ghost cities that were being built and the incredible lying by the government terms of their g.d.p. numbers that this decoupling theory was really christened as reverse decoupling that the u.s. economy was going to grow in spite of a falling apart china now twenty two of what we have is a mutually destructive decoupling mutual decoupling both china and the us and those reliant on chinese fake g.d.p. reporting like australia and data are

of them or in this tragedy and what it bodes for iraq i'm now joined by middle east blogger cole shero live from london thank you becoming on the program today what's shocking about this latest news is the sheer scope of the bombings it's leading to some to say that these atrocities ultimately a pit of the future of iraq what are your thoughts on that. i think we have to put it in perspective i mean it's very sad and tragic news doesn't determine for certain what's going to play out in iraq but i think let's have a overall look at what's been happening in the last few days because it wasn't only the explosion and security deterioration of security situation but also there's a political crisis that is kind of in the process now so basically although we've been told in the past few years that american success in restoring security and as a stable political order there leave before the last american soldier has actually left iraq are both kind of in the process of completely and revealing and kind of not to blame because certainly iraqi politicians have a responsibility for what's happeni

blogger vera tow in london and michael o'brien who worked as a contractor in iraq and also wrote this book america's failure in iraq there it is fellas thanks so much for joining us and jake let me start with you i know you served in iraq from two thousand and three to two thousand and four and there are people who call iraq the biggest hellhole on earth do you agree with. chrissy and mike you did see it through the telly there. i mean it absolutely has been extraordinary disaster both for the americans and iraqis and mainly because it was an unnecessary war and after nine eleven when we chose to go into iraq we single handedly destroyed our reputation i mean a rock war what the skepticism that the greater islamic world had prior to the iraq war only was exactly exasperated and also on top of that if you consider all the failures the the bat the vacation the abu ghraib incident the double down and surging the the massive ethnic cleansing that took place in baghdad it just was a complete political and military disaster whether the surge was successful or not and whether stability or no

now stands at fourteen with seven hundred reported injured let's go live so while there is a local blogger and journalist in cairo for a look at the recent developments there you live on r.t. hope you can hear us thanks for being with us why is kevin zero in egypt two thirds of the way through its long election process to replace the military government we know why on protesters allowing the democratic process to conclude and take its not full course. the demonstrators do not believe that the democratic process as it's called is will really. lead to democracy they have no faith that the military will leave any kind of power and they don't believe that everything has been fair so far from from the perspective of the military council at least they been very biased in how they've handled everything and one of one such example is allowing a particle like in ur which is based on religion to exist the law clearly states that such a party should not exist and yet the military has not done anything to uphold the law and so in a. sort of environment where there is no laws there are no laws being up

blogger jake del barco as well as michael o'brien a former contractor in iraq who wrote this book america's failure in iraq and here is what they had to say. i mean it absolutely has been extraordinary disaster both for the americans and iraqis and mainly because it was an unnecessary war and after nine eleven when we chose to go into iraq we single handedly destroyed our our reputation i mean the iraq war what the skepticism that the greater islamic world had prior to the iraq war only was exactly exasperated and also at the top of that if you consider all the failures the the bat the vacation the abu ghraib incident the double down and surging the the massive ethnic cleansing that took place in baghdad it just was a complete. political and military disaster whether the surge was successful or not and whether stability or not doesn't matter we can never ever reclaim the place we had before the iraq war due to the ethnic cleansing the abu ghraib incident and basically because we just gave the middle east to iran it's a very remote so jake we've got some really important points especially ab

is a long way from being totally gone from iraq right as a blogger and iraqi political american political activist and is here to talk about this and let's start with today's meeting let's not forget you know president obama campaigned against the war in iraq campaign against wanting to pull all the troops off but today he said he called iraq quote a model for others who are aspiring to build democracy. talk about that statement and what that how you interpret that i don't think president obama himself believes that iraq is the way they say it but i think the u.s. is trying to spin what's going on put some happy ending there is nothing happy about what happened in iraq iraq is not a modern court and we think it's a destroyed nation one million iraqis were killed in the last eight years and five million were displaced you know i was born in baghdad spent most of my time to graduated from the university the last time i went to baghdad i did not know a single person in the entire city every single person who i know it was either killed or moved out of the city it's a disaster iraq continues