there was a couple new blogs but it's striking that we have almost no political blogs in the 2008 cycle, and the example of this different model. the biggest name among us would be what really started as a diary under the coast of the left-leaning political group blog, and it's -- as need said there is the community he is able to spin this off and do his own thing. now of course he is blogging for "the new york times," so what we have seen it is the institutional lusatian of blogging over the past couple decades, not decades but years. >> 15 or 20 years since the internet has become widespread use. has it increased arnall legend has it contributed to our democracy? >> the answer is actually a tricky. on average, the media said is and doesn't know more what is changed is what citizens know. is there is a group of people better news junkies who is more about politics than the most popular 15 or 20 years ago. at the same time, lots of people are now that interest in the marching up paying attention, they're an hour or an hour and a half a day. the white house resulted in lower levels. this

i have tried to write a reported blog. i think readers want new news but there is a sense that sometimes everybody is writing 300-word items on the same thing instead of each reporter going out and doing their own reporting. >> you tweeted the other day, perry's run allowed romney to slip out of the spotlight after the mittness protection summer. once i read that i might be less likely to click on your story elaborating on the point. >> i felt i could get that point across in 142 characters. then i can go report another story. there is a time savings there sometimes, too. >> you think there is a great advantage or twitter and it makes you part of a conversation with political junkies and journalists but at the same time you are competing against yourself. >> absolutely. if you're covering politics you don't have a lot of choice about where you are. that's where it's happening now. >> being on twitter is mandatory. we'll follow you in both places. thanks for stopping by, ben smith. you can follow me on twitter as well and a

in 2001 there were very few popular blogs. lots of new blogs in 2003, 2004. a couple new blogs in 2005, 2006. but it strikes me when we have almost no new political blogs in the 2008 cycle. and the examples has followed a very different model. the biggest, the biggest name among this would be 538.com which really started as a diary on daily kos, a left-leaning political group log. and has made silver build an audience, was able to spin the site off. now he is blocking for "the new york times." so what we really seeing is the institutionalization of blogging over the past couple decades. couple decades, has to years. >> it's been 15 or 20 or since the internet has become in widespread use. has increased our knowledge and gaza contributed to our democracy? >> the answer is actually tricky. on average the median citizen doesn't know more and doesn't seem to no less. than he or she did 15 years ago. what has changed is the variance in what citizens know. so there is a group of people who are news junkies who now know far more about politics than was possible 15 o

and with publishers for about nine months and then one day the huffington post picked up one of my blog posts and scattered around the internet and this brought the wrath of mesopotamia down on me interesting and that's why you think that you are being intimidated and arrogated by the take apart you have to see yourself queen sweden has to happen but when after twenty three years i've never been interrogated by the diplomatic security people before when in twenty three years they've never gone back and reevaluated my travel vouchers and all of a sudden everything's under a microscope and i don't have taxi receipts from a trip to peru three years ago there's a lot of silly things that go on that let the let you know that they're looking what do you think they're trying to achieve if they want their money back or the taxis in peru. which are happy to pay each other happy to pay back it was my mistake and i said here for the very first time on your show but there you have it a good mate and you will get back the money by that fact is in for a get. please stop harassing him over the blog po

please stop harassing him over the blog posts it's getting i think. there's two things that are going on here one is the state department is very much like the mafia you don't talk about family things are outside the family and i did talk about family things outside the family my book gets into the mechanics of how the state government doesn't work particularly in iraq and i think that upset some people the other thing is i think once the department realized that they couldn't stop the publication of my poor they wanted to send a message the easiest books to stop are the ones that are never written and so for my colleagues out there who are seeing things and making notes and thinking about their own books watching the treatment that the state department's given me sends a very clear signal that if you do want to publish a book you're going to pay a very heavy price for it perhaps your career or so you think they're trying to send a message to everyone else i'm curious that this is part of a broader trend i don't know if you know the ten a colonel anth

blog dot com reggie on the way to the studio you wrote this on your blog quote i will fly in the face of common wisdom and walk through a run. on international television of course you're referring to this kaiser report walk us through your model for iran a b.n.p. perry the biggest bank in france one of the scenarios for a big there are three facets to the scenario there's the emphasis for the problem which is the fact that b.m.p. is a caring. as his on his balance sheet. basically as a risk free asset and as many practical people know very few assets are actually risk free one of their biggest holdings in the song is the boss of greece greece is currently trading with three years those currently trading at about fifty two percent over par and then actually trading right there being quoted fifty two percent of what i understand from the traders that speak to that there are no trades because nobody wants to buy it so it goes fit it copes if you actually trade obviously they have to be lower in order to get a big boost so if you were to mark that down say forty thirty five forty forty f

free blog. for your. c.e.o. gondar cheap. broken the law to show how get the real headlines with none of them or see if you live in washington d.c. now tonight we're going to ask if it tastes ever realize i'm still not allowed we're talking about nine eleven in our country's response to it paul krugman called post nine eleven shameful don rumsfeld of all people called kirkman's remarks repugnant and even counsel business groups into the new york times so why are we back to this then some say the chance of a greek default or up to ninety eight percent of our investors are suffering from a relying on bailout mentality and i'm sure we've heard a lot about the evils of illegal immigration that's night's republican tea party debate but what about legal immigration let's talk about this important group of job creation we have all that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. now over the weekend we saw a violent attack take place in afghani

i tried to -- on the blog now. but i guess i wanted to have some distance. internet in general. then it became -- people were asking me for interview requests and saying can we run your stuff, so i dropped that fairly quickly. you know, it was a got -- a good transition to feel things out. >> some people would say there's a lot in common other than sports and politics. when you took your independent 538 blog to "the new york times," did you worry that it would leases pizazz? did you have to watch your tone more carefully? >> i think with "the new york times," you're writing for a wider audience. and i assumed that people might come from the front page and read the piece. you know, the blog's targeted at a general -- like a high interest in politics audience. a literate audience, right? an audience that i'm not assuming is a partisan audience. if i make an argument saying this side is doing better than the other, it has to be framed in a way people can be sympathetic to and agree to. one thing i look at is who is following me, re-tweeting me and debating agai

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blog about who they are when coming up in this half hour it's been months since the nuclear disaster in japan and dangers still works for the families of the fukushima plant just a thought a few moments nuclear experts dr helen caldicott will share her warnings for the millions of residents in japan and right wingers are outraged by teamsters president james hoffa this labor day rally one tory is billionaire was caught on tape saying a few months ago something even more shocking. more steely take. we're now nearly six months or move from the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in japan the trickle triggered a global nuclear catastrophe and while some progress has been made to deal with the never before seen nuclear crisis there's still a long way to go a lot of questions still unanswered and enormous risks still blanketing the nation of japan and perhaps the world so much so that world renowned physician and anti-nuclear advocate dr helen caldicott recently issued a dire warning to the japanese people not buying into the japanese government's efforts to downplay the crisis dr caldico

straw that breaks the american wars camel's back and leader dick cheney who got five draft or permits blog started wars there's a word for that i'll share with you in tonight's guilty. so much for shock and awe a new wiki leaks release details shock and horror in iraq one of the latest leaked state department cables alleges that back during bush's presidency in two thousand and six u.s. troops executed at least ten iraqi civilians including five children and four women and then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence at the time bush's military officials denied the incident but as wiki leaks release shows a un special investigator uncovered evidence to the contrary noting that more reports showed that all the victims were handcuffed and shot in the head execution style investigator philip alston recent writes in. table u.s. troops enter the house and past all residence and executed all of them after the initial intervention a u.s. air raid ensued and destroyed the house so why is it that we have to rely on wiki leaks again to reveal to the american people or war and just how widespr

he just made the post and claimed the blog for comments quote, for obvious reasons.is on the ten-year mark of 9/11 when we even saw president bush on the same platform as our current president, president barack obama, on a day of unity? look at these two men and their wives trying to bring people together for a day of healing. what a different approach paul krugman took. >> i think paul krugman has opened up a dialogue. look, we're on this show talking about it -- >> there's no dialogue at all because if he wanted it, he would have allowed comments. >> the best way to honor those who died on 9/11 is to stop the wars, to bring the troops home, to close the over 800 bases we have around the world where we shouldn't is be, to use our military to defend us here at home and to use the savings to rebuild america. that would honor those who died on 9/11. megyn: you know, brad, clearly, no one was able to comment in response to krugman, at least not yesterday, but does anyone listen to this guy? obviously, when he speaks on the economy, people do listen. is he having an impa

dot com reggie on the way to the studio you wrote this on your blog quote i will fly in the face of common wisdom and walk through a run on b. and p. on international television of course you're referring to the shell kaiser report walk us through your model for a run on b.n.p. perry the biggest bank in france one of the scenarios for a run on being paid their three passes to the scenario as the impetus for the problem which is the fact that b.m.p. is caring for of assets on its balance sheet at par basically as a risk free asset and as many present people know very few assets are actually risk free one of their biggest holdings in the software dead arena is the boss of greece greece is currently trading this two or three years as the trading at about fifty two percent of par and the national trading i did being quoted i think it was in a bar what i understand from the trade is that speech is there no trades because nobody wants to buy it so those are sensitive quotes if you actually trade obviously they have to be low in order to get a big so if you don't want bed down say forty fi

you can't take somebody's blog await a minute she would have to agree i'm not going to do blogs. would operate within your system. you would assume that ms. winfrey a very canny business person would have a, you know, contracts like 18,000 pages long. here is what you can do and here is what you can't do because we all agree that this is a big risk and there is a lot of money on the line here. >> absolutely. i mean, i think that they are hoping that they can go back to 1996, rosy and sort of recapture that lightning in a bottle that she had back then. but i have got to wonder if too much time has passed. >> bill: that's what i'm saying. in your opinion is it television scribe? is it possible after all the things rosie o'donnell has done on "the view" and other forums staking out this 9/11 was an inside job business? just that alone, you know, to build a network ms. reeves around a person, aho accuses the u.s. government. >> a lot of people have not forgotten. >> bill: build a network around a person who accuses the u.s. government of launching 9/11. i mean, my god. >> well, it is

you know have very well read blogs they get to appear on fox news or other networks they have to write books that are going tories and they're learning that you know unfortunately in this country right now for yourselves and fear is selling very well for them it is creating a base people like glenn beck you know made entire t.v. shows based on crazy hypothesis that you know muslims were trying to take of the entire world and teaming up with communists and then you sort of said there was almost an islamist atheist conspiracy in the united states as absurd as that sounds i mean the people are saying that there's actually a lot of power to be found in propping up this fear and unfortunately it's something that's popped up especially among the far right throughout this country's history whether it was against you know irish catholics against the japanese against the you know leftists against people in labor unions or women and unfortunately now the target is muslims and i think the positive thing that we have to look at here is the fact that most americans still in these polls do not agree

blogs and news sites that have the resources at least that. you know the networks and the cable stations are not going to do that because they know their bread and butter is on this kind of horse race and for your coverage you saw that with the all the nine eleven the style to be and that was something we could get around you know emotionally this is something a lot of us don't want to deal with i mean even conservative republicans i mean some of them to the military as employer of last resort a lot of them are in districts were not for their people joining the military or working on military bases the only other option for them would be to sell crystal meth ok and so i'm not talking about thousands of rural districts all over say red states but they're not going to admit that but there are people see that and as soon as it starts to eat it personally then you're going to start to see people press for real change and real coverage from the media so we can get information on how to help themselves now is there any way you know of course you can

and subsequent blog post van buren explains how he has been interrogated by the bureau of diplomatic security and was ordered to have any further tweets facebook posts or blog posts approved before being shared the earlier he spoke with r t's lauren lyster about the government's continuing efforts to silence whistleblowers points you don't realize that they couldn't stop the publication of my book they wanted to send a message the easiest books to stop are the ones that are never written and so for my colleagues out there who are seeing things unique and thinking about their own books watching the treatment that state given me sends a very clear signal that if you do want to publish a book you're going to pay a very heavy price for it perhaps your career or. about appearing. joins a group of former government employees people like tony shaffer frequent guest on this show and ishmael jones a former interrogator who also is under the magnifying glass after their own books were shed light upon unpopular acts within the military and the cia now the way i see it them here it is just the l

quite a fair share and one of those that's been live blogging the occupy wall street developments is firedoglake dot com and joining me to talk about it is james hampshire she's founder her. self of the website thank you for being on the show so as i mentioned firedoglake has been live blogging occupy wall street why do you think that the mainstream media has been giving it the same attention with you know national t.v. crews staked out doing live hits well it's a long time since the reporters were middle class people reporting on middle class issues we're looking at a corporate media who is extremely threatened by what's going on the protesters on you know on occupy wall street are now entering the tenth day and what you're seeing is really a rage against the economic issues created by the overweening corporatism of the government and it threatens all of them so i don't expect them to be giving a lot of attention to it any time soon and at the same time people are making sacrifices out there we thought eighty people arrested over the weekend we saw those girls get pepper sprayed you

free free blog. for your media. free media are cheap. but can they learn to show you the real headlines with none of them or say i don't live in washington d.c. now and i wouldn't take a look at last night's republican debate i mean team party debate on c.n.n. we're going to ask if it's proved once and for all that there isn't any difference between the two also the census bureau has released new figures showing that over forty six million people live below the poverty line in the u.s. that is the highest number that it's been since they started measuring so why does the media continue to act like it's had to subject let's talk about what it really means for america and did fannie mae bail out bank of america last month that might be the case and had nobody's talking about that either and the rant as i was going to fill us in with all the details or not all of that and more fit and i included those of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to move. so it's a the mainstream media continued for once to remembe

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he reached worldwide with a blog, facebook page, youtube videos. holding dual citizenship encouraged attacks on the u.s.. he was persuasive, close to three of 9/11 hijackers. he communicatedded with with the gunman in the fort hood shooting in 2009 where 13 were kill. also connected to the attempt to bring down a jetliner over detroit christmas day 2009 here's al-awlaki from a 2001 "washington post" profile. >> never unestimate the power of fear, especially, when the enemy hears allahu akbar. >> he could talk in an american vernacular with arguments they understood. >> reporter: president obama with the approval of the national security council approved the targeted killing of al-awlaki last year. making him the first u.s. citizen ever placed on the cia target list. the government of yemen announced al-awlaki had been kill last year only saying that wind right this time u.s. officials are confirming they got him -- terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> tuesday the east palo alto city council will take up questions raised about the safety of an intersecti

in the blog post, he said, i messed up, adding that the company rushed the process of splitting up the dvd rental and the movie streaming service which he said was partly due to arrogance. >>> the cartoonist tom wilson has died. he's best known as being the father of ziggy. he drew over 1,200 cartoons, carried in 500 newspapers, seen by 40 million americans. wilson made ziggy a modest and kind figure and he also gave dogs the loving voice we all knew they had. tom wilson was 80 years old. >>> dolores hope has died. the wife of the late, great entertainer bob hope. she started out as a singer in her own right, then put her career on hold for his. but she has her own star on the hollywood walk of fame. her husband died in 2003 at the age of 100. dolores hope lived to the age of 102. >>> he is known affectionately to yankee fans simply as mo. after today, we can officially say what we already knew. mariano rivera is the best relief pitcher of all time. today he threw save number 602. this is now uncharted territory. each new save will be the new all-time record. and all of us get to say w

the video was first posted on the blog border land beat. the man on the right is castro, the other man is his nephew, garcia. the blog says the two men are low-level employees working directly for guzman. the older man tells the camera if spanish quote if you decide to be a rat think about it carefully. these people do not play around. the chainsaw enters the frame and craft row's head is -- castro's head is cut off. his nephew's head taken off with a knife. >>> he says the use of a chainsaw is a sign they feel they are invincible. >> my speculation is people are thinking how do we show our power? how do we show our reach in the fact that we are the ones that control a territory or we are beyond the rule of law. we are beyond any kind of accountability? >> reporter: with the drug wars going on for years now, he says the cartels will be looking for new ways to shock and intimidate. >> if there is not a significant change in the policies of the united states and mexico in relation to drug prohibition we will see it getting much, much worse. >

there is good news according to his family blog. today, the blog says stow is speaking in complete sentences in videos he's making for his children. he's also having limited conversations with visitors. stow takes part in physical and occupational therapy five times a week. he can sit on the side of his bed and a chair. a few days ago, he was able to leave his hospital room and go outside in the sunshine for the first time since his brutal attack on damagers stadium on march 31st. when asked how the sun felt after almost six months inside, he replied, quote, it's magical. >>> the nation's most iconic landmark has been deemed structurally sound of last month's earthquake. >> reporter: the national park service monday released surveillance video showing the harrowing moments a powerful 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit the famed washington monument. tourists can be seen running for safety, some 500 feet up inside the top of the tower, as debris falls from the surrounding walls. now, after weeks of inspections, the park service says the mon

we've got technical analysis on apple on the blog, nbr on pbs.org. and that's tonight's "market focus." turning now to europe, some new developments today. european officials say they will return to athens next week continuing talks to solve greece's debt crisis. meanwhile, greece promised more austerity measures in an effort to prevent a default and to convince its partners of its commitment to stay in the eurozone. 30,000 civil servants will be suspended or put on partial pay this year, and pensions paying over $1,600 a month will be subject to new cuts. and the international monetary fund warned today that european banks face over $400 billion in potential losses from the debt crisis gripping the continent. the international lending agency says those debt problems have already cost european banks almost 275-billion dollars in profits over the past year. it also believes the global credit crisis has entered a new, political phase as the debate heats up over rescuing weak nations. what impact will the fed's latest plan have on investment strategy? l

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i want our viewers to check out my blog, cnn.com/situationroom. not only for the president or the republicans or politician, stakes for the country right now in this presidential proposal that will be unveiled tomorrow night. what it means for middle class workers throughout the country. cnn's tom foreman over at the data wall for us. >> you hit the nail on the head when you talked about people being underemployed. all of these politicians in the republican debate and the president's speech are going to talk about jobs. the question is what kind of jobs are they talking about? almost 7 million jobs lost in the recession proper. but a job is not a job is not a job. this number was going on before the recession. the biggest growth was over $70,000 a year. look at the jobs that increased there. down in the lower wage, 20,000 a year, that was growing too. middle wage $35,000 and up, that wasn't growing much before the recession and this is about half of the country. look at what happened during the recession because this is where the jobs were lost. w

the video was first posted on the blog borderland beat. the man on the right is barnabas castro, the other man his nephew, felix garcia. the blog says the two men are low level employees working directly for joaquin el chappo guzman. the older man tells the cram in spanish if you decide to be a -- camera in spanish if you decide to be a rat a, think about it carefully. these -- rat. think about it carefully. these people do not play around. the chainsaw enters the frame and he is decapitated. john gabler is an investigative reporter and author of to die in mexico. he says use of a chainsaw is a sign that the cartel feels invincible. >> people are thinking how do we show our power and reach in the fact that we are the ones who control in x territory or that we are beyond the rule of law, we are beyond any kind of accountability? >> reporter: with the drug wars going on for years, gabler says cartels will look for new ways to shock and intimidate. >> if there is not a significant change in the policies of the united states and mexico in rela

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i wrote about that on my blog my situation room blog today. donald, i will play a little clip.d. i don't know if you have seen it. but listen, it mentions you. >> mitt romney and donald trump are meeting today. they is a lot of common. they have done well for themselves. both have lan it help out richest that won't help the middle class that will slash social security. cut kut funds for healthcare, research and development and schools. what do the american people have to say to those who would return to the same failed policies that created our challenges? >> if i -- >> if i -- >> it sends with a picture of you sort of, an obvious statement. what did you think of that? >> well actually i got to see that, i saw it on one of the shows this morning. i thought was amateur night. the ad was you know, not a very good one. it was also within they talk about keeping america competitive, we're not competitive. that's the problem. we're not competitive at all. the world is laughing at us. i was insulted at the airplane they used. my plane is much, much greater than that. i wrote a that w

. >> i write about all of this on my blog, cnn.com/situationroom blog on the enormous stakes involved right now in u.s./pakistani relations potentially at a turning point. check it out. jill, thank you. >>> let's get to another important story, the man who's creating a lot of buzz in the republican presidential campaign, even though he's not a candidate, we're talking about the new jersey governor chris christie. he's giving a high-profile speech to the party's faithful later tonight and that's ratcheting up the hopes of some republicans who say governor christie has something that's missing from the race. jim acosta is here working this story for us. why are so many people fixated right now on governor christie? >> wolf, perhaps it's due to some of the renewed hand wringing over the gop field or perhaps it's because chris christie continues to give speeches as he is tonight at the reagan presidential library. whatever it is, there are new signs the governor may be changing his mind about running for president. >> welcome back to "the view" the vice president of the united states, joe

people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their hearts are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both gadhafi regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by some here that more is in store roof notion r t tripoli libya. well are yummy as yet as you have been packed in news wires as the western leaders visit to the country is an attempt to reap the rewards of helping the rebels and are. the national transition council would have never been able to get outside of benghazi if it had not been for the support of the united states as well as the nato forces they have supplied these rebels with arms with diplomatic cover and then of course there was the so-called no fly zone over libya which has really been a massive bombing operation against that country of six million people it's a very very tense situation that exists right now all over the country so i believe that the visit on a part of nicolaus and co c. of france and david cameron of

people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their hearts are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both jaffe's regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by some here but more is in store reflection r t tripoli libya. the u.s. was quick to support the revolutions in libya and egypt as a democratic expression of the people's free will and that it might not stop there with calls for syria's regime to step down through all of that could leave iran out of the cold in its own neighborhood are to look out reports as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let that change ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble you know iran is not an arab country the arab spring could spread to actual. and i think and many ways and she matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurred