and the iranian blogosphere and the western european and the western blogospheres.he bloggers read the "new york times." they read some of the arabic newspapers and they link to them and they write their own stories about those stories. so i think the cross-pollination exists. and it's all over the place. and all you got to do is go to virtually any iranian blog to see that taking place on a daily basis. in many ways the iranian government has done itself a disservice by narrowing the options so much that people were forced to migrate to a new medium all together. and they're reaping that as we speak. >> you know, 70% like we said the demographic is under 35 or 30. and everybody saw that they actually have a stake in this whole movement. primarily the movement was made up of a lot of women. and a lot of young folks. who were all technically savvy. so everybody with a cell phone, with internet access could find a way to put their voices heard. we know internationally that all the broadcasters from all the different venues were trying their way to get into iran and th

and the iranian blogosphere and the western european and the western blogospheres. the bloggers read the "new york times." they read some of the arabic newspapers and they link to them and they write their own stories about those stories. so i think the cross-pollination exists. and it's all over the place. and all you got to do is go to virtually any iranian blog to see that taking place on a daily basis. in many ways the iranian government has done itself a disservice by narrowing the options so much that people were forced to migrate to a new medium all together. and they're reaping that as we speak. >> you know, 70% like we said the demographic is under 35 or 30. and everybody saw that they actually have a stake in this whole movement. primarily the movement was made up of a lot of women. and a lot of young folks. who were all technically savvy. so everybody with a cell phone, with internet access could find a way to put their voices heard. we know internationally that all the broadcasters from all the different venues were trying their way to get into iran and

the american blogosphere.the bloggers read "the new york times," and write their own stories about those stories. in many ways, the iranian government has done itself a disservice by narrowing the options so much that people were forced to migrate to the new medium altogether. they are regretting that as we speak. >> most of the demographic is under 35 or 30. everyone seems to have a stake in of this movement. there are a lot of women, and a lot of younger folks. everyone with a cell phone, with internet access, could find a way to have their voices heard. we knew that different media venues were trying to get into iran after the election, and they could not. however, website like twitter became huge after that, so much so that the chinese were paying attention. people knew that they could make a change. they had to take out their cell phones, and put it out there. i feel like everybody realized that if they wanted to make a change, they had to do something about it, and now they have the tools. the older gene

as the blogosphere often claims. it is the fact that people in fundamentalist societies are seeing, because they cannot push away any more through the mass media, images of the liberation of women that are fermenting of greater proportion of women -- greater than regression greater -- and greater repression of women. there are very few countries out there that are not becoming more fundamentalist right now. this is a flight from reason, an anti-enlightenment. i believe in it and light in it, because i think god has to be compatible with truth -- i believe in the enlightenment, because i think god has to be compatible with truth. i do not fear science. but i understand those who have clung to certain options for whom this truth is too scary to contemplate and whose response is a frightened and terrified and violent repression. [applause] >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> we have another winner from our c-span2 studentcam, e

i wonder if you can talk about sort of what the conversation in the iranian blogosphere, which of courseis already oversimplified by me, look like? what are the diversity of those conversations look like, what are the things that people talk about when they are talking amongst themselves about these issues? and maybe even as compared to a year ago when there was so much attention to it. >> i think compared to a year ago, people are blogging more about politics about the green movement, about little prisoners, about people who have been raped. so the discourse has changed a bit since last year. nowadays can these topics are mentioned here, engagement has been discussed, and many bloggers see that maybe this is not the right time to engage with the iranian government. there was a good cartoon about obama wants to engage with ahmadinejad's government. he has to close his eyes in order human rights abuses that so this is one of the topics that has been discussed but nowadays what's very interesting, i see this debate going on about what happened in turkestan. a lot of bloggers are discussing

so we have an iranian blogosphere that is roughly consistent roughly 70,000 active blogs that by thati mean blogs are basically of blood at least once a week, if not more regularly. and that's only a fraction of the entire log is your. the entire blogosphere is as made between 70,001,000,000 blogs that just to compare this, the arabic language blogosphere is roughly half of that, about 35,000 blogs, and when you consider the population of iran, a little below 70 million the population of the arab world is around 350 to 360 million, it really gives you an idea as to how active the iranian blogosphere is. iran is also unfortunate at the forefront of online impression. when you compare to other governments in the region, and it really is a combination of old school tactics as well as new ones come and they do this in the legal realm but they also do it on a technological level. so for instance, when a blogger in iran right something that offends authorities for any number of reasons, they have a whole host of options as to how to neutralize this individual. so legally speaking, they coul

newspapers, magazines, cable tv, radio, blogosphere, we all exaggerate, we all miss stories. but the quantity and quality of business and economics coverage is much better than when i started. host: port huron, michigan. dennis on the democrat line. caller: i am pretty exasperated. i wonder why in the t beggars, and obama haters are treating the president differently. president bush ran in a "recession." he then initiated two wars and tax cuts for the rich. there were no t bed protesters anywhere -- teabag protesters anywhere. i wonder why the media outlets, these conservative people talking about socialism, when most of them lived in the south which depend on government contracts and do not pay their fair share of the taxes in the country because they are subsidized states. all you have to do is go on line. virginia, georgia, alabama -- all these places where the people are denigrating everything that president obama is trying to do. $9 billion trigger a money in baghdad this appears. there were no teabag protests about that. guest: regardless of how you feel about the presi

from the blogosphere, it's like it. [inaudible] and so on. that's one aspect of it which exaggerates it. but the other thing that exaggerates any kind of division among us, i now have the ability to read almost exclusively people who think the way i do, and nobody else. i don't have to listen to those blanks on the other side anymore or read them, and, you know, the demise of the sort of "time" magazine kind of centrist news media can, indeed, certainly exaggerate the polarization. >> i think one thing that both sides of the culture war, trying to be brief here, agree with is the problem of the deficit, that we're in a period of scarcity. i think both think that any mathematical perp on both sides -- person on both side of the culture wars would agree on is that the gulf between the rich and the poor over a long period of time is exaggerated, is growing. what would you think of your feeling of the culture wars here if this divide starts to impinge upon a major portion of the middle class, at least the lower half of the middle class? would you

host: you mentioned the story in the book where it's pretty much not the mainstream you but the blogosphere that takes on his statements about raise in the south and et cetera. yet it also even starts before that with the drug report breaking that clinton scandal, when newsweek didn't. and to the obama city bombing, if i'm ever correctly, bill clinton part of the problem is that we are stoking up paranoia these days. that there are people i think you name it right winged radio talk show host, has stoked people up so much that it is helping pilots. and you say he is overreaching. that's overstating things. and yet to some, henry kissinger would call it the own is known of the truth -- there is stoking up. and there are paranoid people. and i don't go for it. i scored a. i usually call it. there is a pretty famous talk show host who is also a tv host, who has spoken at cpac reason the. and i said i just thought it was a bad set of remarks. i tried to be an honest broker here. but i want to distinguish between people who may increase the temperature and people who commit acts of violence, and

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 be able to pick and choose what they want to hear. the dilemma is going to be what's accurate and what's not, and i think that's going to be the real

guest: there was a bit of chatter on the blogosphere. there is this idea out there that if you have a lot of farmers, some who are strategically defaulting, because they cannot make any money on the mortgage -- so why pay? there was an example of someone applying for a loan modification who had in $1,800 mortgage payment that he defaulted on, but then he also had some charges to various stores on his credit card bill. so if folks are not paying their mortgages, where is that money going? or if they are so strapped that they could not pay their mortgage, you would think that they would be buying less. perhaps they are not actually spending less. host: diana olick is a graduate of northwestern. what got you into real-estate? guest: and i started at cnbc at cnbc about eight years ago. i did not know much about financial regulation and the stock market, and i wanted to get a bit more comfortable. my mother was a real-estate attorney, and this was at the height of the housing boom. there was so much news going on. host: silver spring, marylan

if there is a better blog in the entire web blogosphere internet, i don't know it. plus michael darta, chief economic at mkm partners, and chief market strategist at stevele nicholas. thank you, gentlemen. i took the liberty of taking a lot of your ten reasons and puts vs on them. i hope i haven't done you any injustice in terms of your content and your analysis. >> larry, i think it's almost time to say that goldilocks is back, possibly. it's also important to think of where we were a year ago. a year ago the dow was at 6,500, today 11,000, up 68%. a year ago we had jobless claims, over 650,000, and now we're down to 450,000, so everything is up from a years ago, a lot of these indicators, is at a six-year high, a lot of these factors and indicators, are at two, three, and four-year highs. we are in a very strong v-shaped economic recovery. that's what i tried to sum summarize in those ten points. >> by the way, i love the freight car loadings, which is a great one. my friend has been pointing this out. two charts i didn't put up, restaurant activity and internatio

we have with us one of the most effective people working in the law this year -- in the blogosphere. she is with the grass fire organization. ladies and german, and carla daywald. >> thank you. [applause] i just want to say that we are very honored to be a part of the tea party express tours 2 and 3 and to be a supporter of the movement in general. first of all, i want to apologize for my voice. after 21 days on the road and many rallies and yelling and screaming for our country, my voice is a bit strained. grass fire.com was started in 2001 as an activist organization that primarily worked from the internet. that system would send an e-mail to you when you registered and it would give you updates on what was happening in d.c., what was happening that might affect you and your country, and ways that you could respond without necessarily having to go to your local representative office, without having to show up at a rally in the sea -- nbc they have done great things with petitions. millions of petitions have been delivered to d.c. to your lawmakers on the behalf of the american peop

over the weekend a number of civil servants weighing in on the blogosphere saying these happened allthese spoof memos written to stay alert or stay sane. the thing is they normally don't leave the building. somehow by accident or a very practical joke, this specific memo, which was an e-mail, got out way, way too far. back to you. >> thank you. former presidential candidate john edwards will testify in court about his affair and a possible sex tape. this according to an exclusive report in the "daily beast." edwards will have to submit a sworn deposition. joining us, investigative reporter for "the daily beast." first of all tmi on the sex tape. i think i speak for everyone when i say we've heard enough about this. tell us what's going to happen. >> john edwards has been noticed he is to give a sworn deposition on may 13th in the case of rielle hunter against andrew young. what will they ask. of course they ask about the sex tape and how it came about. they are going to ask him to put on the record in sworn testimony exactly how rielle hunter moved place to place as the pregnancy pro

is more available now been any time in history i hope they get their news from c-span end of the blogosphere people can be informed but what maggie was talking about was the typical pedestrian left-wing talking points. reagan did not control congress it was democrats. and ray again cut taxes 70 percent down a 20% but the biggest tax cut of american history if you look at the 25 years since having the biggest upward mobility swing economic progress we have ever seen and the net worth of america as a whole have more than doubled from 1981 through 2007 after the reagan tax cut. tax cuts across the board spur investment. i'd like the marxist class warfare. with top employers against employees. if it weren't for rich people i would be out of a job. quite frankly i think rich people because i do not want my paycheck to bounce every two weeks. my book is published by evo publishing. >> host: she was talking about the media outlets did you have a chapter on the new media muzzle and you write about google and also apple and. >> that the relationship with silicon valley became with it is the google pr

a lot of people on the blogosphere were bringing up the famous old fdr speech where he talked about the the evil corporate interest, he said they hate me and i welcome their hatred. that's not barack obama. >> he gets their hatred, whether he welcome it is or not. he might as well welcome it. >> exactly. it's very unlikely that they're going to join him on this one. to me, it's not about style. ultimately it's what's in the bill how tough is the bill. from all indications it sounds like there's going to be a lot of loopholes even in this tough and encouraging derivatives legislation. that's what worries me. he can talk as cool as he wants. but i want to see some toughness in the bill and i don't know that we're going to get it. >> there's not enough teeth in the bill, pat, do you agree? >> i think it's more graduate seminar than anything else. i don't think you can do the fdr denouncing the money-changers. how about money-changers and the temple of our civilization, when lloyd blankfein, the head of goldman sachs and whose company who gave you $1 million. obama is playing president, he'

and just explosion of the blogosphere.and what maggie is typical pedestrian left wing talking points. reagan did not control the congress. congress had the power of the purse and spent. reagan cut taxes. it went from 70% down to 28%. it was the biggest tax cut of american history and you look at the 25 years since america saw the biggest upward mobility swing. economic progress that we've ever seen in american history. in fact, the net worth of america as a whole -- america incorporated the net worth of america more than doubled from 1981 to 2007 25 years after the reagan tax cut. i mean, tax cuts across-the-board certainly spur investment. allow people to keep their own money. i don't like this marxist class warfare that pits -- you know, the top employees. you know, for if it weren't for rich people bill i would be out of a job. i quite frankly, thank rich people because i don't want my paycheck to bounce every two weeks. >> host: who funds human events, excuse me? >> guest: eagle publishing. it's a for-profit company th

over the weekend a couple ex-civil servants weighed in on the british blogosphere and said this kindappens all the time, that there are foreign office bureaucrats who write them regularly. what doesn't usually happen is that they don't leave the building. somehow this memo, the e-mail, got way, way too far out there. >> did the 23-year-old behind the e-mail get fired? >> i'm sorry? >> was he fired? the 23-year-old? >> no. he was not fired. that's raised a lot of concern on the part of the vatican. he actually, it turns out, asked a senior -- someone with seniority within his department whether it was a good idea to do this and get it out and apparently that more senior person said it's okay. now, that person hasn't been fired either, simply moved to some other department and has changed his duties. that's what initially triggered the ire on the part of the vatican. since then they've had an exchange, big apology, lots of details and apparently they understand it was in jest. >> jim maceda with a pretty bizarre story. thank you. >>> wedding bells won't be ringing for the swedish princ

they don't get -- the republicans don't -- >> i think the progressives for all their power on the blogosphere have not done a positive case for the advantages of some kind of social state. >> obama hasn't either. >> i know. they make it sound like -- >> a big, you know, better business issue. >> thank you so much. thank you, david corn, steve karnacki. >>> what's going on with president karzai? he's threatening to join the call ban if we don't stop meddling in his country. whose side is this guy on? what big of a problem is he for president obama? these two don't seem to be clicking after that midnight meeting. national car rental knows i'm picky. so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro. empowered. me powered. that's what i am on weight watchers. i'm learning stuff that i thought i knew, and i didn't. turns out i just needed the right direction. weight watchers. i even lost weight on vacation. yep, vacation. i'm me-powered. know what else? i want m

i think we have to recognize that we live in a society where -- we live in a blogosphere world, an onlinerld, we live in an immediate world, a cable news world, we live in a world where everybody -- everybody has access to news and information. obviously there's tremendous amount of interest in the news business itself. nobody loves covering the news business more than the news media. the fact is, that's just the world we live in today. with regard to its accuracy, i think that's what makes places like cnbc, nbc news, "nbc nightly news," programs and brands that stand for accuracy, stand out. much of what is written these days is not entirely accurate. much of what we read is speculative and rumors. but that's why you have to know who your source is and you have to rely on a brand that stands for something. i think cnbc is the perfect example of a brand that stands for something that can be counted on. and i think those are the things that are going to become more valuable in a world where everybody says they're a journalist. >> we'll take that, jeff. thanks very much. see you at universa

could bring it in a bit based on your expense as a journalist and someone who monitors the iranian blogosphere among others. one of the points that's been raised earlier, especially by mohammed, is the ways in which conversations that happen to the media can be distorted or manifest or reinforce, i wonder if you can talk about sort of what the conversations in the iranian blogosphere, which of course is already oversimplified by me, look like? what are the diversity of those conversations look like? what are the things that people talk about when they are talking amongst themselves, about these issues? and maybe even as compared to a year ago when there was so much attention. >> i think compared to a year ago, people are blogging more about politics odyssey, about the green movement, about political prisoners, about people who have been brave. so the discourse has changed since last year. nowadays, we mention here engagement has been discussed and many bloggers see you guys, this is maybe not the right time to engage with the iranian government. nik had a good cartoon of obama wants engage wit

the rise of the blogosphere with helping business on and offline. >> it is not about the newspaper or even the experience, it is about the quality of the journalism. if you stay true to that, we think that there's several different places that you can go with that. the web being one of them. >> reporter: when the region's only daily newspaper began charging nonsubscribers for online content last year, he saw opportunity. long islandpress.com began running more general news and entertainment and sports stories and all appealing to a larger, local crowd all free. since then traffic has jumped 600%. the it has remained true to its alternative roots. >> the best that we can offer to people is a different viewpoint. so, the more things get vanilla, the more, you know, mint chocolate chip you have to put out there because the people will want it. they will crave it. >> reporter: christine romans, cnn, new york. ddddddddd >> it could be wonderful to see them coming out of the woods with a little girl. >>> we are grateful for words of solidarity coming from president obama, hillary c

and if you look at the blogosphere, there's been many institutional scholars who have promoted the ideaigious divorcety on the -- diversity on the court. i think john stone from chicago we ought to have some more religions represented. >> other views? >> i have nothing to add on religion. i think that cover it is. on hillary clinton. >> oh, i forget. >> yeah, there was a part two. >> there was a part two, thank you. >> you know, it's an interesting suggestion. my guess is the president's pretty happy having her where she is. i will just use her to play off to another team which is the theme of age. and i think one of the things -- one the phenomena that we've seen is the desire to appoint younger and younger judges and justices so they will serve long longer on the court. and i think hillary clinton would have a disability in that regard. you know, sort of the -- i think what we heard last time around was that there is a kind of informal cut off around the age of 60 which i mean that soon i have no chance. i think that might be a problem for her. >> actually, i'd like to follow up for o

we have one of the most effective people working in the bloggers fear -- blogosphere.adies and gentlemen, darla. [applause] >> thank you. i just wanted to say that we are very honored to be a part of the tea party express' tours ii and iii. i want to apologize for my voice. after yelling and screaming for my country, my voice is a bit strange. grassfire.com started in 2001 as an activist organization that primarily work from the internet and e-mail-based system. that would send an e-mail to you when you registered. it would give you updates on what was happening in d.c. that might affect you and your country and ways that you could respond without having to go to your local representative of's office or showing up at a rally in d.c. they have that done affect of things with petitions. the head and hand delivered over the last nine years to washington. that is something that we have been doing affectively. in 2008, steve elliott decided it was time to take it to a whole new level. grass fire steve said that it was time to launch a new web site. a social networking site

guest: there was a bit of chatter on the blogosphere. there is this idea out there that if you have a lot of farmers, some who are strategically defaulting, because they cannot make any money on the mortgage -- so why pay? there was an example of someone applying for a loan modification who had in $1,800 mortgage payment that he defaulted on, but then he also had some charges to various stores on his credit card bill. so if folks are not paying their mortgages, where is that money going? or if they are so strapped that they could not pay their mortgage, you would think that they would be buying less. perhaps they are not actually spending less. host: diana olick is a graduate of northwestern. what got you into real-estate? guest: and i started at cnbc at cnbc about eight years ago. i did not know much about financial regulation and the stock market, and i wanted to get a bit more comfortable. my mother was a real-estate attorney, and this was at the height of the housing boom. there was so much news going on. host: silver spring, marylan

the first since the predominance of the blogosphere.you have a lot of air time to fill, many reporters looking for a new angle on the story. many competing to come up with the most interesting or scandalous take on things. part of the result is that the press coverage does not focus much on the jurisprudential or legal issues, but more on the background, faly, religion. of the background such as opinions they have written, it tends to focus on the underlying facts of the case, the interesting, salacious aspects. a good example from the roberts confirmation was an opinion he wrote when he was on the d.c. circuit. the underlying facts with at the d.c. metro police have arrested a 9-year-old girl for eating a french fry on the metro and detained her for three hours. everyone agreed it was idiotic behavior on the part of the police, but the legal issue was whether the girl's fourth and fifth amendment rights had been violated. the headlines said "roberts has no heart." never mind the fact that if you read his opinion, he is very witty and h

newspapers, magazines, cable tv, radio, blogosphere, we all exaggerate, we all miss stories. but the quantity and quality of business and economics coverage is much better than when i started. host: port huron, michigan. dennis on the democrat line. caller: i am pretty exasperated. i wonder why in the t beggars, and obama haters are treating the president differently. president bush ran in a "recession." he then initiated two wars and tax cuts for the rich. there were no t bed protesters anywhere -- teabag protesters anywhere. i wonder why the media outlets, these conservative people talking about socialism, when most of them lived in the south which depend on government contracts and do not pay their fair share of the taxes in the country because they are subsidized states. all you have to do is go on line. virginia, georgia, alabama -- all these places where the people are denigrating everything that president obama is trying to do. $9 billion trigger a money in baghdad this appears. there were no teabag protests about that. guest: regardless of how you feel about the presi

relationships, but what happens in a small country with a small country just doesn't even penetrate the blogospherei don't think anybody systematically collects that, to my knowledge. host: let's take this call on our line for independents out of phoenix this morning. good morning. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i want to absolutely compliment your guest this morning. i wish i could take her course. but i know, i know that we have this mentality in this country and a diplomat is perceive as above it all. but i think that if we can go 200 years with a gentleman, and i hope essentially gentlemanwoman's agreement, that those people are doing the true business of international peace, if you will, that we can get along without the insane rules of let's have a rule for everything. but some of those diplomats might be very useful in the lobby industry for what has become international megalomaniac business, and i wonder if you could address that. what's the corporate input from a diplomat at those cocktail parties on an international scale? thank you. guest: well, in general, folks that

mentioned the trent lott story in the book, where it's pretty much not mainstream media but the blogosphere that takes on his statements about his race in the south and et cetera. yet it also even starts before that with the drug report breaking the clinton scandal, when newsweek didn't. and after the obama citi bombing, if i were member correctly, bill clinton says part of the problem is that we are stoking up paranoia these days, that people, i think he name in the right wing radio talk show host, have stoked people up so much that it ends up in violence. and you say well he, his overreaching, that is overstating things. and yet some had henry kissinger would call it the truth. >> guest: there is stoking up and there are paranoid people who are paranoid. i don't go for. i score it. i usually call it. there's a pretty famous talk show host, tv host who was spoken at cpac recently, and i said i just thought it was a bad set of remarks. i tried to be an honest broker here. but i want to distinguish between people who may increase the temperature at people who commit acts of violence. and the

newspapers, magazines, cable tv, radio, blogosphere, we all exaggerate, we all miss stories.ut the quantity and quality of business and economics coverage is much better than when i started. host: port huron, michigan. dennis on the democrat line. caller: i am pretty exasperated. i wonder why in the t beggars, and obama haters are treating the president differently. president bush ran in a "recession." he then initiated two wars and tax cuts for the rich. there were no t bed protesters anywhere -- teabag protesters anywhere. i wonder why the media outlets, these conservative people talking about socialism, when most of them lived in the south which depend on government contracts and do not pay their fair share of the taxes in the country because they are subsidized states. all you have to do is go on line. virginia, georgia, alabama -- all these places where the people are denigrating everything that president obama is trying to $9 billion shrink wrapped palates of money in baghdad disappear. there were no protest buss that. host: we got your point. mr. samuelson? guest: let

get more active in the blogosphere. by the time you research, the research is old.bloggers give you a real-time assessment. the day the ipod came out, you've got real time reviews of how users would use it, how it would change the industry. by the time someone writes the first ipad book, that information is outdated. you can find people logging -- blogging about it. >> did you guys want to recommend any other things for people who are trying to get a better understanding of communicating with multicultural communities? >> i would recommend looking at research. i am going to do something less -- some shameless self- promotion. at a gallop, we have research on every community you can think of. -- at gallup, we have research on every community can think of, including demographics and attitudes. >> two others. i would highly recommend the hispanic center. there are incredible amounts of open information. it is a little bit old-world. there is a hispanic-american center for research. they have some really great information out about engaging latinos in the united states