blogs, as well. so that's the future. >> charles? >> i would say that it's really important to hr voices from all over theorld. but i would also say we need an american voice for international news. >> which is what you've tried to do with global voice. i mean, you stated that as an objective. >> global post's--really, its tone is very intentionally and unabashedly american. >> what does that mean? yeah. >> that's--i constantly want to clarify this because what i do not mean is jingoistic. i don't mean nationalistic. i don't mean american interests matter more than any other country in the world. what i mean is we have a great tradition of storytelling in america, and i think as an american public, we all have an ear for that. we know the kinds of stories that we can--we can hear and which resonate for us as a country. we're looking to tell stories in the world that do that. and if we don't, we're not going to capture that american audience, which is the audience we want to go for. we want to say, "a

alice drug is not your personal blog .atlas shrugged dot com is my blog at least. i wish you could show me the post of what i'm going to show and i'm going to show a picture of you know i'll cover it up and i have it printed out right here to you that i understand i understand you're free to do that this is part of the problem we make fun of christianity all the time no i'm not afraid i don't think i made fun of buddhism all the time while i did so it's disrespectful it's a suspect it's not against the law but it's not binding on the right want to do any kind of research in a country where thirty eight percent of americans think that islam is more violent and promotes violence do you think it's the right thing to do to spread this kind of misinformation about really look at misunderstood in the u.s. lauren lauren you're proving that you're afraid to show it is a very you know what you're afraid to you're afraid to show a cartoon i'm not afraid i don't want to be just i'm not for i don't want to be disrespectful to that's a

tell us about your blog. >> the fact that i am here says something. i wanted to speak to public defenders. they were my target audience. i wanted to give more cohesiveness. people from all over

tell us about your blog. >> the fact that i am here says something. i wanted to speak to public defenders. they were my target audience. i wanted to give more cohesiveness. people from all over the country started contacting me telling me these stories about their day to day lives. i had some lawyers contact me saying they had 400 felonies a year and only some of them are class a. what can i do? when those stories are repeated over and over again, it gained new momentum. the people trust me because they know i am one of them, not one of the others. with their permission, i have given information to professors who are doing scholarly studies, people who are more invested in change. it is a way of connecting with people and getting stories out. >> i am not sure the most effective way to communicate the message, but part of the message that jonathan is talking about, most of the victims and people accused of crime coming from the same place -- part of the message that needs to get up there, talking about justice and all that, it is meaningful to folks li

tell us about your blog. >> the fact that i am here says something. i wanted to speak to public defenders. they were my target audience. i wanted to give more cohesiveness. people from all over the country started contacting me telling me these stories about their day to day lives. i had some lawyers contact me saying they had 400 felonies a year and only some of them are class a. what can i do? when those stories are repeated over and over

tell us about your blog.

tell us about your blog. >> the fact that i am here says something. i wanted to speak to public defenders. they were my target audience. i wanted to give more cohesiveness. people from all over the country started contacting me telling me these stories about their day to day lives. i had some

isn't really destroying traditional journalism but is blogging and twittering and etc is it replacing is it an alternative to traditional journalism look i don't think it is an alternative the fact the matter is there's an enormous amount of change which is going on in journalism in the media industry we've seen over the last five to ten years thousands and thousands of people have been thrown out of work every month a major metropolitan daily has closed in the united states over the last year or so we've got massive changes taking place in the media market but and the big changes as well through the internet because it's that of the changing habits in which people receive information and give information and communicate with one of the all of which i think is extremely positive news for but the fact of the matter is the essential need for quality of information remains the same and the fact is is that people will only trust information if they believe that it's credible if it's transparent and if it's accountable and journalism provides transparency credibility and accountability tha

we've got one more segment ahead on the show he likes a blog one city is coming after you with a three hundred dollar fee we'll have to pay up to state your opinions and trying to get a better education for your child when many are turning to charter schools i'll speak with a father who is hoping that his child will win the lottery and it comes to education. and. her. mum is. an enemy on the internet. this history still keeps its secrets but now it's time to move feel live in the soviet firearms and oxys. some philadelphia bloggers were shocked recently when they got a letter saying that they were required to shell out three hundred dollars now the money is for a business a licensing fee that the city claims would be a girl or a source of income for a city that's facing a serious budget crisis that would be is for philadelphia's business privilege tax which is designed its hacks residents who do any sort of activity for profit but i think we all know that bloggers don't make any money in this instance of bloggers who use google ad sense and other ads services are subject to this tax no

blogging and twittering or whatever it is actually doing journalism down but i think it's asking it is raising a serious question and that serious question is is a straightforward one if information pluralism is vital for democracy and that information pluralism can no longer be provided by the private sector in media then the question is. who will provide it and who will pay for it and that is actually at the heart of a very big debate that's now taking place inside journalism and inside the media industry about the future because one of the big questions is if we're going to have journalism in the future that will serve democracy and serve citizens in the way that it has in the past and we need it how is it going to be financed well there's this really is a big question but it's if we talk about this crisis of credibility call me and so from your personal point of view who would you like you personally is who would you like to help. fight and overcome this crisis the state of big business look i mean i'd. preston caller a it's a very very difficult sort of choice to make i she don

>> sreenivasan: margaret warner checks in from iraq on "the rundown" news blog. she reports on the country's problems with its electricity grid. spencer michels follows up on his cybersecurity series with a story about the debate over radio frequency identification technology. does it infringe on digital privacy? plus on "art beat," watch a profile of popular singer- songwriter ray lamontagne. he reflects on the challenges of being both writer and producer on his newest album. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll look at the latest science on how much oil is still in the gulf of mexico. i'm gwen ifill. and i'm jim lehrer. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you on-line and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and found

important to your >> carol, what does blogging do for our public image? >> well, it may also get me fired -- [laughter] it is an easy way to publish. there are barriers to the press, but here is a little button that allows you to publish. if you can attract enough readers, you can get our message out. whether it is telling stories of public defenders in their everyday life, which i have done, but also use it to try to use it as an incentive to think about how we can think about the public defender's office differently. to change things, perhaps. it is still a new form of media, so we are just starting to develop some of the ideas on how we can use it. >> can you give us examples of how your blogging has affected

he blogs from brazil where he lives. but he covers the united states. and i think in a way that helps because he doesn't get sucked into the vortex of the washington culture. the other great unsung hero of online journalism is a young woman named marcy wheeler whose blog empty wheel is must read every day for national security reporting. she regularly scoops "new york times" on issues regarding torture, civil liberties, the war. the times has been forced to credit her at times because she has beaten them to a story. i think if you look at the role that talking points memo has played in covering politics on a daily basis, there is some things that it does that i don't particularly like but they have changed the game. and when it comes to online journalism by having serious reporters that are doing a combination of old school journalism, muckraking, and blogging. i think it is one of the most exciting parts of being a young journalist right now. and if you are tech savvy, because it is an open frontier. i think the best bloggers are the ones that are most

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now then -- the blog started but how did that -- sorry.ble. i never thought i'd be on late night tv on nbc. in fact, i if did, i thought i'd be banned like kathy griffin or something. but i'm thankful to be here. and i just started it 'cause it seemed like, and it'd be easy. and i think, before me, people used blogs as kid of like on line diaries. but that never interested me. i wanted to talk about celebrities 'cause a lot of them are really crazy. >> jimmy: yeah. and well, do you remember, like -- do you remember when they just hit? i mean, you were just -- where would you do this? would you just type in your apartment or -- >> no, i used to work out of a coffee shop for two years 'cause i didn't even have internet access in my apartment. >> jimmy: you're one of those people? yes. >> yes. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i know those people. >> and i would even sit outside of the coffee shop before it even opened and -- >> jimmy: to get their wi-fi? >> yes, to get their wi-fi. >> jimmy: genius idea. >> and, 'cause i'm actually a tech idiot. that's

my blog because the. mainstream media was not doing their job i was seeing things that needed to pee reported and talked about i talked about them and people started to take notice including the mainstream media washington post and so forth who would. i was reporting but wouldn't do it themselves and still are not doing. will. of the two thousand and four election because at this point the votes in ohio counted. not even once the same kind of crap. employed to stop the black vote

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t >josé: momento de una breve pausa al volver un blog mexicano se juega la vida mostrando en la internete revela imágenes de los narcos se esconde detrás de una cortina informo. se muestra las imágenes de crímenes en dónde tienen acceso las autoridades, advertencia hasta decapitación. siguiendo en méxico en dónde fueron capturados otros 5 miembros que secuestró en durango a 4 periodistas se trata de 4 hombres y una mujer, se trata de sicarios del cartel de sinaloa, con el que según los investigadores los narcotraficantes buscaban presionar a los medios favorables a ellos. por cierto, que en méxico, el relator de la onu para la libertad de expresión frank l. propuso la protección a proi dinerperiodis hablar del tema me acompaña la editora del diaria excelsior. gracias por estar con nosotros, la situación de los derechos de prensa en su país la verdad que se está complicando día tras día ¿no? >> se está poniendo interesante josé, en realidad yo creo que se abierto una posibilidad muy amplía para la libertad de expresión, derecho de información en méxico, creo que es un momento que nos perm

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attorney and in san francisco we cross to ben park the coeditor of mashable dot com an internet news blog and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in interject any time you want first of all i'd like to go to and is the age of privacy coming to an end we hear that phrase a lot it didn't come from the c.e.o. of facebook but he's it's attributed to him. it's wrong the age of privacy will never come to an end in my view because privacy equals freedom we forget that without privacy the kind of freedom that we enjoy in most of the western world it wouldn't be taking place so you have to have privacy for freedom freedom of choice is essential which implies control over your information your information flows control is absolutely critical and that's why these issues are coming up but even if you look at kids these days they've done a survey recently at university of berkeley california where kids also value privacy students university students high school students they may have different the concept may have evolve

for instance, the morning blog that politico does--it's indispensable. it's the first thing i look at. >> it's the first thing you look at? why? >> well, sometimes i look at the old newspapers. they come to the door. but basically, why? because as jim says, it's up to the minute, plus the fact their take on what's going on in washington is usually right on. once in a while, i disagree with... >> but did i just hear--did i just hear sam--so you start with the blog and not with the newspaper most times? >> well, that's what the internet has done. that's why i answered your question by saying it's different. if you know where to go, the fact that the internet is there and people who have knowledge can get to you immediately with that knowledge is terrific. you never had this before. the problem, of course, it's a two-edged sword. there's a lot of junk there. there's a lot of stuff there that's not factual because the people who put it there have no interest in checking the facts or seeing whether it's really true or not. >> one of the things that's differen

marines for perry to fight the taliban made headlines and i'm not just talking about the l a times blog. i mean the just hottest websites use that story as proof that the u.s. is indeed fighting this holy war against them and that's not just bad press that's actually putting lives at risk but are these events more common than we think is there a culture of christian beliefs in the military that's becoming more prevalent and perhaps even putting more pressure on troops will join me to discuss it is afghanistan veteran jake to live barito jake thanks so much for being here you know i have to ask you this is just one story here but how commonplace are are these events maybe not even mass baptisms but just the prevalence of religion within the military. well you there's an old phrase it says there's no atheists in foxholes there are for many years christianity has been a huge part of the u.s. military in fact the uniform code of military justice is modeled after many christian beliefs for instance you can be kicked out of the army if you commit adultery you can be kicked out of the out of t

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