of this programwhich last -- lia gasrello, co-host of this program, who is lauing at some othat bob franken said. >> we ve laughing with bob anken. >> lindaasparello, tell me, how did youet into journalism and why are you he dng it aftea year or two or five or 10 o20? >or longer? >> got int jrnalism by design. i decided that i wanteto be a foreign correspondent, but i d not want topend a lot of time covering local politic and local issues. so i gotyself a coupl of languages, and armed with the languages, i went offo t middle east and i felt myself a job pretty much immedtely. they needed me because i was able to speak those languages, so i am trying t encourage all the young viewers out tre to get a langue under yr belt. it is aast track to foign coespondents. >> bob franken, a syndicated columnis you had a ver distinguished program on cnn, appeared on msnbc. you arfairly busy. how did you cme to be a journalist? >> well, i am stl waiting to beco one. >> i would have thoughyou would make a suburban litigat, myse -- a superbitigator, myself >> you could probablyrgue that certain times that i

we have a panel moderated by bob franken. he is an emmy award winning journalist, syndicated columnist he served as a correspondent for cnn and msn bc. our second panelist is margaret brennan. she is also a graduate of mr. jefferson's university of virginia. alan murray is deputy assistant managing editor of of the "wall street journal's out of -- "wall street journal's out -- wall street journal." next, we have robert simons, a contributing editor at "newsweek" where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977. past and future of american affluence. we have a pbs correspondent for the news hour. recently, he has become a fellow at yale's center. he was a lively moderator at the panel that followed at the dinner. and without, and going to turn to bob and asked him to conduct the discussion on the question, has the financial crisis changed the nature of economic news. >> people are almost desperate to want to pay attention to the type of thing, the selahi thing. and they are encouraged to do so by my medium, t