and commissioner zvanksi after commissioner breslin. >> commissioner breslin: my question, when will the board see the draft of the r.f.p.? i have a quite few other concerns about the r.f.p. also. what i see is that we really need competition. the cost for the early retirees with dependents is becoming unaffordable. $16,000 a year. that's a lot. especially for early retirees which i'm sure there are going to be a lot more of those. therefore, this could be a large percentage of their income. unless we have some competition for blue shield -- [indiscernible] we need another h.m.o. in addition to them. we should have two h.m.o.s, beside kaiser. $16,000, that's a huge amount. i'm also concerned about this being a level playing field. blue shield has had a very horrible backing in the past. mayor office interfered and blue shield got the job. i noticed governor newsom is using blue shield for his task force, covid-19. it is important that we try to get a level playing field. i don't know how that's going to happen. in the long run, our members lose and basically the city does too. you're

pete hamill was a tabloid titan, maybe the last of the jimmy breslin era of gritty new york columnists once dated jackie o and interviewed john lennon. newspapers were in his blood. >> papers gave a sense of meaning that was a binding almost, you could see it on the subway, were you trying to help the new arrivals to understand the city and the older people to understand the new arrivals. howie: i was lucky to get to know pete hamill. the most fun i ever had in journalism was speaking into the new york post, a couple decades ago, after a whacky owner fired hamill and the rest of the staff. i watched as dozens of employees cheered and bear hugged hamill as they led a newsroom occupation, they installed themselves in the editor's office and put out an edition, trashing the owner. pete hamill was 85. what a life he led. that is it for this edition of media edition. i'm howard kurtz. let's consider the conversation on twitter, at howard kurtz. check out my podcast, media buzz meter. you can subscribe at apple itunes, google podcast. a couple students got suspended at a georgia high school

in 1962 he moved to the new york herald tribune where he and energy near breslin were the two staff writers assigned to the someday supplement which became new york magazine. the newspaper strike of 1962-63 afford him the opportunity to travel to southern california to write an article on hot rod and custom car culture for esquire. stumped for nagel for the article he sent his nose to his editor who published verbatim, described as, quote, a long spontaneous letter dispensing with traditional journalistic conventions and describing the whole scene and thus was born the new journalism. the rest they say is history, this and other essays were collected in the book, the candy colored tangerine, making the best talked about journalist in america. numbering his dailies days as a daily newspaper correspondent. two books published the same day in 1968, "the electric kool-aid acid test" solidified his reputation as the observer and document are of contemporary american experience was 1970s the flak catchers 1975, the painted world 1976, mad men clutter, the me generation was coined. other tom wolfe