if we are ready to go, we will start with chuck plunkett and move down the panel. >> just one second.> as john mentioned, the title of the panel is "has economic illiteracy boys and political -- poisoned political journalism question show -- political journalism?" i'm sure we will get into the media coverage of economics, particularly in the context of the 2012 presidential campaign. it is clear that economic issues are at the top of the mind of the major candidates and much of the media coverage. we are ready? maybe we will start with barry. >> i am barry poulson, professor of economics at the university of colorado, retired. what i would like to talk about today is an issue where i think the media has gone astray, and that is the issue of fairness. basically president obama has put fairness at the center of his campaign, and his arguments are very straightforward. basically his argument is income distribution in this country has become more unequal, the wealthy are not paying their fair share of taxes, we need to raise taxes on the upper income groups and redistribute that income to

if we are ready to go, we will start with chuck plunkett and move down the panel. >> just one second. >> as john mentioned, the title of the panel is "has economic illiteracy boys and political journalism question show -- political journalism?" i'm sure we will get into the media coverage of economics, particularly in the context of the 2012 presidential campaign. it is clear that economic issues are at the top of the mind of the major candidates and much of the media coverage. we are ready? maybe we will start with barry. >> i am barry poulson, professor of economics at the university of colorado, retired. what i would like to talk about today is an issue where i think the media has gone astray, and that is the issue of fairness. basically president obama has put fairness at the center of his campaign, and his arguments are very straightforward. basically his argument is income distribution in this country has become more unequal, the wealthy are not paying their fair share of taxes, we need to raise taxes on the upper income groups and redistribute that income to lower income groups