>> copps michael copps, you compare with what is going now with comcast merging with time warner. talk specifically about that. that is happening at the same time. >> this is amazing. it all started with the big comcast-nbc merger a few years ago. when they came into the commission and i was there and told me the dimensions and extent of merger, i was just about breath taken away because this was not just a cable company merging with another cable company. this was about broadband as well as broadcast because they are huge provider of broadband. it was about old traditional media and about new media, content, and distribution. it was giving so much power to one specific company. and now they're taking that footprint they got high-paying all of those billions of dollars to buy nbc and are buying of time warner cable, even larger swaths over the united states of america. the way i see the business plan, it is from ration scarcity to make a profit from the scarcity, data caps, having people pay for faster lanes and slower lanes. what i really want people to realize is that this isn't

servedichael copps, who for over a decade at the fcc. one of the longer terms as a democratic member and also an acting chairman during a very important period. he served during the george w. bush and obama administrations. mike is now a special adviser to common cause and sits on the boards of free press and public knowledge. next is susan, who is a democratic fcc appointment, appointee during the clinton administration. she now is a senior fellow at the sais center -- >> pronounced "sice." >> good. and a founder of susan ness strategies, a member of the board of directors of the inept company. -- the gannett company. >> next is henry rivera. he was a democratic commissioner serving in a republican administration, that of ronald reagan. henry hasing the fcc practice communication law. and currently, i'm produce a, with our firm, where he serves as a partner. for some 20 years, he has also been the chair and chair emeritus of the minority media and telecommunications council. last but certainly not least, i appreciate never taylor tate w

if it is concerning to me, commissioner michael copps has the same number. we saw 87 newspapers close because we were unwilling to take some steps so that there could be more partnerships between journalists who work for media companies and those who work for newspapers. i was really sad about the potential for really great partnership, really good friends of mine to move forward. there are so many things the commission could have already done that would have enabled investment in these properties, a journalist could do in-depth reporting, and bytes of news, and more investment. if they were able to have the revenues to do that. >> you are correct, newspaper broadcast ownership, prevents one entity for newspaper, and the same market in most situations. we put in in 1975. we were trying to get rid of it. and the reason we put it in, changed remarkably in the marketplace. but michael copps has different views. >> i would take issue with it, more reporters walking the street looking for a job rather than covering the story because of the excess of consolidation

the last place we go is right up the street here to the copp's hill burial ground, which has the tombstonesn pulling and robert newman. and we look at some of the words that are written on their gravestones as part of solving the mystery. >> you can do your own investigation. one way is by visiting boston's old north church. >> the other way is you can go to our website, and it's a shameless website plug -- but for a particular program called "tories, timid, or true blue?" which talks about all of the different documents and some different people who might have attended and been a part of this church on the night of april 18, 1775, and would have been connected to that story. >> well, i examined all the clues, and guess what -- i figured out who really hung the lanterns. want to know who it was? i'm not telling. guess you'll have to do your own research. for "teen kids news," i'm nicole. >> well, that wraps it up for this week's "teen kids news," but we'll be back next week, so see you then. >> here's a shout-out to pr newswire for including "teen kids news" on their big screen in times squ

copp's dyre associate professor of history and record the institute of african-american studies. those are copp is the author of substance of hope barack obama and the paradox of -- and to to the break of dawn the freestyle and the hip-hop aesthetic on the hip-hop aesthetic which was a finalist for the national award for arts writing radius of book coming out called antidote to revolution african-american anti-communism in the struggle for civil rights. mr. cobb has been the featured commentator on "msnbc" "national public radio" cnn al-jazeera cbs news and the number of broadcast outlets and you have his twitter lying there in the program and you are urged to follow him as well. with that it's as my pleasure indeed to introduce mr. william jelani cobb. [applause] >> i would like to begin by saying thank you for inviting me. it's an honor to be here. especially someone who has been attending this conference for a very long time and from the point where i was a fledgling writer just trying to learn the ropes and find out how this undertaking this artistic undertaking really worked

she kind of kept clear from us or state clear from us and moved , even.her state copp not to get dusty from us, as she was getting a lot of accusations from her friends. one of the 13 people's that gm acknowledges as well as amy, the 15-year-old who died, are they two of the 13 people that gm acknowledges died in these crashes with the defective ignition switches? >> we haven't seen anything in print that justifies it or says it exactly. on our first tape episode we did with the cbs announcer back in february, the producer did call me within a day or so when we were putting the segment together and not sure where he got the information, but he did verify that -- this was at the back in february, he called me and tell me he did verify six.natasha was one of the so i would have to assume that amy was one of those six individuals as well. >> when did you understand it was the ignition switch? >> i guess upon the recall -- well, i've seen the bulletin, whatever, the service bulletin from gm. we had copies of that after the accident when we were trying to piece everything together to find