host: let's go to ann in florida, with david chavern of the news media alliance. good morning. caller: good morning to you and merry christmas. i just want to ask you, the -- before he went to the trump campaign this year, my husband and i looked at the cost of the media of our home. we have no bundle. we pay frontier, and we have to do our dish because we do not bundle the landline, phone, computer things together. people are now getting their news on the computer, like my husband at 4:00 the morning. we are in our 60's, just about. we are looking at the cost. we sat down, we added up the cost of what it cost our household to keep these things going. quite incredible. i mean, it is probably around $280 a month in our home to continue this. our kids are looking at us, why don't you drop that, why don't you go to this one source? that is one thing. the second thing is, those costs are going to go up according to what i've heard. those are going to increase. and the coverage that the white house gives to the people in the media -- i am not really sure we are getting all of the fa

we want to welcome david .avern -- david chavern good morning and thanks for coming.negin with a new jersey. this is the headline -- fast track and dubious legislation is a high-speed treatment in the new york times reporting on it this morning. governor chris christie has made no secret of the disdain of the news media. what is going on? guest: what is happening is public notice requirements. there are a number of things my real estate deals, bankruptcies and various government activities that require a public notice to be published in newspapers, both online and print editions. what happening in new jersey is the governor is not a fan of the press. deciding that we are going to stop this public notice , and making a lot of economic arguments about how newspapers get a windfall from this. there is an economic issue with news organizations, but a much bigger issue is public notice. do we want to notify the public of government activities? i think this is a really bad bill designed to really hurt newspapers, and really the public. they said tomorrow is a big day in new

the morning come on the democrats line, with david chavern of the news media alliance.aller: good morning. how are you today? host: very good. caller: we are getting interesting calls. i have several topics in mind. i would like to say something about the type of news that has been put out there, like, for example, people do not seem to recognize satire is being satire. looking lot of people at satire, and they repeated as a real story. i think the press itself needs to identify their stuff more, if you know what i mean. commentary, is it the who, real when, why, and how of news, or is it someone's opinion of real news? the other issue i was interested in was the whole issue of trump and the idea of what his presidency is going to do to the press, and you have mentioned that a little bit already. and about the tweets and this, the fact that news is so fast, i agree with you. think the media is too fast. i think they are reporting on news before they have all the facts. and they are not giving the whole story because it is coming out so quickly. sometimes, it has to be r

good morning, democrats line with david chavern of the news media alliance. caller: good morning. how are you today? host: very good. caller: we are getting interesting calls. i had several topics in mind. i would like to say something about the type of print that has been put out there, like, for example, people do not seem to recognize satire as being satire. we get a lot of people looking at satire and they repeat that as a real story. i think the press itself needs to identify their stuff more, if you know what i mean. is it opinion is it commentary, , is it the who, what, when, why, and how of real news, or is it somebody's opinion of real news? the other issues i was interested in were the whole issue of trump and the idea of what his presidency is going to do to the press, and you have mentioned that a little bit already. and about the tweets and this, the fact that news is so fast, i agree with you. but i think the media is too fast. i think they are reporting on news before they have all the facts. and they are not giving the whole story because it is coming out so quickl