the new york times travel section who had a cult following but he wasn't as big as friedman or as david pogue didn't get off and so he got fired and this kind of differentiation in standards is a really dangerous thing because it alludes to the idea of populism and it leads to the idea of well if they're succeeding to a certain level then they can scrape by some of the ethics problems that others can't and when it comes down to that it's a pretty deadly practice for the future of journalism in the future of ethics in journalism yeah i think i think there's some good questions being raised both in your article and on the website shame and we do appreciate having you on the shelf foster came our senior editor for at the new york observer. thanks rob. coming up on our team it's no big secret that big brother likes to pry but not just on suspected enemies of the state the u.s. government is spending billions to monitor its own employees of next we'll show you how far it's willing to go to protect state secrets. it's part of american power continues. things are so bad. might actually be time for a

david pogue is here to help lay that out. he's also the new host of "nova science now" and he joins us from boston. >> my pleasure. >> so how did it happen? you said to the world, here, guys, look for my phone or i think it's stonl. what happened in between? >> well, the great thing was that i lost the phone on monday when i was on this train. and apple has a feature called find my iphone. you go to this web site and it shows you on a map either like a street map or satellite photograph of where the thing is right now. and it's available for other phones too, android phones and so on. and it's the greatest feature if you ever lose your phone. but whoever had the phone had turned it off and you can't t doesn't work when the phone is off so for three days i was in missery thinking oh my gosh this shuns of dollars in replacement fees and then thursday morning, i got an e-mail from find my iphone that says your phone has surfaced. here it is in a suburb of maryland. so there i was, you know in connecticut where i live and unable

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