diane brady, senior editor and content chief for "business week" and welcome back steve mulls dhs berg40th anniversary of the moon landing overplayed or under played? >> i don't think it's under played. can we keep funneling money into this program? i have a been there done that with the debate over the moon. i think, you know, let's just push on and focus here on earth for a while. >> yeah, alfred, where are you on this? >> yeah, i don't think it's overplayed. it's a significant historic event. but if this is going to be some kind of foundation to start pouring more money into the space program, i don't think the time is right. >> steve, my problem with it is what has we done that is anywhere near at epic and this happened 40 years ago -- hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can do almost anything. that happened four decades ago. >> we have 4 million people in iraq and afghanistan, so we have done some good things. i think it's just right. i mean, it is historic, should get recognition, the astronauts should get the recognition, but obviously the answer for woopy's conspiracy theo

let's check in with our panel, diane brady, for business week. michael wolff founder of newser.com.ames altiger. michael, how come when goldman gets a bonus it's a scandal and seacrest gets $45 million and we're happy for him? >> i think one of the things we shouldn't be so happy here, or we should. but the fact of this is -- remember, the whole point about reality shows is that they're cheap to produce. so suddenly, we're ratcheting this up, and reality shows are going become incredibly expensive to produce, and we have to go back to sitcoms. >> ane, do you think this story isoverplayed or under played, die? >> oh, underplayed. really, the guy is on a path to reality tv domination. but the fact is, there are so few business models out there that work, that i think, in fact, "american idol" is a huge success, and this is a guy they think is a winning farm formula. >> but don't you see the formula gets disrupted if he gets paid too much? >> let's not forget, "american idol" makes a billion dollars in profits. this is only a 1% increase in costs for them. it's not going to make realit