. >> did you ever have to sit down with your editors? >> oh yes, jed donohue what is the editor at crown forum and i have known jed for a very long time. we had-- he was the third editor i had at crown forum. not because he couldn't get along with me but because they left the company for other jobs and other companies, as you i am sure are aware there is enormous amount of turbulence in the book industry. i am just delighted that jed has been there for several years and he has been very patient with me. the problem with this book was that, unlike the five previous books that i have done, where i really broke on the order and just on specification, i decided i would just come in it which is a-- just write everything, so what i wrote, the manuscript was unpublishable because it was too long so the problem was how to get it down to size. it took about, short of three years to read the manuscript and a year to cut it. >> a year to cut it? >> yes. >> and what was that process like? >> it was a very painful process. it was in several steps. my

these are the pages of was working on and the handwriting is my editor from a wonderful gentlemen editor who knows what he is doing. i am looking at material but i have struggled over when we were in in germany and 2001 and some of this research i did and german and it is not great by discovered a man who i had never heard of named christoph minors so i put in about a page and a half on him and my editor says "the reader" may well get lost in this academic struggle. and he suggests that it go. soil wasn't ready to throw the whole thing now it may come to that later on the right now i took out several of these sentences and saved others maybe i should put the rest of it in the notes then throughout the notes later but it is hard to throw away material. and over here, this is actually the chapter i am working on. this is moved elsewhere been a chapter three, it is material on a man named to banks that was very important but as my editor points out it may not be important for my book. so i have put him over on the side. that is part of what i was doing. another thing that i was doing was wo

the editors, the new editors we got at the "washington post," i don't want to kiss his rear end too much, but he really gets it. chris: tina, what will you be reading in five years? >> online. a newspaper that combines online and multidimensional things and video. as all the best blogs are doing. that stuff is going to become far more vibrant. chris: do you think we'll have the time to post -- >> whether we have newspapers physically i'm not sure. chris: i say this as a contributor, it really is great -- >> i think they are going to be digital. chris: we'll have them online. not physically. >> i think we're going to have both but if you get it digitally you're going to have to pay for more content. chris: we're going to get it online and something electronic. is that what we're going to get? >> what i do right now is get up and go to my computer and start -- and start reading the stuff online. and then when it's warm much, i can put on my clothes and get "the new york times" in the driveway. but you have to be able -- for me at least, i really want to see how the stories are played in pr

and the handwriting here is my editor. wonderful gentleman editor who knows what she's doing. so i'm looking at material that i struggled over when we were in germany in 2001. and some of this research i actually did in german. my german isn't all that great. but i discovered a name i had never heard of, cristof minors. and my editor says a reader may well get lost in had this academic struck. -- struggle. he suggests that it go. i wasn't ready to throw the whole thing out. it may come to that later on. right now i took out several of these sentences. and then saved some of the others. maybe the next step will be putting some of it in notes, and then maybe i can pull out later. but it's hard to throw away material that was so hard done. over here this is actually the chapter that i'm working on. it is moved elsewhere in chapter three. this is material on a man named banks who was very important in blunebahc's world. it may not be all that important for my book. i put him over on the side. another part of what i was doing was working with a thesaurus. i am not too proud to use

>> i am the editor of the book and main editor of the book, and my role is actually this front end. we dreamed thumb e idea with the hip of jeff, who is a public affairs author and with my colleagues, editorial colleagues, we sat down on thursday evening, from 4:00 p.m. and looked at all of the commissions coming through the web site and decided how we were going to select them and arrange them with the -- within the book and did that on thursday and friday we saw how they had all run out. the pages looked like. and we moved a lot of material around and found we were a little short and a little long. and that sort of happens when you design pages through a database, and... but in the end, we at about 4:30 yesterday we ended up with 144 pages and we have proof read them at least twice. it was a proof reading job from hell it turned out, because not only are we doing it in the convention center with a lot of dis track but many of the sequels are variations on a theme and it is difficult to keep track of whether you have seen it before. but -- >> and the web site is up and running, cor

do you react to editors?> images? >> editors. >> editors and ellipses and waterworks. >> start with ellipses. >> i'm sorry, but could you repeat that? i'm having a little trouble during. >> you use ellipses rather than commas and waterworks. why do you use ellipses in the book? is that they. >> isn't that correct? i just finished a. am i mixing it up with something else? and what works, the use of ellipses, the punctuation and what a works. >> no, that. >> and then how do you react to editors, editing your work? >> i don't let them. [laughter] >> you know why, i used to be an editor. and what i learned from that was to record my own work with the same objectivity i would read other peoples work and consider it. so usually when i hand a book in, or most of the time, that's the book i want. and they seem to agree, usually. if you don't like my ellipses? >> first, i found it difficult, but i adjusted and i did love the book. >> good, i'm glad to hear that. usually people ask me about, well, i don't have any dark

on our panel are rick mays, congressional editor of army times publishing company. ryan bener the pentagon reporter for the "boston globe." john barry the national security correspondent for news week and deputy chief editor. welcome to the show. let's start off with iraq. the security situation there was assumed to be improving and so u.s. forces could do an aggressive pullout and some suggested that schedule to be accelerated to be out of iraq by 2011. security situation there is a little bit rougher. brian, any chance that u.s. forces will stay there beyond 2011? >> i think there are clear signs in the last couple of weeks there are ethnic tensions, very strong ones still simmering just beneath the surface and growing concern that could come out into the open. certainly there are extremists that are trying to stoke those fires again. and certainly the u.s. military expresses concern that this could get out of hand. on the other hand they are encouraged that so far things have been relatively stable. that the shiah population have been reserved in not responding t

when i worked on the correspondence, most of the time i was looking for letters to editors of biographical materials and one day they asked me to find if there was a poem written by the crew. they didn't know what the name of the crew was but it was one -- a poem that had been written for the 1873 mardi gras which was the theme of which was darwin's missing link. and so i found by putting in crew and darwin into the computer the missing link to darwin's origin of the species and it is beautifully illustrated and a 47-page poem. >> where does this book come from? >> this comes from the general stacks of the library of congress, but it was published presumably in louisiana because that's where it was printed. and we have some other books. today we're having a talk by sandra herbert and here is here award-winning book, charles darwin geologist. she was looking for the origin of the origin of species and found that before 1859, all of his papers and books had been written in whole or in part about geology. so she went to england and had a great time looking in depth at darwin's manuscripts. an

were you the editor? >> i was the editor of the editorial page. evan thomas, mike grimsley, they were with me. many people. it was an interesting crowd. jim glassman, the conservative columnist. >> who was in the bush administration? >> right. to go right before george w. bush runs for president, he buys a ranch, one that is really not a ranch to establish the image that he is a red state kicker rather than the scion of one of the most aristocratic family spir andlies. -- aristocratic families. mr. obama, any cultural manipulation cluck? >> i do not think he has reinvented who he is to the extent that keri tried to and bush did, but this is a master of the media that we have now. mccain, one of the spreadsheet -- refreshing things about the game is that he was impervious to packaging. they tried to get him to do separate teams caught -- they tried to get in to do set routines. there are some people who cannot be slick. i simply add my europe. they are too old or stubborn. i think that is refreshing. >> have you ever met president obama or senator

my editors took a pass on that -- >> why? >> because it was one, single, anonymous source that was unknown to "the washington post." and that was -- that's just, there's too much tension, there's too much competition, there's too much potential for a lot of loosely attributed material to be coming out. >> although you won't be surprised to hear that most of the media world went with the story based on the ap's anonymous source. >> sharon, when you covering hollywood for "the new york times," did you occasionally chase stories from tmz, or did you kind of look down your nose at the operation? >> oh, tmz didn't exist when i was at "the new york times," covering for hollywood. but now, we've been also chasing the michael jackson story. it's not as single mindedly as tmz, but i want to take issue with what harvey just said. i do agree that there is -- we're certainly in a time of transition, but i think that online media sources, such as therap, there are those that are considered as credible, certainly, as traditional media and

for more information on the editor please go to t henation.com. in 1959 in the heat of the cold war soviet premier nikita khrushchev to an unprecedented two week tour of the u.s. peter carlson recounts that trip with khrushchev's son, sergei on after words. next a portion about tv's monthly three-hour live program, in depth. on the first sunday of each month we invite one author to discuss their entire body of work and take their calls. in depth also includes a visit with the author to see where and how they write their books. that is what you are about to see. >> a typical day for me begins with mass at my parish church, breakfast here at home, and then i spend the morning here. this is my bunker. this is where i study. this is where most of my working materials are in my library. my files, etc. i work from outlines. i think when you are doing complicated things like the biography of john paul the second or trying to make a a serious argument on the public policy matter it is good to a think through the sequence of things before you actually star

sasha sheeg gan, managing editor from pcmag.com is here to show us some of his favorites. let's start with the iphone. >> a great thing to know is there's a terrific selection of phones out there. the iphone, of course, a lot of people are familiar with. >> do you find it's annoying, though, the touch screen -- >> there are touch screen people and physical keyboard people. if you're one kind, you shouldn't force you self into the other kind. i know a lot of people who like the touch screen. >> for business it's good? >> for business it's good because it has great microsoft exchange connectivity. it if you have a microsoft exchange server, it will plumb into that. you can get your contacts, calendar, e-mail, all very fast and smooth. >> let's move to the next one. blackberry. >> if you are that keyboard kind of person, then you really want to go for black bury tour.

richard stengel is the editor of "time" magazine. kathleen parker is a "washington post" columnist and john heilemann covers politics for new york magazine. first up, president obama struggling. had i numbers are right on the 50-yard right now but the resistance to him is concentrated in a few groups. take a look inside the latest nbc-"wall street journal" poll. overall, 40% say they disapprove of the job he's doing. but in this -- in the south, that's 48% who disapprove. with older men, it's 51%. and with white evangelicals it's way up. 75% against him. during august, the anti-obama rhetoric is heating up. opponents are hitting him over professor gates, the sotomayor nomination. and this birther stuff. those opponents tend to be southerners. the birthers are spreading the rumor that obama was born in a muslim area of kenya. here's a louisiana congressman who didn't want to tamp it down. >> it's being looked at. >> what do you personally believe? do you think there's a question here? >> i think there are questions. we have to see. ch

bob woodward is associate editor of "the washington post." gloria borger is senior political analyst for cnn and joe kleine is a columnist for "time" magazine. the excitement of the news business runs in the american bloodstream. movies celebrated newspapers and on tv, we love watching this. >> mr. white -- >> who gave you permission to barge in like a bull? >> there's a dirigible with a guy hanging over a rope. >> you get down there, lois, and assign a tote graffer. two of them -- a photographer. two of them. chris: we're down to 1,400 dailies. this year alone five including denver's rocky mountain news and the seattle post intelligencer have printed their own obituaries. major cities like san francisco and boston may soon face a future without a single daily broad sheet. "the san francisco chronicle" and "the boston globe" are in big trouble. they're institutions really, as much part of those santos as rice-a-roni.

jason howard is the editor of we all live downstream. he has also written for equal justice magazine and the blue will review. for more information you can go to lmu.net.edu. >> this summer book tv is asking what are you reading? >> very different books. but a really powerful and we have enjoyed reading those. two books i want to read, the talk about lincoln's cabinet and also william julius wilson, a sociologist at harvard. those are two books of want to read for myself. two children at home. by the end of the summer. >> to see more summer reading list and of the program information visit our web site at booktv.org. >> what is the black belt? >> the black belt is a region of america, region of the south that extends from virginia, the coast of virginia, all the way. and its historical roots or origins really did back to to te antebellum period. it's the place where african-americans form a majority of the population. but plantation agriculture, primarily continent really serve as the economic engine for the region. and said that dates b

well, i'm going to disagree with my own editor here.at i think that machiavelli's discourse is one of the great evil books of all time. it fits perfectly with the prince. and what was the second -- bring me back to the second aspt of your question. oh, the rights. i believe that to put it succinctly and these aren't my words but leon strauss'. that lock was jus sugar coated and yes, you're right. he is the one who mediated hobbs' thought to america and unfortunately most conservatives refused to understand that and they keep lock as a kind of icon when they should really understand his foundations and he's an example of someone who was very devious and, hence, very effective. >> thank you. robert from young britain's foundation. would you regard salman rushdie's the satanic verses as essential reading? [inaudible] >> i think after it was banned i said well, you know, why was it banned? and so i thought -- it's one of those books i put on my reading table and never got around to reading. i wouldn't call it essential. but i do thk that fo

. >> let's turn to chris hayes, washington editor of "the nation" magazine. chris, good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> sure, ma'am, ask your neighbors for the $400,000 for the around-the-clock nursing care. what the hell's the matter with these people? >> well, look, i mean the only way to make sense of the tape that you just played, and in all three instances is to understand first and foremost, the objective here is to kill the bill and to issue a political defeat to the president and to the democratic party. everything sort of derives from that. so what you're seeing is there's a complete like inconsistency internally. the arguments that are emanating from the right and from the republicans are a logical mess. they're self-contradictory, they're for medicare, they're not for medicare. they love medicare and they hate government-run health care. your neighbors should feed your -- your ill husband. i mean, there is no consistency because it's not being engaged in, in good faith. it's a bad-faith effort to construct a series of arguments around a politic

and then i got his editor. he kind of scurried away. he had to speak to my editor. he had all the emotion of a telephone dial tone. nobody likes the way they are written about in print. we feel the story is strong. it was absolutely stomach turning. >>host: what happened after your report appeared in the city journal? >>guest: a lot of people -- it was very gratifying. i heard from a lot of people down there in putting many subscribers of the newspaper who cancelled their subscription. the piece was picked up by the wall street journal. fortunately anyone can check it out. the reporter checked it out and found out that there was nothing in the speech that justified the piece. he ran it anyway. >>host: available to those who are either ignorant or even those who are fairly well informed but don't quite have it figured out yet. do you have a reading list to help people who might want to try to understand something? >>guest: my own feeling is read promiscuously. every on the left and the right. there are certain people on the right to i think a particularly good. i thi

he did tell rolf ingersoll who was the editor of "pm".he told the nation he was going to paris to cover a peace conference he went to paris but then he kept going then he dropped off of the map for three weeks then filing the dispatches that were on the front page of "pm" and sent the circulation into profit for the first time in its entire history. when he came back, the natio fired him. that did not mean that they hated him and he still wrote for them but they did not give him a job. in 1953, the past for his old back days old job back with his old salary and carey mcwilliams said he was very much in favor of them hiring stone but they just could not decide to do. they did not say yet know the did not say as. of poor's when you need a job is basically saying no. that is what happened. >> i went to nor about "pm" newspaper was that an acronym? >> a good question. nobody knows. it came out a. >> how long was it. >> it started in 1940 started by ralph ingersoll the first editor of "life" magazine used to do the talk of the town section of

well, personal finance editor, gerri willis, is here to talk free job training for you. yep, i said free. gerri, where do we start? anything that's free, i'd say is good. >> that's right, don. it's a great place to start. costing you no money at all, and the most obvious place is the job. if you're laid off, look, some severance packages include job training or other benefits. talk to hr about your severance package and find out how you can take advantage of job retraining. don't forget to ask about other positions in the company or at different locations if you work for a big company. don? >> all right. well, can uncle sam help out with this? >> yeah, you bet. the department of labor sets up local one-stop career centers. and at this offices you can find information about local jobs available, free classes on jab prep, computer training even. there are also a number of specific programs that can help you out. the displaced worker program. this is a program that will help you find work if you are laid off and the industry in that area is in decline. there's also somethin

let's go straight out to greg hahn, editor of "the idaho statesman."hat happened in the last 24 hours? >> well, more than 2,000 volunteers scoured the part of town where robert went missing. the police did announce a pretty significant change in what they've been saying. they said for the first time they found some evidence that showed there was some suspicious circumstances, they said, around his disappearance. and they said, i'm quoting here, that he may be the victim of a tragic event. and they told the searchers to kind of expand their ideas beyond looking for a hiding boy and into looking for things that might lead them to more than that, and perhaps not the happy ending that everybody was looking for. meanwhile even going on tonight, police are -- cordoned off a section of the landfill where the trash from saturday morning, the day -- the morning after the day robert disappeared has been held. they haven't sifted through it yet, but they are keeping it there just in case. and tonight they are at a house that no one's 100% sure how it's connected

were you the editor? >> i was the editor of the editorial page. >> who was there? >> evan thomas was the old boys' club. esther dyson was one of the great philosophers of the internet. many people. it was an interesting group. barack obama, and john mccain, any association? any cultural manipulation? >> i think barack obama is brilliant at packaging and we should watch it closely. i don't think he has reinvented who he is to the extent that carry tried to and bush did. this is a master of the media that we have, now. mccain, one of the refreshen things about mccain is that he was impervious to packaging. they would try to get him to the set regions and he for the word -- get him to do set routines and he would throw the word maverick rebel tom, but what you saw was what you bought. bob dole was like that. they can't be slick. they're either too old or too stubborn and i think that is refreshing. >> have you ever met barack obama or senator mccain? >> i met them both. i met them as a journalist. i interviewed barack obama and i was in a group of columnists that he t

>>were you the editor? >> i was the editor of the editorial page. >> who was there? >> evan thomas was the old boy'' club. dyson was one of the great philosophers of the internet. many people. it was an interesting group. >> here is your ". right before george w. bush runs for president, he buys a ranch to establish the image that he is a red state s-ticker rather than leave saigon of one of the most aristocratic families in the united states. a graduate of andover, yale and harvard. in the 2004 campaign, you have another yelled aristocrat, john kerry, driving a harley-davidson on to the set of the jail and a show. that's just like bush clearing brush on his ranch. barack obama, and john mccain, any association? >> i think barack obama is brilliant at packaging and we should watch it closely. i don't think he has reinvented who he is to the extent that carry tried to and bush did. this is a master of the media that we have, now. mccain, one of the refreshen things about mccain is that he was impervious to packaging. they would try to get him to the set regions and he

as an author, as a magazine editor, somebody who puts out a tv show, this

. >> let's go out to tom o'neil, senior editor of "in touch weekly." tom, we're learning more about the search warrants that were executed in las vegas, actually three search warrants. they always say the devil is in the details. what more can you tell us? >> what's fascinating, when you compare these search warrants to the ones last week that were involved in houston. last week we had one doctor cited, dr. murray, one possible criminal charge, and that was manslaughter. no propofol was mentioned. this time, we have propofol mentioned, seven doctors are named, one nurse. we have mention of the 19 aliases, we have mention of michael jackson as an addict, and we have six possible crimes cited here. >> all right. to kelly zinc, host of celebtv.com, there are so many aliases here that they have probable cause, believed that could have been involved in the commission of a crime, that evidence could have been at these locations in las vegas. list for us some of these aliases. >> you've got jack london, got omar arnold, got his chef, kai chase, and one of his

editor [applause] good evening. however you doing? you made it inside. congratulations. my name is chris at it as i am the washington editor i it is truly an honor to be here tonight honoring this panel. i just want to say briefly you should all have a copy of the latest issue which i believe this on your seat and also the book we have put together these are tough times. i have to sell this year. as a system of global capitalism which had been built was turning and turning in a widening area over the last four or five years there was a chorus ofoices that said the center would not and could not hold. many people contributed to this book and our magazine have been making that point* and it has proved quite prescient and i like to introduce the speakers'. to my left, professor joseph stiglitz is professor at columbia university's [applause] he receive the nobel prize in economics in 2001 for research on economics of infortion and the co-auor of the $3 trillion or more t true co of the eye of iran conflict -- conflict. please welcome joseph stiglitz [applause] to his left i

i think it was a fantastic editor.e washington post," were the best editors of the last half of the 20th century. i believe that's true. >> help people at home understand what that means. what does an editor do that makes such a big difference? >> in our case, we go off with a producer and do a story. we shoot it, and we may edit it three or four different ways before we actually take it in and show it to don. showed it to don, and don would sit there and watch it for the first time and say, i don't like that. i want that taken out. i want the top to be the bottom and the bottom to be the top and move the middle over here. >> and he just knew? >> and he would do it from watching the piece once. he could do it in five minutes, and it would be a completely different -- not a different story but so much better. >> i met him only briefly. i didn't know until i saw the pieces yesterday how hot-headed he could be. but i'm sure you both knew that very well. >> i remember when i moved to new york to work for him from washingto

i will than by talking about the new times once had a very bright science editor named comfort. and in "the new york times" magazine in 1936, he wrote what these people did, einstein, rutherford, or eisenberg, plunk, the heroes of the heroic age of physics. and this is what he said they did. suppose that nobody on earth had ever heard a piece of music. and suppose that beethoven's fifth symphony is played over and over again by invisible musicians. that this is his problem is to devise an apparatus which will shift out one note from another and analyze it, and for what kind of invisible instruments produced the sounds, and determining what notes should be played and how long and how loudly. it's not likely that he would succeed him imagine violins and clarinets or even musicians going into wards or he would postulate nearly vibrating bodies. these would meet his requirements. even with this application, the odds of him completely solving the mystery of beethoven's fifth would be happy. solving the problem of the invisible atom, which is far more complex than any of this and whic

>> all right to greg hahn, editor of the "idaho statesman." i do know during the press conference they kept saying the family wants their privacy at this time. anything else you can tell us about the family or the mother? >> you know, we've tried -- like you guys have reported on a few nights, she does have a criminal history. she was charged. she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, felony injury to a child, of the younger boy. but we don't -- we haven't been told anything about -- either by the family -- >> finding robert will not be the end, but just the beginning of an entirely new investigation. our priority remains finding answers for robert's family and this community. >>> we do believe that robert may be the victim of a tragic event. >> the body of a small boy has been recovered from a canal. >> i can tell you the body is that of a young boy, approximately the same age and size of robert manwill. >> we ask that you remember that there is an empty seat at our table. please pray and continue to think about robert. so we may bring him home so

i just joined the museum in february, i've been the editor of u.s. a. today for the last five years. we have the largest piece of the berlin wall in north america. you can go there and see that and the guard tower in collaboration and partnership with the f.b. i.we celebrate their 100th anniversary and we have phenomenal artifacts. we have the unibomber's cabin believe it or not. and depending on your age, some of your viewers probably remember patty hurst and her tenure with the liberation army. we have the gun she used in the bank robbery and the leather jacket she wore. we have can coverage including dillinger's death mask and the bullet pruf vest he zn wear on that night >> with you have so many different exhibits. what do you have planned for us your second year? >> one of the great things about working for a museum where news is in the title we're updating and reflect the headlines in the museum. not long ago when there was an uproar in iran we covered the social network and the twittering. when newspapers have collapsed and some markets we quickl

jason howard is the editor of, we all live downstream and has also written for equal justice magazine. for more information on the authors go to lmy.net.edu. flsh >> mr. yum greenbrier is the author. when you think of new york city in the 50s and 60s, what do you think of? >> guest: human. well, i think that new york in the post world war ii period was in a position of people sentence, really in the united states, and as portions were rising for a time, i think it was a famous kind of working-class city, to quote another book by joshua freeman, and it was a city that had had a lot of business during world war ii and its industries had been employing many new yorkers, and it was also a growing media capital. it was expanding its office infrastructure. it was growing in the citing of the united nations, getting international attention, and politically, and was part of -- it was sort of the capital of the resurgent u.s. following world war ii. yes, very much. so its star was rising. >> host: what happened to new york in the 1970s? >> guest: well, it's a complicated question that has glob

our pilot on tonight's "saving sojourn," senior editor with travelers.com. those numbers are huge and fees keep piling you. up say, first tip here, travel like a business traveler? >> and not check your bags through. you're right. a lot of money comes through checked bags. super, super, historic one-way fare, $29 each way, as low as, and most major airlines make it up with baggage fees. i say don't check bags through. sdnt mean bring a supersized suitcase on the airplane, won't work. pack accordingly. loyalty it be a big plus and save you a lot of money. for example, a medallion member on delta, two bags for free on each domestic flight. >> because those fees, for example, i think you said it was american $20 for the first bag. $30 for the second. payings 20ds one way, paying more for the bags than the ticket. >> costs more in cases to get your bags from point a to b than your physical body. yeah, american made news a couple days ago. raised their first checked bag fee from $50 to $20, second froms 25ds to $30. $50 each way for checked bags, but all of the m

is cosmo's executive editor and dr. hilda hutchinson is the clinical professor of on stek ricks and gynecology at columbia university. what gave you this idea that you wanted to poll your readers to find out what they had to say about their experiences. >> because we get letters all the time from young women, asking, is what my gyno did normal? you feel so vulnerable and exposed on that exam table it can be very hard to know, is that something they should have -- my doctor should have done? is it unusual? young women can feel very confused about it. so we get so many letters we decided to do a big article. >> normally a young woman, less experienced at some of these exams, but they're also maybe less likely, perhaps, to speak up. that's a possibility. >> absolutely. >> so there is a vulnerability there that we certainly need to recognize. >> there's a power dynamic. >> one of the letters you got my gynecologist gave me a rectal exam. i've never had one of those before. is that a normal situation, doctor? >> oh, it's abs

let's turn to the washington editor of "the nation" magazine chris hayes. good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> has senator rockefeller summed this up and if so why hasn't the administration learned its lesson from the stimulus package? >> well, i think he has summed it up. first of all, i think he is stating the obvious point which is that mike enzi and chuck grassley and olympia snowe is sort of another story, mike enzi and chuck grassley are not going to vote for this bill. i'd be willing to bet a lot of money on that final outcome. there is no way. mike enzi is a very, very conservative republican representing a conservative state. there's no reason for him to vote for a big, controversial health care reform propounded by a democratic president. so the idea politically i think is this notion of quote-unquote cover. that you're going to sort of somehow create some risk hedging politically by getting the consent of republicans and that somehow is going to ensure everyone from partisan attacks come the mid terms. i think it's a crazy notion because they

he's mark skousen, editor of "forecasts and strategies." >> susie: dealers are expecting a rush on this last weekend for cash for clunkers deals, but what happens next with clunkers claims and future sales. >> paul: i'm paul kangas. >> susie: and i'm susie gharib. this is "nightly business report" for friday, august 21. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. ben bernanke said today the prospects for economic growth in the u.s. appear to be "good," and those comments triggered a stock market rally. speaking at a conference in jackson hole, wyoming, the federal reserve chairman gave a more upbeat forecast compared to the fed's statement last week after a central bank policy meeting. but bernanke also warned of "critical challenges". specifically, bernanke said financial firms face "significant losses," businesses and consumers are experiencing difficulty in getting credit, the economic recovery will be "relatively slow

now, as an author, as a magazine editor, somebody who puts out a tv show, this scares me. but he makes a very compelling argument. it's a very t

don was an editor and a producer, but he also had the common touch.>> kroft: you think he was concerned about the ratings? >> walters: i think that don may have been one of the most competitive people i know. >> kroft: and it's true. the first thing he did every monday morning was to call the research department for the overnight ratings. >> hewitt: okay. >> bradley: how'd we do last night? >> hewitt: i'm afraid to find out. hi, hon, it's don hewitt. you got the fast track nationals from last night? we dropped under 11.5. i'm being... yeah, most people would pray for 11.5. oh, ( bleep ) yeah. 10.8. that's pretty bad. what was the share, 20? >> kroft: don said he worried that he had ruined television news because he had made it profitable... >> hewitt: now, how did disney do? >> kroft: ... and that profit, not quality, would become the driving force for network executives. >> hewitt: all right, it looks like we'll have another good season. >> kroft: don had nominal bosses at both the news division and the television network, but the best of them allowe

kristen is the magazine's editor. a lot of people point to 1981 as the beginning of this transformation of michael jackson. what happened in 1981? >> well, 1979, michael jackson suffered a huge fall during a concert and broke his nose. and this was the beginning of the plastic surgery. and what we wanted to look at as a magazine was a lot's been talked about with his appearance. his appearance was as important to his performance as his music. >> sure. >> yet, people always sort of dismissed the oddities in his appearance to body dismorphic disorder and we found there were a series of medical issues that influenced his style, the way he dressed, the way he looked. from 1981 he gets his first nose job but when you go to 1983, he has a revegs of his nose job. which is very common. >> and when you say revision, what did they do? >> they basically narrowed his nose a bit more. and this is something that is 20% of all patients have this. now when we spoke with his doctors, and people in the offices, you know, a lot of specu

editor-in-chief, always a pleasure. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> you bet. >>> coming up, the candidate who revolutionized grass roots support is now having a tough time connecting with the people who put him in the oval office. has he turned that around? we'll find out what he did today to try to win back those supporters and assure them that everything's okay. the founder of the huffington post will be joining us. he ran off with his secretary! she's 23 years old! - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gasping ) - ( chirp ) van gogh? ( chirp ) even steven. - ( chirp ) mansion. - ( chirp ) good to go. ( grunts ) timber! ( chirp ) boss? what do we do with the shih-tzu? - ( crowd gasps ) - ( chirp ) joint custody. - phew! - announcer: get work done now. communicate in less than a second with nextel direct connect. only on the now network. deaf, hard of hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.spri

. >> and, you took on, you took on the role of editor. >> yeah, i was the story editor and sort of plot it out how we would approach the story and what would be considered part of each chapter and sort of what the story arc would be, and then worked with the editor of the glob to assign reporters to each section and we obviously know this stuff very well between us and were able to i think find the right people to cover each period in kennedy's career. >> so, you head editorial meetings? >> yes, some of them have a brainstorming quality where people would talk about their own memories of senator kennedy. and, people would debate back-and-forth whether certain episodes in his life, certain aspects of his personal background, and this is a man who, for whom his family background and legacy was a very defining experience. but how those parts of his background impacted later decisions and things, so there was a lot of discussion along the way. >> now, you have various reporters. everybody has a different voice. how do you deal with all those different voices and writing styles, each one's i

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dan has served as the post national editor, political editor and white house correspondent and he has won several prominent awards for his coverage of politics of the presidency. haynes has served as the national correspondent, and it was during that time that he won the pulitzer prize for his coverage of the civil-rights crisis in selma. he has been a columnist for "the washington post" and he has been assistant managing editor of the's, until he left journalism to join the academic world. he is now, holds in night chair in journalism at the university of maryland and he has had also academic appointments at a number of other universities, including princeton, berkley and duke. i don't know how many of you watch "meet the press" on sunday, when dan balz and haynes johnson rolled up their new book. at ever since then, i don't think there is then to many moments during a 24-hour period where they have not been on t d or radio. granted some of it is recorded, since then. i thought that they must be so exhausted that they