the last thing i think we would want at this stage would be to have the three networks, edward r. murrow, walter cronkite, as notable as they work, to sort of say that this is the consensus opinion. there is a time for dissonance. >> i am a physician. i am a baby boomer. i am 64. you have not really talked about the enormous ship to the right i have seen over my lifetime. in the 1950's and the 1960's, we were proceeding on the new deal terms. there was not the enormous difference between the rich and poor that there is now. i have always wondered why it is that most people, the working class, white or black, the middle-class are voting for candidates whose interests are promoting policies that do not support them. these people do not pay high income-tax is. they are really not affected by the deficit. the economy ran much better when demand was fired, when the inequality was lower, but this has no attraction with people in the country today. i do not understand why. >> jim, what is the matter with kansas? [laughter] >> for a lot of these people, the metaphorical kansans, they have seen r

and when edward r. murrow went after mccarthy, there was a great deal of tension there, and cronkite had three babies to feed, and the father of three kids so he positioned himself into the pro-space advocacy, and he would come down the cape canaveral back then and there was only one motel owned by a holocaust survivor from auschwitz in what became one of cronkite's best friends and he would sit there and do what we are doing is wait, wait, wait, and wait for the blastoff. and what distinguished walt eer cronkite in space he would wait when i read it on transcripts but he would say, oh, boy. i can't believe it is happening. he had boyish enthusiasm about nasa, and people felt it watching at home. in fact, in 1980s, anderson, he has lobbied and i have seen the documents to lobby nasa to go on the space shuttle, and he was determined to be the first journalist in space. then you have in the blow-up of the "challenger" and nasa had to reconfigure how to put civilians in space, and when john glenn put back into sp

the last thing i think we would want at this stage would be to have the three networks, edward r. murrowter cronkite, juneau, notable as they were say this is the consensus opinion. there's a time for distances. >> okay. in the back. >> thank you to read my name is dr. caroline. i'm a physician and a baby boomer, 64. and you haven't really talked about the enormous rightward shift i've seen over my lifetime to read in the 50's and 60's we were all proceeding on the new deal terms. there wasn't nearly the enormous difference between rich and poor that there is now. i've always wondered why it is most people, the working class, white or black, middle class are voting for candidates whose interests were promoting policies that don't serve their interests. they don't pay high income tax. they are not affected by the deficit. the economy ran a much better when the demand was higher, when the inequality was lower but this has no attraction with the majority of people today and i don't understand why not. >> the question is what's the matter with kansas? [laughter] >> for a lot of these folks t

last thing i think we would want at this stage would be to have the three networks, you know, edward r. murrow, walter cronkite, and others, as notable as they were, saying, well this is the consensus opinion. there's a time for dissonance. >> thank you. my name is dr. caroline poplin, i'm a physician and baby boomer. i'm 64. you haven't really talked about the enormous right ward shift that i've seen over my lifetime. in the 1950's and 1960's, we were all sort of proceeding on new deal terms. there was not nearly the enormous difference between rich and poor there is now. i've always wondered why it is that most people, the working class, white or black, the middle class, are voting for candidates whose interests -- who are voting for policy whs don't serve their interests. these people don't pay high income taxes, they're not affected by the deficit, the economy ran much better when demand was higher, when the inequality was lower, but this has no traction with the majority of people in the country and i don't understand that. >> so bill -- so jim, the question is, what's the matter with kan