well if we hadn't had edward r. murrow in the second world war here and now if we have a lot of little radio stations, no one with the resources in london could be broadcasting about the nazi's. we would maybe perhaps be in a different place today and i think that is a real problem with this debate over small is beautiful. the reason you have journalistic professionals and the reason you have training and there is a reason that you have a limitation on access for the point of view of an ordinary human being. not everybody is sitting there surfing the net 10 hours a day and we now know we have survey data of college students. they are doing about that -- less on the internet and the bloggers tend to come from a rather well-off part of the social. >> let me say since we can only go a few more minutes icy three questioners, right? you are the last three questions so we will do your three questions and call it a night. >> thank you. perhaps i can ask questions -- because i don't think actually that is antagonistic. >> that is

the cbs commentator, edward r. murrow said he was impressed "by a sense of solemnity. not so much the manner of the president, but the audience here at the capital." now kennedy's demeanor during the campaign had contributed to this atmosphere. and the speech he was about to deliver would reinforce it. unlike some of his successors he had if anything aired on the -- he had erred on overestimating the literacy and intelligence of the american people. during the campaign for example, he had quoted from francis begin at the wall and edmund burke, t.s. elliott at a minnesota feed and king lear in and from other rallies and oscar wilde. perhaps it was naive, perhaps it was a subtle form of flattery like inviting noted academics to contribute to his speeches which he did, but just consider that during the weekend between his assassination and funeral, 50,000 americans chose to express their grief by writing poems -- original poems and mailing them to the white house. and that within days of his inauguration, high school students had sent him greek and latin translations of h

well, if we hadn't had edward r. murrow in the second warld war -- second world war, no one with the resources in this london to be broadcasting about the nazis, you know, we, perhaps, would be in a different place today. and i think that is a real problem with this debate over small is beautiful. there's a reason you have standards, there's a reason you have training, and there's a reason that you have a limitation on access from the point of view of an ordinary might be. you -- not everybody is sitting there surf offing the net ten -- surfing the net ten hours a day. we have survey data that college students are doing a lot less on the internet, and the bloggers tend to come from a rather, you know, well-off part of the social -- >> right. >> let me say since it's 8 and we can only go two more, i see three questioners, right? so you're the last three questioners. we'll do your three questions and then call it a night. >> thank you. perhaps i can ask a question to perhaps link the two sides, but i don't think actually it's