on facebook facebook connect sites throughout the web. ads targeted to user preferences and demographics have always been part of the advertising industry. but critical distinction that we embrace in our advertising policies and practices and that we want this committee to understand is between the use of personal information for advertisements in personally identifiable form and the use, disaccept nation or sharing of information with advertisers in non-personally identifiable form. user's should choose what information they share with advertisers. this is a distinction that few companies make and facebook does it because we believe it protects user privacy. ad targeting that shares or sells personal information to advertisers, name, e-mail or other contact information without user control is materially different from targeting that only gives advertisers the ability to present their ads based on aggregate data. so to take in dr. felten's example, if you were to navigate to the social networking site in his example if it were facebook, w

and chosen to go to facebook.ould it be the reason they're choosing your three services in particular that you're being self-selected by an active consumer marketplace that thinks the privacy works on your sites? now, you just had an experience, i guess, it's an ongoing one where you've had kind of a conversation with your members about privacy. how does it work differently on yours then say -- what search engine do you use when you're searching the internet? >> i mean, it's usually google. >> how is your privacy experience as a consumer of google different than as a member of facebook? is it at all? >> well, i think all three of these sites have succeeded because they're providing great user experiences overall and in some cases they are because of privacy and because we based a business on identity and personal information and the effective sharing of that with people who share a social context with you, we knew going in that privacy was going to be a critical issue for us. and our goal has been to build technol

, and people who are writing us to say what is this a facebook thing?you know, it is a thing. we say go for itxd because if peggy brooks-bertram can do it to anybody will do it. they went to our web page "uncrowned queens".com but we still did not understand or appreciate the brat and the scope of their network. beginning with the black churches and we just left today publishers say it is listed it will take two monthsxd before you can get a read the -- weedy nor presentation set up. don't believe it because when one black woman calls the minister of her church, you have got to read it. and you have a reading saturday morning and if you go to a black church on sunday you have the reading money and tuesday and wednesday and it is fantastic because we're working and selling a bookñr telling by a virtue of people and them understanding what it is and it is important to see the importance of the historical moment. the women are saying we need this book in french. book in french and that this on the web page. my daughter has given a translation of a review i

we also used facebook and e- mail. we tried to be very broad. of course, it is still very few iranians who are able to use the internet, and those who do often just do not want to talk about anything associated with these demonstrations. again, it is very courageous for them to submit the questions, the ones who did. i really appreciate it. host: you mentioned there has been a bit of a buzz surrounding the question because of the way it was racist. there have been critics who claim that it was sort of a setup, but you say it is not the case. that the president did not have had up about what question you would ask. is that correct? guest: yes, of course. they were very professional and had no interest, nor would i have told them, with the question would be. their main interest was -- as i said, i posted a notice on our website, we have been liable, the unrest there for almost 10 or 11 days now. i had said, you know, i would like to ask the president a question on behalf of an iranian. they said that there would be happy to have me do that. otherw

facebook existed but it was hardly the behemoth it became today. it is not a surprise us that there are people other developing new technologies that we can barely imagine. technology with enhances our lives and at the same time industries our lives in ways remain had not anticipated. it frees you to work from anywhere but keep you prisoner in others. parents have for years battled with kids of the time they should spend on computers and video games. today, children are fighting to get their parents off their blackberries. there is a great article a few years ago that describe one family in texas. this one woman's 7-year-old and she was annoyed her mother was always on her black married. -- on her blackberry. the 4-year-old girl seen to recognize her fawn broader comfort like a security blanket. recently, seeing her mom's logged on -- slumped on the couch and brought her phone asking if it would make her feel battle -- feel better. in new jersey, hurt children abandoned her mother from using her phone in the evening. she said the kids think i have

cell phones transmissions and access to facebook and other social web sites were also blocked. maryland, democrats line, go ahead please. caller: i actually do not think that the president of the united states should be involved in another election. basically, there is nothing like a free and fair election. everything is politics. somebody has to win. free and fair does not mean people are not going to write it. -- free and fair does not people -- does not mean people are not going to riot. the president should focus on things that are happening in the united states. people are out there without medicare. people are out there without jobs. the economy has been down now for a while. the focus should be on that. whenever they are doing, -- whatever they are doing, should be done ahead of the elections. host: someone respond on twitter that there are actually government spammers standing in the -- spamming the iran election. caller: i was wondering what evidence they have that the election was rigged? guhost: why do call them government-stage? caller: i have seen them before. the

the vootage appeared -- footage appeared on facebook and twitter, asturday, and -- saturday and was forwarded. they got around youtube trying to block this. it became impossible for youtube to remove this. so, mr. president, we have seen the cases of other brutal oppression through history. the dying example of martyrdom. by saturday she was the fifth most commented person on twitter. it took one bullet to kill her, but it will take only one nadya to stop -- she died with open eyes. shame on us who live with closed eyes. they killed her, but her voice was another. people changed their profile pictures to pictures of her, and others posted images of the color of the opposition movement. there has been a debate over how much the president and the congress and the american people should speak out, in support of these brave iranians. the average age in tehran is 33 years. this is for their quest for freedom and democracy that we have enjoyed for two centuries. today i and all of america paid tribute to a brave young woman, who was trying to exorcise her fundamental human rights and was killed on

the outside world had focused on how iranians use twitter and facebook. this same technology has also indicated them over many years about what is happening elsewhere in the world. iranians very much want to be a part of the 21st century. some kind of challenge was inevitable, given iran's modern history. political trail blazers, their quest for empowerment has played out in four different phases. the very first of its kind in asia, a powerful coalition of intelligentsia and clergy forced the dynasty to accept the constitution. in 1953, the democratically elected national fund pushed constitutional democracy, forcing the final shah to rome. in 1979, another coalition of clergy and intellectuals mobilized a dynastic rule. energy unleashed in peaceful demonstrations and angry protests, from the caspian coast to southern shore rock, is the natural -- natural sequel in this stream of events. each of these left indelible imprints that opened up iranian politics, defining what followed. the student protest failed because it only involved one section of society.

. >> how do you see twitter, facebook affecting a player's relationship?> it kind of levels the playing field for some of these football players. not all of them. i don't want the third-string guard on twitter but these guys have a great opportunity to level the playing field. it makes it convenient to core respond back and forth with other guys. i would rather him tweet than do this stuff. if he's tweeting it's quick and he can go on with his workout. the most important thing is how convenient and easy it is and how fast you can get your information. in you can be on twilighter and then on espn after that if you want. you have to be a player, not just any bum. i would ramp see the fight, but keep it nice. >> would you have done that on twit summer and -- twitter? >> no, i would have been too busy, running the sand dunes and the ocean. i didn't have time for that. but now i might pick it up. >> still ahead, donte' stallworth facing jail time. hear why michael smith says the nfl came down so hard on him. the heat won't start redoing their roster until they

the video footage appeared on facebook and twitter on saturday evening. it immediately became a viral sensation, being forwarded repeatedly. user groups were determined to get around youtube's attempts to block the film. it became impossible for youtube to remove it. mr. president, we have seen, as in cases of other brutal suppression throughout history, a living example or the dying example of martyrdom. by sunday morning, neda became the fifth most common topic on twitter. she had already become a kind of joan of arc. it took only one bullet to kill neda, but it may take only one neda to stop iranian territory. she died with open eyes. shame on those who live with close ties. they killed her, but not her voice. thousands of people replace their profile pictures with tributes to the young woman such as i am neda. others posted images of a broken heart in green, the color of the opposition movement. mr. president, a debate has been going on as to how much the united states of america, the president, the congress, and the american people should speak out i

we need a quality of human interconnection, suggested by youtube and my space and facebook. we need to use school to discover new knowledge, not to exclusively memorize the old dead value to the communities, righted now, not in the future. thank you very much for this time. [applause] [applause]. >> if you have -- we have time to ask questions. are you going to run this. >> sure. we have 15 minutes, so -- go ahead. >> what would you say to someone --... the people you have given the example of where the exceptions to the rule. >> the question is, what would i say to the people who are often -- who say these people are exceptions to the rules? well, what i would say, first of all, is that i taught in a manhattan junior high school for 30 years. and 15 years of that time i assembled a hodgepodge of a class, and i set them to doing extraordinary things. this is one class newspaper, all these things are going on simultaneously, some are being done by flunkouts, some by c-students, look at a few of these. here's a successful lawsuit, on page by a c-student. at the very same time,

now we have got twitter and facebook. >> remember, ted koppel started nightline that way.hat is how it started in the u.s., broadcasting every night about those hostages. host: is this your first time on c-span? guest: years ago, i was not quite communications director, but i might as well have been. we talked about third parties in a round-table discussion. we talked about ross perot and a third parties would make any difference. interesting, not a segue, but we talk about the deficit. ross perot made people aware of the deficit and deficit spending. that was in 1992, when i came to washington and work on the first clinton campaign. host: tony blankley, on this official day of summer, that is definitely a summer suit. you can wear that for the next three months. [laughter] kentucky, good morning. caller: i want to comment on this iran situation. i am so sick and tired of everybody hollering that our president needs to step in, doing something. our president is doing what he is supposed to do, worrying about our own country. what is going on there has nothing to do with us

facebook and you are not going to a bookstore, if you spend all their time reading about britney and not watching c-span and seeing what is going on in the senate floor and elsewhere, then you are piling up heavy opportunity cost for yourself because when you are 30 years old and you work all day and go home, you have a couple of kids, make dinner, do the laundry, get them to bed, you are not going to say now i'm going to get back to federalist paper number 43. no, you are tired. you don't have the time and energy to have that kind of intellectual development. so the more young people spend their hours out of class crafting their myspace page or piling up cellphone minutes, the last time they are studying a foreign language, practicing a musical instrument, learning about the nature of our government -- one quick statistic to end on that with. the national school board association calculated nine hours a week of social networking for teenagers. last. that has gone up since then. the high school survey of student engagement found that we do represent a high school students to one hour

control that information flow to their people given all of these new technologies, the internet, facebooktwitter. it is becoming much harder for governments to control the flow of information and clearly, this is becoming a more important factor in iranian politics. host: let's hear from los angeles. caller: good morning. i am happy to be on with the judgment you have on this morning as opposed to the congress person that you have on prior. it seems to me that's -- even when we approached the topic of dealing with the influx of the israelis and the government over the foreign policy of the united states, we got to qualify the statements as though we are doing something blasphemous if we critique this bizarre relationship that has on do influence over the american politician, media, and a whole 9 yards. the american people are beginning to see this is something dead is totally out of whack, and it is high time that we start standing back and asking ours2uju$ese questions. what is going on here? democrat, republican, media. you name it. they seem to always carry and perpetuate if the israel

you have to be on facebook and myspace all of us in office obviously have used witter i have twittered several times a day at while i have been in this be eight we have to do a better job of not only using technology that they use to communicate in a way they can hear it. on the budget for instance i have to understand what his budget means they supported the they have to understand the policy to their pocketbook and future. said is a huge issue we can take back. enough people believe in education but they anderson and when you mentioned we should be able to fire bad teachers, who in this room to not have at least one bad teacher of longs the way? or your child? we have people over here with big smiles. [laughter] they understand. 51 to pay good teachers more but i want to get rid of bad teachers and get rid of kids and the educational system. if we talk issues, not only to young people but also the same kind of things with minorities we cannot afford to be at a party that does not attract minorities. not only to vote but run for office and to be leaders we have to have a different fut

. >> johnny: get all the latet nats news online on facebook join the washington nationals fans page. folly teddy on twitter at teddy 26 nats. john lannan goes back to work. he will face gomes, hernandez and jay bruce in the reds 4. >> rob: now, you were the original before casey casem on the top 40s. [laughter]. >> johnny: it hits gomes. jonny gomes on with a hit by pitch at fly ball. >> rob: did you know wolfman jack? [laughter]. >> johnny: he had a voice on him. he was tough. but casey and i were together -- not together. we were on opposite stations on cleveland before he really made it big and he is one of the nicest guys. reds have the lead-off batter on. >> rob: when you hear somebody's voice, can you tell right after who it is? >> johnny: just about. -- right off who it is? >> johnny: just about. >> rob: you you want to -- you want to give me one? >> rob: no. i have trouble of trouble with my voice. >> johnny: i'm interesting, the year you had arm surgery, you didn't play at all did you? >> rob: i was rehabbing in '94 in august when we went on strike. so, that was a bad year

and i think that we live in such a globalized world with twitter and facebook and all of these sitesnd participating on some of the debates and discussions and letting the iranians know we respect their position and support their quest for depocacy and more -- democracy and more opens is -- open system. we should possibly not declare a preference for either candidate. host: we have this french foreign minister bernard kuschner we're told he's concerned about the post election violence that happened after the release of the results on saturday. guest: that is right. european governments in tehran with embassies who are expressing concern. there is deep concern that ahmadinejad serves another four year, he could be an insurmountable

and i think that we live in such a globalized world with twitter and facebook and all of these sites and participating on some of the debates and discussions and letting the iranians know we respect their position and support their quest for depocacy and more -- democracy and more opens is -- open system. we should possibly not declare a preference for either candidate. host: we have this french foreign minister bernard kuschner we're told he's concerned about the post election violence that happened after the release of the results on saturday. guest: that is right. european governments in tehran with embassies who are expressing concern. there is deep concern that ahmadinejad serves another four year, he could be an insurmountable obstacle between the confidence building between u.s. and europe. host: our last caller. caller: can you hear caller: we ought to look at this entire situation in the middle east his starkly -- historically. we've had nothing but violence in these parts of the world. to think we can change anything as laughable. we should go back to the history books. whe

our party was behind the learning curve on technology, and you have to be on facebook. you have to be on myspace. you have to, obviously, use twitter. i have used that several times today while i have been in iowa. but we also have to do it in a way where they can hear it. for example, with the budget, they have to understand what president obama's budget means. they have to understand what this means to their pocketbook and to their future. young people really strongly believe in education. they understand, when you mention to them that we should be able to hire teachers, ok, who in this room did not have one bad teacher along the way, or your child had one bad teacher along the way? they understand, ok? i want to pay good teachers more, but i want to be able to get rid of that teachers and really care about this in the educational system. if we talked issues, not only to young people, but, also, i believe the same kind of things with minorities. we cannot afford to be a party that does not attract minorities. also to be leaders, we have to have a different face on our

you and sullivan -- on facebook? >> bob: nice. you and sully type. it will be top of the order now.co scutaro and then aaron hill. look at that. first-pitch strikes to all nine hitters so far. no nationals pitcher has done that this year. >> rob: those are some of the stats maybe we hold off until the ninth inning. >> bob: did we jinx him? >> rob: no, if he throws a ball right here, steve mccatty is going to come up here and smack somebody. >> bob: he'll have to go to the truck. >> rob: it's 10-10. now it's ok. now we can talk about it all you want. >> bob: i know. i hate friday night brawls in the booth. we've had too many of them. >> rob: yeah, you and charlie fighting over hot dogs. it's ugly. >> bob: he's off this inning. what do you expect? i don't know how you do two innings at a time. that must be exhausting. here is scutaro who bounced back to the pitcher first time up. that's a good fastball when you're ahead just moving off the plate. a tradition of innovation, firestone. most starts by national league rookies. shairon martis is right up there with 13 with are karakma of a

with your facebook pages and your myspace pages and all the ability to create your own media, you have a rare opportunity to do that. thank you. >> my a.m.a. is crystal bruner. i'm from patrick henry college. with your experience in culture and the family, what do you see as the most damaging element of our culture for the family? >> i would say if you're talking about media or just in general, i would say -- yes. [inaudible] >> we're done then. the evaluation of human life. there you go. [applause] >> you're watching c-span, a public service provided by the cable industry. patrick byrne of overstock.com talks about internet taxation. the weekly online addresses from president obama and congressman mike pence of indiana. a little later, a look at the future of journalism with katherine weymouth and david simon, writer and producer of hbo's "the wire." >> tomorrow on "washington journal," michael epplinger and john lott of the university of maryland discuss the obama administration's spending policy on health care, carmakers and the financial system. nathan guttman looks at u.s.-israel

that kind of internet generation of aye tunes and ebay and facebook that is not going to take well to the experience of going through a dmv-type experience to get a doctor. it's not going to take well to the economic control at the top. and if we can make that when they say socialism makes more sense than capitalism if we can explain what they are arguing about in these terms and -- i mean, we are really -- there's always been a problem to splean death in the abstract. where the meaning of debt is very really and the effect of the next generation is getting easier and easier to explain and still makes for the economic but if they can find the way to speak to the meaninging and effect of all the this i think this will speak to some younger voters. >> rich, every entrepreneur knows the differs between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs is entrepreneurs see the tragedies that everybody else sees and sees an opportunity saying i could see meaningful change there and improve money and society but your formtive years and mine gymy carter was wrecking america. in that lay the seeds of real

by the way, facebook and ritter had an impact in this iranian situation. -- end to torturand twittern this iranian situation. it is interesting to read the twitters from the streets of tehran, particularly at its height a couple of days ago. host: you saw what happened in the 1970's. what you think ultimately will go on? guest: i think ultimately, democracy will prevail. i think the people of iran have indicated their dissatisfaction with the status quo and the radical clerics' tight control of the country. this is a very old country and an old culture and a very sophisticated one. people are not going to stand for that forever. i think you can draw a parallel between when the prague spring was repressed and the polish workers were repressedç. and by the way, reagan stood up for them right away as a liberal democrats as well as conservative spiris. the way that iran is being a government is discredited, totally discredited in the eyes of the world. over time, you will see is to begin change in iran. now, how long it would take and under what circumstances are impossible to predict.

do either of you have a facebook page? does your staff twitter for you? >> absolutely not. >> actually, i do. >> he is more technologically advanced. >> if i could take a crack at this, which is the speed issue. i think the speed of communications and information, and lots of demands, but let me talk about security, creates a flexibility and adaptability. it meets the needs for flexiby

the video appeared on the network sites facebook and twitter saturday evening and it became a sensation being forwarded repeatedly. user groups were determined to get around youtube's ability to get around the graphic film. it became forwarded so often, that it became imresponsible for youtube to remove it. so -- so, mr. president, we've seen, as we have in cases of brutal repression throughout history, the living example or the dying example of martyrdom. and by sunday morning nada became the fifth more commented topic on twitter. she had already become a kind of joan of arc. -- quote -- "it took only one bullet to kill nada, it will take only one nada to stop iranian tyranny was one posting. quote: nada died with opened eyes. shame on us who lived with closed eyes. they killed nada, but not her voice was another. during the day, people replaced their profile pictures with tributes to the young woman such as, "i am nada," or "nada forever." another posted images of a broken heart in green, the color of the opposition movement. so, mr. president, a debate has been going on as to how muc

they're doing it through twitter, they're doing it through facebook, they're doing it through all these electronic means people have now. they're not satisfied with the government they have. there's this great dissatisfaction. they want changes. will they win this particular battle? my guess is, no. but i think the battle has begun and i think they're bringing pressure on the government here and i don't think this can help but improve the situation there in some way. i think -- as we saw in china, the demonstrators in tiananmen square did not win the day but there is no question that the impact of that we see it even today in china. china is nowhere near what we would call a democracy, but it is much more open, a much more open society. people have more rights now than they have ever had in that particular government, we want them to have a lot more but there's no question that what happened in tiananmen set the stage for that. set the stage for that. host: the second oldest program on broadcast television. you have been doing it for how many years? guest: since 1991. i came after lesle

we see the story of i ran coming out through twitter which is just amazing and facebook which is amazing so while there are tendencies toward this conformity in the media, there are also amazing alternative outlets we can all seek but again, yes, i think there is -- when the nation perceives itself to be at war and national security to be threatened, there is an enormous amount of let's say walking on egg shells about what kind of speech is acceptable. there was one of the cases that inspired this film was a teacher who was trying to put on a play about i rack war in connecticut and she wanted the kids in the drama class to be able to read letters that soldiers had written home, actual letters. the principal banned this play and many people were very upset saying there's a recruiter in the cafeteria, why can't we be showing what the sold deers' experiences are. there is this push tort conformity and what we find, however, given this is that when the government is covering something up, it ultimately gets out there. you see the case of the pentagon papers way before the internet. this was

figure out, for example, how they can use the ordinary consumer products every day with twister and facebook to do the right thing for the community. -- with twitter. this is happening again. this is a really big thing, and me, i am standing up to try to do that. i am considering whether i should dedicate a big chunk of my life to helping the people who are doing the real change right now. i am serious about this, and i am trying to work with people throughout government here but also in states and different places, focusing on the big ideals and the small stuff. in san francisco, for example, we have a 311 system. it is about, well, you see and pothole, you can get it fixed. what they are announcing in san francisco, it is monday, but it has to do with the integration of 311 happening right now with twitter. the deal is, you see a pothole, utah border -- you twitter it to the system. in britain, there is a iphone app. you take a photograph, you geo targetarget, and it goes. the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. i figured the energies i have should be channeled towar

[applause] and i want to add that, if you go to our blog on on the facebook, you will hear and you willee peggy's aunt lilly because there are photographs added to her reading. i am also reading the letter that i wrote in photographs of my dad and pictures that he took during his lifetime, so go to our blog. there's a lot of good stuff. >> it is wonderful. is all wonderful. i have laryngitis, so i'm going to try to get through this. i just want to talk about a little bit what you mean to the book. my friend here, tell me about the book after she had sent her selection then and that she had been selected. and then the day that the book came, we were together in the car. and i read her poems, and then i read a part of another one, and i come from theater and film. i am an actress and a director. i said, this is a staged reading. which is have to put this on stage. it can't just be between these two pages. it just has to go onstage. and got in touch with the two queen mother's here, and after a lot of going back and forth, we agreed that it probably could very well be a staged reading. and

, a lot of control about their own lives, a kind of internet generation of itunes and ebay's and facebook that is not going to take well to the experience of going to a dmv-type situation to go to the doctor. it will not be well with economic control at the top, and if we can make that case in a way that will explain what they are saying when they say socialism makes more sense than socialism, if we can explain what we're talking about and making debt -- talking about that in a way that speaks to their lives, it has always been a problem to explain the abstract meaning of debt. we're getting to read pointer the meeting of debt is not abstract. it is growing easier and easier to explain. it still makes for a kind of dull economic argument, it conservatives he can find a way to speak -- is conservatives can find a way to speak. -- if conservatives can find a way to speak. >> entrepreneurs see the tragedy is a everyone else sees and sees an opportunity. they say, i can make real meaningful change there. i can improve society, whatever it may be. your formative years and my, what we were in h

gotten a taste of freedom and they are communicating with one another, through twitter, through facebook, through all these electronic means people have now. but they are not satisfied with the government that they have. there is this great dissatisfaction. they want changes. whether they will win this particular battle, my guess is no. but i think the battle has begun. they are bringing pressure on the government. i don't think this can help but to improve the situation there in some way. as we saw in china, the demonstrators in tenements where did not win the day, but there is no question -- and in tienamen square --but we see the impact today. china is not a democracy, but it is a much more open society. people have more rights now than they ever have had. we want them to have a lot more, but there is no question that what happened in tienamen set the stage for that. host: the second oldest program on broadcast television. you have been doing it for how many years? guest: since 1991. i came after lesley who came after george. there have only been four or five moderators since 1954. fr

three years ago, social networking sites such as facebook, myspace and twitter were in their infancy while traditional media such as newspapers and broadcasters enjoyed healthy bottom lines. when i first started at the fcc, the market for online videos was just starting to germinate. today, americans watch nearly $17 billion online videos each month. and that figure is growing at 16% per month. furthermore, nearly 15 million americans are watching video on their mobile devices and that figure is growing by more than 50% per year. at the same time, traditional media have witnessed a dramatic decline in the face of the competitive pressures coming from new media. so much has changed so fast. increasingly, america's economy rides on the rails of the communication sector. as the government contemplates policies to help promote sustainable economic growth, the role of the fcc is more important now than ever. in the coming months, the commission's primary focus should be to foster economic expansion by helping shape an environment that is attractive to capital investment so that the creati

and on facebook, set a record for poor customer service in condemning congressional staffs politically, naively enough, majority and minority staffs and saying what a poor piece of work they did. many members came together under the leadership of congresswoman wasserman schultz concerned about this power grab. while the c.v.c. attempted changes, they maintained they still wanted to control access to the capitol, turning away one of our members, who had four mayors visiting here, but they only had three tickets. what this legislation now does, as written by the chair woman, is that we have fired the red coats' ability to control access to the capitol by members of congress and their staff. if constituents come in from whatever district, that members should now know that your staff can get your constituents into the capitol to see it. we have also removed to the restraint so that you can see all provisions of the capitol, especially, for example, my constituents who have seen this institution on c-span and want to look at it and now we can get it in there. i want to particularly thank th

you know that with your facebook pages and your myspace pages and all the ability to create your own media, you have a rare opportunity to do that. thank you. >> my name is crystal bruner. i'm from patrick henry college. i had a quick question for you. with your experience in culture and with the family, what do you see as the most damaging element of our culture for the family? >> well, i would say if you're talking about media or just in general, i would say -- [inaudible] >> we're done then. the value of human life. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversation >> the u.s. senate is gaveling in to start the day with more work on a bill regulating tobacco products. lawmakers will take a break for party caucus luncheons between 12:30 and 2:15 pm eastern. a programming note we plan to bring you live coverage of president obama's remarks on the economy at 1:00 eastern. when the senate returns this afternoon, a voten

and by the way it's twitter that facebook and youtube that have had an incredible impact in this iranian situation. there's a tehran twitter that -- >> host: iran elections. >> guest: yeah. and one is tehran also that it's really interesting to hear, read the twitters from the streets of tehran particularly when things were really at its height a couple of days ago. >> host: you saw what happened in the late 1970s. what ultimately, do you think, is going to happen in iran? >> guest: i think ultimately that democracy will prevail. i think that the people of iran have clearly indicated their dissatisfaction with the status quo and the radical clerics' tight control of that country. this is a very old country and a very old culture and a very sophisticated one. people are not going to stand for that forever. i think you can draw a parallel between when the prague spring were repressed and the polish worker, and by the way, ronald reagan stood up for them right away as well as conservative republicans. but forever this governing body and this way that iraq -- iran is being governed is discre

stop people coordinating protests, the protesters switched instead to social media like twitter and facebook. for those of you who thought twitter was just about stephen frye telling us his latest move, we've now seen it. people on the street started uploading video clips onto youtube that men make their way into the -- then make their way into the news reports around the world. that's why the u.s. administration, rightly, asked twitter to postpone its web site maintenance so iranians could go on using the site. this, if you like, the sort of foreign policy in the information age giving other people power so they can use that power to demand change. and we've seen the dramatic power, let's be frank about it, of information to shape events right here at home. last month the daily telegraph published receipts and expense claims that had previously been kept secret, information that the authorities -- to their shame -- have even now only released in a half hearted way thick with black ink. but what the telegraph did, the simple act of providing information to the public, has triggered the bigge