privileged in the society we always colorful analysis from jeff cohen professor of journalism at ithaca college and author of cable news conference. now forty years ago today more than thirty thousand protesters descended on washington determined to shut down the u.s. government and and the war in vietnam and the police well they reacted by the end of the time for them and by the time the demonstrations came to an end really ten thousand protesters ended up behind bars are peaceful and ford has more on the meeting protests. washington d.c. . may third one thousand nine hundred seventy one more than two hundred thousand protesters in veterans converge in the capital to demand an end to the war in vietnam the idea was to shut the city down because the war wouldn't stop and the only way to stop the war was to was to stop the government and that was the slogan of the demonstration and that was by putting their bodies on the road and blocking traffic at the back or was there because camera rolling i mean what this circle looked like i may third one hundred seventy one were back in seventy one you kn

yes, it is in fact our own david muir who anchored his first newscast as a student at ithaca college.ere today delivering the commencement address. david will be back here tomorrow on the set and promises to tell us what pearls of wisdom he shared with all of those graduates. surely he reminded them to wear sunscreen. >>> still ahead, sleeping on the job. bill weir road testing some of those strange products advertised mid air. who buys a spider vacuum? asthm. ...but my symptoms kept coming back... ...kept coming back. then i found out advair helps prevent symptoms from happening in the first place. advair is for asthma that's not well controlled on a long-term asthma medicine, such as an inhaled corticosteroid. advair will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. advair contains salmeterol which increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. advair is not for people whose asthma is well controlled with a long-term asthma control medicine like an inhaled corticosteroid. once your asthma is well contro

ithaca college. that college tv studio. yes, i was the freshman anchor with braces.nd there have been so many lessons learned since. among them, the power of one person's voice. i shared the story of the young woman standing in tahrir square in egypt, as president mubarak's men charged in the square on horse back. >> she had used twitter and facebook to help add to that revolution taking place in that square. i thought -- the power of one young woman's voice. hoping these graduates will use their voice. and before we left -- the producer asked me, bring back some of your speech. and i thought, why would i bring back more of my voice? why don't i bring back yours? it was really something. they earned their moment. and thank you, ithaca. alexis there, i'm sure your father was smiling at least on the inside. diane's here tomorrow night. good night. >> the los angeles police department has arrested a suspect in the senseless and brutal attack that occurred here at dodger stadium on opening day. >> alan: an early morning raid in los angeles and the arrest of a suspect in

states earlier we discussed the issue of free press with jeff cohen he's a journalism professor at ithaca college and also the author of this book here cable news confidential i think we have a graphic up cable news confidential my misadventures in corporate media and he shared his take on the current state of freedom of the press. there have been some inroads against christianity time in our country in recent years there have been journalists who are caught in dragnets when there's been protests at a political convention. you've had churnalism two thousand and eight from an eyewitness video that are detained her house surrounded by heavily armed police officers to sort of harass them because their video work at two thousand force republican convention in new york city so the dropping of charges against months of protest and so i think it's a great thing that we have a relatively good amount of press freedom and destructuring. for investigative independent reporting who are thrown in jail you are kill usually you are jail sometimes you are if you're out on the streets and protest but what shocked

[applause] we also both went to college in ithaca, new york.ornell school of arts and sciences and keith went to the old mcdonald's school of agriculture. i wouldn't mention this except that keith is compulsively telling people, saying he went to the ivey league cornell, desperately trying to have people find him as a major egg head. of course, never ever reading anything that isn't on a left-wing blog is not a good way to have people think of you as a heavy duty intellectual. thirdly, i'm an early keith watcher. i know a lot of you johnny come ratelies are sad that he's gone now. -- come latelies are sad that he's gone now. i was an early keith watcher. i saw the promise in that man. i'm hoping that someday i'm sure some of the early keith watcher, like media research center, should form a group. the daughters of the american revolution. watchers of the early keith watchers. if there's one thing to describe keith i couldn't do it. if i had three adjectives i would say he's prissy, pompous and hysterical. which is a dynamite combo platter. >> s