jim laurie is an executive consultant to the chinese news service based here in washington. thanks for coming in. >guest: thanks for having me. host: tell us about the mission ofcctv and what it has done and the united states. guest: china central television is the largest television presence in the world's largest television nation. it is a state-of, state operated television station, more than 13,000 employees, all round the world, mainly feeding the chinese population with news, current affairs, entertainment, sports and every imaginable kind of broadcasting from beijing and for the entire nation. in recent years, maybe 12 years ago, china central television began to develop international channels that reached out to the world. it was limited at first. they founded and english- language channel called channel 9 and in the last few years, there has been an attempt to replicate with other international broadcasters are doing and that is create a newschannel to put out in the world. the chinese are johnny-come- latelies on this. they only started to think about it news chann

host: a response from jim laurie. guest: 24 your comment. i would like to venture into the -- thank you for your comment. i'd like to venture into the financial aspects and have the impact american commercial television. it is fairly clear that the advertising arena creates a certain desire for a certain type of content. i will not get into that, but i want to address the issue of why the chinese ventured into this area of 24/7 news. it is that they wanted to be part of the conversation with al jazeera english, with russia today, with france 24, with the bbc and cnn international. there has been a perception that media, internationally, for many years has been dominated by cnn and bbc. i think there has been, particularly in the last 10 years, a situation where a lot of countries, including china, are saying, we need to have parts of this pie, if you will. we need to be able to present alternatives to what the bbc and what cn and and the big players are doing. host: 1 at person rights and, cctv does this. let's look at a show called 24 china

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destroy their comfortable middle-class life here in oswego, new york, where jim is the internet manager at a chevy dealership and laurie design company from home. >> it's going to take a ton of sacrifice on our part. >> reporter: from 2000 to 2011 average parent loan debt at graduation increased from almost $15,000 to nearly $34,000. during that same period, the percentage of parents taking out loans for their children rose from 10% to 17%. mark kantrowitz has studied college costs for almost 20 years. he says families must face tough new realities and make choices accordingly. >> total debt at graduation should be less than your annual starting salary and the same rule goes for the parents. they should borrow no more than than they can afford to repay in ten years or by retirement, which ever comes first. >> reporter: as for the congdons, they're facing an interest rate of 7.9% on their federal loan. >> i just think washington really needs to take a look at the forgotten class, the middle-class. there's great programs out there for poor folks and we won't even talk about the tax breaks for the high-income people becau