what was it that left the new journalism or enable the new journalism is to become bleak the premier genre in this country. i would argue that it virtually superseded even fiction in the national consciousness and in the literary community for about a decade or decade and a half. rollingstone was another venue, for tremendous general is him. journalism. >> so what was it that made that kind of feature writing as dominant as compelling and powerful and what has changed? >> there is also a cultural dimension to all of this. we live in an image-based society, and the decline that you mentioned is part of our transformation from a literate culture to an illiterate culture. 42 million americans are functionally illiterate. another roughly 50 million are semiliterate, meaning they read at a fourth of fifth grade level. that is almost a third of the country. and those people are technically literate, even people have college degrees off into an illiterate culture. they stop reading. and use it in terms of the decline of print-based material across the cultural spectrum. you see in the publi

we're seeing in journalism, write out of journalism school i worked with a photographer named joe rosenthal who you may know it took the famous photograph of her -- of the flag over iwo jima. he had class is like this and he used to come running and screaming stop the presses. this just in. i pulled this off of the web today. th is rom a gup of reporters from the san diego union tribune who have launched something callea watchdog instite. there is a group of reporters who were fming an investigive journalism organizations and non-profit and the heartening thing is the saniego union. they will be providing stories for various outlets within the community, we focused on that particular area and the survey in no other place and the virgin islands, we see a very, very aggressive groep of rerting-- reporters looking at the virgin islds daily news. and here it is a gorgeous paradise place and they are digging up ambitious projects with titles like contract showing hothe government had created a sham company to award contracts. this is a reallimportant subjects and t public needs to know this info

i am talking journalism prizes. but they look at the 14 stories and they, that they are picking and the juries have picked, and they will throw out what is that they kind of over ruled that the figure do not belong in the best stories of the year. i wouldn'tall that a political decision. i would call that decision of when we have this body of work for the year in front of us we want to make sure that the 14 stories that are the t exprsion of american journalism are the ones that are selected so i think that element of politics is gone but now you have a sittion where they don't worry any more about the publication getting 45 prizes. washington we know in 2003, the year that the 9/11 prizes were awarded thenew york times" won seven prizes and there wer only 14 including the public service prize. last year, in 2008, "the washington post" won the i think five and so you will probably see that more and more if the newspaper really has a ntastic year, more prices will probably be @warded in one publication. >> it is impo

ane journalism ethics that are the essentials basis of the kind ofournalism that kind of journalism is based un and then holds aountable so it ist just a matter of a newspaper losing a few reporter what we are facing is something we need to address which is why i wrote the book is mething that can affect the whole profession of journalism as we have come to understand. the web is a wonderful thing, the digital fure, something that is unavoidable a welcome and i welcome it but it is something that we need to be solutely certain isn't going to come at the cost of values most americans i think really believe in and certainly most journalists like i believe in. >> you talk about citen journalists. are you a supporter of citizen journalists? >> iowa supporter of citizen journalism but i don't think thatitizen journalism is the antidote to what i see as the erosion of serious professional journalism. i thinkitizen journalism when i started as a reporter and this is probably true for most i used to go to school board meetings and there were always people there that were very interesting. t

, the ""wall street journal" report." now maria bartiromo. >>> now here's bill griffith with a look at the stories making headlines this week. bill. >> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. it is the mother of all economic data these days, and the closely watched jobs report was released on friday. it showed the economy lost 216,000 jobs in august with the unemployment rate climbing to 9.7%. that's the highest level we've seen since 1983. since the beginning of the recession, the economy has now lost 6.9 million jobs. after its best august since 2000, the dow did not get off to an auspicious start in september. the market fell 180 points on tuesday on concerns about financial stocks, but it did break a four-day losing streak on thursday. on friday the dow rose after the jobs report. meanwhile, new vehicle sales had their best month in nearly two years, but in spite of the cash for clunkers program, it was a mixed picture. for example, gm sales were down 17% in august from the same

welcome to "wall street journal" report. it was one year ago today that the wall street was teetering on the brink of collapse, and merrill lynch about to be sold. we will talk to one of the few people who was able to foresee what was going to happen, and what he sees coming up. and also, lessons learned a and where we go from here. a nobel prize winning economist, and a woman who makes decisions for investing for millions and a pulitzer prize winning author. "the "wall street journal" report" beginning right now. the "wall street journal" report begins right now. >>> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. more signs the economy is continuing to stabilize. the federal reserve beige book, a look at the economy throughout the nation, found that a vast majority of the nation is reporting economic activity stabilizing or improving, and it appears the worst recession since the 1930s is over. the report also says that soft consumer spend and a weak jobs market continues to suggest the econom

that's it for this week's edition of the journal editorial report, thanks for watching. we hope to see you right here next week. >> on fox news watch, our military chief in afghanistan needs more troops to finish the job. but the commander-in-chief may be balking. >> we're not going to make a decision about any further troop deployment. >> should the press press the issue? >> he's here, he's there, he's been everywhere this week, and the media have not miss add step. but is it time for the obama-thon to end? some outrage when an elementary school make young students sing praises for the president. >> i'm so upset that my child is being use this had way. >> did the mainstream media ignore the controversy? and just when you thought you've heard it all. >> i woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. >> on the panel this week, patricia murphy, a columnist for politics daily. jim pinkerton fellow at the new american foundation and keir sten powers, analyst and new york post columnist, i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now >> i sa

>> this week on "bill moyers journal." >> moyers: this week on the journal, turning point in afghanistan. >> either the united states commits to this and really commits to it, or it walks away. to me, the good news is at least we are now coming to a head, we're at least coming to that decision point. and that's a critical decision that needs to be made. >> moyers: and, the surprising new president of dartmouth is a physician with a prescription for health care. >> in my view, the rocket science in health and healthcare is how we deliver it. and unfortunately, there is not a single medical school that i know of that actually teaches the delivery of healthcare as one of the essential sciences. >> moyers: stay tuned. captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> moyers: welcome to the journal. that was one fighting speech barack obama delivered wednesday night. plain spoken and clear, he spelled out details of his own plan for health care reform, rallied his side of the aisle, met his adversaries head-on, and shamed the partisan wrecking crew that spewed lies into the summer's heat.

joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor. columbiaist anastasia and bret stevens and features editor rob pollock. you predicted that the president would not have the staying power to stick it out in iraq, congratulations: why is he second guessing himself now? >> the news isn't exactly good. his commanders stan mcchrystal says things aren't going well and needs more troops. obama says i don't know if i have the support out there. he's not polling well and the latest poll, 46% approval for the war in afghanistan. it's not surprising that obama is start to go rethink, but it's certainly makes me think twice about whether he's sincere when he turned afghanistan, the good war, the war of necessity as opposed to the war in iraq. >> wait, wait, wait, because a strategy he implemented six months ago, the polls have turned against you, and you haven't given a speech in the interim, by the way on this war explaining what we're doing there and because the general that you appointed and you told to it will you what you need has come bac

we know this is a difficult time for journalism.softer stories that walter disdained, rather than hard news and investigated journalism he championed. what happened today is replaced with who won today. the public debate cheapens. the public trust balder's. -- the public falters. we fail to understand one another as we should. we seem stuck with a choice between what cuts to our bottom line and what harms us as a society. which price is higher to pay, which cost is harder to bear. this democracy, walter said, cannot function without our reasonably well informed electorate. that is why the honest, objective, meticulous reporting that so many of you pursue with the same zeal that walter did is so vital to our democracy and our society. our future depends on it. walter was no night idealist. he understood the dentation facing journalists. he was excited about all the high-tech stories that would emerge. we find ourselves wondering how he would have covered the monumental stories of our time. in an era where the news that city hall is o

the "wall street journal" report. now maria bartiromo. >>> here's what's making news as we head into the new week on wall street. as expected, the federal reserve kept a key interest rate at near 0%. the fed's open market committee also released a statement saying that an economic recovery was underway, but also signalled that it was way too early to start raising interest rates. in addition, the fomc said it would continue a program designed to keep mortgage rates low. at least until march. sdmrimplts seven existing homes fell unexpectedly meanwhile in the month of august. a mild setback in the recovery from a three-year slump. analysts were expecting a slight increase rather than the 2.7% decline. it was a choppy week for the dow jones industrial average, falling 45 points on monday, but on tuesday it touched 9,900 and closed at the highest for the year. the markets tumbled on wednesday and thursday and continued down on friday. two major banks say they'll overhaul overdraft fees. bank of americas it will stop charg

[applause] >> it is just one time a year that i have my journalism fellows here. i am going ask them to stand tonight. but me tell you a little bit about them first. we have mental health fellowships for journalism so they can learn how to cover mental illnesses accurately. and also said they would become interested in the subject and give it a lot of publicity. and we have eight every year, we have two from south africa, two from -- six from the united states, and two from romania, my mind is blank, excuse me. we started with new zealand and we tell them that we will work with them and fund them for five years to start their own program in their country, to have the rahm program. and it has worked out well. new zealand really has a great program there. and south africa is probably the fourth or fifth year. their time will be up pretty soon. we do not know where we're going next. and i think that we have advisers -- every journalist as an adviser who is a mental health expert and all of them are people that have worked with over the years -- that i have worked wit

sad to report today the death of a good friend to all of us, journalism. the once esteemed state of our nation and protector of our freedoms and a watch dog of our rights has passed away after a long struggle with a crippling and debilitating disease of acu acute dishonesty aggravated by a loss of brain function. journalism once proudly patrolled our society and sought to tell us a story that informed and sometimes inspired us. journalism, presented the news that would irritate us and irritation not over the delivery, but the content, as corruption and the deeds were revealed. and in recent years, journalism has grown increasingly dependent on spin doctor spoon feeding and circular and insular quoting of other journalists instead of tamenting to locate and quoting the first person sources. i told you a couple of weeks ago how the new york times, news week, and media outlet took words i said on my radio commentary, instead of quoting them they summarized them and distributed them. bloggers and other supposedly professional journalists took those already dis

here are some of the journals of dylan klebold, copies of dylan klebold and eric harris's journals, you can also find them li at dave cullen got, and here is the denver post from two days later. columbine. dave cullen, thank you very much. >> thank you, i really appreciated. >> dave cullen is a journalist and intrigue to the -- contributor to the new york tis and salon.com. is a graduate of university of colorado at boulder has written extensively about the shootings at columbine. dave culn is the recipient of several society of professional journalism awards as well as glad media award. for more information, visit dave cullen.com. >> what is the best way to secure america? toridge taken inside the terrorist threat, his tenure as first head of homeland security and what led to his resignation, a three date book tv weekend tonight on c-span2. >> steve marriott be talked about teaching under current orship to inner-city youth. this was held in las vegas. >> of want to tell you what i did with my career the last 30 years. in 1981, i was a small businesspers and i got mugged in new york cit

we were talking about the nbc wall street journal poll.essage is we republicans don't have anything to offer. many of us have offered bold alternatives to the health care legislation and all the big issues of the day, whether it was energy or budget or the stimulus plan. we have been putting out alternativ alternatives, and they think we are criticizing for the sake of criticizing. we have offered alternative bills. >> when you have the president being attacked the way he is at the town hall meetings, you have see this wall street journal poll that came out last night. most americans if health care goes down they will blame republicans in congress. if you have an alternative, how would you get the message out. >> maybe tom coburn will put our bill on the floor in the senate, but democrats run the place. they have huge majorities in the house and senate. if this goes down, it's because the majority did not pass their bill, and they have chosen not to colab rate. the majority has to be willing to collaborate with the minority. >> well, let m

"the wall street journal." and we will talk to jonathan karp, the editor of the late senator edward kennedy's memoir. "washington journal" is next. . host: let's take a look at some of the president's comments from yesterday's speech. >> while full recovery of the financial system will take a great deal more time and work, the growing stability resulting from these interventions means we are beginning to return to normalcy. but here is what i want to emphasize today. normalcy cannot lead to complacency. unfortunately, there are some in the financial industry who are misreading this moment. instead of learning the lessons of lehman and the crisis from which we are still recovering, they are choosing to ignore those lessons. i am convinced they do so not just at their own peril, but at our nation's. so i want everyone here to hear my words. we will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked access that was at the heart of this crisis, where too many were motivated only by the appetite for quick ki

no, i really didn't keep a journal. i think one should it they are serious about writing. >> is there any truth tohe rumor that you are writing a send book called the sole girl? >> soul girl? [laughter] by qole girl he means the soule korea. she is very capable of wring her own book. believe me, and the but that will be up to her to do. june, yes. >> did this complete like you mentioned you had in life or do you feel like this is the beginning of a new stage of your life owriting and that you have other stoesnd books in you that are not your own personal memoirs? that is kind of a lot, but any part of that. >> this wasn so much a mission, but somehow i was compelled to get it t of me and to write it. i would like to ride again. i did eoy it, i do enjoy. i guess i will find out if i had enough skills for others to enjoy it enough to warrant me finding another publisher to write something. i really don't have something in mind right now but i would rather write about someone else, for sure. this nt time. no's sequel, note

journalism. once esteemed for the state of our nation and the protector of our freedoms and the watchdog of our rights, has passed away after a long struggle with a crippling and debilitating disease of acute dishonesty aggravated by advanced laziness and the loss of brain function. journalism must credit patrolled our society and sought to tell us the stories that inform and sometimes inspired us. journalism also presented the news that would irritate us, and irritation wasn't over the delivery but the content as corruption and misdeeds were revealed. in recent years, journalism has grown increasingly dependent on spin dr. spoon-feeding and the circular and insular courting of other journalists instead of attempting to locate and the first-person sources. i told you a couple weeks ago how the new york times, newsweek, time magazine and other media outlets, took words i said i might radio commentary, and instead of courting them they summarized them and then distribute them. bloggers and other su

glenn: an attempt at got-ya journalism. i will tell you what got ya journalism is.erview i have ever done with the media is a got ya. look what he just said -- i should retract that. any interview i have ever done except john stossel, who this network just hired. back with kevin jackson now. kevin, how do you get people who are in our inner cities who are struggling, struggling with problems of prostitution, drugs, et cetera, how do we get them to see these people are not your friends? >> well, exposes like what just happened are what are necessary. we have to shine the light on these guys and show them that the powers that be that are running these organizations are the ones benefitting and the people who are going to get hurt are the people like the ones who did the interview and also the people that they claim they were trying to help glenn: so help me out on this one, though. gee, acorn says they have to -- well, we want to see the whole thing before we respond. the whole thing is on big government.com, been there since 9:00 this morning, been out there. you can

. >> in my journal, i am writing a journal to her. >> this is a tight-knit community. many found out what happened during a high-scho football game friday night. for a lot of people, this will be a difficult evening to get through. richard reeve, abc 7 news. >>> president obama is trying to keep the heat on iraq after revealing they are building a secret nuclear plant. the intelligence reports say the facility built in the mountains is capable of producing fuel for nuclear weapons. mr. obama used his weekly address to call on iran to cooperate with the international community. barely >> tears must choose. they could live up to their spot -- they must now choose. they can live up to their responsibilities or they can face increased pressure and isolation. >> iran says it will allow the u.n. nuclear agency to inspect the plant. mahmoud ahmadinejad says his country has done nothing wrong and the facility will be used to generate electricity. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton sat down with middle eastern leaders and new york, urging arab nations to take steps to norma

then you the wall street journal had an obit for him. under his little picture it said, "lane kirkland, anti- communist." that's what the labor movement was known for. it because they were able to push out a certain segment. but then to come in with another kind of leadership. an affirmative statement that "we are going to be cooperating now with the corporations and with the corporate elite. we are going to be like a junior partner at the table." >> moyers: but do you see any green spouts of confrontation, militancy, defiance growing on the left, among unions, that we see on the right? >> yes. >> moyers: where? >> well, first of all, i think that the election of richard trumka has a great deal of potential. because... >> moyers: the new president of the afl-cio. >> the new president of the... >> moyers: why? >> because trumka comes out of a history of militancy. he you know, in terms of his vision of the united mine workers that he led. his emphasis on organizing. his clarity on the nature of the economic crisis that we've been facing.

but his deployment first was to iraq, and his journals reveal that he was troubled by that.is war was in afghanistan. more now from bob woodruff. >> by april 2004, pat tillman was finally in afghanistan. it was where he wanted to be. >> he'd become much more disillusioned about the army by what he had seen in iraq, but he -- he was going to fulfill his commitment and he was looking forward to going to afghanistan. >> on april 22, 2004, while on mission in the mountains of afghanistan, near the pakistan border, a humvee broke down and the platoon was ordered to split into two groups. pat went with one, and his brother went with the other. >> it's really sad, this tragic cascade of decisions. >> i heard the gun fire and then i saw the tracer rounds pouring out. >> pat's group raced to support them. >> like a fireworks show, and my adrenaline just immediately spiked. and then once i got out of the vehicle, my squad leader, you know, he was like, all right, this is it. calm down, you know, this is what we trained for. i kind of, you know, came back to reality for a second. and t

"washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span.nicator's," a look at how members of congress use social media to involve their constituents. we talk with steve israel of new york. >> what is your favorite way of communicating with your constituents? >> in this environment, you have to use the mall. has to be integrated and comprehensive. not everybody follows one venue. in a district as diverse as mine in new york, i communicate through twitter. others communicate through might newsletter. other still want a piece of paper, so we still send frank mail. communication relies on having an employee stock toolbox and using all those tools and an integrated way. >> with the members of congress, using to be an active twitterer. >> i use several approaches. there are my correspondents who use twitter as a hand grenade and will toss it to me. i enjoy engaging them. there are some that it does not make sense to engage, because anything i say will not have any resonance with them. i have one correspondent named zack. we have some pretty fierc

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at 7 eastern it's "washington journal".opics in cloud healthcare legislation and breast breasara speech to students at wake field high school in arlington, virginia. >> wednesday president goes before joint section to talk about healthcare legislation. see his remarks at 8 profit margins eastern on c-span. watch at c-span dot org or listen on c-span radio. >> president obama visited to talk about jobs in a speech at the,a fl annual labor day picnic. also he addressed healthcare legislation in the congressional debate. his remarks are 40 minutes. >> i'm going to bring him out in a minute but i got something i want to say. hello but there's and sisters i'll a member of labors local 265 out of cincinnati, ohio. i was asked to introduce the president today because i'm living proof the stimulus package he enact supply and demand working. the first time it effected my life was while i was laid off while looking for new employment my insurance started run out and i had to make cobra payments but they were partially cut by the stim

where is journalism going? >> it is serious. it is a criminal enterprise. they do not make any bones about it. they are making jokes about committing these crimes against children and then saying, if you can get us -- give us a fee, we can show you how to claim them as dependents. >> acorn had the gall to come out and be indignant about this because a college student could get the story and no one else did. it is gotcha journalism. >> they fired these employees. sean: broader picture, we had van jones. we went into his history of radicalism. we have holder who believes in compulsory abortion. we go back to jeremiah wright and bill ayers. what does this say about this president? >> in the beginning, people were saying, you are making much ado about nothing. you are being fanatical. there is not a big deal here. it speaks to the larger issue of the vetting process. does the white house know this is the background of these people? sean: what does it say about the president and this group? he was teaching one of the radicals. >> you can ignore one or two that g

"the journal editorial report" starts right now. >> paul: welcome to the "journal editorial report", i am paul should go. in a speech that has silenced the democrats healthcare incentive, president barack obama addressed a joint session of congress this week and seating. note to his opponents and promising his $900 billion plan will not add to the federal budget deficit. mac will not sign it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future area and. and to prove i'm serious, there will be a provision in this plant that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize. >> paul: joining a panel this week while straight columnist and deputy editor dan henniger. senior editorial page writer joe reiko, washington columnist kim strassel. then, the story is in the polls, a bump up in support for healthcare. and a lot of people in washington talking about new momentum. did he save the day for the democrats keep you. >> look, this was a speech to a joint session of congress. that's a big deal. and the president is doing this for a piece of leg

welcome to the "wall street journal" report. i'm maria bartiromo. >>> the market hit new highs for the year. ben bernanke says the recession is over, and positive economic news piles up, but we may not be out of the woods just yet. are the markets getting ahead of the economy this week, or is this justified? >> well, i think it is justified, because we still have quite a few tail winds behind the economy. the problem with it, though, is a lot of the tail winds are coming from artificial stimulus from fiscal spending. >> what happens when that fiscal spending is reversed? a lot of people talking about what is the exit strategy out of the federal reserve, and what happens when the stimulus goes away? >> well, the good news, i suppose, is we still have probably another year of stem husband to keep -- to continue to push the economy in and hopefully the markets forward, but then it's like taking the patient off the respirator. we just hope that it can breathe. you can breathe once that's done. i don't think there are that many bulle

that's it for this week's edition of the "journal editorial report". fixed my panel and author for watching. we hope to see right here next week. >> on "fox news watch". the president makes a last-ditch effort to get sport for his health plan. suggesting opposing views be ignored. cynically time for bickering is over. the time for games has passed. >> in a street media cheered them on. >> an obama advisor with a checkered past quits his post after bad press. >> why did most of the press missed this? >> 9/11, the day america changed. does the press responsible for keeping the memories of that tragic day allied? ♪ o say can you see ♪ by the dawns early light. >> on the panel this week, jane hall of the american university; national review editor, rich lowry. jim pinkerton l. at the new america foundation and writer and "fox news" contributor, judy miller. i am jon scott. "fox news watch" is on right now. >> isn't worth noting that a strong majority of americans still favor a public insurance option of the sort i propose tonight. but, its impact should no

welcome to the journal. >> thank you.it's very n%ce to be here. >> sherr: let me start with what's going on in new york this week and around the world, which is all this focus on girls and women. why now? why girls and women? >> i think there is a growing sense that with the challenges that are facing us on climate change, on growing militarization of societies, on the security front, you simply can't address this with a sort of a business as usual strategy. and i think women and girls have moved from a place of sort of being, "there, there, dear, that's nice." on the side. to really being seen as an engine for change in other critical world areas of making a difference and making an impact in the world. and that's why i think this is our moment. >> sherr: just tick off for me, if you would, what you think the if you would, what you think the women around the world are facing right now. >> so, i think ongoing war and militarization is a huge challenge for women. the ongoing violence against women, which sort of, you know,

"washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> in his weekly online address, president obama talks about his initiatives to help americans save for their retirement. he is followed by the gop addressed with u.s. congressman john klein, one of the congressional panels with jurisdiction over proposed health care legislation. >> many of us will also be thinking about the state of working america this weekend. yesterday we received a report showing that job losses have slowed dramatically, compared to just a few months ago. earlier in the week, we learned what the manufacturing sector posted its first change in 18 months. many of the banks that borrow money at the height of the financial crisis are now returning it to taxpayers with interest. these are only the most recent signs that the economy is turning around. the suns will -- the son told little comfort to those who experienced the pain of losing a job in recent months -- that is why it is so important to remain focused on our economic recovery. tens of thousands of recovery projects are under way, repairing our nation's roa

"washington journal"is now next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . host: "to the washington post" front page is where we find the story. the afghan situation is labeled as serious. she writes -- host: other stories talking about this report may lead the way for more troops. we want to ask you if that might be possible. the numbers will be on your screen. we will take those calls momentarily. as we do, to give a perspective of what is going on there, aunohita mojumdar -- afghanistan correspondent for christian science monitor. the stories talk about the training of afghan security forces and police forces. can you give us a sense of their readiness to provide stability in the region? guest: the national police have been one of the most neglected sectors of the reconstruction in afghanistan. the army needs a little more help, especially from the u.s. government. they are extremely under resourced. it has been increasing, but so has the vio

we know this is a difficult time for journalism.tories that walter disdained, rather than hard news and investigated -- investigative journalism he championed. what happened today is replaced with who won today. the public debate cheapens. the public trust balder's. -- the public falters. -- the public trust falters. we fail to understand one another as we should. we seem stuck with a choice between what cuts to our bottom line and what harms us as a society. which price is higher to pay, which cost is harder to bear. this democracy, walter said, cannot function without our reasonably well informed electorate. that is why the honest, objective, meticulous reporting that so many of you pursue with the same zeal that walter did is so vital to our democracy and our society. our future depends on it. walter was no night idealist. no not leave -- walter was known by yno naive idealist. he understood the dentation facing journalists. he was excited about all the high-tech stories that would emerge. we find ourselves wondering how he would

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. >> moyers: welcome to the journal. and to an explorion of what's happening with two perful movements american life: unions othe left, and coervatives on the right. >> you work r us! you wo for us! moyers: cservatives were out in forcen washington over the weeken they hadome to express their opposition to big governnt, to taxes and wasteful spendg, and heal care reform they fear would lead ta nightmare of burecracy. max blumenthal, thor of "replican gomorrah," waded intoheir midst to sample opinions. >> so you'reaying if the govement eliminates social securi and medicare then you'll get out of e program? >> n i said if they get out of my life. >> out of your sial security and. >> no, out of evything. >> moyers: buthey had also come to deplore and denounce president obama-in their minds a tyrant akin to stalin, mussolin hitler, and saddam hussein. i'm afraid he's going to do what hitler cod never do and that'sestroy the united states of america >> and what's the obama revoluti, what's going to ppen? >> similar to germany

c-span: you criticize th journalism world a you say -- "today's journalism geared to the reality of a fleeting public attention span, looked at the issue and threw up its hands in horror." why is t public's attention span so fleeting? >> guest: people lead pressured lives. it's tougho lance the demands of a job or two jobs in families where there both father and mother are working, with the responsibilities of parenthood and the human need for a little time off to enjoy yourself and have some recreation. and people, i ink, understandably feel at what's happening off in washington is not something that they can ta the time to master. the difficulty is that our system of govement does not work where tre is t a sufficiently informed public opinion to really drive the public policy process. and what happened in '93-'94 and again from the other side in '95 was that the folks who had a political or economic interest in stopping action had the resources and the skills and the know-how to create what haynes and i essentially argue is a false public opinion. and the republicans just basically

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we'll talk with brian freel of the national journal. we'll be back with our conversation. >> as the debate over health care continues, c-span's health care hub is a key resource. go on-line, follow the latest tweets, video ads and links. watch the latest events and share your thoughts on the issue with your own citizen video, including video from any town halls you've gone to. there's more. at c-span.org/health care. the supreme court has a special session hearing oral arguments on a finance case wednesday. it marks the first appearance on the bench for justice sotomayor. here's chief justice roberts. >> to some extent it's unsettling. you quickly get to view the court as the court as composed of these members, and it becomes hard to think of it as involving anyone else. i suspect people look at their families, this is a family. how can it be different? but you get new arrivals in both of those situations. it's a tremendous sense of loss. justice white used to say when the court gets a new member, it changes everything. it changes every

host: our e-mail address is journal@c-span.org. you can also send us a twitter attwitter.com/cspanwj. lou joins us from california. go ahead. welcome to the program. caller: thank you for c-span. i guess we can't get away from afghanistan. but a couple of points need to be made. the italians are withdrawing, want to withdraw. the canadians want to withdraw. you need to look at again in the history, and this has brought up a couple of times. there is no nation of afghanistan. i have a friend who was born and raised in pakistan and who has traveled that area a lot. he taught me a lot about this. the people on the one side of afghanistan, bordered by pakistan, have relatives, friends, trading between the pakistan and the people who we call afghanistans. the british established that border after their last failure in trying to deal with afghanistan, and they put the border there for their benefit to try to divide the people. on the iranian side, the people live in villages on both sides of the border. they have relatives on both sides

kevin wah expressed his opinions in today's "wall reet journal," and then repeatethem in a speech this afteron. the commts confused investors. just a few days o, fed policymakers sairates woul stay low. so what's going on? zanne pratt got some answers >>eporter: the federal reserve governor's op-ed in today's "wall reet journal" was a potential handrenade for financl markets. and ju hours after lobbing it, author kevinarsh echoed much of its content aa speech in chico. >> if policykers insist on waiting untithe level of real tivity has plaly and substantiay returned to normal, and the onomy has obviously return to self- sustainingrend growth, they wi almost certainly have waited too long. >> reporter: warshad many on wall strt scratching the heads. that's mostly beuse it was a 180-degree turn from wt the fed sa wednesday after its meeting on interesrates. pocymakers said economic conditionsre likely to warrant exceptionalllow rates for an extended period. why warsh publicly contradictinhis boss, fed chrman ben bernanke? ecomist chris low says no one really knows, investors should take

we know that this is a difficult time for journalism, even as appetites for news and information grow are closing. despite the big stories of our era, serious journalists find themselves all too often without a beat. just as the news cycle has shrunk, so has the bottom line. and too often we fill that void with instant commentary and celebrity gossip and the softer stories that walter disdained rather than the hard news and investigative journalism he championed. what happened today is replaced with who won today. the public debate cheapens. the public trust falters. we fail to understand our world or one another as well as we should. and that has real consequences in our own lives and in the life of our nation. we seem stuck with a choice between what cuts to our bottom line and what harms us as a society, which price is higher to pay, which cost is harder to bear. this democracy, walter said, cannot function without a reasonably well-informed electorate. that's why the honest, objective, meticulous reporting that so many of you pursue, with the same zeal that walter did, is so vital

weome to the journal. >> moyers: welme to the journal. >> tnk you very much, bill. >> moyers: i am inde curious. you havepent the last 25 years of your lifeorking with the sickest anthe poorest people in the wor. and here youre, now about to sit in t corner office of a wealthy, elite school with fer than 6,000 undgraduate students. what in the world did yotell the search comttee? >> well, it was entirely unexpected. i waminding my own business, working with colleues who were interested iglobal health. but also colleaguein harvard business schooand the engineering departmentt m.i.t., to try to gure out how to make healthare programs in developing countries wormore fectively. dartuth came out of the blue and said"would you look at this job?" you know work with paul farmer, who was chronicledn the book "mountainbeyond untains," and he's one of my heroes and my closest iend in the world... >> moyers: great publi health.. >> great public health advate, made a lotf personal crifices in his life. ey call him the modern day albert schweitzer. but he is a person who wor tilessly for the health o

journalism is alive and well on the internet and in alternative media. they are doing the shoe leather reporting that the rest of the mainstream media won't do. and what these sting videos have exposed is not just one react, the acorn react, but also the media protection react as well. and i think that the "new york times" bears much blame for deliberately white washing the connections between the acorn criminal enterprise and team obama. on my web site, today, i have on entire email exchange between "new york times" reporter stephanie strom and project vote slash acorn whistle blower anita reporting how she knew what was going on. she knew that these whistleblower were quote, unquote gold mine that's what she said of anita who exposed the muscle for money program. she knew team obama was involved. they gave $800,000 to acorn front group. we need to ask questions, why, where, when? sean: i think those are great questions. it's great work. it's amazing what a 20-year-old brave, young girl can do and 25-year-old filmmaker, they have done more than all thos

"washington journal" is next. host: our first question for you this morning is comments on senator baucus' plan which uses $774 billion bill with co-ops. good morning, on this thursday. you can always send us a message by e-mail. we also have our twitter account. let's put some basics on the screen of the plan which calls for estate-based health insurance co-op and tax credits for small businesses forpoor individuals -- for small business and for poor individuals, and expands medicaid coverage. joining us is david from roll call. there are a number of newspapers that say this really echoes with the president released to the white house last. last the headline here is that the senate bill sets the line for a health-care showdown -- that is from "the washington journal." guest: there is a bill that is at least deficit neutral. the president pledged to would not add one dime to the federal deficit through health-care reform. it can theoretically be accomplished with this bill. they're still many questions remaining.