economy is a big issue for journalism. it's also the way much of the world has become an anti-consensual culture. so i think thinking about journalism today, it's hard to be optimistic. lots of things have emerged on the internet and elsewhere that are really brilliant. but it's getting harder and harder i think for ordinary people to find a place where they feel that they can find the real truth about the world. maybe there is no such thing as a truth about the world. but i think there's been a fragmentation of the way journalism now works. i don't know whether that's a good thing or bad thing. but as we look ahead, i think we'll see a very different kind of journalism. i'm not sure exactly what it will look like. but it's certainly not going to look like what it was 20, 30 years ago. >> rick, you wanted to add a comment, but first let me ask jackson a question. you mentioned honesty to the evidence. can you unpack that a bit? >> i realize both of those key terms are problematic. both honesty and evidence can be argued ab

the role of small journals has had a long and distinguished career in american journalism. our conception of journalism is of the mainstream institutions. over the course of history, small journals have had a big role to play. i would like to hear your role in the process. where you stand in the longer tradition and also the way the media revolutions of our own time are affecting the role of the small journal. i think i would like to ask you to reflect on this not simply from the left, which is your own experience, but the example of william buckley on the right. >> it is a tall order. because each has a maximum of two minutes to do it. >> i'll stop there. >> thank you for that set up. i actually did have a few notes written about the margins and where the margins even are these days. given the diffuse and pervasive use of the internet. it doesn't feel like a margin, but bears a margin compared to what we are talking about with the consensus narratives. it produced by policymakers as well and journalists. i inherited the journal that i edit from dick portiet. i was trying t

the real problem in journalism is a business problem. i used to think five, six years ago, the real problem was people who sign out checks to the journalists. the brand is about trust. not about -- the real problem, it's a business problem. a math problem. >> to do journalism, you need to have two revenue streams. from advertisers and readers. otherwise, it's self-defeating because you've got to behold only the advertisers and you don't have the fu insurance that says i can write a bad story about general motors. one of the big change of the digital age is that we give up money from users and became solely dependent on advertising. is that a danger? >> actually, it is, and there's a big change taking place. when i started my the book i did, and reported, they were all talking about how advertising is the key. they were basically talking like broadcasters. it's free to the consumer. and it was wonderful. one of the reasons google is so popular and well liked is because it's free. we, who would not like them? first, the cable guys. but the

investigative journal had gone dorm ant. that all changed beginningjune of 1972 as two young reporters, one a clean cut, christian college midwesterner just two years out of the navy, the other a long-haired, chain smoking college dropout from silver spring maryland began with a fairly routine night cop story and turned it into what stands still today as the high water mark of american journalism. in fact, i'm confident in saying that this single piece of reporting is responsible for many of us in this room choosing the profession that we love so much. on this day we're here to both honor the 40th anniversary of the work of those two reporters and to use it to explore how journalism has changed in the decades since. what would happen if tomorrow morning a young "washington post" reporter saw a police report on a break-in at the national democratic party headquarters? what might transpire after her initial tweet? in today's environment could a sustained relationship with highly placed anonymous sources be sustained and protec

photographs into it a powerful tool of journalism. he had no fear of the new and he welcomed it through most of his life. modern art which he loathed but eventually began to collect. modern technology. mod erpern deern design. he bought an architecture magazine in the 1930s because he saw in a chronicle of modernism and he commissioned stone on build a house for him he was always attracted to the latest business leaders and considered himself one of them. for all his political conservative on many issue, he was a man in search of the future. for decades, luce had worked to portray and shape america as a united common culture. despite differences in class or race or region, americans he believed shared a basic set of values that transcended diversity. at one point in the 1950s, he brightly entitled an article in life, nobody is mad at nobody. luce's optimism represented his admiration for eisenhower and what he considered his impact on the nation, but his optimism went beyond his confidence in the president. in the 1950s, he was at the

you've worked in journalism for more than 40 years. you had the joy of actually working in a place where the presses rolled and your work comes out on still probably wet sheets of paper. will there be newspapers 50 years down the road? yeah, i see newspapers. i see that people are going to still want to carry around something the same way they're going to carry around books. they're not going to read electronic books. there's something about-- you know, we like tactile things. will they be different? yes, they'll be very different. one, because advertising is going to move away from newspapers i think. it's not a very logical advertising medium anymore in a lot of respects. they'll change; they'll evolve. yeah, we'll still have newspapers. it's been great to have you here. thanks, good to be here. our guest has been journalist and author carl bernstein. thank you for joining us today on speaking freely. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. captioning by lori at captionmax www.captionmax.com (f

in since i was in a journalism family. if you think of -- and the idea was the larger the audience, the more important the television news was. the most important television news in the world is cctv in china which a billion people watch every day. and i don't think we would like to live in a world in which cctv is the model for what we have. so i think we're better off than we may think we are. you know, at the same time, the nightly news has withered to a level. if you put together the audience for the three major nightly news shows, nbc, cbs and abc, you put the audience for those three together. are less than any of the three nightly news where any one of the nightly news had more audience than the three all together now. there's nothing in those nightly news shows anymore. so, the challenge, i think, of getting it right, is to find ways in which to make sure that people have access. it's not going to be as easy access as it used to be when everybody thought "the new york times" had all the news that was fit to print.

both in journalism and history. it would seem when i was a kid reading "life," was how much he learned from the visual of those. i ran across when i used to belabor historian an incredible series of articles about a steel worker named lopata who was earning $3.50 an hour and the union came and he made $5 an hour. and alfred was hired to illustrate this guy's life and there were photos of lopata at the door, his wife who is barefoot giving him his box lunch and him walking three miles to work and then being totally exhausted at the end of the day and lying half contentedly on the lawn outside his little shack and being washed off by his wife from the outdoor pump because they had no indoor plumbing. and ten years later, he finds he has a brick house, he has eight kids now, he had three before. life isn't wonderful, but he can make $10, $11 a day. he's worried about inflation, but he has a secure job. this to me illustrated what the union could do for people much better than four or five wonderful texts. and for me my

journal of. journalism review did a very great article on you know the six degrees of aggregation which is you know the basically the bible on huffington post and that business model has eaten just about everything that's not going to change what has to change or producer traditional newspapers that are winning the war at least for original reporting are winning these awards but it really doesn't seem to mean anything you know they're going to have to change their model to that kind of you know disruptive and stickiness kind of through the columbia journalism review talked about with perfect and you know taking a strong point of view on some things put that will allow them to be able to peel off resources to do that original reporting so it's not just circular gossip it's going out finding the stories reporting on them and then have everybody talk about them and well this is the first time that line sites have won this prize do you think that this is a sign of things oh well it has to be because

good journalism. frankly -- >> very clear. >> we had the first part of our site that we opened up we started hiring original reporters was dedicated to investigative journalism. and that just characterizes the whole organization. that's what our focus is. >> with marcus, now the executive editor of "the washington post," we were talking about this before this group assembled here, and that is, when they were doing the movie version of all the president's men they decided they wanted to hire jason robards to play bradley. they seemed to look alike and they offered robards the part, this is in mid-70s. they said we'll pay you $50,000 and boy, that was great. i'm going to get $50,000. and they gave him the script and he went home and he read the script and came in to the director and the actors and he said i can't play ben bradlee. they said why? he said well, i read the script and all he does is run around and say where's the fucking story? and they said to him, that's what the editor of the washington

"washington journal is next. host: stories regarding the jobless numbers released yesterday are in the headlines today. for the first 45 minutes, we will talk about what role your state plays in occupying the oval office next january. we're using an article from this morning as a jumping off point. they are focused on 10 swing states they say will tell the tale in november. we want to talk to you about what role your state will have in election 2012, big or little, swing or not, battleground or not, red or blue. tell us how your state will determine who will win in november. and if not, why not? here are the numbers. host: if you are talking to was electronically, you can send us an e-mail. the conversation continues as always on facebook. here is the article we're talking about from this morning's "wall street journal." the headline -- "campaigns gird for a battleground in quest for 270 electoral votes." all the weeks of primary elections still lay ahead, both parties began acting as if the fall campaign season

he stood for a tenacious kind of journalism, and he also an accountable kind of journalism. i remember interviewing him a while ago about the malcolm x interview. you know, we went at it. he stood in there and he defended it. he made a great argument for within the context of that period, the interview he did. i really -- this is really a guy you have to admire. >> i once reported, though, where he had gone too far and conducted a hidden camera interview with another reporter who thought she was just providing some background information to "60 minutes" he was reprimanded by cbs for that, and he called my a bad name, but he did it in a good-natured way. sharon waxman, some thoughts about the impact of this man's career. it's hard to avoid the use of super latives because did he it for so long, and he did high impact stories and interviewed everybody from presidents to he once asked ayatollah whether he was crazy. >> good question. >> he interviewed ayatollah and it gives you a sense of his longevity and his ability to sustain, you know, that -- those really hard-hitting inte

what's the commitment to investigative journalism? >> one of the things i'm thinking is despite the talk is how little has actually changed. how very similar it seems, the process you are describing, coming in on sunday, the fact you did not know that watergate was watergate. it was not watergate when you started. you just followed a string. so much of that seems exactly the same. the you disagree? >> -- do you disagree? the internet has changed everything and the internet has changed nothing. bob has a famous saying recess someone needs to go out in the night and knock out the door. you need to find a source, the need to find a document, you need to be honest pursuit of the truth. the methods are internal and ancient. we have computer-assisted reporting, multi platforms, we can get the word out faster and use social media. but the heart and center of the game remains the type of reporting these guys did. >> one of the points looming over this whole conversation, what's different and what's possible and not possible, how much of that

"washington journal" is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> in the headlines today, saturday, april 28, slow growth stired fears. and the u.s. shifts its stance on nuclear iran. and we begin this segment of the "washington journal" talking about paying for college and the impact it has on how many years you went to school, if at all. and if you're getting ready to go to college, will the price tag you pay determine how long you're willing to stay in school. here are the numbers. if you have a two-year degree or if you're working on a two-year degree, your number is 202-737-0001, if a four-year degree, 202-737-0002 or if you have no degree, 202-628-0205. you can also send us an email at journal@c-span.org. we want to talk about the impact of the cost of going to college and the impact of the cost on your education. this little article in "the new york post" sort of scums up what's happening on critical and here in washington regar

journalism. and that's what gets us to watch the ads for soap. >> what you're saying is that the political square is now a commercial enterprise, owned and operated for the benefit of the brand, cnn, fox, all of those, right? >> that's correct. >> how did it happen? how did we sell what belonged to everyone? >> by believing that what is, is what always has been and what should be. the notion that what goes on is actually made by people, changes through time, represents the deployment of political power. that notion has gone away. we think it's always been this way. people now watching these cnn and fox. they think this is how it works. they don't have a sense of history. the amnesia, which has been cultivated by journalism, by entertainment in this country, helps prevent people from saying, "wait a minute, that's the wrong path to be on." >> amnesia, forgetfulness? you say that they're cultivating forgetfulness? >> absolutely. >> deliberately? >> look at the way in which it -- the march toward wa

>>> hi, everybody, welcome to "the wall street journal report." i'm maria bartiromo. the quarter comes to a close, the year off on to a powerful ststart. what's next for the markets and the economy? > he is one of the most widely read and followed predictors of interest rates. my conversation with jim grant of grant interest rate observer. > we talk gold, the fed, and the recovery. >>> what's cooking with one of america's most successful chefs and restaurateurs? find out how he's giving back to those in need. "the wall street journal report" begins right now >> thihis is americaca's number financial news program. "the wall street journal report." now, maria bartiromo. >> hi, everybody. i'm bill griffith. maria will be along in a few minutes with the rest of the program. first here's a look at what is making news. as we head into a new week on wall street. fed chairman ben bernanke left the door open for more monetary easing this week. speaking in a conference in virginia he said the fed needs to remain cautious in deciding its next move and the economy still needs mor

but i think journalism is certainly justified in our time. what i wanted to say at the end here, first of all, is to thank everybody for participating in this event. but also to just say a word about the connection between journalism and history. and i think this panel -- everyone on this panel in one way or another -- has a foot in both of these sides. everybody on this panel is in some ways connected to journalism as well as being historians. and i think there are great historians who were not academic scholars. and i think, you know, we would be impoverished if that were not the case. on the other hand, there is a lot of journalistic history that is ridiculous. bill o'reilly's book on lincoln which is the number one best seller. at least the last time i saw. and it's ridiculous. it's as ridiculous as glenn beck actually, almost. of course, there are also journalists who write terrible history as well. i think the connection between journalism and history strengthens both things and i really appreciate all of the people who came today and o

but if you look at the latest nbc-"wall street journal" poll, romney is trailing obama among latinos. romney-rubio, a match made in heaven. >> match made in purgatory. [laughter] no, he is a ticket, smart, makes a great case, -- he is articulate, smart, makes a great case, has a record in florida -- >> but? >> everybody is an amateur running for office, and republicans learned that painfully in 2008 with gov. palin. >> this guy is no sarah palin. >> no, but he has a prickly relationship with the florida press. there are questions. does the cuban connection -- the dominant threat through the latino community is for mexico and central america. >> ideally, he is on the ticket and could solve this huge problem for republicans. i talk to people around romney who say that there are things about arabiya that make -- about rubio that make them nervous. little gaps in his story that could be resolved, but he will get a thorough scrub -- >> he could help them in florida, which ain't chump change. in the last analysis, people vote for president, not vice president. >> i am reminded of tony blair

there's difference between opinion and journal limp. the trayvon martin story was fueled by black journalists work anything mainstream media tweeting and writing on facebook about it it. and forced the story into the mainstream. [applause] and any of us, angela, and any of those like who have worked in corporate journalism know we often play a major role in forcing our ed stories to with stories. that's been a tradition of black journalist i think from the very beginning when they started desegregated media back in the 1930s when ted postton was hired as the new york post. i think there was a defending role to play. i've been blacklisted a couple of times by various media. that's a price you pay. you have to balance that working in corporate journalist. if you're independently wealthy or you have a spouses supporting you, it frees you a lot more. but most of us end of having to do some kind of balancing but not journalist but people who work in companies. how far do you push? how much are you at the center, can you build allies intiecia

"washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> our specific mission is to work to see to it that human rights remain a central component of american foreign- policy. and that when we are evaluating our foreign policy moves globally, human-rights can never only be the consideration of the past the be part of the dialogue. >> the president and ceo of the lantos foundation for human rights and justice. >> when we abandon our deepest values -- whether with the talks about torture when it relates to the war on terror or the reset policy with russia and the upcoming issue of whether or not the u.s. congress should pass the income stability at -- you don't need to go into the details of the policy issue, but whether or not we will stay on record-setting human-rights matter -- the matter in russia, the matter in china. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's "q&a." >> , house budget committee chairman paul ryan talked about the federal budget and the u.s. economy. the wisconsin republican spoke at the george w. bush

he was the first really tough interrogator in journal.ok at the ayatollah khomeini saying to him, you know, not me, imam, but, you know, sadat, a devout muslim, is the one who says you're a lunatic. and just the way he melded performing and journalism. it was extraordinary. he was unique. >> there's no doubt about it. >> we have the highlights of the sound bite, the interview, with the ayatollah khomeini, this is in 1979 during the iranian hostage crisis. >> president sadat of egypt, a devoutly religious man, a muslim, says that what you are doing now is, quote, a disgrace to islam, and he calls you i-imam, forgive me, his words, not mine, a lunatic. >> translator: sadat states he is a muslim and we are not. he is not for he compromises with the enemies of islam. so that has united with our enemies. >> andrea mitchell just said the same thing. >> and sadat would be dead in a year or two. mark halperin, talk about -- you said you wanted to say something about mike wallace, and now you just leave me out there. >> no. i thought you asked me

that is a red flag to be journalism professorion. get it out of the way, live with it. >> the likability factor charles. >> i want to fir, and you for squeezing in sah palin. he missed her greatly and were suffering withdrawals. what were we talng about? mitt romney. ninais right, he is likable in an awkward sense, but he is the guy who can lead the country, be responsibl. he is not the charisma gy like obama was in 2008, but he can say, "how is that charisma doing you?" >> the exception with ethics laws -- you can understand it, it is ethical but it is a hard sell with families who are struggling. >>>> they it should have gotten all of this stuff out. if youou are running for president, all this stuff is ming out. if you let dribble out slowly, you e asking for trouble. mike and i write about this in the book -- he is a pretty good boss. that, i think, comess from the top. he is a fair minded, even-handed boss, and that is n not an ininsignificant thing. that sort of gets lost in the shuffle. >> the unemployment rate for march went

>> this week on the journal editorial report. gsa talking about washington culture and what it could mean, the free market policy, and will they get away with it? >> and the taxpayer is put to the the test for the primary campaign defeat a political giant? welcome to the the journal, editorial report. i'm paul gigot, another week, another government scandal. this time the secret service reeling from allegations that many as 11 agents, hotels and prostitutes prior to president obama's visit there. and followed that the general services administration followed a junket to las vegas in 2010 that cost taxpayers close to a million dollars. both scandals clinging to the narrative of a bloated and dysfunctional federal government. so, is that fair? >> let's ask the wall street journal columnist. and dorothy, let's start with the secret service, incompetence in government is not new. it's an old story, so, why does the secret service scandal trouble you? >> well, if it's troubling, it's fascinating and it's not incompetence, it's a loss

it's a demonstration that great journalism can be practiced on any platform., what we showed with this ten-part series is you can bring in all the different elements that go into a great story on the web -- video, info graphics, commenting, the participation of our leaders. beyond the stories themselves we had dozens of contributions from families that read and very empowering stories because at the end of its story there was a whole list of things that people could do to help with that. >> i was going to ask you, david wood is somebody who spent most of his career in newspaperses and a ten-part series kind of feels and sounds more like something a newspaper would do than an on-line digital site. i'm wondering if you think in some ways that huffington post as an example of new media and old media are moving closer together? that might have seemed the case five, six years ago. >> i do actually. we've always said from the beginning back in 2005 that we want to embrace the best of the old and the best of the new. that's what we've done, and that's what we want to

that is a red flag for the journalism profession. get that out of the way, live with it. >> the like ability factor, charles. >> first, i want to commend you for squeezing in sarah palin. i know you missed her greatly. where were we? mitt romney. nina is right -- he is likable in an awkward sense. but he is running as the guy who can run the country, sober, not the charisma guy that obama was in 2008, but he can say, "how was all that charisma doing?" >> there is apparently an exception in federal ethics laws allows him to withhold information. it is the go, but a hard sell for americans who are struggling -- legal, but a hard sell for americans to a startling. >> you should get all that stuff out. if you are running for president, all this stuff will come out, and if you let it dribble out slowly you are asking for trouble. mike and i write about this in the book -- he is a pretty good boss. the campaign is well run. that, i think, comes from the top. he is a fair minded, even-handed boss. that is not an insignificant thing. when yo

and by tfrontline journalism fund, supportingnvestigative rertinand terprise journalism. (man speaking japanese) >> (translated): on march 11, there was a relaxed atmosphere at work. i was at my computer, writing reports. before that day, we'd had a few earthquakes, around magnitude four. then, i think it was about 2:46 pm, i felt an incredible rumbling in the earth. it was like nothing i'd ever experienced. >> narrator: the earthquake that shook the fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant was the most powerful to strike japan since records began. the company that operates the plant, tepco, has forbidden its workers from speaking publicly about what followed. but one year on, they are starting to tell their stories. some have asked for their identities to be hidden for fear of being fired. >> (translated): i saw all the pipes fixed to the wall shifting and ripping off. >> (translated): it was getting stronger and stronger. this was no ordinary quake. >> (translated): we were all on our knees, holding on to the railings. then the power was cut. >> narrator: the workers stay

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the public so what's the problem keeping us informed stock more about this christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university joins me now welcome to the show and you can read so the media they demand transparency but they don't want to be transparent hypocritical very as a matter of fact the deans of some of the major journalism and communications schools in this country and individual faculty people such as myself of actually commented on this rule change saying you know this is immensely hypocritical we're teaching our students one thing and then you're turning around and saying well you know it's it's a business you know you know you wouldn't understand what we do understand it is hypocritical the f.c.c. just wants to basically put this have them put this online in a database right now they sit in rusty file cabinets on paper and hundreds of network affiliates all around the country and they're saying you know that they do ties everything else as a job saving nut job killing yet they don't want to do this chairman. of the f.c.c. says that this is the only industry ironi

"the wall street journal repo " report."now, maria bartiromo. >> i'll be back with the rest of the program in a minute. first here's sue with some of the stories in the headlines this week. here's a look at a new week on wall street. after a strong start to 2012, is the u.s. economy dipping into a spring slump? first a disappointing report on the weekly initial jobless claims showing the number of new filers for unemployment benefits is up 6% in the last three weeks. weaker sales of existing homes in march underscored investor worry. the markets had a bumpy week. the dow having several days of triple-digit swings around the 13,000 mark. the corporate earnings picture is rosier, however, with more than 80% of companies beating analyst expectations. they include banks citigroup, goldman sachs, b of a, morgan stanley, as well as dow components coca-cola, verizon, johnson & johnson, microsoft, and ge. >>> apple had a rough ride this week. shares of the world's most valuable company dropped 4% monday. then they rose on tuesday bu

that is a red flag to the journalism profession. get it out of the way. live with it. >> electability factor, charles -- the electability factor, charles. >> want to first, and you for squeezing in sarah palin, who you miss greatly and you are experiencing with rawls. -- withdrawals. where were we? mitt romney. nina is right, but he can be responsible, up be sober. he is not the charisma diet like we had in 2008, but he can say, "how is that charisma working out for you?" >> there is apparently an exception in the federal ethics laws. it is legal, but i.t. has a hard sell for americans struggling. >> they should have gotten all of this stuff out. if you are running for president, all this stuff is coming out. if you let it dribble out slowly, it is asking for trouble. mike and i write about this in the book -- he is a pretty good boss. his campaign is well run. that, i think, comes from the top. he is a fair minded, evenhanded boss. that is not an insignificant thing. that sort of gets lost. >> the unemployment rate for march went down to 8.2, but only 12