knight-ridder owned 32 newspapers in the united states. "miami herald," "the kansas city star," "the detroit free press," and i am leaving many out. they have a foothold on american newspapers. >> what is going on in these communities. let's pick washington, d.c. they have lost 200,000 subscribers. >> it is absolutely challenging and difficult for newspapers, and i gave that speech in 2006, immediately after the demise of my company, and i was probably in a gloomier mood then i am today. it is painful to see newsroom jobs go away. there are thousands fewer journalists in this country than there were. i think that this a problem. right here in washington, d.c., there are hundreds of journalists keeping tabs on what is happening in our federal government. i think that is a serious problem. i think all of these open up opportunities. there are ways to create new channels of information, ways of delivering it, ways to pay for it, and it is of bubbling ferment right now of invention. several years ago something did not exist. it won a pulitzer

knight ridder owned a lot of newspapers across the united states. the company really had a footprint across the country. >> so, you got dim. what is going on in these communities? washington, d.c., had 200,000 subscribers. >> it is challenging and difficult for newspapers. i gave that speech in 2006 after the demise of my company. i was in a gloomier mood than i am today. it is painful to see newsroom jobs go away. there are thousands fewer journalists in this country than there were. i think that is a problem. right here in washington, d.c., there are hundreds fewer journalists keeping tabs on what is happening in our government. i think that is a problem. but, i think that all of these open up opportunities. there are ways to create new channels of information, new ways of delivering it, new ways to pay for it. it is a bubbling ferment right now of invention. several years ago, one newspaper did not exist. this is a nonprofit news room that does not own hippy presses or camera equipment, but partners with others across the country, other kinds of

welcome to the knight studio and our conversation about media and news in the digital age. i'm frank sesno. our guests today are both experts in technology and the information needs of a democracy. aneesh chopra, appointed by president obama, is this country's first chief technology officer. he's charged with bringing innovation to the government and the economy. ellen miller is the co-founder of the sunlight foundation, a group committed to using the power of the internet to increase political transparency and accountability and to helping citizens and journalists be their own best watchdogs. welcome to you both. let me start by asking you, aneesh chopra, what's at stake here? >> well, ia sense, there are 3 key elements. first, this is a key pillar of how we have a government that works. second, our society is transformed incredibly by these emerging digital technologies, so how we communicate with one another is at stake, and third, the foundation of our economy, the economic prospects going forward, rest heavily on our ability to get this right. >> ellen miller? >> well,

gladys knight. dionne warwick. jimi hendrix. everywhere i went was an affirmation. you gained more strength when you claimed all the colors of the rainbow. it is infinitely more powerful to become transparent. once you claim your mexican, or israeli, or irish, then you look at it for what it is and you remember before you were any of those things. you were like and loved. those are the things they give you peace, lasting chances over the history of the planet, a lot of war happening because of religion, because of differences. i like to celebrate, like bob marley. like marvin gaye. i would like to thank jerry and diane for helping me to accelerate into a new perception for myself. when we perceive specialists, you can get in trouble -- when we perceive that we are special, you can get in trouble. you need special drugs for special pain because no one understands you. but someone thinks you are special. will you except they your significant and meaningful? then you do not need a doctor. being special is me, myself, and my experience. it will always get you in trouble

i mean, this is the guy that made like "the dark knight" and, like, "memento." [ cheers and applauseo much fun. i mean, because he loves it. you know what i mean? i mean, most movies that are this big, they're more from the point of view of a marketing research. you know what i mean? they're products. and this is like a genuine story. he makes movies, because he loves movies. i love it, man. >> jimmy: i know that you've been doing this since -- well, you said since you were 6. do you ever like come across just watching tv, just flipping the channels to see you as a little kid and say, "oh, my god, i remember that." >> yeah. >> jimmy: it's like watching your home movies, but they're well produced. [ laughter ] >> yeah, and other people see them as well. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> "i just saw you when you were 11 years old." i'm like, "great, thank you. i don't know what to say. that's cool." >> jimmy: "did you like it? i'm different now. i shave now." [ laughter ] but as a kid, as a child actor, did you ever -- when you make that money, do you like -- i would just splurge it all on toys

. >> alan: good footprint >> michael: this week "at the movies" -- the director of ""the dark knight"ack and he's messing with our heads in "inception" starring leonardo dicaprio. >> tony: everyone's been waiting for it. does it live up to the hype? >> let's go shake 'em up. >> i am impressed. also coming up this week -- >> there's no going back. >> tony: we've got magic to do. nicolas cage and jay baruchel square off against alfred molina for control of the planet in "the sorcerer's apprentice". >> michael: plus, he's the king of the world. he's a duly appointed federal marshal. he's howard hughes. we look at the ups and downs in the career of leonardo dicaprio. >> dr. harris. >> do you concur? >> we create the world. you bring thesu

i remember sitting there on the couch said knight and thinking to myself you know you want to go into you know you go into the military. and we got married on the thirtieth of december of ninety six if i. so and i laugh on january third of one thousand six to six going to vietnam so it was why a guy spent mana moment in vietnam of all. we want to try. to been walk where they are for what they call or in taishan period you know to get used to the climate and to actually get used to the sounds of war. the first couple of weeks i was terrified ever not. and after my first break and i want back to my bed not i just couldn't sleep. all i could think of going to be they're going to shoot me more because the next day nothing happened. and then somewhere after about three or four weeks we had an operation where they had thirty helicopters i was circling waiting on my turn to go in this l.z. or landing zone to put the combat assaulting up. and i heard the radio and the power of the one of the red flight said this is red laid we're taking fire and all i could hear in the background was. and i w

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his hometown and apparently this wagon that he had had mounted rockets he had made on it and it knighted that ran down the main street of his hometown and. who was von braun's long time private secretary says venet attracted police attention many times for firing things into the air nowadays buckbee often takes people on a tour of the space museum in huntsville where each exhibit is related to von braun . but the best storyteller of. exploits is his only daughter natalia she wrote about him in three volumes of memoirs simply titled my father. with this this is a picture of the first soviet rocket it was launched on august seventeenth one thousand nine hundred thirty three though it spent only eight hundred seconds in the air in the quiet altitude of four hundred meters it was a spectacular success a good. moscow in the one nine hundred thirty s. was a time of daring ambition and breathtaking endeavor it's one group of young scientists infusing as a model they have to try and turn fantasy into reality they were so desperately short of money that they had to hire a tram to take this second

>>knight: parts and complexity run hand in hand, parts and cost run hand in hand. so if you reduce parts and you reduce complexity, you reduce cost - so ultimately cost is the most important consideration for the consumer as well as for the auto mobile manufacturer. >>reporter: the company expects to start putting cars on the road in the next 6 months, but as promising as the technology looks, with all that extra weight in the wheels there's one place it's not going to go down well... >>morgan: what we've decided to do is go for a really low carbon car - and in order to achieve thatwe've got to be quite clever, and it's going to be unlike anything that's currently on the market in 2010. it's going to be what we call an extreme hybrid, so it's basically a generator on board thatproduces your own electricity. >>reporter: it's not new technology - diesel electric engines have been used in trains for years but on the road it can increase the range of the lifecar dramatically. >>morgan: this is a pure electric car if you want it to be, and of course you can plug it in,

just all failed we failed obama fail white people i apologize going because right alex i am white knight and even say that he failed me yeah well if you tell you how you actually are you allowed to say how you felt like you know that alone like a man alone i'm telling you try to pull the race card one day you think the doors that open when you pull that you know fast food restaurants now mcdonald's is amazing when i pull the race car by the way i'm black when we get that double cheeseburger it's amazing. to start figuring out of you is my i'm telling you telling your call surely you know why are you so if you want to have been a because i'm white you'll be there in ten minutes i'm telling you ok i'm going to take your advice whole life politer advice america do it well so the white house was so focused on shirley sharod on watching and edited you tube video. that they weren't paying attention to the fact that now it's been found in the pentagon that there's been some serious child. horn found on a lot of computers of people that were very high up and had all kinds of classified access i

knights and. so. i. didn't like. the good things. like going to like. the be killing under the. line. russia would be so much brighter if you knew about some move from funds to pressure moves. from stunts on t.v. . you could say it's about time but it's still not enough congress has finally passed legislation that reduces the disparities between sentences for powder cocaine and crack cocaine crack cocaine is relatively cheap and disproportionately used by poor minorities while cocaine is far far more expensive and used predominately by wealthy whites but back in one thousand nine hundred six in an attempt to stop the rampant crack cocaine use a law was passed giving crack cocaine offenders the same jail sentence as somebody who possessed one hundred times the same amount of powder cocaine even though numerous well regarded studies have found the health and psychological effects to be exactly the same between the two drugs so while millions and millions of poor blacks and other minorities were locked in jail for years for grad possession wealthy whites with the same amount of coc

please say hello to my white knight who gets it right, the not uptight, jimmy fallon. [ cheers and applauselook like you're dressed exactly like larry king, i mean -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: just be you. just be yourself and just -- >> i want to make a smooth transition into the job, you know what i mean? i don't want to shock old people. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it's just weird to see you in this outfit. that's all, i'm just -- be you. that's all i'm saying. >> okay, that's a good point. i should be me. >> jimmy: all right, cool. >> thank you. >> jimmy: no problem, good. you should ask me some questions. >> all right. i have some questions here prepared to ask you, here. how's it going? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: great, great -- we're having a ton of fun on "late night." i'm going to host the emmys this year so we're kind of excited about that. [ cheers and applause ] >> let me ask you about "late night." uh, that's pretty scary. aren't you scared? [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: it's a big job, but -- >> no, no, i mean, aren't you scared for this "late night" that you're up late at night -- [ laughter

cameron diaz and tom cruise joined him on the podium to sell tickets to their new movie knight and daye final stage is set for sunday. that's sports for this friday night. >> that's more than $2 million per catch for darius hayward bay. >> it is nice work if you can do it. >> $21 million. that's a lot of potatoes. >> just money. >> thanks, fred. >> that is our report for tonight. i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. our coverage continues online at ktvu.com. have a great weekend, everyone. >> good night.

cameron diaz and tom cruise joined him on the podium to sell tickets to their new movie knight and dayfinal stage is set for sunday. that's sports for this friday night. >> that's more than $2 million per catch for darius hayward bay. >> it is nice work if you can do it. >> $21 million. that's a lot of potatoes. >> just money. >> thanks, fred. >> that is our report for tonight. i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. our coverage continues online at ktvu.com. have a great weekend, everyone. >> good night. what this droid does will change how you do movies. with blockbuster on demand, this does hit films on a 4.3-inch screen so big, the way you see them will never be the same. introducing the new droid x. pre-loaded with blockbuster. the next generation of does.

he made the dark knight. fans of that movie had a lot invested in this one being great.a week, the talk has shifted to what on earth is going on in it? >> i can access your mind even your dreams. >> reporter: leonardo decap rerow plays a man who can jump into people's dreams and extract their secrets. this time though he and the team that includes ellen page and joseph gordon levitt have to jump into a billionaire's head and plant an idea which is supposedly more difficult than extracting one. they have to trigger dreams, dreams within dreams, and dreams within dreams within dreams. it takes a lot of sorting out. in the end what you get is a clunky formula hodgepodge. oceans 11 visits the matrix with some freud, some buddha and some cool effects. though at these prices not enough. by the way, putting me here, $10 and a diet soda. inception, $160 million. if it blows you away, great. but i my nolan is too little minded to cut loose, to make a dream movie that is genuinely out of this world. >> my name is evelyn salt. >> then you are a russian spy. >> reporter: salt, on th

chris nolan, dark knight. >> absolutely. >> you found it too perplexing for some? one of my pet peeves. they should ask questions and get answers. >> thank goodness she was in the movie otherwise i wouldn't have understood a thing. it is what it is. >> let's bring up the report card grading system. >> this one gets a c. "inception" gets a c. wait for the dvd. you should see it in theaters if you want because it is visually stunning. >> box office did well. >> it did. >> movie number two here. ramona and beasley. >> it's a new family film, a good lighthearted g rated family film which i really like. based on the books, which i really like. a lot of films are block busters or animated films. this is a good live action g rated film that parents can take their kids to and be entertained. >> is this kind of like good family fair out there, i know you love "despicable me," toy story, but this is what's out there. >> this is one of the better live action family films especially since it's rated g so parents can take their kids. >> as far as the books are concerned, were y

for seven years -- at the mid knight hour. for seven years -- midnight hour. there was the oil that was going to eliminate the need for deep water drilling. we've seen that happening over and over. last year, as i ppeds, the second most -- understand, the second most rich deposit of uranium was declared off limits, came through our committee, that was a bill we voted out, to put our second highest, second best source of uranium off limits. and that all at a time when we're trying to figure out ways how to get off carbon-based fuels. and nuclear should be one of those ways that we utilize. and especially when you find out, as we have in our committee, that 90% of our uranium we're using in our nuclear plaments right now is imported. and -- plants right now is imported and yet we have uranium that can be used for that. god has so richly blessed this country with resources when you take them all into consideration, like no nation in the world. when you look at all the natural resources that would produce energy, nobody comes close to this little country where we'

years of his life to public service and rocky will tell you, take it away from her and west at many knights for that. so, there's no litmus test being given here whatsoever. >> the only thing i would add to that is our -- our first policy discussion with cap and trade following the -- >> we did talk about that a bit. >> it happened mostly in response to the previous questions a couple of minutes ago. you dough don't have to live, too fwar from ear shot of any radio or newspaper to know, how strongly one citizens feel about that. and how important it is that we protect our economy and make sure those voices are heard in washington. >> we go around the room, it not you'll been so kind. we appreciate it. thank you. [applause] >> proud of you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captions performed by the national captioning institute] >> congress is in session this week. zoo 12k3w4r50 host: for the next 45 >> the is discussion regarding the mid term elections and the politician that goes along with that on the cover of this week's edition of the "christian science monitor.

chuck knight. >> and helping us out is louse lacarri and -- and today and us weekly contributor jillno relation, right? >> yes. >> you want this for your mother. why? >> she's an awesome mom and takes care of everybody and lets herself go. she needs something for herself. >> you need a little color. i have to say it. i love this. you're a biker chick, but we want you to look biker sheik. what do you think? >> absolutely. ready for the sturgis trip. >> they're going on vacation. are you ready for a whole new look? >> yes, i am. i'm very excited. i appreciate it. >> it's time. so we've got -- here's the whole peanut gallery. husband and the kids. keep your blindfolds off until i give you the green light, okay? here is dawn vieira before. let's see the new you. oh. wow. wow, wow, wow. hold on. family, are you ready? take off your blindfolds. all right, all right. dawn are you ready to see yourself? >> i don't know. >> you look hot. turn around right here and take a look. you look hot. that is a sexy haircut. louis, tell us about the hair? >> this is the most perfect haircut for dawn, be

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next up is a very funny chuck knight seen every work on "word's dumbest." andz drew trees and andrew is married with a toddler. our single man in the house is master matchmaker and host of "tough love." mr. steve warren. welcome to the boys' table. >> he's the only single guy in the group. >> i'm here with elizabeth with florida and she has a question about women taking control. >> why is it that men have an issue with women who take control? we all know they get lost and need guidance, so what's the issue? >> there you go. guys do have an issue with that. >> don't you call that marriage. >> the whole thing with the control is the gloating about taking the control. it's kind of like, you know, we have roles we have to play. make us think that we're in control. kind of let us think it's our idea. so just a subtle suggestion. >> don't brag if you're right. >> i don't think guys mind if a woman takes charge and it makes their lives easier and they doentd have to sweat it out. >> that's the single guy. >> yaeshgs sounds like a good idea, until it actually happe