my name is lauren weiner, this is jackson my 6 month old son and i'm here in favor of expanding the ordinance. i just want to go on record as myself as an environmentalist and beach lover. we pick lots of bags off the beach every single time we're down here. if not for us and our generation, for the children. they have no voice yet and important to give them one here. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisors. on behalf of companies, sunset and golden gate recycling. we are here today to support the plastic bag ordinance. we worked with supervisor's office during the creation of this ordinance, back a few years ago and we're glad to support it this time. and we're glad to support also this amendment. plastic bags continue to be a source of frustration in the recycling program. they get wrapped around the recycling machinery, in between shifts they have to actually climb into the ma veinry with knives and cut the bags out from around the machinery. bags that get through the system and by the sorters end up in bails of paper and lower t

lauren ashburn, we had dominic strauss-kahn accused of groping a maid, anthony weiner aar, acc of sending pictures of his private parts. why is this so much in the media? >> it was like a train wreck. we were here listening to the tape shaking our heads saying, how can these people just go out and deny and deny and deny? you know, it's the entertainment value of it. i've always said it's the peoplization of the media. we all love to see people fail. >> not to say these aren't serious allegations that should be covered. >> no, no, not at all. i'm not saying that. i'm telling you why the media covers what's going to get ratings. what's going to have interest, and these kind of stories have a lot of interest. >> there's also a loss of privacy that's been experienced with the explosion of new media and ways to get information out. it's just simply not possible to keep things secret and to cover up things that in the past you could. >> take the lens of coverage, titillation of famous people plus sexual misconduct equals circulation and ratings, or is there some lasting meaning to the stories?