[applause] and i invite you all back to mauro for the sessions tomorrow as well. >> yeah, tomorrow, there's more to marlo. [laughter] step we are the warm-up act. [laughter] host [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the minute the wall street firms were in business of harvesting americans for home equity value and making loans against it, there was a natural risk of abuse. >> sunday, michael lewis on the subprime mortgage crisis. his latest is "the big short." michael lewis, 8 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. >> this weekend, john dean is our guest on "in depth," author of 10 books. sunday, live at 12:00 eastern on cspan-2's "booktv." >> flexible policies make employees more productive. in stead of spending time about what is happening about home, employees have peace of mind to concentrate on work. >> on the new video library, you can click it, watch it, and share it. every c-span program since 1987. the c-span video library, cable's latest gift to america. >> now, a discussion on economic issues in the u.s.

[applause] and i invite you all back to mauro for the sessions tomorrow as well. >> yeah, tomorrow, there'smore to marlo. [laughter] step we are the warm-up act. [laughter] >> the opening act. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> .. now part of a conference on media regulation in the first amendment hosted by the federal communications bar association. this nearly 90 minute channel focuses on the future of journalism. >> welcome to this part of today's conference. i am president of the radio at television news association. a hush fell over the rim so i thought you were probably ready to get going here. our topic today does sound rather daunting, the future of journalism, is it time for a bailout? journalists and news consumers recognize this is a time of tremendous change and in how news is gathered and delivered. americans are getting more news from a wider variety of sources than ever before but at the same time the digital revolution is demolishing some of the pillars of

don't want to get into whether open access is a success or failure but when people have a choice of 13 mauro band searches, that is good success. we can argue about that some other time. net neutrality is not about competition. that neutrality is about consumer rejection -- consumer protection. government has to serve as a backstop. we seem to have agreement on that. how do we get to a world of eight competitors? i would love that. had we get to that unless somebody invents technology that allows you to route around wires and government access? >> google is a phenomenal service. it is still might default browser because i think it is terrific. the same innovation that could happen in the application stage will happen in the network o spacve. i had no idea that a harbinger of things would come out. they came out as a really effective competitor in the wireless space. when clearwater came to the door, we did not know that wimax would have a run for their money. >> the fcc put retractions on who you could least two. your company is upset about it and at&t are very upset about it. that was an ex

[applause] and i invite you all back to mauro for the sessions tomorrow as well. >> yeah, tomorrow, there'se to marlo. [laughter] step we are the warm-up act. [laughter] >> the opening act. [inaudible conversations]