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"mccabe and mrs. miller" reinvented the western.s like "pink panther" and "airplane" and "saturday night fever" said to have created a whole new kind of movie musical. with this year's selections, there are over 550 movies on the national film registry. it's more than the library of congress can store in washington so it's built a special cold storage facility in virginia, now holding over a million films. among this year's rare gems, one of the first motion pictures ever made called "newark athlete" from 1891 and this san francisco film from 1906 shot a month before an earthquake devastated the city. >> we're trying to preserve it because it's all mostly on very impermanent perishable material. >> you must feel the force around you. >> reporter: and the library of congress is ensuring that the force of these films will be with us forever. joel brown, cbs news, washington. >>> this morning on "the early show," bieber fever, an interview with pop star justin bieber. this is the "cbs morning news." star justin bieber. this is the "cbs

and naturally manifested itself in a way people are trying to tee mccabe with us, with a lot more intensity and often anger and passion and so forth, then 15 years ago or 20 years ago then you would of thought was appropriate. >> what are some of the examples of this phenomenon that you have and the book? >> well, just the commentators on cable news, for example. just one example. is probably the most prominent example, but you can even see it in the rhetoric of written news, particularly commentary, which is extremely intense. certainly you see it in the internet world and the kinds of things that attracts attention and an audience and internet world world are often not sort of neutral disinterested reports of this or that. but, in fact, are rants about something. why is that? why are intelligent people being drawn to that information? that's what i ask we try to answer in the book. >> what do you see as the ultimate outcome for the news industry of the current attention span that the audience has? >> well, i think for young journalists it's a little bit scary, but an exhilarating time. an

. >> and the turning now to washington politics senator mccabe and the tea party as money lawmakers set aside for special projects and. >> john mccain and many complain earmarks are a way to funnel tax dollars to pet projects without oversite. >> earmarks constitute only 1% but that is a big number. once taking over she promised bringing greater transparency to the process. >> first order of business is passing congressional ethics reform. >> today, you can find everyone of the 39,000 earmarks after some congress making requests what they want to spend it on. nancy pelosi wants 1.5s and wants $9 million to clean up the hunter's point ship yard. and barbara lee wants $110 million last year. $41 million to build an extension. >> all of the requests because we need that. our communities deserve that. >> congress woman lee says earmarks are good and in washington d.c. our analyst believes alternatives would be worse. >> won't be called an earmark and this might be a stealth earmark. >> saying members could write qualifications for a government grant so narrow that there would be only one po

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