michael kinsley is one of many voices of doom. on the days i am feeling particularly challenged i turn to a pillow i have from my grandmother -- it reads, a woman is just like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she is in hot water. michael kinsley, as i said, not the only one predicting the death of newspapers. well, i have news for these people. we are not dead yet. we may be in hot water, we are not dead. 75 percent of all the men, women, and children in the washington metro area reed "the post." over a million people for our daily edition and more than 2 million people read the sunday washington post each week, but as more people than watched any redskin game this year, or, for that matter, the super bowl. there is also a lot of hype about how young people don't read newspapers and more. in fact, more washingtonians ages 18-34 -- the washington post printed newspaper then watched american idol. any single daily issue of the post reaches more people than the total weekly audience of any cable tv network, reaches m

. >> host: michael consistence kinsley in time magazining wrote this sunny don't read this stuff. >> host: for strategic and psychological reasons the underground wanted the vietnam war to go on. they wanted the killing and dying to continue and spread along with an narkty, dope, and free sex. >> guest: not true. not true. nothing true about that. >> host: what do you read on a regular basis? >> guest: i read books a lot and i believe in the power of books to change our lives. i was thinking this morning when walking through the book fair that there's a wonderful book that everybody should read and re-read by ray brad bury, fahrenheit 451 because the -- you remember the book. it's about the burning of books and the fire department, the job of the fire department is to go to homes that have books and burn them. and the fire chief, chief batey, explains the problem with books is they offer complexity, that people would be happier if there was nothing complex, if we just saw things simply we would be happier and that's truth to that. it's often said that the unexamined life is not worth