murrows in this audience? we need you now more than ever to help sustain our democracy, good, honest, bold, unafraid, even, on occasion, rambunctious, outrageous journalism, is essential to democracy. murrow once said, "this is no time for fear" and he was right. so young murrows, rise up, rise up. ted and i have done the best we can. now it's your turn. use these modern tools but use them well because otherwise, as murrow once said, it's all just lights and wires in a box. so that's it for now. i'm marvin kalb, quoting murrow once again, good night and good luck. [applause] [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> as you've been warned, this is your time to ask questions. there are two microphones. i see one over there and one over here. if you get up to ask a question, that's going to be fine. please identify yourself and the idea is to ask a question. don't make a speech because i'll you off. i'll be very nasty. why don't we start here

murrow -- are there any new edward r. murrows? we need that. journalism is essential to democracy.e once said, this is no time for fear, and he was right. rise up. ted and i have done the best weekend. now it is your turn. use these modern tools, but use them well. now once again, good night, and good luck. [applause] you have been warned. this is your time to ask questions. there are two microphones. i see one over there. if you get up to ask questions, that is fine, and the idea is to ask a question. do not make a speech, because i will cut you off. i will be very nasty. why don't we start off on the right? >> how are you doing? can you assess the coverage of the israeli-palestinian conflict? is it clear who is doing the best job? >> there has been a war going on in gaza for well over 10 years now. it has cost more than $5 million. 5 billion people alive died of starvation, disease, have been driven into the jungle, more than 5 million people. we have barely even noticed it. i mention that because journalism is frequently affected by national interest. to the degree the perceptio

murrow -- are there any new edward r. murrows? we need that. journalism is essential to democracy. he once said, this is no time for fear, and he was right. rise up. ted and i have done the best weekend. now it is your turn. use these modern tools, but use them well. now once again, good night, and good luck. [applause] you have been warned. this is your time to ask questions. there are two microphones. i see one over there. if you get up to ask questions, that is fine, and the idea is to ask a question. do not make a speech, because i will cut you off. i will be very nasty. why don't we start off on the right? >> how are you doing? can you assess the coverage of the israeli-palestinian conflict? is it clear who is doing the best job in hamas and the wars do not get coverage. and now -- is it clear of who is doing the best job? >> there has been a war going on in gaza for well over 10 years now. it has cost more than $5 million. 5 billion people alive died of starvation, disease, have been driven into the jungle, more than 5 million people. we have barely even noticed it. i mention

murrow thing, his resistance to television, or to the visual was that as soon as you put a visual on top of a sound, you skew the meaning. and that is not his words, but that is sort of my -- >> it pure imagination, radio the actor in the studio is wearing his own clothes, imagining he is in a house, you in your home are managing a scenario with probably a different set of clothes or maybe no clothes at all sometimes. whereas as soon as you put it in a setting theatrical or film set then you are imposing an image. >> rose: but does it make intimacy harder? >> yes. >> what, theatre. >> honestly when you said you feel safer in theatre i was like whoa, because i feel the opposite. i feel much safer in film. because theatre, there is so many unknowns. every night it's 900 unknowns. that are thrown into the mix. and in film, it's me and the actor and we're in the place, i can talk to you like-- i can just see, like that. and i can -- >> but then after you have done that, somebody goes away, cuts that, puts music over it, they can do anything you like to your performance after you left on

you could not comment on an edward murrow post in the past. you are right. we need better, stronger her, more interesting coverage of these institutions of these big changes of these scandals. you cannot pick and choose an outrage and think that is the whole thing. twitter is not delivering the information. sources like me and others who are providing a way to organize the information differently. do not think of twitter as 140 characters of information. think of as an invitation to get deeper into a subject. it is allowing people to connect and share information extremely well. >> i am curious rethink how occupied wall street's to change the conversation in the media about income inequality and wealth redistribution. it taught people how to document what happened at different encampments. it did a good job of how to videotape the police -- we have tremendous problems in san diego with police breaking up the occupied demonstrations. i was overwhelmed with a lot of different things that came up. i am curious as to how you think they changed the conversation i

murrow. i ended it shortly after afghanistan, at the state department public diplomacy officer with a press officer who had never ever worked with the press nor spoke dari. i'm wondering if those of you in the networks ever noticed that u.s. i a went away and if you think that that was part of the weakening of the ability to report stories with great objectivity overseas? >> marvin and i became friends after i came back from three years in indochina and was assigned to the state department as diplomatic correspondent. i have been blessed throughout my television career with having marvin kalb and bernie calvin as competitors. and as you may imagine, you don't travel with people from your own network. you travel with the opposition. and i was really blessed in having these two men as opponents. during the years that we traveled together covering henry kissinger in the middle 80s, we always had someone from voice of america on the plane, and i remember a woman by the name of -- >> marie. >> who

murrow posts in the past.ive interaction with reporters which i think is unprecedented and exciting. but you're right, i mean, we need better, stronger, more interesting coverage of these institutions, of these big changes and of these scandals. it's just that it's, you know, you can't just pick and choose an outrageous thing that's characteristic of the whole thing. now look, twitter is not delivering the information. twitter is sources like me and others who were providing a way to organize that information differently. don't think of twitter as 140 characters of information to think of it is 140 characters to invite people to get deeper into the subject because every tweet has a link. it's a very special medium that is allowing people to connect and share information, extremely well, and things under a lot faster than it would have in the past. >> i'm curious what you think a year out from occupy wall street have their tactics changed this conversation in immediate about wealth inequality, income just to be

murrow when he was going up against mccarthy and if you were to decide to just devoted a show to having someone who supports mccarthy and someone is against him let them both debate it out and be like ok now you guys decide you know that's that's fair that's balanced but ultimately people just get these two talking heads they have nothing but instead he decided to go after and report the facts be a journalist about it and he took them down yes there doesn't there doesn't seem to be any journalists around willing to do that well you know it's funny it's what a colleague of mine and i were just talking about is the whisper cation of the media and he really is a great example you know some of that i certainly hold no ill will toward chuck todd of assembly c. very well respected very well whites most importantly just two weeks ago when you know when romney was running this demonstrably improve we fall says ad in ohio about jeep exporting the production of jeep products to china we're feeling to call it a lie that it's not journalism and so we're seeing it creep from the from fox and from th

but who are the four ledges and murrow's of today? >> when he came on he had been the president of abc sports and we at abc news were terrified of the sky that came in wearing his jongh will sood and his golden bracelets and he was not one of the champions of great journalism. he became bad. he involved in some large measure because he ran against an immovable objects like howard k. smith and frank reynolds. and people who still believed the good journalism was important. he recognized but i will tell you the back story. for about a year before the iran hostage crisis, more knowledge came to us and any time summoning of major importance happens i want to relate night special on that. ten minutes, 15 minutes. i don't care. he initially wanted to get a one-hour newscast at 6:30. the affiliated stations would not belong by the time we got to the iran hostage crisis after about the 15, 16th, 17th day we were running out of time to stay and he said to us i don't care. tell me with the difference is between a city in the shiite. tommy and o

murrow -- are there any new edward r. murrows? we need that. journalism is essential to democracy.time for fear, and he was right. rise up. ted and i have done the best weekend. now it is your turn. use these modern tools, but use them well. now once again, good night, and good luck. [applause] you have been warned. this is your time to ask questions. there are two microphones. i see one over there. if you get up to ask questions, that is fine, and the idea is to ask a question. do not make a speech, because i will cut you off. i will be very nasty. why don't we start off on the right? >> how are you doing? can you assess the coverage of the israeli-palestinian conflict? is it clear who is doing the best job? >> there has been a war going on in gaza for well over 10 years now. -- congo for well over 10 years. it has cost more than $5 million. -- 5 million lives. 5 billion people alive died of starvation, disease, have been driven into the jungle, more than 5 million people. we have barely even noticed it. i mention that because journalism is frequently affected by national interest

so when eldridge and lacey murrow game concerned about how much this bridge might move, they hired berto conduct some studies. >> as part of his study, f he sets up film cameras a few weeks after the bridge opens to kpture its movements. several weeks later the same cameras capture the drama of the movements as they unfold. >> the phenomenal thing is we're watching steel and concrete twisting 20 times a minute. as the twisting increased, light polls began to dance back and forth but to snap off the suspender cables that went from the bridge deck to the main suspension cable itself began to snap. >> and then the unimaginable happens. the massive steel structure bends, whips and contorts so violently that it collapses into the rushing water below. both make it off the bridge alive, but not tubby. he's still in the backseat when the structure gives way. the bridge failure makes news all across the world. >> the tacoma narrows bridge dedicated in 1940 was the pride of the northwest. four months after it was opened those winds sent it into a rhythmic dance of death. >> very early in the proc

murrow, bob schieffer. >> all right. >> tom brokaw. >> if it ain't brokaw, you don't fix t. >> jose diaz-balart. [ speaking in spanish ] >> you'll be the first to know. >> hoda and kathie lee. >> we've been drinking since since the midterm. >> and me -- >> patrick stewart. >> "the daily show" election night coverage, this ends now. >> okay. did you see us? >> yeah. >> we were excellent. that was the most work. >> do we get paid for that? okay. there is a professional cuddler out there, you guys, a weird story. you want to know who is right and who is wrong first? that gnocchi, the squirrel. >> the squirrel. >> gotten so many of these political -- campaign -- he has called them, called the race the right way. >> there were two bowls of nuts, one for president obama, one for governor romney and he was supposed to pick the nuts and the nuts he ate were the winner. >> he ate more of the governor's nuts. [ laughter ] >> anyway, and also jimmy fallon's dog was incorrect. >> gary the girl was wrong, too. a lot of people were wrong a lot of people. just shows you how these things skew so weirdly. it ai

. >> the white house spokesman saying today the acting cia director mike murrow is perfectly capable of stepping in and answering those benghazi-related questions, shep. >> shepard: last night, somebody raided paula broadwell's home. what was that about. >> fbi agents raided the home. they were seen taking evidence bags and computer hard drives from that house. she was first interviewed by the fbi about her relationship with general petraeus in september. and then again in early november. lawmakers are now questioning the timing of events, especially this unfolding at a lightning pace but only after the election. >> well, i think there is enough room for suspicion here. and a great example is after conducting this investigation for so long, why would the raid on the lady's house just happen this week. if this investigation had been going on for months. i think the fbi has a lot of questions to answer administration officials say the timing is what is it is, shep. >> shepard: it was a nice photo op. catherine herridge in washington tonight. the florida social light joe kelley is a fri

i really do believe in something don taught me and murrow taught him. don produced the news with walter cronkite. you cover any story you believe it is important and you make it interesting. it is on the reporter. it is not about, i will avoid that story because the audience does not want it. our numbers may go down. or, the younger demographic will not like it. that bothers me even more. you want to do stories anybody wants, every age group. if you make it interesting, and i love it when somebody says, i watched "60 minutes" on sunday and i did not expect i would like that story. you sucked me right in. we have a real benefit to be able to offer three very different alternatives. we can do a story about the president followed by a story about a writer, followed by a story about a flood or an adventure in some far off place that mixes well with what we have done earlier. if you did not like that, you might like that. we try to get you to stay around. we work really hard at that process. it is part of our tradition. it is 45 years of "60 minutes." the wa

murrow every weekend. world war ii. he was in on the invasion of okinawa.le to get on a satellite phone and talk to him while standing on that beach and i asked him, you know, grandpa what were you thinking because, you know, i was overcome with emotion just crying thinking about what that must have been like. he said i was 19 years old, i was trying to live to be 20. still gets me kind of emotional. but that was the greatest generation. those were strong men and women and we owe our lives to them every day. >> clearly an emotional idea for you, i suspect for many of those warriors you're a hero but clearly for you they are the hero. >> there's no question. it is amazing when they tell you man i'm such a big fan, you're my idol or what have you. i flip that around on them and say no you're the hero. >> let me talk to you about another hero of yours. ted williams. why ted williams? >> i was originally a baseball player. i wanted to be a professional baseball player. i always admired the fact that he was probably the greatest blend of power and just pure hitt

murrow and his team. >> when you watch a great flood it seems futile to see puny men pitch their strengthst the water. >> reporter: a north sea storm surge swept through the streets and villages of east of london killing more than 300 people. >> all week long they've been pulling bodies out of these waters and they found bodies entangled in trees and lying on roofs naked, their clothes torn off by the wind. >> reporter: with millions living in low-lying london city planners knew it could have been worse. they also knew it was likely to happen again unless drastic action was taken. they went big. looking across this massive structure you get the impression it's been designed against a once in a lifetime surge. since the teams barrier went up in 1982 these gates have been raised 119 times to protect the city. >> that's 119 times that there was a risk of the river going over into central london. >> that's quite a lot. >> it is. by virtue because of london. >> reporter: london's defense system is second in size to the netherlands. that same storm killed 2,000 people in the 1953 floods. also p

i really do believe in something don taught me and murrow taught him.nkite. you cover any story you believe it is important and you make it interesting. it is on the reporter. it is not about, i will avoid that story because the audience does not want it. our numbers may go down. or, the younger demographic will not like it. that bothers me even more. you want to do stories anybody wants, every age group. if you make it interesting, and i love it when somebody says, i watched "60 minutes" on sunday and i did not expect i would like that story. you sucked me right in. we have a real benefit to be able to offer three very different alternatives. we can do a story about the president followed by a story about a writer, followed by a story about a flood or an adventure in some far off place that mixes well with what we have done earlier. if you did not like that, you might like that. we try to get you to stay around. we work really hard at that process. it is part of our tradition. it is 45 years of "60 minutes." the way we do it has changed very little. do

i really do believe in something don taught me and murrow taught him. don produced the news with walter cronkite. you cover any story you believe it is important and you make it interesting. it is on the reporter. it is not about, i will avoid that story because the audience does not want it. our numbers may go down. or, the younger demographic will not like it. that bothers me anymore. -- even more. you want to do stories anybody wants, every age group. if you make it interesting, and i love it when somebody says, i watched "60 minutes" on sunday and i did not expect i would like that story. you sucked me right in. we have a real benefit to be able to offer three very different alternatives. we can do a story about the president followed by a story about a writer, followed by a story about a flood or an adventure in some far off place that mixes well with what we have done earlier. if you did not like that, you might like that. we try to get you to stay around. we work really hard at that process. it is part of our tradition. it is 45 years of "60 minu