the book was named one of the 10 best of the year by the "new york times." also tonight, emmy-winning actress roseanne barr stops by. she's out with a new book, "roseannearchy". [captioning made possible by viewers like you -- thank you] >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> to everyone making a difference. >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis smiley to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to empowerment. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: dr. siddhartha mukherjee is a cancer physician at the columbia university medical center and an assistant professor of medicine at columbia. his text on cancer has become one of the most talked about books on the subject in recent memory. the "new york times" best-seller is called, "the emporer of all maladies," a biography of cancer. dr. mukherjee, thank you for your work

"the new york times reported -- "the new york times" reported in november there were 15,000 private-sectorted, 80% for temporary jobs. 26% of all jobs last year. you can see that figure for the whole of last year there, considerably higher than recent decades. athens, alabama, jennifer, good morning. caller: many of the new hires in the postal service are coming in as temporary employees. becoming a full-time carrier will take me another eight years. everyone coming in is making half of the pay that i would make elf for probably the same work. it is not just affecting small businesses, but the big government is doing it as well. host: many folks are looking ahead to 2011. in the papers today, the chief economist at moody's called for the economy to gain traction in the new year. host: pennsylvania, dominick, hello. caller: we are seeing the future of america. with the increase in temporary jobs. this is the future of the united states because of the regulation, outsourcing, and both political parties selling out the middle class in this country. controlling large corporations, they do noth

he writes for the "new york times" magazine all the time. because he's talented. you're talented and a great journalist, you'll do ok. >> this matters a great deal. recalled us. i had a similar career to david halberstam. i was a copy boy at the "new york times," caring around pieces of papers. i was one of the last of the boys in america. i went to the north va pilot at age 22 and was suddenly covering a school busing as a person who recently got out of high school, really. i do not have kids. i did not have a family. i had no idea what it was like to be an adult in our society. i was sitting there trying to tobussing in the south -- trying to interpret busing in the south to an entire community of people. i was way over my head. nothing wrong with it. i have put many young people in places better way over their head. newspapers for people who do not have families, in their early 20's, and have no idea about life, i think newspapers would be more poor for it. >> i think the young journalists like nick will grow into that as well. >> they leave and nobody comes ba

it is on "the new york times" page a19. here is "the washington times." wall street journal" -- new york, janet on the line for democrats. good morning. caller: we the people in america need to look at it. it is not about democrats and republicans. it's about common sense. we've not had a balanced budget for 10 years. there are lots of things that have to be done. we need to look at it as people and not so much fragmented. yes, there is waste, fraud, and abuse that needs to be corrected. there's a situation where we are not taxing companies out of our country. tariffs have to be increased. this is an issue that we have to stop blaming and stop trying to fragment and unite as a people in this country. we have to understand that obama is not the reason that all this is happening. we've had a deficit for many years. we're always glad to have a deficit. we can do better. we must do better. everybody has to be open. there has to be some compromises. government programs, yes, have to be cut. there's a lot of waste and abuse. the rich have to be taxed more. thos

all of you have been in main stream outlets, whether nbc news, new york times.hat is it like to be the raisin in the buttermilk? you can write that one down. what's that like? >> at nbc, i think there is definitely -- they get it a lot more. they understand it much better, that you need to be a little more diverse, particularly in the newsroom. nobody is perfect but there is a good mix and i'm in those big meetings when they're deciding what stories are going out. but i think it's very important, and i think that, you know, look, america is diverse as we've been talking about and i think it's important the newsroom reflects america. not just our skin but what we think. >> what's also interesting is all of you, in response to the lack of diversity, didn't just complain about it, you found new spaces to offer your vision of the world. how important has it been for this next generation of african-americans to craft new media spaces to articulate their vision? >> i think it's been incredibly important. for so long, only a few were allowed in. now you don't even have

david carr writes about what could be in store for 2011 in the "new york times" today. i am pleased to start the new year with david carr back at this table. welcome. >> nice to be with you, charlie. >> rose: how was your holiday. >> it was exquisite. i went to minnesota. you have to put on a spacesuit to make your way around there but it was air force basely lovely. >> rose: did you sbrun the coen brothers up there? >> i do not see the coen brothers but i saw the wonderful movie they made with matt damon. >> rose: it's great, isn't it? we call that "true grit." >> you keep thinking there's going to be a frying pan coming out of the side and it's going to turn into some weird wild card... but it's just a straight up wonderful western. >> rose: as someone said it's the dude meets the duke. >> (laughs) >> rose: bridges meets wayne. >> right. >> rose: what do we expect? where are we going? what do you know that you can help us... >> i think there are ways to get a look at where we're heading. i know that you are somebody who looked at the ipad early on... >> rose: here with

they come from everyone to be here in new york's times square. ing to go out on a limb and say it's hard not to be having a good time on new year's eve. the music has been blaring, live acts on the stages entertaining all the crowds. everyone is in a really great move as the last hours of 2010 foed away and we get ready for 2011. cnn will be covering all the festivities here in times square. anderson cooper is going to be at the helm starting at 11:00 p.m. eastern. joined by kathy griffin. it's going to be a great night. you know there will be lots of the ununexpected frngs lots of fun, a whole lot of excitement. i'll be down here in the crowd. we'll have it all to come as the crystal ball drops just before midnight and the confetti rains down from the sky. it's going to be a fabulous night everyone. this is the only show you want to be watching. so stay with us. back now to "larry king live," a special show just for you. >>> we're at 919 parish place apartment a, philadelphia. the grow-up home for bill cosby. >> it was very, very small and i brou

at least at the times we're certainly trying to. >> brown: bill keller, editor of "the new york times", thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> lehrer: and, finally tonight, the analysis of shields and brooks-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. president obama has made his statement about egypt and we're going to run an excerpt of it in a moment. and in fact, we're going to do it right at this moment. >> good evening, everybody. my administration has been closely monitoring the situation in egypt and i know that we will be learning more tomorrow when day breaks. as the situation continues it to unfold, our first concern is preventing injury or loss of life. so i want to be very clear in calling upon the egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors. the people of egypt have rights that are universal, that includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech and the ability to determine their own destiny. these are human rights and the united states will stand up for them everywher

. >> rose: we conclude this evening with david carr, the media watcher for the "new york times" on media in a new age. >> everybody's got video. everybody's got text. everybody's got audio. so these days when now i'm going to make a television show, now i'm on the radio, now i'm in print, it's all getting mashed together so that the sort of historical verticals of media-- what's the television business, what's the web business-- i think they're going to start going away. >> rose: a state visit from china, the search for palestinian statehood, and news media in 2007 when we continue. maybe you want school kids to he mo exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a difference. >> rose: we begin evening looking at the relationship between ina and the united states. the president of china, hu jintao, is scheduled to v

the story behind the story of the relationship between wikileaks leader julian assange and "the new york times" from "times" editor bill keller. >> i have labeled him an

"the new york times" talks about the debate and the different aspects of its that you probably heard if you tune into c-span yesterday. here is the news analysis section of "the new york times ." "the cost of new benefits in the health care law would be more than offset by revenues from new taxes and by cuts in projected medicare spending, reducing future deficits. repealing the law would add $ 230 billion to the federal deficit from 2012 to 2021. republicans dispute that." "lawmakers may find it difficult to follow through with some aspects of the law. if the cuts do not take hold, the cuts of the law could soar." it also says "the white house and congressional democrats say it could create jobs so employers would have more to spend on wages and hiring. they say the law provides tax credits to help many small businesses. representative sam graves, chairman of the committee on small business, says the law could cost the economy 1.6 million jobs." bloomfield, new mexico. mary on the line for republicans. caller: i think it needs to be repealed. they did not address some of the very big

this from the front page of "the new york times." turning to laws to curb unions. pointing out that faced with growing budget deficits -- the elected officials from maine to alabama are pushing new laws is listen to limit the powers of labor unions.

if you read paul krugman's columns in "the new york times," krugman, and he's right, keeps calling for another bailout, another stimulus plan to create jobs instead of jobs bill which was just passed which turns out in fine print to be $15 billion of tax credits from corporations and krugman is right. the end of the column a few weeks ago said i'm terrified, i am terrified. but we are not going to get that money. we are not going to get another chance. we took $12 trillion handed it speculators who were sitting on that and gambling on currency. in the 17th century in europe, speculators were hung. a was a crime. [applause] line against the death penalty, but hanging until choking i could embrace. [laughter] he was obsessed with the breakdown of liberalism at the end of the 19th century in czarist russia. that's what demons is about and notes from underground is about. notes from underground is probably philosophically the most important look for our time. is this about the rational liberal defeated dreamer who went to all of the obama rallies and chanted yes we can and then was betraye

he writes for the new york time magazine all the time. if you're a talent and a great journalist, you're going to do ok. >> i think this matters a great deal because if, and i do recall. i had a very similar -- i was thinking i had a very similar career to david. afse copy boy, yes, i was one of the last copy boys in america. i went at age 22 covering school busing as a person who had just recently gotten out of high school by any definition. and i didn't have kids or a family, no idea what it was like to be an adult in our society and i was sitting there trying to interpret busing in the south to an entire community of people. i was way over my head. nothing wrong with it. i think young people do a great job. i put many young people into places where they were way over their head. but if nipses are only people who don't have families in theirerly 20s and have no idea, i think newspapers will be poorer for it. i think that's great. i was one of those guys but i don't think it's enough. >> but i also think the young nicks are going to grow

tavis: "new york times" best seller peter bergen has a new one out called "the longest war, the enduring conflict between america and al qaeda." peter bergen, thafpks for the text and the -- thanks for the text and the opportunity to talk to you about it, sir. >> thank you. tavis: next, best-selling novelist kim edwards. stay with us. kim edwards is an award winning novel ifflet whose first book "the anymorery -- novelist whose first book was "the memory keeper's daughter." second novel "the lake of dreams." good to have you on this program. >> i'm so glad to be here. tavis: honored to have you. i saw where you were quoted as why you loved "the memory keeper's daughter" you think "the lake of dreams" is even stronger. how do you come stronger than "the memory keeper's daughter,"? pretty good number one. >> you always want to challenge yourself as a writer and artist. and i learned from "the memory keeper's daughter" so i feel like i moved forward as an artist with this one. tavis: how does it work when you start a dream like "the lake of dreams" before "the memory keeper's daughter" whic

while the paper back came out on january 30th of this year and since out it's been on the new york times best seller selling over 700,000 copies now. and it's one man's mission to promote peace. and they're still baffleed manhattan because they're scratching their heads the first month because there's only - well no big city book editor did it so to be a best seller you need new york times or the chronicle or boston globes to give you good book reviews. no national t.v. or, m pr so paul said what's going on out there. i said, you know this is what i think it's about book clubs and women's groups, synagogues, mosques and churches and an incredible amount of book clubs here in the bay view area and about people yearning for piece and looking for the answers of peace. any ways it's been really incredible and aspire together see people from all walks of life i really think can re late to promoting peace one child at a time. we got some news last month that the pentagon purchased 5,000 copies. let me finish it. and it's for counter intelligence training, 101 and mandatory reading for they're

eyeballs every time "the new york times" and "the wall street journal" combine over a 24 hour time period. you are biased as well. do not say that times are bad. i hear that around the world. russia, bangladesh. do you? >> radical web sites supporting puppets. >> let's address diversity. a thank-you. he mentioned, i guess, paraphrasing, there's not much diversity in the local media. sandy, what would you like to say about -- maybe i should ask one of the professors. our people caller coming into journalism as frequently as you would like to see? >> we do a census every year, the association of news editors , and pretty much what they have found is that the numbers of minorities is still flat. even with a large exodus of people out of the business, there has not been much growth, about 12%. by no means is that there and i think even in my own experiences in this room, it can be very difficult to change the culture of thinking about stories that involve minorities. >> jeanne? did you want to add anything? >> there is a study put out every year by ball state university from the news director

now, these are books that spent the most time at the top of "the new york times" bestseller list in 2010. number one, justin halpert, stuff my dad says. eleven weeks on "the new york times" bestseller list as number one. john holloman and mark halpert, game change, seven weeks. michael lewis, big six weeks. george w. bush, number one for five weeks. i'm laura bush, number one for four weeks. she went on a pretty extensive book tour as well, didn't she? >> guest: she did. she did. her book has been out since may i believe. and bush's book has only been out since the second week of november i believe. so keep in mind some of these books have and how that went to go. "the immortal life of henrietta lacks" has been out for a few weeks. >> host: before we get the calls, let's talk about game change by john heilman and mark halpert. >> guest: i'm sorry, i'm not that familiar with that boat. >> host: one of the political bios of barack obama in the campaign of she doesn't need. another one that came out about barack obama, and other biography was david remnick scum of the life and rise of rock

call for more civil discourse with sean wilentz, the princeton professor, ross douthat of the "new york times," and george packer of the "new yorker" magazine. we conclude this evening with a conversation and some music from patti smith. ♪ yes i was free, if i needed nobody ♪ it was beautiful it was beautiful. >> rose: the president's speech and patti smith when we continue maybe you want school kids to have more exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a difference. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: president obama led a community and a nation in grief last night. in a 32-minute address at the university of arizona, the president remembered the victims of last saturday's shootings. he told the stories of all who perished, he asked for prayers for the wounded. he commended those who risked their lives to save others and he urged americans to return to a mor

checking his facts critics of miller obviously jumped on this statement many still follow her new york times reporting on the run up to the iraq war for helping push that myth that iraq had w m d's now when it was revealed that there were no w m d's after the us had already invaded really was question about her reporting and she told michael massing author of the book now they tell us the following she said my job as a reporter wasn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself but to tell times readers what the government thought about iraq's arsenal to jude it just takes all the resources at their word never double check the facts what is saw and is totally wrong here just think maybe if she would have done her job we may not have been involved in the iraq war since two thousand and three we would have lost more than forty seven hundred soldiers maybe if julian assange and wiki leaks were around back in two thousand and three due to actual reporting this war may have never happened. now there's still much more to come on today's show so big name

. >>> and this morning, "new york times" reports the library of congress has begun taking possession of some 200,000 original recordings dating from the mid-20s to the late '40s. the bequest contains music from every major genre of that era including jazz, blues, country and pop. >>> now a look at how wall street will kick off today. the dow opens at 11,674 after falling 22 points friday. the s&p dipped two points and and the nasdaq lost 6. taking a look at overseas trading this morning in tokyo. the nikkei was closed for a holiday, but in hong dong, the hang seng dropped 159 points. >>> after friday's less than impressive december jobs report failed to fill the recent rally, cautious investors turn to signs of hope. fourth quarter earnings season kicks off today. as always, a little maker alcoa will lead the pack after the bell. also ahead this week, intel and j.p. morgan chase will weigh in with their quarterly reports. we'll get updated inflation data from both consumer and producer price reports, and the government releases its take on last month's retail sales. >>> overseas this

covering the week, david wessel of the "wall street journal," peter baker of the "new york times." doyle mcmanus of the "los angeles times." and carol tumulty of the "washington post." gwen: good evening. it couldn't have gotten any fancier in washington this week. ruffles and red carpets and famous faces and lots and lots of hand shakes. the obama administration pulled out all of the stops for jintao's visit. also went out of the way to stress the importance of the relationship. >> at a time when some doubt the benefits of the cooperation between united states and china, this visit it also a chance to demonstrate a simple truth. we have an enormous stake in each other's success. >> break down the numbers. why is china considered to be so important? >> it is simply a matter of size. in 2000, the economy of china was smaller than the economy of california. today the chinese put out their numbers this week, china is three times the size of the california economy. this was very much about doing business. my favorite line was the president said to jintao, we want to sell you all kind of

time. so the book pretty much wrote itself. c-span: the new yorker excerpted the part on bill clinton, time magazine wrote a major piece, the new york times reviewed it. there's lots more. does that surprise you? guest: no, it doesn't. it doesn't, because whether you like or dislike richard nixon, whether you respect him or not, there's no denying that nixon was one of the most powerful and controversial people to ever run this country in the 20th century. so there's no ignoring richard nixon, and he continues to fascinate us. c-span: you worry that people in the future wouldn't want you around them because they would think a book will come out of a relationship? guest: well, i'm not doing this ever again, regardless of who i work for, because this was a very unique experience for me, particularly because i was so young. and it's something that i wanted to do for my own reasons and to contribute to nixon's legacy. so i'm done doing this c-span: so you're -- what? -- 22 to 26 while you're working for him? guest: twenty-one -- 21 to 25. c-span: 25. anybody amazed, you know, around you? your family? how many brothers and sisters do you

in a huge fan of a reporter from the "new york times." george packer has done some great stuff for "the new yorker." another reporter for the "new york times" has done some great work. one great thing that he does -- i do this much less successfully than he does. he tells the story. you know these people. years and years of deployment after deployment. you want to tell the human story. talked-about the extraordinary number of casualties. that reporter really brings it home. i ran into him when i was in afghanistan. when you see these things, you cannot believe they are happening every day. people have no idea. it is extraordinary. >> how many years now with abc? >> this will be my 13th year with abc. >> and the job you had? the pentagon for how many years? >> the pentagon with abc. i covered the white house for about three years. i started covering the pentagon in 1993. >> the secretary of defense that you really new? >> i knew secretary william perry. that was during the bosnia years. secretary gates. william cohen. we have been through a

i pay for "the new york times" and presumably "the new york times" pays for the other subscriptions i get in the office. but i also consume a lot of media that comes to me for free because i have my computer turned on all day and i am on the internet for hours and hours a day and there i am receiving the volatile information to me for really nothing. and so i realize -- >> host: of course if you are not paying for it you are the product. in other words what is being sold is your eyeball -- >> guest: that is entirely true. when you're watching broadcast television you are paying per hour, 18 minutes in time and that's why broadcast tv had such a problem with tivo or cable tv with tivo because it allows you to the race the ads and if you the race the ads the business model falls apart, but yes, you are paying in time. >> host: i think it is a strange thing as we go through our lives there are certain magazines i subscribe to that i would gladly pay for the i don't read it that frequently. but i don't sit around and think i wasted that $20 that so much of what you see on line is for free

new york times best seller crediting mortson came to talk about his book. cup of tea. . he talked about the penny for peace campaign. the provides education for the communities of pakistan and afghanistan. >> i came back to america, i was broke after k 2. i had to raise 12 thousand dollars. and i didn't know how a clue of how to raise money like that. i went to the local library. any librarians here? let's give them a big hand. [applause] so, i went to the library, i talked to the librarian we looked up 580 cell rities and sports heroes. over 3 months i hand typed 580 letters and wrote dollar michael jordan and dear mr. stalone. guess what happened? nothing. at christmas i got a check from tom brocaw for a hundred dollars. i sold my car a buick for 500 dollars in a seedy area in oakland. by spring i raised 200 dollars. my marth was a principal at an elementary school. she invited me to talk to the kids. when i was leaving a fourth grader looked me in the eye and said, i have a piggy bank at home and i will help you raise money for the school in pakistan. i didn't think a

the shooting, which had no connection to her what to overcome her name was linked in the ap, "new york times," all over the airwaves, linking her and other conservatives with the shooting spread this is a species that should never had to be made there was never a shred of evidence about any connection. by mid-week, we learned from a friend of the shooter, loughner, he did not listen to political radio, did not watch tv news. he was not interested in the news, not in the politics, was not of left or right. this was an act of probably a paranoid schizophrenic. there's no question he was acting under mental illness. not a shred of evidence. why did her name come up? those who brought it up are the ones who have to answer to that that was calumny, and i am waiting for apologies from those who raise that name from the beginning. >> sarah palin is a central figure, and that whole thing of "blood libel," there was intense reaction. >> i agree with charles that there is certainly no evidence she is linked -- he is linked with her in any fashion. however, once she chose to make a video, then she bear