and the "new york times" was founded by the speaker of our state assembly. think about that for a minute. when i suggested at a recent book party at the "new york times" no less that this was a bit like shelly silver owning today's "new york times," our host arthur sulsberger jr. shouted out, the party's over. it's alien to our culture today. the most anti-lincoln, most racist paper in new york was "the daily news," no relation to today's "daily news." if lincoln became president it warned in one particularly vile article in 1860, we shall find negros swarming everywhere. typical racist rant everywhere. who was the editor? the brother of the mayor of new york city. think about that. that's as if margery tiven who is bloomberg's sister and serves as the commissioner for protocol instead had beaten out jill abrahamson for editor at the "new york times." it's totally alien to the relationship between the public and the press today. in fact, when lincoln sought reelection in 1864, his campaign manager was the publisher of the "new york times," henry raymond. and

time on the order of the secretary of state. and imprisoned for 11 weeks. in a prison in the new york harbor. however extreme these actions sound to us today, keep in mind, they chilled very few observers at the time. a grand jury in new jersey thinking this was a swell idea promptly identified five of their own newspapers to be shut down. mobs attacked pro-session newspaper in bridge port, ohio, in bangor, ugly incidents all directed at what people of the day clearly regarded not as loyal opposition but as fifth column anti-unionism. war department -- a third agency involved then contributed an order declaring tighter control of the telegraph office because intelligence was being given directly or indirectly to the enemy through the use of this new technology. as we talk about different press culture, very contentious press culture, there was this new technology that had the same threatening impact on people as julian assange had on the 20th century of the idea of publishing anything any time. the war department placed 154 newspapers on an informal but chilling watch list. as early as april,

silver owning today's "new york times," our host, arthur salzberger jr. shouted out from the back "the party's over." it's alien to our culture today. here's another example. the most anti--lincoln, most race it paper in the new york was the daily news, no relation to today's "daily news." if lincoln became president it warned in one particularly vile article in 1860, we shall find negros among us thicker than blackberries swarming everywhere. typical racist rant of the period. who was the editor of the daily news? he was the brother of the mayor of new york city. so think about that. that's as if marjorie tibbin who is mayor bloomberg's sister and serves as the commissioner for protocol instead had beaten out jill abramson as editor for the "new york times." it just is totally alien to the relationship between the public and the press today. when len con sought re-election in 1864, his campaign manager was the publisher of the "new york times," henry raymond. before that sounds unusual, the publisher of the democratic paper, the new york world, was the ca

and like you said it's this new normal where we're gauging things based on the worst of times not you know a broader look at things and there's this report too from the new york times that the f.c.c. actually has been giving waivers to all of these big big firms that committed fraud three hundred fifty intense as over the last decade but before we go because i just have a minute left i want to ask you about this ron paul story there's an analysis in bloomberg saying that he could be getting the clout he needs to within the republican party bring a lot more attention to the issue of the fed and possibly push for that bigger audit that he wanted or changing the fed's mandate from a dual mandate to you know just the one issue of price stability do you think that we could and should be looking at these measures from the fed while i have no problem with of fed audit i mean we saw the fed basically handed out twenty nine trillion in low interest stories zero interest loans to the financial sector was that necessary we see the fed doing these massive multi hundred billion forex swaps with. other foreign central banks i got no problem with that the elimination of the

isn't this a moment for the "new york times" and others where the question really is two-fold. who cares who donald trump endorses? do you really care? how about not just taking it from sources close to the gingrich camp, which had an obvious interest in spinning this thing. >> maybe we should talk about mitt romney's poor comment. >> it's worse for newt now, right? i think, you know, this gets to the question of how many sources, how much sourcing should editors of all of our different organizations have taken a deep breath and questioned the reporters who were coming back and saying i have a source that says this or that. you know, clearly an embarrassment, i think, for those of us who went with it. >> don't forget that herman cain was going to endorse newt gingrich months before he actually did, and there's been a lot of sort of breathless be the first, be the ones to do this, and it happens all the time on twitter, but when news outlets go with it, it is a problem. >> i'm with jonathan on who cares what donald trump, you know -- >> there's polling in the last couple of days

but i don't think that you know in glenn greenwald pointed out today that it doesn't it's the new york times policy on anonymous sourcing which goes back of course there depakote leading up to iraq or basically says you can't make you cannot quote officials making attacks on people. under the veil of anonymity you either paraphrase them if it's so important you need to get it in but you don't allow them to actually quote something at the same time as you're giving them anonymity so court in the new york times rules they should have done it but it's also i mean it's so it's if this is all about information asymmetry right the government knows what they've been doing with from they've got videos of what they've been doing with drones a couple of journalists go in and fact check it and independently research it and all of a sudden you've got the government you know trying to hide behind this felicity christie again and you know we at the press should not be encouraging that kind of behavior because it just encourages more secrecy. you know i couldn't agree with you more there too and you know a

to actually quote something at the same time as you're giving them anonymity so courting the new york times rules they should have done it but it's also i mean it's so it's if this is all about information symmetry right the government knows what they've been doing with from they've got videos of what they've been doing with drones a couple of journalists go in and fact check it and independently research it and all of a sudden you've got the government you know trying to hide behind this felicity christie again and you know we at the press should not be encouraging that kind of behavior because it just encourages more secrecy. you know i couldn't agree with you more there too and you know as i started the show open here was that for once i actually see the cable media out there doing some real news it's not all just fluff today and there is a lot of news going on in the world but you know if we're going to be covering syria our if we wanted to cover libya and bahrain anywhere i think we also have to take into account what's happening to innocent civilians by our own government. and i mean

because it seemed like the biggest story story of two thousand and eleven you should have been the new york times over five hundred times so that just gives you an idea of how. significant the blackout is and as far as corporate news goes the networks a.b.c. c.b.s. and n.b.c. you have to go back to two thousand and one that was the last time alec showed up network news yeah the unfortunate world that we live in where charlie sheen is the one makes it into the new york times all the time i really fear is jobs here you know your thoughts on this leave the h.s. report that we got the stratfor e-mails were put out there at first glance you look at it and you see that it's been all put together through open source. tiriel right it's just link to articles from the new york times from the guardian from bloomberg it's really a painfully i guess you could say simple it doesn't really seem to have a whole lot of depth to it but aside from that do you find it troubling i mean should we have expected that the h.s. was going to be monitoring occupy movement or at the end of day that's still wrong that they we

marcy thanks so much for joining us tonight before we get into the new york times and you know what the officials are saying here let's just go back to the reports and this investigation the details that were revealed you know how damning and damaging do you think that something like that is but i think one of the things that's most damning about it is that they actually went and they named the civilians that they say have been killed by american strikes so what do you done it is really increase the quality of information that's out there about these strikes as compared to what the cia gives us which is nothing or obama's quote the other day which was you know sloppy or the cia claiming nobody has died or maybe just a few people have died i mean what they've got is really very specific information in and one of the things that i found really important about the report was when they went to see whether people were being killed if they went to rescue people they said we start. with fifteen attacks ten we found credible five we've found not to be credible so it's not like they're going in

time, you're doing the 140 characterings off on twitter. is that something you think about? >> i try not to break news on twitter. i do feel like "the new york times" pays my salary and that if i'm going to break news, i should break news there. in terms of annotating events in progress and giving my opinion about them, i think the value accrues to both my employer and to me. we all go through the math of do i break off what i'm doing in little bitty bits or do i save it all for the newspaper or for the web, and i do think that's math we all have to confront as journalists. >> i think it's a dilemma for journalists and at the same time you want to be part of the rolling conversation on twitter. somebody else says you have written who recently joined twitter is rupert murdoch. he doesn't exactly censor himself for opinions. he's written some nice things about rick santorum's presidential candidacy and took a short at andrew cuomo calling him chicken cuomo. does that raise questions about the news organization that is murdoch controls? >> no. i think that's very congruent with what people expect him to do. i think it's been a good luck into th

this is typical website which is based in sweet i'm not here to make a final judgment but to me new york times has committed at least an act of bad citizenship and whether they've committed a crime i think there's a very intensive inquiry by the justice department. now i've pointed out many times while you might not agree with the methods of wiki leaks or the personality had to tell legal attacks on this organization have impacts on journalists all across the country because guess what they to rely on government leaks take a case of james rising for example last spring the new york times writer and author of the book state of war was subpoenaed to testify at the trial of jeffrey sterling former central intelligence agency officer sterling was indicted in late two thousand and ten on ten felony charges relating to alleged disclosures to rise and for his book state of war i think accused of leaking information about the u.s. efforts to sabotage the iranian nuclear program something which almost seems quite now we have presidential candidates openly calling for offing iranian nuclear scientists n

a seven hundred fifty million dollars building and the biggest of its kind in the world but a new york times report revealed yesterday the state department is now preparing to slash their diplomatic presence possibly by as much as half now this due to what they reportedly see as iraqi obstructionism as of late the iraqi government has made it much more difficult to get visas they've delayed convoys of food and they're working on a bill to impose tougher restrictions on security contractors but what specifically did the new york times see as a good measurement of what more difficult means an embassy life here's a quote within days the salad bar at the embassy dining hall sometimes there was no sugar or splenda for coffee on chicken wing night wings were rationed at six per person over the holidays housing units were stocked with meals ready to eat the prepared food for soldiers in the field. so yeah that one got a lot of laughs yesterday but just how telling is that here's this guy with me is michael o'brien author of america's failure in iraq michael thanks much for joining back on the show

just because you don't mind it's not just conservatives saying that you can look at anyone from new york times poll paul krugman of new york times the cold mist or alan krueger the recent edition right now white every job opening there are for people who are but but the point is that for a job i mean that my my my you go serious about. not only one of the we're not talking about blaming the victim here we're talking about incentives and i'm telling you that it's not just free marketeers who are who who say that an incentive it's a safety net giving people money for doing something will inevitably result in more people doing that and not just certainly depends on how much money you give them this is textbook economics and i say that literally because paul krugman himself has written it into his textbooks that one of the reasons for prolonged unemployment spells in europe were unemployment benefits are much more generous generally is been precisely because of those on what is going to are you get unemployment benefits you get free health care you get free childcare you get out you have nothing t

and brought all of their little editors in and said, you guys think you are writing like the "new york times." you want to aspire to write. we are telling you our company wants you to write like "usa today." something has been lost here. also, again, the profits an perspective and timing is a critical difference between the two fields. >> unless someone has a burning need to respond to that, i'll ask for other questions so we can get in as many as we can. if there are others. yes. s>> david greenburg, rutgers university. a couple of comments. i'm sure all of the panelists know. i want to pick up on the idea that we are talking about earlier. a false balance as a guiding light of journalism. i would suggest this emerged earlier as soon as the moment as objectivity became a moment of reporting. there is a large literature on joe mccarthy in the press. he would put out an outrageous story and people would deny it and would you get both accounts without really time or the capacity to investigate the truth of his claims, but he would continue to maintain the media spotlight. this is not something

the they say the accusations are false. >>> "new york times," new york state is one step closer to keepingcation funding. the state's teachers union reached an agreement on a new evaluation process just hours before governor cuomo's deadline. the governor says he was prepared to enact his own system if the compromise wasn't reached. >>> turning now to our parade of papers. the new jersey star ledger while the threat of governor chris christie's veto looms, the new jersey assembly passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. currently seven states allow gay couples to legally wed. governor christie has been clear he'll veto that bill. >>> with us now, the chief white house correspondent for "politico" mr. mike allen with a look at the playbook. >> well, there was a special request for this on twitter, so happy friday. >> there it is. happy friday. by the way, i should point out on that new jersey story, governor christie wants a statewide referendum to be held on gay marriage. mike, politico on the degree of involvement the speaker of the house had in getting this tax cut deal done. >> yeah,

gadgets that we rely on every day more specifically your i phone see just the other week the new york times released an in-depth report talking to former apple employees and contractors economists manufacturing experts and the like and they concluded that it's not just low wages the drive businesses businesses to take jobs abroad but it's the convenience of the supply chain as well as a larger workforce of mid-level employees and engineers that are more skilled and more adaptable so basically it says that american manufacturing is not coming back because i work for us and our factories simply can't compete but our guest tonight says that this kind of information propels what's known as an education crisis myth and decouples human rights and wages and working conditions and economic policies that enrich the already rich here in this country joining me to discuss it is david sirota talk radio host and author of back to our future how the one nine hundred eighty s. explain the world we live in now david thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess first tell me you know what your beef is

here at "30 rock" in new york city. two-time pulitzer prize winner anthony shadid died yesterday of an apparent asthma attack. he had been inside the country for a week reporting on the violent crackdown against opposition forces by syrian president. the assignment embodied his storied career of challenging and dangerous work from the streets of iraq to the arab uprisings in egypt and tunisia. he survived a bullet wound while reporting in the west bank once and a week-long kidnapping in libya just last year which he described on "morning joe" last year. >> i remember listening to people speaking arabic. and the one man did say shoot them. it felt like a minute to me elapsed but it was probably just a matter of seconds. as you pointed out he said, you can't. they're americans. why that would have necessarily saved us? the only thing that i can gather is that we were somehow worth something to them. one of the more disturbing moments was getting interrogated by our captors. he was asking me in arabic who you are, where did you com

twelve hours a day that's what chinese workers are working in some of the apple plants as the new york times reported so if what companies are really saying is they can't find american workers to work at those slave levels they try to end the sentence by saying base can't find american workers but what again they're really saying is they can't find american workers to work in slave conditions you know with low pay well i mean i i definitely agree with you in the sense that you know what we see in terms of working conditions in china is not something that i think many americans would be interested in but it doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't a problem with our education system just because we're producing people with degrees doesn't necessarily mean that their skills are better rightly so in a lot of statistics out there comparing for example you know fifteen year olds in china versus fifteen year olds in the u.s. and let's say the u.s. ranked. the month paris i'm thirty four a country is in math and china's shanghai exit scares me at brain behind nations and china's shanghai anyway ra

pepe es seÑalado por the new york times como comandante de la industria de casinos.para que el ex presidente del partido demÓcrata de iowa, usara el perdÓn para poder regresar a estados unidos. de acuerdo con la publicaciÓn, carlos y un tercer hermano, alberto rojas cardona habrÍa empezado a recolectar dinero para la campaÑa de obama y del comitÉ. los hermanos habrÍan donado $ 200000. pepe cardona ha jugado un papel importante. sobreviviÓ a un intento de asesinato atribuido a menos del crimen organizado. la campaÑa del presidente obama nos hizo llegar una declaraciÓn a travÉs de su vocera quien dice: "mÁs de 1,3 millones de estadounidenses han donado a nuestra campaÑa y constantemente revisamos estas contribuciones para identificar cualquier problema tan pronto como se presentaron estas preocupaciones devolvimos las contribuciones de los individuos y la de los donantes que reclutaron para esta campaÑa." >> y la portavoz de la campaÑa tambiÉn dijo el correo electrÓnico que nos envió que es importante mencionar que el fugitivo juan josÉ rojas cardona nunca donÓ dinero

every day, and i don't read every word of everything >> smith: yeah. >> moyers: but i read the new york times, the washington post, the wall street journal, the guardian, the independent, and the financial times. those are foreign newspapers. >> smith: yeah. >> moyers: sometimes i will go online. and i'll look at newspapers around the country. wall street journal, austin american statesman, if i have some particular interest in that. but i still, and i read a stack of magazines every week. beside my bed is a large stack of magazines and a lot of clippings, because at night i read late and i rip and read. i put the clippings that interest me. so you can -- these people don't have time to do that. that is my work. you can be informed in this country if you work at it, but you do have to work at it. there is no single newspaper you can read, no single magazine that you can read that will give you enough information to try to reach your own opinion about an important subject, but i am still with the big newspapers. they are still trying, new york times lost a lot of column inches. the washington

to acquire the means with which produce one or the but here's the big secret is not true the new york times revealed on friday all sixteen u.s. intelligence agencies all sixteen believe that iran is not building a nuclear weapon is the first first sentence from the from the new york times article recently by american spy agencies are broadly consistent with a two thousand and seven intelligence finding that concluded that iran. that iran has to. it's that iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier according to current and former american officials the official said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in two thousand and ten national intelligence estimate and it remains the consensus view of america's sixteen intelligence agencies and you've got a whole bunch of people who have come out and said now they're not building a nuclear bomb there they're getting enough nuclear material to go the people around him can get a little nervous which is exactly what they want because george w. bush said axis of evil let's see iraq are we invaded them north korea or they've got the bo

district court judge ruled that the new york times reporter did not have to identify his sources during the trial of x. cia officer jeffrey sterling but the government isn't taking no for an answer they've now formally appealed that decision so now in response a coalition of twenty nine news organizations including the new york times the a.p. newsweek and bloomberg are all coming to rise as defense they filed an abacus brief yesterday the asks the u.s. court of appeals for the fourth circuit to conclude that a so-called reporter's privilege applies to rise in and rule. the government of the brief points out that countless major news stories were broken in the past several decades as a result of leaks from the pentagon papers to the abuses at abu ghraib so that's a move that i think we need to applaud because journalists have to stick together they have to defend each other fight for their rights if they want to be able to keep the public informed without fearing government backlash but even here we have to remember that there's obviously some picking and choosing going on this is after

the new york times and wall street journal. according to the administration, next year's deficit would drop below $1 trillion for the first time in five years, but the government would still be borrowing nearly a quarter on every dollar spent. >>> house republicans are abandoning their demand that the cost of extending the payroll tax cut -- republican leaders are introducing a backup plan to extend the payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year. as part of the offer, they're calling for continued negotiations on unemployment insurance and new talks on preventing a fee cut to medicare doctors known as the doc fix. the gop leadership suggested the decision was due to a lack of compromise from the other side of the aisle. their statement reads in part "unfortunately, to date, democrats refused virtually every spending cut proposed insisting on job threatening tax hikes on job creators and with respect to the need for an extension of the payroll tax cut. time is running short. that's the statement from the leadership on the repub

the last thing apple did is tim cook sent an e-mail saying how furious he was with the new york timestory even though he couldn't contest the charges in it. good to see them reacting. at the same time, i have real questions about the ability of the fla to be independent of apple, when they receive so much money from apple and the other corporate members in them. >> unions are not legal in china. >> that's correct. >> moving forward, what more are you going to do, will you continue your presentation as a monologuity here in new york, what are the future plans? >> we will -- this week we're releasing the text of the monologue online and under an open license, anyone in the world who wants to perform the show in any way, they want to film it, put it on youtube, do it in their communities, can do it anywhere wherever they want free of charge. >> where do they find that? >> my website, mike daisey.com. >> congratul

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the media has woken up and you're start to go see front page stories as we did last week in the new york timesvery, very essential, crucial issue on which a great deal is going to depend. >> yeah, it seems that every time an israeli leader says we have to bomb iran it makes front page news everywhere, what's not getting out is according to rasmussen only 35% of americans support military action against iran. only 51% even would want to help israel and that's the public is not anywhere near where the chattering classes are on this issue. >> that's not media per se, but i think it's a failure of our leadership to be out there educating the people why iran with a nuclear weapon is a direct threat to the united states and an exessential threat to israel and to the united states because it will destabilize the region including our oil supply which means, 5, 6, $8 gas for every american. >> i have an alternate theory. i think that people are tired of going up to war after two wars, ten years, people just are probably like, no. >> but ultimately, i think the media has to ask questions like does it he

sam dillon from the new york times is our guest. walk us through it. if i need a voucher and i'm a state, what is the process? >> the term is waiver. if you want a waiver, you will have to wait until mid-to-late september. the date hasn't been set yet. that's the time when arne duncan will be announcing all the details and all of the fine print that states will need to comply with in order to fill out an application and get a waiver. what they have done so far has been to outline some general principles that they say they will be using and the criteria they will be using and judging the validity of states applications for these waivers. those have roughly corresponded to the documents the administration put out. these are things like commitment to raising teacher quality. commitment to raising the standards in the state and three or four others. >> the state has to say to the government here are my ideas for standards and the government says fine. they will get the waiver? >> kind of, yeah. they have to make a case that they are not just an irresponsib

new york times columnist willia rhoden explains.et us #edshow, we're right back. >>> don't you see how they see you? how they look down their nose at the average americans? these elite snobs. >> elite snobs. wage earners are elite snobs. rick santorum is going radical, changing tactics and a hard right turn. that was not what i heard when i was covering santorum in iowa. this guy has changed. he's gone very absolute, trying to appeal to the right wing voters. his goal, i guess to correct a contrast between him and mitt romney and you know what? it's working. he has romney on the ropes. mitt is scrambling to recover. romney tried to repair the damage from a 2008 op-ed he wrote railing against president obama against the auto loan. it worked the car companies are back at it and romney is left with egg on his face struggling to gain traction in michigan. >> i made the very clear point the companies should have gone through managed bankruptcy. finally the obama administration agreed, i was right. they needed to go through bankruptcy, if

organizations twenty five media organizations and quite noticeably absent are the guardian the new york times the washington post those organizations who they worked with in the past and who i guess you could say they had a falling out with yes the bigger organizations like the new york times and the guardian are no longer partners here we have twenty five media partners that they are working with and they appear to be a lot smaller than the you know new york times but you know they still bring a lot of energy and they bring with them to see to what we do exist trying to do and it allows them to you know prove that they are in fact a publisher and not just some organization that goes out and solaces leaks and so i think no matter how they obtained the material the way that they're going about presenting the information right now is very professional now if it is anonymous which i mean wiki leaks won't say if they got it from anonymous you have a number of people that are giving interviews or online they claim to be you know associated with anonymous or anti sect that say that it was them that