you watched across your career and thom as well in "new york times." back in the day we had bureaus from cbs and "new york times." kimberly was in jerusalem, for example. it seem to me, those are now shrinking and becoming fewer in number. we're now depending more on the stringer, the person that's actually there. we touched on this as well in terms of the impact of the internet and the blogs. how do you think the media is changing with some of the aspects? aboutularly how you think covering, sadly, future wars? >> to give you an example, when i started on the news, getting them was a big story everyday. to tell you today's story we , would tell you the story and show you footage from two or three days ago. then we got videotape. videotape you didn't have to develop. there was a delay but not as much of a delay. then, in the gulf war, i was the executive producer of the weekend news on sunday morning. we had an 11:00 newscast. i remember sitting in the control room. we had a transmitter on a flatbed truck. sitting in the control room while they found th

>>> right now here "on the record" fired new york times executive editor jill abramson to tell us all about her controversial firing. hear what she has to say. first while working at the new york times and after decades of covering presidential administrations abramson calls president obama's white house the most is he retif she's covered. she's not the only one. >> this is not the most transparent administration in history. >> i will make our government open and transparent. >> one thing i want to do is open things up. i want transparency, accountability. >> the white house said we'll do things differently, change washington. they didn't change washington. >> the more transparency we can bring, the less likely it is washington will be run by lobbyists and special interest ares. >> transparency and the rule of law will be the touch stones president. >> he's broken a promise. >> this is the most transparent administration in history. >> joining us, jill abramson. >> great to be here, greta. >> fired because that's the term you want. i read that you like "fired." >> that's what happened

. >> without the internet, even a respected person from the new york times would not have a future because it's income is generated by advertising links. gabrielle dark now works for the guardian newspaper but it was once his job to retain as many new york times readers as possible. but our ability to tell stories has gone from simply print and photographs to interactive to maps, to different types of games, to video and relate to all of those combined. >> this is one of the computer games invented for the new york times. it addresses an issue found in articles in the paper -- the dangers of writing text messages while driving. >> one of the strengths is that it really engages the reader, games or something they actively participate in. as soon as you have one of your readers engaging with your content, it becomes more easy to get them to care more about that content. >> several new york companies specialize in developing computer games for media outlets. one of them is games for change. the most popular article on the new york times in 2013 was not an article i made. it was an interactive

does not want disclosed to the public and based on the boring headline critics believe that the new york times considered a friend of the obama administration wasn't too eager to publicize the amazing school. i story that shows just how much power blackwater wielded in iraq and the culture of impunity operating in. new york. after the threat the intimidated us state department agents tried to stay out of sight in iraq refusing even to eat dinner in public the mercenaries they reported behaved as if they were above the law. the place you were activists you say believes the firm managed to become the government's monster these contractors and these lobbyist are so tied up because of the revolving door that exist in washington and people moving in and out in the bush administration really in an unprecedented fashion accelerated the contracting out of basic tasks by the u.s. government writ large and i think we see that people are afraid to challenge all of these these contractors because they have tremendous influence they have quite a bit of money they're deeply tied to all of these institutions

>> i thought that "new york times" article was very interesting. not only did general alexander's successor michael rogers say you have not heard me as the director say, oh, my god, the sky is falling in contrast to the general alexander's statement saying the compromise was the greatest damage we have ever suffered, but the same "new york times" article pointed to ways that surveillance has actually compromised u.s. security. u.s. companies have been more reluctant to cooperate with foreign intelligence services. chinese hackers are better able to infiltrate our systems because of the back doors that have been inserted into them. foreign leaders are refusing contracts with u.s. companies and the u.s. government. so the new director of the nsa disagree was his predecessor and points to specific and measurable ways in which nsa surveillance has not helped america but has actually hurt us. >> mr. romero, your organization serves as an adviser to edward

>> i thought that "new york times" article was very interesting. not only did general alexander's successor michael rogers say you have not heard me as the

threatened to kill government officials sent to investigate the firm the story broken by the new york times shows the incident was recorded in state department documents all the way back to the iraq war what's worse special agents could do nothing about it because of blackwater's power up the time even the american embassy in baghdad sided with the mercenaries the incident allegedly took place just weeks before one block or unit killed seventeen civilians in the iraqi capital over the years the u.s. government has been accused of using the company to do its dirty work abroad blackwater is believed to have assisted the cia's drone mission in pakistan the government paid millions of dollars to the contractor enough. allowed it to have its own military bases there as well but the spites rebranding in renaming the company has failed to escape its checkered past as marina explains when a newspaper publishes an exclusive story it's usually explicitly promoted like a journalistic badge of honor the new york times published a bombshell revelation monday but millions of readers may have actually ove

the big argument to me is the one that greg raised, which is "the new york times" refused an ad that and islam and they said at the time -- i think they're worried that the terrorists might come after "the new york times" if they ran that ad. okay. but then how are you going to then say it fits your standards and run an ad that goes after the catholics? now, i got to tell you, i think the roman catholic church has a lot of power in this country, and when it comes to the abortion issue, i think they have cooperated with making it a wedge issue that benefits republicans. i don't think there's any question about that. >> but most catholics vote democrat. >> at this point they do. >> so -- >> let me say also you know what's in your favor? guess who approved roe v. wade? >> are you reading my notes? remember when "the new york times" ran the ad when general petraeus came back to washington to testify in front of the foreign relations committee which included senators clinton and obama who were planning to run for congress and "the new york times" allowed an ad that said, general betraeus

hostage by a mercenary firm that it poured more than a billion dollars into a new report by the new york times alleges that blackwater threatened to kill a u.s. state department official who is investigating the company's actions in iraq during the water of the incident allegedly took place just weeks later. blackwater units slaughtered seventeen civilians in the iraqi capital over the years the u.s. government has been accused of nurturing the company to do its dirty work abroad blackwater was believed to have assisted the cia's drone mission in pakistan the government paid out millions of dollars to the contractor in afghanistan and allowed it to have its own military camps but despite rebranding and renaming the company has failed to escape its past as a correspondent report now explains. when a newspaper publishes an exclusive story it's usually explicitly promoted like a journalistic badge of honor the new york times published a bombshell revelation monday but millions of readers may have actually overlooked the story due to the innocuous headline that was buried on the margin of the fron

"the new york times" shocked many of us this weekend with an editorial that was pro-pot. >> when the e new york ti editorial board called to legalize marijuana, a clear shift in how americans view politics of pot. >> and the paper put the pot crusade on the level of america's most embarrassing constitutional amendment. "repeal prohibition again" the paper thundered. recalling that it took 13 years. the u.s. to come to its senses and end prohibition. 13 years in which people kept drinking. otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates flourished. it has been more than 40 years since congress passed the current ban on marijuana, inflicting great harm on society just to prohibit a substance far less dangerous than alcohol." the "times" writes. 35 states loosened mare juan ij laws in some way, decriminalizing or allowing medical use. a recent pew poll shows views on marijuana are significant he evolving over the last quarter century. 54% support legalization today versus the 81% who opposed it in 1990. meanwhile, the obama administration's office of national drug co

there's an editorial in the new york times. the whole these sis was they argued that to save gaza hamas must be destroyed. but today others, like you, have said not only that hamas can't be destroyed, but if hamas were to be destroyed, islamic jihad or other elements could destroy hamas. >> you can destroy hamas, decapitate the leadership, destroy the rockets and the tunnels, but hamas is grass-root movement. so you cannot go and kill hundreds of thousands. that is the problem. israel needs basic bitter facts on the ground, and need a formula by which they can ease the blockate. and in return hamas no longer will use the rockets. >> i know you proposed that too, that is yale needs to agree -- israel needs to agree to a deal leading to the easing of the blockade. let me put myself in the israeli position and say why should we do that. if, with the blockade in place, we have seen hamas with many more rockets and weapons than what israel believed they had, and more tunnels going into israel. if we ease the blockade, it will get wo

jody rude door and who's the chief correspondent for the new york times jerusalem bureau a bureau that is house in the home of the karmi family of. any and family who have been ethnically cleansed and who have to ask the new york times reporters for permission to see their house in west jerusalem jodee rich doron has produced along with her deputy editor isabel kershner articles profiling the three killed israeli teens humanizing them deeply empathetic articles about their mothers there has been very little on the palestinians who've been killed in israel's rampage through the west bank and gaza strip or the palestinians who've been killed in racist apparent racist hate crimes and revenge attacks incited by netanyahu worse is the article today by rw doron incursion or which weights to the eighteenth paragraph to discuss the campaign of incitement and the race riots in jerusalem by jewish extremists who have been stoked by high level figures in the israeli governing coalition it's clear that the new york times is involved is engaged in a whitewash of the real sources of this crisis and

we'll start with "the new york times." w questions today about how much gm knew about the deadly crashes linked to defective ignition switches. in documents obtained through the freedom of information act, the times found gm officials avoided answering questions about the crashes in at least three cases, even though internal investigations gave conclusive answers. during the so-called death inquiries, representatives from the automaker said they had either not assessed the incidents, opted not to respond or invoked attorney-client privilege. at least 13 deaths over the past ten years have been linked to defective ignition switches in gm vehicles. joe? >> steve rattner, there's a story specifically about saturn where a gentleman died in a rental car, and their engineers had warned about the defect recently before the crash. they claimed no know nothing about it. this looks terrible for general motors. >> it does. there's nothing good to be said about this. i would say two things. first, when i read that story today, it sound

"the new york times" in the past has been at the fore front of public opinion. w "the times" seems to follow public o ppinion as much as leading. joining me, andrew rosenthal with "the new york times." what about the idea you guys are coming out with this after this reached this crucial threshold in public opinion? did that factor into the decision to do this? >> it did in a certain sense. it's indisputably true that public opinion has shifted. no question about it. we've been careful and cautious on this subject. we found ourselves covering this issue just more and more and more in the editorial page because the states have been moving forward at an incredibly rapid pace to essentially defy federal law. and soured we needed to take a stance and do it now so we did. >> this is a nerdy journalism question. maybe no one cares but i'm interested. is that a knockdown -- "the new york times" comes out for marijuana legalization. that's a big deal. you're here now. it got a lot of press. is that a big argument? >> inside? >> in the room. >> not particularly. i was a li

what do you make of the "new york times" quote? >> i think they were trying to put as many errors into 1 1/2 sentences as you can think of. the taxpayer protection pledge i created in 1985, so that people who wanted to pass tax reform in '86 could look american people in the eye and say i've committed that i'll vote against anything that's in that tax increase. i'm for reform, but i'll stop the the reform from being a trojan horse for a tax increase. with that we had 100 members in the house, 20 in the senate. we were able to convince congress, the american people to move forward on a good tax reform package because we were protected against a tax increase. that pledge was so successful it's continued. the pledge is to the american people, not to me. if the "new york times" learned to read or read the pledge they were criticizing, they'd know it's a pledge to the american people by an elected official, i'm not going to raise your taxes. >> what you are talking about is all americans are sitting there looking at federal, state, loca

received a fifteen thousand dollars loan hasn't worked since one thousand nine hundred one the new york times looked at his loan application form however and on the form it was filled in that. he earned thirty five thousand dollars working as a technician at lourdes hospital in binghamton new york he told however the loan officer at wells fargo that he hasn't worked since one thousand nine hundred one they just filled it and regardless now remember a lot of the subprime loans for the make mansions in america what happened well the mcdonald's workers received five hundred thousand dollars loans because somebody filled in that they were earning sixty seventy thousand as a manager of regional mcdonald's one of the liar's loans as they call them so i remember going back to the subprime era you had the fraud committed by various banks they were fraudulent they making loans they were involved in liar loans they were involved in selling the book of loans to other institutions fraudulent lee they were involved in goldman sachs' case selling these loans off their own customers knowing that they would

held hostage by a mercenary firm it poured more than a billion dollars into a new report by the new york times alleges that blackwater threatened to kill a u.s. state department official who was investigating the company's actions in iraq during the war that according to that document government representatives could do little about the behavior of the firm because even the american embassy took blackwater's side of the incident allegedly took place just weeks before one mercenary unit slaughtered seventeen civilians in the iraqi capital over the years the u.s. government has been accused of nurturing the company in order to do its dirty work abroad and blackwater was believed to have assisted the cia's drone mission in pakistan the government paid out millions of dollars to the contractor in afghanistan and allowed it to have its own military camps but despite rebranding and renaming the company has failed to escape its past this report i know explains . when a newspaper publishes an exclusive story it's usually explicitly promoted like a journalistic badge of honor the new york times publish

does not want disclosed to the public and based on the boring headline critics believe that the new york times considered a friend of the obama administration wasn't too eager to publicize the amazing school. a story that shows just how much power blackwater wielded in iraq and the culture of impunity it operated in. r.t. new york. after the threat be intimidated us state department agents tried to stay out of sight in iraq refusing even to eat dinner in public not the wrestler easily reported behaved as if they were above the low and ran the place on the u.s. state department official beat of unburned told as everyone knew blackwater was out of control it department was so afraid of its mission in iraq being slowed down or delayed by replacing blackwater as a contractor that they were willing to accept almost any standards of behavior out of the company in order to continue the contract even though they understood it was detrimental to us aims blackwater was an organization out of control in iraq and we now have absolute proof that the state department who was supposed to control them knew th

it's a matter of time. >> pleasure to have you with us, from the "new york times". >>> that's all fornow. the conversation continues on the website. the conversation continues on facebook or google+. you can find us on twitter at aj consider this. see you next time. >> hi everyone. this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. egypt tackles the head of the hamas. and deep mystery, giant craters appearing out much nowhere in siberia. we'll ask jake ward about it.

we acknowledge when people at those organizations do good work whether it's james arise in the new york times who is under assault right for his first minute press rights and protecting sources you know but that in excess we could say that the new york times has had abysmal reporting on on issues of israel and so forth and leading up to the iraq war so i think it's interesting that your show in particular has been singled out because i find that it happens to be one of the more accurately sourced programs on on the network. and we could get into other critiques of this network just like we could with any but i think focus on the story focus on the facts and get the personalities out of the news and out of the stories because that that's a distraction in a diversion from the issues that really matter to the public and what i love about project something that's kind of going what you're just saying is the kind of labeled a conspiracy theorist when you don't want to dissect the actual facts and stories that you guys are really hitting upon and of course i was thrown in to the mix with the whole

clinton's book has been bumped from its new york times best seller spot by a book from one of her harshesthe west coast bureau, trace? >> that's edward kline, former editor for news week and new york times magazine, compared to bob woodward of the post, and the critics on left and right long accused him of being heavy on block buster accusations and very thin on sourcing. his new book "blood feud" describes the relationship between the clintons and obamas, which if you believe him, make the hatfields and mccoys seem lovy dovy. the details of the back that there was a physical altercation in the white house, and refers to hill larry as hildebeast and said i hate that man, obama, more than any man i ever met, more than any man that ever lived. they claim there's marital tension and the president prefers to fly separately to vacations so he doesn't have to deal with her. hillary clinton's camp told the new york times quoting, let's strap ed cline to a polygraph machine and let the needle do the talking. ed said this on the fox business network. listen. >> they have gone crazy. the clintons ha