they have the exception of being able to donate unlimited amounts to to any political party so news corps has donated one million dollars and they say that it's because they believe in the power of free markets rupert murdoch ever notice a news car is one of the worst performing stocks on the new york stock exchange has been for years because this guy can't compete on an open playing field he goes into the new economy space on my space fails he takes one of his big publications in the u.k. behind a far wall paywall and fails what he's trying to compete head to head with the real competitors he's a failure oh yeah he can make a few coins being in the monopoly business maybe in the satellite business he can be a rent charging monopolist an oligarch big whoops a recess monkey can make money this way but as a businessman open pitch head to head with real competitors he's a failure well max you mentioned his online failures including my space of course was a fail because it's open platform it is a genuinely free market it's all net neutrality at every single site compete equally with the other

right there but speaking of that you know everybody today was freaking out when they found out the news corp donated a million dollars to the republican governors association personally i just didn't really find all that shocking i think that that's not surprising at all it's fox news squarely bare in the tank with the republican party but this is the part that i don't get about it you would think that it would be in fox's best interest to keep democrats in power because that's what keeps their network running so why would they donate to republicans. oh absolutely because if they are the party in power what do they have to rail against what do they have to get so angry about how will glenn beck's face get so red what will he have to be upset about they need democrats to stay in power so that they can be the really vocal oppressed minority i mean i completely agree with you so that's what you know i just don't get why they would do that to me it sounds like a stupid donation a million dollars wasted. and they. oh no i was just going to say i mean what it seems worthless they should just be sh

but not in america well speaking of a feudal lords in a feudal lords the media is a fox and funs news corps donates one million dollars to republican governors association so this is rupert murdoch and he's you know now that the supreme court has ruled that corporations in america which are ruled previously as human beings basically they have the rights of human rights now they have the exception of being able to donate unlimited amounts to to any political party so news corp has donated one million dollars and they say that it's because they believe in the power of free markets rupert murdoch if you ever notice the news car is one of the worst performing stocks on the new york stock exchange has been for years because this guy can't compete on an open playing field he goes into the new economy space and my space fails he takes one of his big publications in the u.k. behind a far wall paywall and fails when he's trying to compete head to head with real competitors he's a failure oh yeah he can make a few coin being in the monopoly business maybe in the satellite business he can be a rent ch

he has raised $1 million from the fair and balanced source, news corp. of rupert murdoch and fox news, ich is a little bit of depture. >> the other reason he is so powerful is the republican national committee under michael steele is so weak. he is the shadow that has overcome the being that cast the shadow. everybody is giving money to him and not the rnc because he knows how to better do it than michael steele. >> a lobbyist with seem like an unlikely choice, but if he is the guy who could pull off the deal that everybody knows we have to make but nobody wants to admit to, which is that the only way out ofhis mess is to raise taxes and cut spending, a one- for-one trade, the only way out, and if he is the deal maker who could make the republicans including charles agree to raise revenues, i would be for him. >> what do you think? do you think h hwould be a good president attended a? >> -- presidential candidate? >> actually, i do. the country is looking for anti- charisma. they ve a charia a shot, and they have a president who does not appear to govern

you are with market watch, owned by news corp.. is market watch profitable? >> [inaudible] >> absolutely. it was profitable when be sold to dow jones four years ago. it is more integrated now and it makes money. >> and general news operations be profitable online today? >> absolutely, really is not that hard. online news operations have grown in the last 10 years. they do not come from a large place that has to shrink. they can run their businesses to always have a profit. many of them got started during the internet bubble where they raised money from venture capitalists, overspending, never getting their revenues that they needed, then collapsing. but the ones that succeeded build a brand and had a product that people wanted. they were either sold or they remained making a profit. >> i imagine that there is a very intense conversation going on right now between types of funding. let's move on to sandy from new american media. how have these problems facing the mainstream set affected the ethnic media community and the jobs for ethnic journalists? >> ethnic m

you are with market watch, owned by news corp.. is market watch profitable? >> [inaudible] >> absolutely. it was profitable when be sold to dow jones four years ago. it is more integrated now and it makes money. >> and general news operations be profitable online today? >> absolutely, really is not that hard. online news operations have grown in the last 10 years.

caremark, news corp, pulte group and time warner. and, a.d.p. releases its national employment report for july. also, we'll see if money manager michael farr is still bearish and get an update on his ten stock picks. he's our "street critique" guest, and author of "a million is not enough." >> suzanne: the posterchild for the subprime mortgage meltdown is settling up with some shareholders. countrywide financial will pay $600 million to end several class-action suits. shareholders accused the former mortgage giant of hiding mounting risks and loose lending standards during the housing boom. but, countrywide's problems aren't over. the firm and former c.e.o. angelo mozilo are still being investigated by the s.e.c. and the justice department. bank of america bought countrywide's mortgage assets in 2008. >> jeff: reading, writing and reductions. states are cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from pre- kindergarten budgets. that means fewer slots for children, and layoffs for teachers. the national institute for early education research says sta

>> news corp. gave $1 million to the republican governors's association and they didn't match that. that he gave $1 million to the r.g.a. and democrats are raising cane and saying fox should put disclaimers on their news. and what both of these stories tell us is that there are corporations who take advantage of that new liberty that the supreme court has given. gwen: both of you worked for the "wall street journal." we turn to the debate that had us scratching our heads. why do so many americans think barack obama is muslim? and how did a local debate about an islamic center in new york come central to those two questions. 55% of those polled said u.s. muslims are patriotic americans but 46% americans said no. 46% said islam is more likely than other states to encourage violence and 55% said they wouldn't have -- mind having a mosque, but 61% oppose one to the one in manhattan. "time" magazine's cover raises the question, is america islamaphobic? >> it's out there and growing. we weren't surprised by the results on whether there should be a mosque in lower manhattan. what surprised

more than news corp there are no clear controls or sanctions for doctors avoid punishment and a large number of cases one reason is that medical documentation submitted to the judge or the investigation officers are often falsified also patients who often sign consent forms with off thinking of the risks unfortunately such circumstances make it hard to ensure an objective trial today there is still no official statistics on the number of institutions providing plastic surgery or the exact data on how many and what kind of operations are being conducted. with tragic cases and little official. russians might start thinking twice about the risks involved the forgetting under the knife. because of a briefing gets more international stories making headlines now and up to sixty people the killed in a one hundred injured in a suicide bombing in baghdad the attack targeted people queuing out finds an army recruitment center police say several soldiers were among the dead it comes as the u.s. is preparing to end its combat operations in iraq later this month. the world bank's pledged always ni

more of the news corp there are no clear controls or sanctions doctors avoid punishment and a large number of cases one reason is that medical documentation submitted to the judge or the investigation officers are often falsified also patients who often sign consent forms with off thinking of the risks unfortunately such circumstances make it hard to ensure an objective trial today there is still no official statistics on the number of institutions providing plastic surgery or the exact data on how many and what kind of operations are being conducted. with recent tragic cases and the little official a the russians might soon start thinking twice about the risks involved the full getting under the knife. i have a brief look at other international stories from around the world in iraq you officials say at least forty one people have been killed and over one hundred injured in a suicide attack on an army have quarters in baghdad the blast targeted recruits lined up outside an army division headquarters in the center of the capital at least two soldiers were among the dead. the united nations

worked behind red army lines during world war two russia says the exercise glorifies it is stone news corp with hitler's regime while tellin claims it's just a sporting event estonia comes in for frequent criticism for honoring nazi sympathizers former british m.e.p. glyn ford believes the drill may be a signal of nazi support on a political level. what concerns me about this it appears how some support from if you only officials within the estonian government and that's what's much more concerning because that indicates if you want to a political collaboration with the people organizing this event it's clearly both offensive and bizarre that while there is a new enthusiasm for extreme sports there actually basing it around a nazi collaborating organization. second world war out of sort the generally across the european union the vast majority of people will be horrified about what's going on there always are a small minority of people who actually sympathize with the nazis but they are extremely small these days i can't imagine that anywhere would support for this kind of event. and a qui

on the dax has swung into the black composite of corporate news corp cosmetics giant l'oreal has posted a twenty one percent jump in first half net profit pushing its shares four percent higher but the world's largest whiskey producer has slumped of one of the hoff percent in london after worse than expected income the south's. profits at russia's x. five retail group plummeted eighty one percent year on year in the second quarter to twenty five million dollars worse than analysts forecast the country's biggest grocer by sales took a seventy two million dollar hit on foreign exchange due to significant ruble depreciation but the headline figure only tells part of the story ex-wife was one of the first retailers to cut prices during the downturn to win a budget conscious customers it says it's now reaping some of the benefits of the recovery and margins are improving. russia's second largest airline trans aero increased passenger traffic by more than a bird in the first seven months of the year compared to the same period last year cargo turnover also jumped helping lift sales revenue to

more of the news corp there are no clear controls or sanctions doctors avoid punishment and a large number of cases one reason is that medical documentation submitted to the judge or the investigation officers are often falsified. today there is still no official statistics on the number of institutions providing plastic surgery. with recent tragic cases and little official. russians might start thinking twice about the risks involved the full going under the knife. sarah firth. well time for a look at some other news from around the world at this stage of the day a high speed train from frankfurt to paris has collided with a truck carrying rubbish in germany. injured one of them seriously. about one hundred forty kilometers southwest of frankfurt happened after a truck slid down the which to the tracks police say it'll take at least a day to clear the area. a palestinian man has been wounded and detained in the shooting at the turkish embassy in tel aviv say the man entered the building seeking asylum but was shot by security when he threatened staff some media reports say the ambassador

nbc-universal, news corp, and walt disney company are all owners of hulu, so you'll see a lot of their content. go to channels to see news and information. for instance, let's say you get up too late and you missed your favorite morning show and you didn't set your dvr. ahh! no worries. hulu has it in a matter of hours, and it's all hd. think of it as tv ending up on the internet. next up is youtube. they upload tons of information, as we have already talked about. go to channels to see some of the news organizations who upload content--associated press, russia today, and al jazeera english. many are now using youtube direct. this ia direct connection between you and the newsrooms. go to reporters' center, where you can see what kind of stories they're looking for. news organizations like abc news, huffington post, and npr. post your video, and they can use it on their news shows. last is current.com. this site has news made for the internet that may end up on tv, a site that combines citizen and professional journalism. current.com started in 2005 by co-founder al gore, and viewers vo

if you are investing in a loss, should we not but that his investment in news corp.? host: virginia, good morning. caller: democrats call in and try to demonize the tea party and everything else, all you have to do is look at the cities and states where liberals are in control and you can see that their policy takes america know where. the more that the government does, the worse things get for america. the people need prosperity, not the government telling them what to do. host: what you think about the tea party influence in november? caller: i think it will be a landslide, republicans in freedom of looking good. we will take our freedom back. host: that was bob from richmond, va.. the next is rockford, ill.. caller: that last guy started talking about the green party and then drifted into the republican party? this is a scam to get two party candidates to run against democrats. i would have voted for none of those bums and i am an independent. america, stop being fooled. you won real change in your government? a vote in the leaders that will give you a recall vote

according to bloomberg news apple is in advanced talk with news corp. le is focusing on the video service to help cell decided like the new ipad and fend off companies like hulu. >>> cash-strached cities are coming up with new and ditch ways to save money. >> we'll tell you what bay area community is coming to help improve safety and their bottom line. >>> and why not everyone is cheering the plan to give people more time to get across crosswalks. >>> 680, as you drive into the diablo valley is into the looking good. you might be surprised what is hatching to make traffic so slow. and we have another accident blocking the freeway. we'll tell you about that coming up. p bleaus >>> police officers from the city of berkeley will be on the campus and there will be two sets of officers in patrol cars together. these special patrols will operate on thursday, friday and saturday saturday nights -- saturday nights between 10:00 p.m. and 4:00 and before and after football games. these airs will concentrate on the south side neighborhoods. >>> california is in the

among much else, the army corps' new levees are built with steadier walls. walls shaped like a "t" that are braced more strongly into the ground. the army corps says that when completed the new system will reduce the risk from hurricanes like katrina and once-in-a- hundred year storms. >> brown: we get two views on the city's new coastal protection system from. john barry, a member of the southeast louisiana flood protection authority and author of the book about the great mississippi flood of 1927, "rising tide." and ivor van heerden, co-author of the state of louisiana's report on the levee failures issued after katrina. he's a former deputy director of the l.s.u. hurricane center and now works for a private company that does work on oil spills. >> brown: john barry, you followed this. does it look like what's being built now is more of an actual system that can protect the city? >> well, it is a system, and i think that while our board has some points points of contentioh the corps, it is well built and will do what it's designed to do. i think one thing t

barrier is being constructed 12 miles from downtown new orleans and nine miles from the lower ninth ward. along with blocking storm surge, the corps has fortify it had levees that failed in katrina and is building massive new levees that are anchored more than 100 feet below ground and tall enough not to be overtopped by storm surge. >> you can see it right here. we went from something that had an elevation of 14 feet around st. bernard parish to something that's of elevation of about 32 feet. >> reporter: finally, the corps is storm-proofing existing pumping stations and building the largest new flood pump in the world to quickly blast out any water that gets into the city. a system residents hope is never tested by another storm. don teague, cbs news, new orleans. >> smith: who can forget those scenes of displaced residents in the days after katrina, crowded into the superdome, scared and hungry? mark strassmann is there tonight and it's quite a different scene five years later. mark? >> reporter: huge difference, harry. on this anniversary weekend, tonight's pre-season game between the saints and the chargers means something to

it is the largest news corp. in the world. this event is about 50 minutes. >> thank you. good evening, everyone. you need ander. if you can manage it, rate. -- you need anger. if you can manage it, rage. you need a villain. sometimes it is called murdoch, though fascinating, never went a lecturer is called murdoch. once the professor send out to be lady elizabeth how will and a standing commission. at that the audience were really quaking in their boots that year. i am dodging obvious. we all know who the usual suspect is, the time and time again when the lecture comes to that fateful moment, the moment when the most point the finger time and time again they puj choose the bbc. should i follow in that noble position? i'd think we will wait. you need proposals. they can be uttered in the certain knowledge that by the end of the wheat they will be long forgotten and the only then people will remember is the nasty things to set about top the bbc -- you said about the bbc. if you can, you should find a way to insult your audience. there is a british television industry and th

host: joining us from new orleans is karen durham- aguilera, the task force hope leader for the army corps of engineers. guest: thanks for inviting me here today. this reduction system we are building for greater new orleans and the surrounding parishes, i oversee the program and look at the budgeting aspects. one of the things i enjoy the most is the tremendous stakeholder engagement between our levee authorities and the public in louisiana and the parishes. especially the public, they are so involved in what we did and did give us a lot of help with input and solutions. host: how would you tell someone the difference between the levee system now and five years ago? guest: five years ago, we did not know as much as we know today. there is a task force of levees and stations and flood walls. and maximum probable storm. there is a storm -- it was a landfall. it was something no one had ever thought of. a surge of over 32 feet. before katrina, it was the one form that happened in the past. now almost 150 storms with the numerous tracks anywhere from a 25 year to a 5000 year frequency. we loo

. >> reporter: colonel edphlegmings, the new commander of the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> it's a reliable system. it's a resilient system and it is tied in, in all areas. >> reporter: but after the levees failed, a federal judge blamed the corps for mismanaging the patc patchwork barrier systm that collapsed for creating the disaster. but it's not just the corps now rebuilding reputations. take mike brown, who found infamie in a presidential atta boy. >> brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. >> if you watch that tape again, you'll see my wince. >> reporter: this mike brown the former fema director. >> i was asking for things, telling them what we needed. >> reporter: brown said all government agencies involved in katrina's second disaster, the response, learned a great deal from katrina. the question from ken dorsey and so many other people here whether those agencies learned enough. could katrina happen again here? >> no doubt in my mind. i believe it could. >> reporter: just because not enough has been done. >> not enough has been done. >> reporter: the

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to our web site, >> washington journal continues. >> joining us from new orleans is the task force coast director for the army corps of engineers. explain your relationship to the rebuilding of the levee system. guest: thanks for inviting me here today. this reduction system we are building for greater new orleans and the surrounding parishes, i oversee the program and look at the budgeting aspects. one of the things i enjoy the most is the tremendous stakeholder engagement between our levee authorities and the public in louisiana and the parishes. especially the public, they are so involved in what we did and did give us a lot of help with input and solutions. host: how would you tell someone the difference between the levee system now and five years ago? guest: five years ago, we did not know as much as we know today. there is a task force of levees and stations and flood walls. and maximum probable storm. there is a storm -- it was a landfall. it was something no one had ever thought of. a surge of over 32 feet. before katrina, it was the one form that happened in the past. now almost 150 storms with the numerou

for the snow lake corp., they would replace the paddle boats and purchase all new ropes