. >> from the newseum in washington, d.c., this is "the future of news." welcome to the knight studio and our conversation about media and news in the digital age. i'm frank sesno. joining me today are two groundbreaking and digitally savvy reporters. mara schiavocampo of nbc is the first digital journalist in network news, just might be the new face of journalism in a multi-media world. mara reports, produces, shoots, and edits her own stories, files for nbc television, and the web. walt mossberg, you may know him as an experienced "wall street journal" reporter who has become an influential new media expert. his beat is the intersection of technology and media, and he makes it comprehensible to the rest of us in his personal technology column and through the all things d conference and website that cover the digital world. so welcome to you both. mara, when i started in television, it was a $20,000 camera, and if you wanted to get a picture from some remote location, you needed to have a giant truck with a giant mast and somebody at a feed point and some

. >> from the newseum in washington d.c., this is "the future of news." welcome to the knight studio and our conversation about media and news in the digital age. i'm frank sesno. our guests today both bring a deep understanding of the importance of news as a public good in this country. farai chideya is an award-winning journalist and author. she's hosted npr's "news and notes" program and is the driving force behind the web blog pop and politics. dan rather has spent his life in news and is a highly acclaimed reporter and news anchor. he's covered major stories of our time for cbs news and now anchors "dan rather reports" on hdnet. welcome to you both. >> thank you, frank. >> glad to have you here. very different career arcs, perspectives. let me start by asking you the big question: are the media today serving the public interest? dan, what do you think? >> overall in the main, i think yes--less so than has been the case in some of our history, particularly in the period beginning just before world war ii and continuing into the mid nineties, but overa

. >> from the newseum in washington d.c., this is "the future of news." and welcome to the knight studio and our conversation about media and news in the digital age. i'm frank sesno. our guests today are both sharp-eyed observers of the world of journalism. jay rosen is a professor, press critic, and leading proponent of new media. clarence page is a pulitzer-prize-winning writer and longtime columnist for the "chicago tribune." welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> we take this term "citizen journalist," and we dance it out, and we stomp on it, and we criticize it, and we celebrate it. what exactly is a citizen journalist, jay? >> well, it starts with the people formerly known as the audience. >> the people formerly known as the audience? >> yes, and when the people formerly known athe audience use the tools that they now have to inform one another, that's citizen journalism. >> is that all it is, clarence? >> i prefer the term "non-traditional journalist" because there's us old-school media types, you know, that you learned about in school--newspapers,

president obama is taking questions about jobs at a cnbc town hall meeting at the newseum. >>> vice-president joe biden is speaking out about u.s. relations with japan. >> emwe have to get the relationship right between the u.s. and china. i don't know how that relationship can be made right other than going through tokyo. >> he emphasized the importance of u.s.-japanese relations and on issues from infrastructure to education purity delivered opening remarks this morning at the u.s.-japan council. >>> in delaware republican candidate christine o'donnell had some explaining to about her fix . with witchcraft. -- her experience with witchcraft. >> i dabbled in it but never joined a coven. >> sunday she laughed about it, saying she was in high school at the time and that happens. some gop leaders are not convinced. >> in southern delaware a lot of george going people will probably want to know what that was about. >> she faces chris coombs in the senate race in november. congressman mike pence of indiana is someone people want to see go against president obama in the race for president. sarah p

they arrive at the victoria newseum as part of pope benedict's visit. >> this is a special delivery, and they will handle with care. they have been waiting a long time, the chance to get their hands on rafael's tapestries. all of the masterpieces that depict the acts of st. peter and paul. they were supposed to hang on the walls of the sistine chapel. the biblical scenes are intended to provide scriptural justification for papal authority. not only is it the first time tapestries' have been seen in the u.k., it is also the first time ever they have been honed side-by-side with the rafael cartoons, the life side designs rafael and his assistant painted as a guide. it really is quite a reunion. when you compare the paintings with the tapestries, you can see weavers have put their own spin on to the compositions. here they have at it stars that rafael had not depicted -- here they had added stars. >> when i see the designs and how they interpret this and created new work of art from the painting, it makes me far more dazzled by their workmanship. >> the unprecedented decision to land th

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but president obama got hammered on the recovery today in a town hall down at the newseum. they wanted to know when the economy would improve for them. the answer may be the key to the outcome of the november elections. steve handelsman has our story. >> i'm exhausted. i'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration. >> reporter: self-descrid obama supporters laid into him live on cnbc's town hall. >> i voted for a man whoaid he would change thing in a meaningful way for the middle class. i'm one of those people and i'm waiting, sir. i'm waiting. i don't feel it yet. >> repter: the same from an outf work law school graduate. >> i want to know, is the american dream dead for me? >> absolutely not. we're moving in the right direct. >> rorter: there's more proof of that today. e economists calculated the recession ended in june 2009, recovery began 14 months ago. but not for million of us, the president acknowledged. >> the challenge is that the hole was so deep that a lot of people out there are still hurting. >> reporter: when a wall street ceo complained -- >>

craig melvin is at the newseum in northwest washington.ting this. >> reporter: to be honest with you, it is like access hollywood out here. the museum has roled out the red carpet. they are expecting a host dignitaries. we're told all sorts of d.c. powerful elite wi be here. congressmen, senators michelle rhee also expected to be here, as you mentioned. one of the stars of that movie. it is, as you mentioned also, brought to us by the same director that brought us an inconvenient truth for which he won an oscar. in ts particular movie he looks at public education in this country and all of its shortcomings. he looks at it through the eyes have five students and so call reformers. one of the reformers, scho chancellor michelle rhee. take a look at a snippet from the movie. >> you wake every morning and you know that kids are getting a really crappy education right now. >> so you think most of the kids are getting a crappy education? >> i don't think they are. i know they are. >> michelle rhee featured prinentlthroughout this movie. lots of

the town hall meeting wiltake place at the newseum on pennsylvaniavenue and monitored by john harwood, cnbc's chief washington correspondent. again, you can catch this on cnbc starting at noon. >>> today, family and friends are saying so long to a political activist and scholar. ron walters. there was a memorial service yesterday at howard university. walters spent 25 years at howard but was known to millions around the country for his weekly column on race and politics. he als taught at the university of maryland, and he was a frequent guest analyst on news 4. vernon jordan and theeverend jesse jackson were among those attending the memorial service. walters died september 10th after a long battle with lung cancer. the funeral service is taking place at this hour at shiloh baptist church on ninth street northwest. the services got under way just a few monts ago at 11:00. >>> the doctor who was shot during a standoff at johns hopkins hospital last week is in fair and stable condition this morning. d david cohen was shot in the stomach thursday morning by the son of an elderly patient.

here on the roof of the newseum in washington where in less than an hour president obama is going toue on the country's mind in advance of midterm elections, and that's the economy, how to make it grow, again how to get the unemployment rate, which is still at an unacceptably high rate of 9.6% rate down. a cross-section of more than 200 people around the country, ceos, union workers, small business owners, people without jobs, teachers and students, all of whom are going to have an opportunity in an intimate setting to put directly to president obama their question about what are you doing for me, what are you doing for the economy, more generally. this is something, an opportunity, we've waited a long timing for. we're delighted the president's going to here. we'll tune in to see what he's got to say. >> thank you. that was chief washington correspondent john harwood. look forward to see that program on cnbc "investing in america, a town hall event with president obama" airs noon eastern time. >>> jimmy carter doesn't see a future for the tea party movement. >> i think that their in

of something else everybody is talking about, the cnbc town hall meeting the president had at the newseum in which one of his staunch defenders stood up and said she was getting tired. let me play this for you. >> quite frankly, i'm exhausted. i'm exhausted of dend defending the mantel of change that i voted for. >> right. >> and deeply disappoed w i've been told that i voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. i'm one of those people, and i'm waiting, sir, i'm waiting. >> a lot of people are waiting, mr. axelrod. how is the president -- how are you going to jazz your electorate, your base ahead of these elections? >> first of all let's understand that we've gone through a terrible time in this country. i understand what she was saying. the middle class took a terrible beating not just in the last two years of this recession but over the last ten years. we learned in the last few days that the middle class lost 5% of their income from 2001 to 2009 and, of course, that period ended with the worst economic crisis since the great depress

the president traveling to the newseum, speaking to small business owners and other individuals and 01-hour for, sponsored by cnbc, carried live. he was asked by a small business owner about the state of the economy. >> i think that american businesses like yours are what makes this country go. we have passed eight tax cuts for small businesses so far. we have made it easier to you to invest in plants and equipment. we have already taken down the capital gains and want to reduce its down to zero for small businesses. all of these things are what historically been considered pro-business agenda is. host: todd mccracken, are they pro-business? guest: those particular policies. but we think a lot more can be done. if they really want to help small businesses grow. the one idea bandied about is a payroll tax holiday. we were in favor of that in the original stimulus bill at the beginning of the obama administration bared probably would have been in a lot better shape if we had been. i think he could have much more credibly stake a claim too great pro-business agenda if he had. host: the bu

the president traveling to the newseum, speaking to small business owners and other individuals and 01, sponsored by cnbc, carried live. he was asked by a small business owner about the state of the economy. >> i think that american businesses like yours are what makes this country go. we have passed eight tax cuts for small businesses so far. we have made it easier to you to invest in plants and equipment. we have already taken down the capital gains and want to reduce its down to zero for small businesses. all of these things are what historically been considered pro-busine agenda is. host: todd mccracken, are they pro-business? guest: those particular policies. but we think a lot mo can be done. if they really want help small businesses grow. the one idea bandied about is a payroll tax holiday. we were in favor of that in the original stimulus bill at the beginning of the obama administration bared probably would haveeen in a lot better shape if we had been. i think he could have much more credibly stake a claim too great pro-business agenda if he had. host: the bush administration,

this courtesy of the newseum. from "the chicago tribune," speaking of the infrastructure, the city needing $1 billion more for expansion and renovation of chicago high plan. -- chicago hair net worth -- chicago o'hare airport. wally is joining us from arizona. good morning to you. caller: good morning. how were you today? host: fine, thank you. you say you don't know. caller: because the economy is in such bad shape i don't see any way it can be fixed. by either party. host: what do you do? caller: you got me, sir. i don't really know. believeou can't really it a lot of what he says because he lies so much. he had been doing it all the way through his campaign and everything. host: the front page of "the financial times," obama in a $50 billion plan to boost jobs. oak hill, california. good morning. caller: you can't believe what the media says about the polls -- about the democrats can lose. that is propaganda to keep the people from voting. the democrats, if they unite and start voting they can take over the sen

this courtesy of the newseum. from "the chicago tribune," speaking of the infrastructure, the city needing $1 billion more for expansion and renovation of chicago high plan. -- chicago hair net worth -- chicago o'hare airport. wally is joining us from arizona. good morning to you. caller: good morning. how were you today? host: fine, thank you. you say you don't know. caller: because the economy is in such bad shape i don't see any way it can be fixed. by either party. host: what do you do? caller: you got me, sir. i don't really know. believeou can't really it a lot of what he says because he lies so much. he had been doing it all the way through his campaign and everything. host: the front page of "the financial times," obama in a $50 billion plan to boost jobs. oak hill, california. good morning. caller: you can't believe what the media says about the polls -- about the democrats can lose. that is propaganda to keep the people from voting. the democrats, if they unite and start voting they can take over the sen