it seemed to me it was an intuitive reaction to the distrust that they have to official media. the official media sees how awful it is, and i was their proxy. >> eliot: you were also there as representative not formerly, of course, but for them emotionally, an representative of the united states. what is it that they see in that imagery? in that notion of what we stand for that is so appealing? what is that core value that they cherish? >> there is a variety. two-thirds of the country almost is under 25 years of age. and they want to have fun. they watch american videos. they go on facebook. they play video games. they want to engage. i think a lot of them america represents that pinnacle of popular culture of a society that does know how to have fun and that it has the freedom in which they can enjoy it. among young people there is frustration about male-female relations. for them the u.s. is a free society not only politically, but in male-female relations. that means a lot to them. all this kind of melts together and leaves them some resentment at american government policie

most blame it on politicians, government officials, media, celebs, the internet, sports figures, cellho all blame beckel and they're right. occupy wall street ranked less offensive than the media which is odd since it was almost impossible to tell them apart. for a while they shared the same tents and ideas. the way i see it, civil culture is on the receiving end of pop culture. rappers, atheists get there first and soil the path by masquerading trash as essentialginess. take killer mike whose lyrics include i'll leave you with four words. "i'm glad reagan dead." that is uncivil, but the website gawker called it tremendous. describe him as risky and exciting. risky? maybe a white liberal music critic grow ago tee. the risk isn't wishing reagan dead. they never met an artist they didn't embrace. the real obscenities is the instability for thought. real rebels embrace civility when everyone else has given up. >> bob: he should be poster child for bloomberg's fat. what is his name? >> greg: killer mike. you are an aficionado of hip-hop, aren't you? >> bob: right. maybe the worst genre of

thus we can say that the official syrian media has taken a further lead in the coverage of the barbaric war syria has been forced into the them and they are exposing the plans to undermine the strength of spirits by the syrian people i'm deeply convinced that the recent sanctions against our mass media came as a response to its increased impact could be no such impact that it would be needed to introduce sanctions against the mass media the american and european sanctions of followed by those like myself gulf states at the recent arab league meeting only confirm that the influence of the syrian media has grown because of all that we will have to develop our informational policy and improve the structure of the syrian media. the arab league sees to shut down some of the syrian channels but the annan plan actually calls for as many channels as possible to cover the dance in syria. of course it's very strange we ask oceana and the un security council who will protect freedom of speech democratic principles and liberties how can you shut it down syrian national media when the annan plan cal

maybe not everybody, but we generally function under the belief that whether it's the government officials, mediankers, butchers, doctors, lawyers, candle stick maker, generally, it's done with honorable intent and it feels to me that we're not, that we've lost that. in other words, the scandal of the woodward thing, presumption of honorable intent, decency in the culture of how we reality to each other, so the shock to know that the president would behave this way, i feel that now the culture, like nobody has honorable intent, so of course everybody's a bunch of lying criminals. and that's too cynical. >> part of the legacy, no one could believe they kept deep flo throat such a secret for so long. >> you get the last word. >> i'm reminded, just throw out a few names that people trusted. the countries trusted. walter cronkite. roger mud. tom brokaw. john chancellor. those are old style reporters. i mean, country didn't know -- was a cripple. because the press didn't say it. why can't we trust the people doing this today and the reason you can't is because it's 24/7. >> the fact of the papering of

elected president and egypt, and it really marks a victory over the lingering of the ex party officials, media bureaucrats who really rallied around ahmed shafiq and a desperate bid to support his presidency and beat the muslim brotherhood, but they failed. morsi himself -- history is not one typical of leading brotherhood members who had years of imprisonment and sacrificed to the organization. he graduated from the faculty of engineering from cairo university and 1975 at a time when there was a rise in islamist politics within campuses. encouraged by said not to counter the left, which was big and capitalist at that time. he pursued his ph.d. in southern california. he worked as assistant professor in northridge. his children were born in the u.s. and entitled to citizenship. he returned to egypt in 1985. this marked the beginning of his slow ascent in the organization of the brotherhood, eventually serving on the guidance bureau. many see his position in the brotherhood, due to his close relationship with the group's top finance year and leading strategist, and because of his obedience, bec

last night president mubarak was reported by the official state media in this country to be clinically dead. well, today his lawyers say he's made something of a miraculous recovery and has been taken off of a respirator, this after he was transferred out of prison to a military hospital. also suspicious, many in the square say, is that the electoral commission said it would not announce tomorrow the results of this disputed election, but it will announce them at an as of yet unspecified date. so now the muslim brotherhood says it will hold protests every night in this square until election results are announced. brian. >> another loud night late at night in cairo. richard engel keeping watch over tahrir square. richard, thanks. >>> the federal reserve lowered the outlook for the economy for the remainder of the year and next two years for that matter, including a prediction the unemployment rate could remain stuck around its current 8.2% this year. the fed also extended a program aimed at pushing down mortgage rates. fed chairman ben bernanke said they were open to more monetary stimu

we can say what the official syrian media has taken. in the coverage of the syria has forced into those of you and your exposing the plans to undermine the strength of spirits by the syrian people i'm convinced that the recent sanctions against our mass media as a response to it's increased impact and there be no such impacts are needed to ensure sanctions against. the american sanctions by the. gulf states the recent meeting only confirm that the influence of the syrian media has grown because of all that we will have to develop our informational policy and improve our structure for the syrian media. the arab league sees to shut down some of the syrian channels but the an unplanned actually calls for as many channels as possible to cover the syria. of course it's a very strange. man and the u.n. security council protects freedom of speech with democratic principles and liberties how can you shut down syrian national media when the ana and accreditation. come into syria to cover the situation here and we have one hundred eighty media ou

media officials testified before the house oversight and government reform committee. this portion of the hearing is about an hour. [ gavel ] >>> good morning. the oversight committee will come to order. we in the oversight committee exists to secure two fundamental principling. first, americans have a right to know the money washington takes from them is well spent, and, second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. our duty on the oversight and government reform committee is the protect these rights. our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government. we will work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts to the american people and bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. when president obama took office, he promised the american people to have a more transparent administration, the most transparent administration in history. from that point on, this was a standard that the obama administration would

official story says a group of students provoked a riot. the demonstrators demanded that chinese leaders do more to improve human rights on the mainland. the media spotlight on chen quan chen has increased scrutiny of those issues. the human rights activist fled house arrest in april and then moved last month to new york. communist party officials are preparing for a change of leadership this fall and the government has been cracking down on pro-democracy activists. >> translator: i feel the chinese communist party is also tightening its control over the people of hong kong. we have to strongly oppose this. >> about 600 young people joined a candle light vigil in taipei. university students organized the event. they showed a film of the crackdown and participants prayed for the victims. one of the people who led the protest in beijing spoke about the importance of the democratic movement. he lives in taiwan. the organizers said they hope that authorities understand how taiwanese see human rights. >> translator: i want many young people in taiwan to remember this incident. we want the chinese to know we take this matter seriously. >> chinese and

officials. you all know them because they invest in social media, but a huge number of them have also been investing in clean-tech investment. some have not been in win. they have been in smart grid technologies. they have been in solar technologies. they have been in looking at other kinds of fuel storage battery companies for electric vehicles, like aa-1, 2, 3, tesl and others. i think that has made -- made and will continue to make a difference. i mean, the goal is to have the united states become the leader in clean energy the same bay we were and are in internet technology and have the future

but that report sources back to some reconnaissance photos and in fact a anonymous official leaking to them to the media and it's south korean official and and as far as i know there's been no actual confirmation that there really are hovercraft there perhaps there are but whether seventy hovercraft would pose anything of a military threat to south korea i think is a bit laughable so i don't i don't think it can be really be seen as a justification for any type of military increase in tension and to and at any rate we have to be as i say very skeptical about north korea's ability to put up much of a military fight at all given that they like to parade nuclear missiles that turn out to be paper. cutouts as confirmed by photos of their parades and things of that sort so so anything regarding north korea's military capabilities especially when coming from anonymous officials in the south korean government has to be taken with a hefty grain of salt. james corbet editor of news and information site the corba report live with us via broadband from japan. well look now at some world news in brief for you this

. >>> north korean officials have opened to the media what they describe as a cemetery for japanese nationals. they say it holds the remains of people who died in the final stages of world war ii. at the time of japan's defeat in 1945, the korean peninsula had been a japanese colony for some 35 years. the officials invited japanese reporters to the site in the suburbs of pyongyang. they say about 2500 japanese who died of starvation or illness during their repatriation were buried there. the bodies were laid to rest at another cemetery in the korean capital. they've identified five cemeteries holding the remains of japanese nationals. >> translator: we hope the process to resolve this issue will contribute to mutual understanding and friendship. >> north korean officials have invited their japanese counterparts to hold talks on the repatriation of such remains. >>> japanese officials are taking action to deal with a problem an ocean away. 1.5 million tons of debris generated by last year's tsunami is making its way across the pacific. some of it has already washed ashore in north america. the

to replace mubarak, with those protests under way, then confused rumors by egyptian state officials and state media and then western media that maybe he has died. or no, that he is somehow clinically dead but not otherwise dead, but then word from mubarak's lawyers that he's neither dead or clinically dead, but he's on a respirate, and unconscious. but even a as we try to nail down the details, it is as of yet a chaotic situation in a situation that is in flux in the most populous nation in the middle east. luckily for us, richard engle is live in cairo in the middle of all this. richard has lived in egypt in the past, covered the revolution since last year. he's there now. let me ask you what you can tell us about the swirling rumors about the condition of hosni mubarak. >> it's good to be with you, rachel. he's had a bad day according to the reports. he's had a stroke, he has had a stroke in his heart, had a heart attack. his heart has stopped. he has been dead, he's been in a coma. these are all the different reports that have come out. the most specific one was from the official news agency tha

media ethics inquiry saying press regulations needed to improve cameron came under fire following the phone hacking scandal that rupert murdoch's now defunct news of the world's tabloid british officials were accused of helping the media giant of void investigation cameron was criticised for appointing disgraced tabloid editor andy colson as his communications director. torrential rains have swamped large areas of central china triggering mudslides and forcing hundreds from their homes officials have set up shelters to house those displaced by flooding villagers also have worked to save one man trapped amid the raging waters he was successfully pulled ashore after an hour of rescue efforts emergency repairs are underway with several highways being destroyed by landslides and cave ins. back to egypt now as the country waits to vote for a new president and parliament is ordered to be dissolved concern is building that the military is not prepared to completely give up political control policy or found out for many of the country's women it is limited domination that is their country the country's greatest worry. she's young and ambitious and planning to become egypt's next president but