it has a p.r. disaster. not on business disaster. >> david, you get the last word. >> i really don't think it's a p.r. disaster. i think snapshot will come out of it fairly well. i don't think we are going to be talking about snapshot as a major company. but i do think they have a legitimate and probably profitable ultimate business, but no where near on the scale from a vision point of view or even from a founder capability point of view, anything like google or facebook or twitter or any of these other great companies. >> we'll see what hindsight looks like. i knew this was going to be a good conversation. thank you to you both. have a great weekend. >> we'll be back with "bloomberg west" after this quick break. >> welcome back. i'm emily chang. at&t is trying to coach t-mobile customers. the competition is heating up. at&t is offering up to $450 bucks to woo t-mobile customers. the deal comes today. jon erlichman has been tracking this and back with more. t-mobile is making strong moves. $450 back. that i

critical of the global economic order and capitalism is there hope for the church or its francis merely a p.r. product. to cross the pope francis i'm joined by my guest jamila bey in washington she's a journalist and public speaker also in washington we have one hundred chef when he is the president of the at was economic research foundation and in madison we cross to scott rickard he is an expert on catholicism as well as the executive editor of chronicles a magazine of american culture all right crosstalk rules and in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage encourage it all hundred in washington per person of the year well deserved yes for sure few people have such respect as the pope. the catholic church still has so much kristie just so much influence around and around the globe so i'm emulated ok jamila are you elated that pope francis is time magazine's person of the year. it is despairing despairing to me that i've got to support miley cyrus pope francis is a choice for person of the year was absolutely wrong in every measure from time magazine this p

every measure from time magazine this pope as you put it in your intro so aptly earlier is a product of p.r. he's not this major reformer who's coming in making sweeping changes to benefit the lives of the faithful he has more of the same and unfortunately that's a problem he should not have been picked ok scotland would you differentiate the two because it's very interesting what we've heard already in this program is that i mean it may be very possible that francis is a p.r. product and you know he's very appealing to a lot of people i mean even i look at the pictures of him embracing a man with severe disfigurement i mean any person who has compassion can say that's a good person doing that as opposed to kind of where is the catholic church because it looks like you can easily separate the two go ahead scott. right it's certainly he certainly is appealing the the the idea though that that he was ever going to come in and change the catholic church in the way that that i think. or some of the editors of time might want. was was wrong from the from the beginning what what he has brought to

be very possible but francis is a p.r. product and you know he's very appealing to a lot of people i mean even i look at the pictures of him embracing a man with severe disfigurement i mean any person who has compassion can say that's a good person doing that as opposed to kind of where is the catholic church because it looks like you can easily separate the two go ahead scott. it's certainly he certainly is appealing the the the idea though that that he was ever going to come in and change the catholic church in the way that that i think jimmy or some of the editors of time might want. was was wrong from the from the beginning what what he has brought to the catholic church is a change in tone a change in emphasis the time article does pick up on that but it also expresses a sort of hope an expectation that there's going to be some sort of more fundamental change doctrinal changes moral changes these aren't going to come about the catholic church. is a two thousand year old institution that that understands. what the what

every measure from time magazine this pope as you put it in your intro so aptly earlier is a product of p.r. he's not this major reformer who's coming in making sweeping changes to benefit the lives of the faithful he has more of the same and unfortunately that's a problem he should not have been picked ok scotland would you differentiate the two because it's very interesting what we've heard already in this program is that i mean it may be very possible that francis is a p.r. product and you know he's very appealing to a lot of people i mean even i look at the pictures of him embracing a man with severe disfigurement i mean any person who has compassion can say that's a good person doing that as opposed to kind of where is the catholic church because it looks like you can easily separate the two go ahead scott. right it's certainly he certainly is appealing the the the idea though that that he was ever going to come in and change the catholic church in the way that that i think jimmy or some of the editors of time might want. was was wrong from the from the beginning what what he has broug

that does just that claiming a roster of twelve thousand clients would get p.r. probably both the ability to quote directly edit your page using our network of established work of pedia editors and admins you heard that right it claims to employ wiki sacred guardian admins the privileged few that quote can restrict editing access to a page ban users and delete pages of wikis p.r. claims are true that means there may be sleeper agents among the most powerful users as we all know knowledge is power which means that the ability to buy and it writes for the most visited encyclopedia in the world is more than trouble and fact the unfair editing process has prompted aggravated web users to create wikipedia ocracy a site that catalogs and monitors the editorial failures of wikipedia so is there an active conspiracy among the league with opinions asylum sent including voices like mine on the site no and i'm not blaming the site itself for what it's become but it's clear that there is an open objective among existing admins to revise history through money and mob rule whi

s activities are dismissed as a limited p.r. stunt. a life now to the center at nine pm here in moscow it's kevin i am with you this hour our top story the u.s. conclusion that a chemical attack near damascus in august was carried out by the government has been challenged by a team of highly respected experts washington immediately blamed president assad but a new report from the massachusetts institute of technology found the rocket couldn't have been fired from government controlled areas. we went through two to three months worth of study to determine the types of rockets. the weight the size the propellant and we determine that the range is on the order of two kilometers i like to make a note that the u.n. also had come up with a range of approximately two kilometers so this is very confusing to us in our studies and we're trying to understand exactly what the white house map means because right now as it stands these rockets could have never been fired from government controlled territory they would be fired more from a rebel type

after quitting her post with you because she went to work as the head of p.r.for the mayor of moscow it was then that a bomb was placed in her moscow apartment fortunately it doesn't need to know why west course. comments about political prisoners as self-serving. how to cough accuse a hostage of his own past he can't a different way now if he ever recognizes what his security forces were doing he will automatically become responsible i think now he fears that. may start talking and what the third case could potentially be is a further investigation into those murders and assaults which the company's security forces carried out how to craft. he has no other choice he will continue to insist people from his security department opera little prisoners and he will pretend to be pushing for release the adulation heaped upon mr howe that has left some of those watching feeling only half the stories being told despite his insistence that he was a political prisoner many in russia believe that he broke the law and that's why he was sent to jail in a ghost go r.t. mosco

s activities are dismissed as a limited p.r. stunt. kevin i mean this is art international the main story that we're talking about this hour the opposition syrian national council has announced within the last hour that it will attend next week's peace talks in geneva but it's still no clear exactly which members of the group will take part in talks aimed at ending syria's bloody civil war. as the story. amid mounting international pressure syria's opposition has decided to take part in next week's geneva two peace talks the group which faces its own internal divisions announced its decision saturday following a meeting in is stamboul now parts of the syrian opposition were previously critical of taking part in peace negotiations that could help syrian president bashar al assad they say stay in power the syrian national council a main opposition bloc even threatened to pull out of the coalition if the general assembly voted in favor of attending the geneva two it seems though however that mounting pressure from the u.s. and western cou

pontificate ok he's off to a good start i think everyone would agree at least from what from again a p.r. perspective. right well one thing i'd like to see in this follows up on what. you know there's not going to be a change in moral doctrine but what we need to do is to explain better to the world why those moral doctrines exist why these moral teachings of the catholic church exist and this is exactly what what francis i think has been doing and is poll posed well to do that that he is helping us to understand that the moral teachings of the catholic church flow from the gospel message they flow from the central relationship of each person with jesus christ and that once you have that relationship once you have that proper relationship you understand why the church teaches what it does about the dignity of every human being right from conception and being on a very very good point here we've run out of time many thanks to my guests in washington and in madison and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember. this is. some of the sixteen percent of impo

. >> let me ask you, is this a p.r. move? the president said we will continue to -- >> p.r. is your word. >> i understand that. cyber security, is that what this is basically, that he's saying we're not going to do things we weren't doing already? >> look, if your definition of a p.r. move is to restore trust in confident domestically and abroad, that's exactly what the president's doing. what he's done here, it is very interesting, the president's play which was very concise. he did not pull back against collection on foreign targets and to the heads of state and government. the retention of the data and how it is disseminated. and that part he does say, we'll use the same standards that we use for americans, but technically that's practice. i mentioned the administration burden, though. we do that for a great oversight for americans. this is a ten-fold increase in the paperwork requirement. we'll see how much the system can stand that. >> i want to make it fair as we wrap it up. basically, there's a lot less that the president changes than what he does change. and i want t

privileged few that quote can restrict editing access to a page ban users and delete pages of wikis p.r.'s claims are true that means there may be sleeper agents among which a p.t. is most powerful users as we all know knowledge is power which means that the ability to buy an edit rights for the most visited encyclopedia in the world is more than trouble some in fact the unfair editing process has prompted aggravated web users to create wikipedia ocracy a site that catalogs and monitors the editorial failures of wikipedia so is there an active conspiracy among the league with opinions asylum sent including voices like mine on the site you know and i'm not blaming the site itself for what it's become but it's clear that there is an open objective among existing admins to revise history through money and mob rule which excludes people ideas and important perspectives from the site that they feel are one of the based on nothing more than subjective bias so while you might not be able to find information about me or other independent media figures authors or other people you can surely revi

are facing sticker shock higher premiums higher deductibles these are major problems it's not just p.r it's not just technological failure failure it is baked into the cake and baked into the policy and i think obamacare supporters really need to face that you guys want to make a forget is that in the house and senate races this year richard i think democrats hold the senate we might pick up we have to pick up about seventeen to eighteen seats in the house i don't think will do a politic of ten but i think the fact that there are all these bitter primaries luckily there's no not one in wyoming for republicans that's a number one problem and i think if everybody out there needs to watch is what happens in these bitter primaries of the next coming months how start up with this as the republican party brand look like as we get into november in the air you see it. well i commend richard for saying the bitter primaries for the g.o.p. are bad things. romney i've really got a bad for the electorate bad for the g.o.p. i think the senate is definitely in play and you see these democratic senato

a call and we have to take a short break now but when we come back dr chua who was very critical of p.r if you can another friend tricia asked whose diet is now taking the world by storm have the diet guru settled their differences that's coming up in a few moments and while the part. there are many internal battles in society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool fashionable kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms crush their freedom of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v. will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow

moment dr cohen we have to take a short break now but when we come back dr klein was very critical of p.r if you can another france contrition and his diet is now taking the world by storm have the diet guru settled their differences that's coming up in a few moments and while that part. of. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future. unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. now i only go to the docks. and. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. who. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where they live what to eat and what are they actually doing in antarctica. the so much more of the country fourteen olympics what's this place like and why is is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power of the games shaping the city's present and future what mall sochi will bring yet this is the moment they'r

it's a p.r. campaign. it's offensive, actually. we see him pictures giving rise to his friends in the pope mobile and ringing up to say happy new year to nuns when he disregards brain damaged people, millions all over the world that have simply asked for justice. he prefers to deal with trivia. that's offensive the people like us. >> i understand, thank you for joining us. what happens next is that the deliberations put together, the answers that they hope the vatican will provide will be put you into a report, essentially a report card on the vatican's performance in terms of the convention on the rights of the child, which they have signed. in early february, the u.n. will issue its results. on the base of what we're hearing so far today, i don't think it's going to make very comfortable reading for the vatican. >> live in geneva, simon, thank you. >> child abuse investigators in the u.k., u.s. and australia have dismantled an international pedophile ring. the group streamed live webcam footage of impoverished children being abus

it is a p.r.>> would you not say if you have a better work/life balance, you become a better worker. >> you have absolutely right and completely believe in this. people must take their annual leave. we will kick people out of the office toward the end of the year if they have not taken it. they must take two weeks a year. i would often tell people to go home at night. at the end of the day, it is important. it is very important. but i think most people do this. but it is difficult. young people come out of university and they have a ton of energy and they want to show themselves. it is a good thing that they say one day of the weekend you have to stay home. the question is whether you log on at home? >> there are ways around these things. if you say it is just a p.r. exercise, nobody is going to be particularly bothered by that. eric, i just want to get a quick comment from you on the u.k. inflation story. at target now, 2%. slightly below expectations but given the fact that we now have an inflat

. >> isn't this a p.r. to let you know it is cool and they have dipped their toes and a lot of different areas and not just the web browser everybody knows them four. david: let me just ask you whether or not it helps the share value. are they interested or is it just for p.r. value outside the company? >> i think it helps with attracting employees and all that sort of stuff to have an environment that is conducive to innovation. david: it gets google's cool back where it is not careful it will turn into microsoft, the overweight guy at the beach instead of the young stud. david: amazon. this company just continues to sell like crazy but again the prophet is tiny based on wanting to build market share. where do they decide it is time to cash in? >> what happened with facebook's wall street was looking only at growth, now wall street it's going to look instead and say nevermind, growth, wants to see it how much you are doing selling. with amazon, we are still not right about how much profit are you going to

know about of p.r. polishing can make people different from what they are. i am not sure at the tips to humanize our core have always worked but would be careful of confessionals i will judge can you imagine an fdr speaking in public or private about the way pallia changed his life? he won their hearts talking about them. that was about as good device as al gore could have gotten at that time. that was the first time i had seen that. but that was the value of these letters. >> you could take that further. go to another letter were he discusses al gore source of vice president. [laughter] he makes it clear he was very disappointed that this man was rather smug and pious and fundamentally not what a democratic president should be looking to. at the same time praising al gore for all the of the things he was doing but he had to be clearer down the line he would be an agreement. >> let's talk about are a k -- rfk because he changed the most he was on that trajectory that ended tragically in los angeles. the relationship began stirring a the mccarthy era when he

west london mosque which is another part of -- but he -- the guy there who was really part of their p.r., so welcoming and open and wanted me to come in and have a sense of it and what it is the and, of course, it's a big p.r. exercise for them. they want you to see a different side of them. >> rose: exactly. >> and i was welcomed wherever i went. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thanks for having me. >> rose: thank you for joining us. see you next time. . >>> this is "nightly business report" with tyler mathisen and susie gharib brought to you in part by. >> thestreet.com. up to the minute stock market news and in depth analysis. our raunt ratings service provides objective independent ratings daily on over 4300 stocks. learn more at the street.com/nbr. >>> weak start, stocks begin the new year with a thud. the dow logging the worst day in nearly two months. many professionals are betting on another big year for the market. which sectors are worth your money now? >> virtue or vice, 'tis the season to make resolutions, good for your health. >> high alert, a warning from the government.

west london mosque which is another part of -- but he -- the guy there who was really part of their p.r., so welcoming and open and wanted me to come in and have a sense of it and what it is the and, of course, it's a big p.r. exercise for them. they want you to see a different side of them. >> rose: exactly. >> and i was welcomed wherever i went. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thanks for having me. >> rose: thank you for joining us. see you next time. >>> the follo production was produced in high definition. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> every single bite needed to be -- >> twinkies are in there! >> wow! >> it's like a great, big hug in the cold city. >> that food is about as spicy as i can handle and my parents put chili powder in my baby food. >> i have french fried bits all over the table. just a lot of

the entire p.r. push running closer to $700 million. is, you're paying for it whether you like it or not. a missouri senator gets his way you might heave to still pay for it but they have to disclose it. very good having you. happy new year to you, senator. i don't know if they will do that, and unless you can force the issue become it would it make a big difference if people say, your tax dollars paid for this, or -- i don't know how you would frame it that would even move the needle for people. >> we always thought it would make a big difference in political advertising to know who is paying for it, why they're paying for it, and if you're the average taxpayer, you're a taxpayer that pays taxes and you're watching the television or listening to a commercial, probably good for you to knowow just paid for the guy to say, trust me, some day you're going to have a big problem and you need this program to take care of it. last year this was $1 billion in spending, before the healthcare spending we see started now. the administration announ

the dallas cowboys had their p.r. people and their p.r.ecided who would really talk to the media i got a little sick of that. and so i struck out on my own and started saying controversial stuff. gill brant came up to me one day and said terry bradshaw wanted to go to lsu but his grades would only allow him to go to louisiana tech and i just came up with that line spell cat if you spotted him the ca which got me on the cover of "newsweek." it's the trash talking but more importantly when game time comes you have got to perform. >> was it worth it? would you do it all over again? >> i wouldn't do it the same way, bill. i wish i would have never taken that first drink or smoked that first joint. when i look back at my life, you know, finishing college, finishing high school, number one draft choice for the cowboys playing with the star on my helmet. very proud of all of that. it was the embarrassing of my family with the addiction and jail and, you know what i mean? i really had to make some deep amends to my mother so i would do some of it

so you're not just a p.r.more or a legal issue it's a life and death issue. >> susan desusa from nbc news in toronto, you were just there from that complete group of people. what was that like? that looked violent to be there. >> reporter: erin, i can tell you in toronto i've covered a lot of stories involving our mayor rob ford who's had a lot of media surrounding him. the scrum around justin bieber as he pulled up to the side of the police station here was ten times crazier than anything i've been involved in what happened was police brought him to the side door of the station, basically locked arms and basically created a path for him to come in the door. in the midst of that of course the news media, entertainment media and then a lot of fans who have come down since this news first broke around 5:00 this afternoon. so more than 100 people swarming around this car. it was just quite an incredible scene in the midst of that, justin bieber coming in to present himself to police here. >> all right. thank you

is it just a p.r. campaign?lot of things that she recommended that could be done that could support women such as having child care available which would change the dynamic for working women. >> free child care? >> you could have tax credits to support child care. you could have government provided child care. there are things like that that i think would make things very different for women who want to work. or need to work. >> and, kate, you say? >> well, first of all, this is a this was funded by large port george soros for center for progress. hillary clinton was number one contributor along with beyonce and eva longoria let's not get to excited about the seriousness of this. it's great to rising ill will jit illegitimacy. this report relies almost entirely on government solutions. if we look what's been happening with government solutions and the obama approach to expanded government regulations, more taxes, actually women's poverty has increased that is something that a lot of us have been talking about fo

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