peter maer, i want you to weigh in on this because the highest rated program on the fox newschannel, bill o'reilly, might have two, two and a half million viewers a night, and evening news with scott telly might have just as many. so even though it's diminished, broadcast news morning programs still have more viewers than cable. >> and we have, i'm told, 24 to 26 million weekly listeners to our cbs radio newscast, too, steve. so, again, these are all, as professor skopcol said, part of the fragmented choices that people have as -- you know, as they tune across the radio or listen to satellite broadcast, which i know the audio portion of this might be heard on, cspan radio, cspan tv. we could mention all the different choices people have. it's so helpful in this country that we have so many choices and the ease we have to find them. what's troubling is the people that find -- you know, that choose news to fit their views, o at the other end of the spectrum when they do seek information. and i'd like to professor scotchpole a question based on reading of her fine piece in the "washingt

it's -- i'll put in a plug at peter maer cbs if you care to follow. it's a great tool for us, but you can't take everything you see on twitter as gospel. there is a lot of rumor hmo mongering, a lot of gossip. there are a lot of interest groups. i follow every side, every angle as i possibly can on twitter and i am glued to it in my little corner of the white house much of the day. >> one other point and i'll get to your follow-up. peter maer, you were at the white house in 1996 when bill clinton was challenged by bob dole. he, of course, won reelection, but that was an important year because it was the first year, only 16 years ago, in which both campaigns had their own web site. and they did something remarkable at the time, they posted speeches on their web sites, no video, but speeches and texts and other information. of course, as steve klein pointed out in 2000 and 2004, campaigns started using them as a marketing tool and a fundraising tool. that was only 16 years ago. >> it's astounding what has evolved. i would say that for anyone who really