was covering in similar times and to do this i checked some pollsters research out pew research tracks the top mainstream media stories week by week so you can see a breakdown of the top five stories that they cover and that given time and looking back i did see that god there is a really really great example where we totally missed one of the five biggest stories of the week that was covered by the mainstream media take a look at let us begin with charlie sheen we don't have to tell you for the past week it is sort of wall to wall charlie sheen on t.v. . it's five thirty am charlie sheen climbs the series of his hollywood hills mansion five people brooke say he's taking his media blitz to the next level sheen provided deep line with these oh never before seen version of his reality. charlie sheen he's been everywhere for the last three days and at the end of our shooting we wondered as you no doubt will what did we just witness that's what we wondered why didn't we just minutes we totally miss it here artie we didn't cover charlie sheen at all but to compare i look back at what our to

societies and they will forgo the americans who can't afford it much anyway anyway according to the pew research center. if the seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth marina horton i r.t. new york. coming to you live from moscow now a worrying parallels being drawn between president obama's politics towards iran and those of george bush's moves in iraq award winning writer seymour hersh has been following developments for years later he tells us here at r.t. why it can only lead to a dead. fear is based on the notion that you know that he has a bomb or is going to get a bomb soon that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have it from their own intelligence community. the people who probably know there's no weapons there we've known that for years we've been looking for years after years after years we support a sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is. aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something we know we know they're not

a poll released this week by the pew research center shows that, for the first time, a majority of americanswant u.s. troops to leave afghanistan as soon as possible. in a speech from the white house on wednesday, president obama promised to begin the withdrawal this summer. he said more than 30,000 troops will return home by next year. >> america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. >> earlier in the week, the u.s. conference of mayors called for an end to the war, saying the money would be better spent on domestic needs. nearly 40 religious leaders also urged an end to the conflict. in a letter to the president, they said peace in afghanistan caot cme tough military force. >>> international concerns are rising for refugees from libya and the middle east. >>> in syria, thousands have flooded into neighboring turkey to escape the syrian government crackwn on protestors. >>> on monday, the united nations marked world refugee day with an urgent plea for countries to keep their borders open to people fleeing violence. according to a u.n. report, more than 4million people were d

in a pew research center poll, one-third of white evangelicals say a mormon would be less than likelyo receive their vote. huntsman did not mention his mormon faith when he announced his candidacy. and romney downplayed his faith's importance saying he's not running for pastor in chief. and there are reports that the gingrich campaign is already a million dollars in debt. earlier in month, his top aides, 16 of them, and advisors resigned en masse over disagreements with gingrich. >>> ecofriendly vehicles are getting preferred parking in the bay area. we have a photograph. which shows one of spots of the new parking lot at cvs drugstore in santa rosa. a store did it to boost its green image. you will see more of these spots starting january 1. state law requires 10% of those parking spots at new commercial buildings to be devoted to fuel efficient cars, or van pulled vehicles. >>> after decades of changing tires, bringing gasoline and dispatching tow trucks, triple-a moving to the electric car era. the auto club plans to launch a fleet of fast-charging trucks for stranded electrical ve

anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth bring up or deny artsy new york. to look at the ramifications of spiraling out of points in the u.s. let's cross to r.t.c. business desk now how do you create an hour for struggling americans this must feel like they're being kicked while they're already down well yes mary despite some recent signs of economic recovery that we're seeing sixty three percent of americans still feel not good or even bad about the state of the u.s. economy and that's a significant increase from like may two thousand and ten when only forty nine percent of americans felt this way rising fuel prices a shaky job market leading many of us worried about their future now as some analysts say the federal government must stop spending and grow the economy by five percent instead of two percent the latest monthly labor market data has shown that hiring in the u.s. slowed dramatically and i r

will forgo the americans who can afford it anyway anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth. artsy new york. well for more on the woes of american students and the other stories we're covering or i just had a result so you thought or more news and eye catching videos are always there for you that's a quick look right now as the drones become what washington's weapon of choice of room fears about to be in your humane i an unmanned aircraft will soon keep people in line at. an age to know russian office staff could soon be forced to pay for the water they drink at work find out how a penny pinching bosses are planning to do it the full story about gardening. there's been an explosion in a mall that was capital chisinau a car with russian registration plates blew up right in the center of the city eyewitnesses report seeing bodies on the road and of several people with injuries although there is conflicting in

they will forego all of the americans who can afford it much in the way anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and an educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth your enough artsy new york the pain of losing a child is something that no parent ever wants to pay now a russian woman is keeping her late son's legacy alive by using his frozen sperm and surrogate mothers and she's battling the courts society's attitude to be recognized as the guardian for paving grandchildren takes on a point or explains. it was only after fifty seven that lamar understood the true meaning of having her hands full an accomplished scientist a wife of three decades and also a devoted mother none of these roles kept her as busy as she is now her tragedy she became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else she was in though the death of my son created a hole in my life that i will never close but the birth of my grandchildren certainly provide some solace is god's gift

will forgo the americans from care and afforded much in the way i mean way according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth. r.t. new york. a russian woman is battling the court's society's attitudes to be recognized as the mother of four baby grandchildren and control to see if case stems from the fact that the children were born using her late son's sperm and sorry. this report. it was only at fifty seven that lamarr understood the true meaning of having her hands full an accomplished scientist a wife of three decades and also a devoted mother none of these roles kept her as busy as she is now her tragedy she became a grandmother only after she'd lost everything else. you know the death of my son created a hole in my life that i will never close but the birth of my grandchildren certainly provide some solace is god's gift to me the mar son died of cancer three years ago but before his first chemotherapy session doctor

will forgo the americans who care and afford it the way way according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth growing up or deny r.t. new york. and for more on the woes of american students and other stories that we're covering on air of course you can always go to the website that we have it's r t dot com more news and eye catching videos always there for you at twenty four seventh's have a quick look and see what's waiting for you right now and as drones become washington's weapon of choice abroad fears mount that the inhuman i have an unmanned aircraft will soon keep people in line. and age two oh no russian office staff could soon be forced to pay for the water they drink and word find out how the penny pinching bosses are planning to do that before story at r.t. dot com. there's been an explosion in the model of his capital which is there now a car with russian registration plates blew up right in the center of th

but, governor, a pew research "washington post" poll had some fairly stunning findings. i want to run these by you. when republicans-- not just voters in general, but when republicans-- were asked what word they would use to describe the republican field so far, the word they used most often was "unimpressed." followed by "disappointed" and "weak." the word "good" did come in fourth, but it was followed by "incompetent, pathetic, unqualified, not interested, and idiots." four republicans in ten, 37%, used negative words to describe the republican field. only 22% used positive words. that tells me, governor, that no matter how bad this economy is, you've got some work to do here. >> it reminds me of the last two times the country has elected democrats as president. in the first half of 1991, if you asked people about bill clinton, those would probably have been some of the nicer things they said about him after his speech at the 1988 democratic national convention, yet he became president. if you'd have asked about barack obama, they would have said "who?" i mean, the fac

will forgo the americans who can afford it much in the way way according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth. artsy new york. and a few more on the american students and other stories we're covering on and just head over to our t.v. dot com more news and eye catching videos always there for you twenty seven let's call it right now so we now know as the drug it's become washington for a weapon of choice abroad if it is mounted with the human eye of an unmanned aircraft the thinking people in line came. to oh no russian office staff could soon be forced to pay for the water they drink at work to find out how many pinching bosses have planning to do that now the full story of our team don't try. to. check out some other international news we're covering for you this hour here on out see the farming chief has proposed one hundred fifty million euros of aid to help producers hit by the current crisis well the other in your

a pew research center survey found two-thirds of americans say news organizations are giving too much coverage to the scandal. 39% of the public said they are following the economy closely while only 15% were following reports about anthony weiner. so danielle, is the media out of touch with the public? >> well, i think in today's media market it's going to be out of touch because of the fact there is a 24 hour news hole to fill. people are looking at news around the clock, 24 hour newsnet works there are more avenues to get news than ever before. the reason why the story gets oversaturated is there's room to saturate it with. one of the situations where it's controversial involves a guy with crazy funny pictures they will milk it for what it's worth. >> sex sells it's falacious. he is a rather obnoxious member of congress and a loud mouth and this is something people found to be interesting. anytime you have a sex scandal with pictures the media is going to go wild and he is a new yorker. the largest media market in the world. >> it's not news that men politicians are bad poster boys

will forgo the americans from care and afford it much anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth growing up forty nine artsy new york. we're coming to you live from moscow now the european parliament in strasburg has been debating a report into whether garia and romania are ready to join the visa area it would mean that easier travel to and from those countries within the e.u. but critics suggest it could open the floodgates for a wave of organized crime or even illegal immigrants and for them there's more of this we are joined live by sarah lightfoot a british liberal democrat m.e.p. who is live for us in strasbourg and also the european parliament will decide whether to recommend romania and bulgaria as membership of the shame get in the zone what concerns would you have if they said yes. well i think the european economies can support from a. joining because they meet the current criteria for access int

survey that looks at the public's knowledge of news events and this was done a few years ago by pew research and the results are not surprising the daily show and the colbert report scored the highest. fifty four percent of the people surveyed had a very high knowledge of news events and i feel it down the list that's even better than n.p.r. listeners and we all know that n.p.r. is a high reputation now if you look down on the list fox news came next to last just ahead of viewers who watch morning network newscasts and only thirty five percent of their viewers are knowledgeable on current events which should not shock anyone again now according to research done by comedy central seventy eight percent of the daily show viewers are more likely to have a college education compared to an average adult they're also seventy four percent more likely to make more than seventy five thousand dollars a year and household income compared to viewers of the o'reilly factor box news signature show only twenty four percent are more likely to have a college degree compared to the average adult and their fift

will forgo the americans for caring afforded much in the way anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth. r.t. new york so what do people in new york city think about the cost of college and whether it's actually worth it or harkness of the resident decided to pose that question to some new yorkers take a look what she found. with today's tough job market is it worth spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for college education this week let's talk about that how much does college cost in poland and college for free. any this day it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars . leaves a problem. and and young people from all over the world of bought off on it and it needs to stop now i'm not going to say that the government needs to pay for it but i think young people need to wake up and look around them and say you know it's not an accident that bill gates was so self-taught maybe if kids took two or three yea

societies and they will forgo the americans who can afford it much anyway anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and un educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth growing up artsy new york. coming up next we have tonight's show and tell segment and the culprits are launching a new media campaign that saying that it's all obama's fault that gas prices are sky high i'll speak with him progressively falling about the irony of that campaign when we return. we. heard right. either.

i think is too much emphasis on it nonetheless america cannot seem to get enough according to pew research last week casey anthony was one of the top five news makers and all of mainstream news behind people like you know the u.s. president and jon huntsman who announced he's running for president and the you are seem to want it to be headline news which has been delivering a wall to wall coverage has seen a huge surge in ratings as a result propelling primetime programs to the one or two thought and many occasions but meanwhile. i mean as michael was. i was arrested twenty four for an arm robbery every day there are injustices in america there will never get a fraction of the attention that most people will never have heard of michael was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit. from corporate exonerated after a difficult battle despite plenty of evidence of innocence. one of many cases americans may never hear about as they tune into the serving testimony in the casey anthony murder trial whether it matters to a greater society or not but who cares because it's the show

missing what was one of the biggest newsmakers of the week number three that week according to pew research what we see that was arnold schwarzenegger i'm sure saying there are more to those arnold schwarzenegger arnold schwarzenegger the governor of california woke up today to a bob short shorts and anger admitting he had a child with a staff member who worked for the family for twenty years we now learn maria demanded he move out of the revelation yes his love child was a huge bombshell that we totally overlooked so let's see what we were looking at that day. and afghanistan today at least eleven people were killed and eighty injured when violent protests broke out after a nato raid that allegedly killed four civilians g twenty finance ministers are meeting in argentina to address commodity prices they're concerned about volatility now you may recall food prices have broken two thousand a record i think you have to recover course to misrata libya and it was the story was a really good day worth his life you know obviously the u.s. dollar is something that is the subject of a world bank re

will forgo the americans who can afford it much in the way anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce and an educated many wonder with the u.s. economy will eventually be worth marine upward ny artsy new york well as you just saw college may be costly and of course the economy is in the dumps but better to suck it up and get let's agree than risk getting left behind in a dust right well not according to mike snyder of the economic collapse blog he says it's a graduates are nothing but invention of servants and here's why take a look. today's students that are graduating here at this time of year two thirds of them are coming out with student loan debt and the total amount of student loan debt in the united states today is actually more than the total amount of credit card everyone always talks about what a credit card but americans are hereto are known hundred billion dollars in student loan debt and for critical the students coming out today with forty eight hundred twenty thousand dolla

will forgo the americans who can afford it much in the way anyway according to the pew research center fifty seven percent of americans say college is not worth the price but with a widening workforce of untrained and educated many wonder what the u.s. economy will eventually be worth during up or deny an artsy new york so is going to college a worthwhile investment i mean decades ago a college education virtually guaranteed people a place in america's middle class today college education is big business prices for everything from books situation are soaring and many grads continue to remain unemployed in the twenty first century economy that's essentially imploding on all sides so is college worth it or is it just a high priced scam join me now for more from creation washington as michael snyder the founder of comic books dot com michael it's great to have you back here i know you had a interesting little piece that listed some of the more dire statistics on the merits or lack thereof in a college education what's your take is it a scam or is it a worthwhile investment. well it's true

that notion that defense spending has nothing to do with america's fiscal crisis there's a new pew research poll actually out there and you know it i mean obviously public opinion they often won one thing they want khans been they don't want medicare or any of their domestic programs cut but when it comes to the opinion they think that defense spending is out or excuse me that the wars are more to blame for our deficit than our medicare or social security or those programs that they hold so dear why do i was in a meeting yesterday with a conservative group where one of the conservative members actually stood up and said he would be good to have a trillion dollars we just spent on iraq available to us now so the truth is we have spent a heck of a lot of money that we can't get back and we need to look at what could be reduced now you and i for part about the four are opposed to the special operations special operations are for the most part very inexpensive compared to large land armies which occupy huge territories right now we're talking about five hundred thousand dollars per person per y

now, new research from the pew research center survey says that 13% of online adults in the u.s.se twitter. that's up from 8% just one year ago. so, what were the top tweeted events? champions league football, the final between barcelona and manchester united. that came in at more than 6,000 tweets a second. that's double the number of tweets during the world cup final last summer. but the record still stands in japan. the japanese new year celebration at its peak, 7,000 tweets every second. that's a lot of tweeting. so, where are the tweets coming from? japan is a big one. let's look at the top five. now, according to comscore, there they are there, the netherlands, japan, brazil, indonesia and venezuela. the netherlands is number one with 26.8% of the population tweeting. globally, it is about 1 billion tweets sent every six days. that's something to tweet about. >> it is, indeed. i tweet myself, but i have to say those figures put me to shame. >>> on friday, the u.s. government releases nonfarm employment figures that are expected to fall short, well short of initial predictio

the pew research results show that 1963, 89% of dads lived with kids. and 2010, the number is 73%.oes that make a difference? >> that does. and that data is birth fathers. and fathers now come from everywhere. and any committed male can become a good father. and they are more than just a second pair of hands. and so many moms are professionals and entering the work force. dads have to stay at home at times. the changing appreciation of families. traditional families, nuclear families. families stepparents and cohabitation as well. and the culture of fathers. dad is expected to be around and to be an active member of the family. dads provide unique experiences for the children they can on the get from their father. and children benefit from the connection between father and child. >> thanks. >> playing the stock market, paying for college. we will see what is in the financial forecast. >>> all weekend long, we asked you and the staff to share the best advice from dad. meryl page, her dad had this advice to offer. don't be afraid to explore your backyard. and remember,s the whole wor

in a pew research poll, with third of white evangelicals say mormon would be less than likely to getuntsman did not mention the mormon faith when he announced his capped dassy and -- candidacy. >>> after decade of changing tires, bringing gasoline and dispatching tow trucks, triple-a is moving in the electric car era. they will launch a fleet of trucks. later this summer the fleets are charging trucks and will roll out in the other major cities off. toe makers say -- auto makers say fear of being stranded without power is a major roadblock to people testing electric cars. >>> just ahead on abc7 news at 6:00 a.m. -- a stick-up for a check-up. the extreme measures one man was willing to take to get medical care. >> the newly release document to end the debate over who installed a gas pipeline that rupture and killed eight people in san bruno. >>> good morning. i'm nick smith. at sfo. take a look at this picture. i'll tell you about one airline decision to allow a passenger to fly in this state of dress and how that decision has left some scratching their heads. [ male announcer ] using

. >> even if that unlike will i claim is true that he had no support network, new polling from pew research suggestion he had popular support among pakistanis. it showed 63% disapproval rating for the raid that pull him out. 12% despite billions of dollars in humanitarian aid and military aid flowing into pakistan since the 9/11 attacks. i talked about the pakistani problem earlier tonight with world afairs analyst fareed za cara and ed core at large of time magazine. >> there have been several incidents of insurgents in pakistan abandoning bomb-making facilities after the u.s. informed the pakistani regime about them that. certainly seems to play into all of the u.s.'s concerns about collaboration between elements within the pakistani military and terrorist groups. >> look. at this point there's really no question. everybody has noticed a pattern in which when you ask the pakistani military for help with regard to certain militants, certain groups, certain bomb-making factories, by the time you get there in 50% of the kays the militants have been tipped off. i think it's important to point

there were this amazing figure from a pew research study that showed 37% of african-americans didn't believe black americans could be -- still be thought of as a single race. i thought that was a really striking figure. after a certain age, there's only -- there's something like a 40% chance that a black woman, i believe, in her early 20s would -- would never marry as opposed to a 20% chance for white women. i thought that was an interesting figure. so there are lots of these things that i kind of stumbled across, uh-huh. >> there were any stark comparisons to white americans in similar groups? >> well, yes, there are some. i mean, one even if you compare middle class to middle class, there's a stark difference in wealth as opposed to income. middle class to middle class income is fairly close now. but wealth is a huge gap. and that's something that some people have been talking and thinking a lot about, including bob johnson the billionaire who now has got a project about that. >> and do you tap into any solutions for kind of stopping the splintering or -- >> you know, i think it ma

and a new pew research center poll finds that social media users are now older on average than in past years. we explore the numbers in an interactive graphic. plus, there's new research on some the oldest known black holes in outer space. our science unit breaks down the basics. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the iraq and >> woodruff: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. caption

we take a look at some new poll numbers now with andrew kohut, president of the pew research center;lizza, washington correspondent for "new yorker" magazine. gentlemen, good to have you both with us. >> thank you. >> woodruff: ryan, i'm going to begin with you. before we talk about his position on the economy which is what he wants to talk about, you looked extensively at this health-care plan that he pushed in massachusetts. and you concluded that it has become his biggest liability. why is that? and how is he dealing with it? >> well, the number one thing that republicans seem to not like about president obama, or at the top of the list anyway is his health-care plan, right? well, essentially obama, the architecture of the obama plan is based on the architecture that romney innovated and really invented in massachusetts. so ever o the course of the last few years there's been a very lively debate on the right. some conservative intellectuals demanding that obama renounce his support for this plan and specifically for the individual mandate. this mandate from the state government i