he will be the phil donahue. i hand you the microphone. >> i'll hold onto it. i believe the way we're planning to do this, we have some written questions that we will be reading off and the panel will be answering them. i'll also be taking questions from the audience. so, if anybody has a question, feel free to raise your hand. allow me to have time to get over there to get to you. should we start off with a red question or a question from the audience? >> i can read one. >> okay. >> okay. and some of these questions on the list -- is the mic on? okay. some of the questions are directed toward a specific speaker, others aren't. so, if it's directed toward a specific speaker, i'll ask you. if not, just whoever can answer it, start answering it. this is a general question. so, it's not geared toward any particular speaker. so if anyone feels like chiming in, that would be great. how do you go about securing funding for the various graffiti programs? do you use grants, tax assessments, et cetera? anybody? >> i think i can take that. >> okay, ready. >> for anyone w

took its overly critical program off the phil donahue show produce the jeffco in gifted you trace the paper trail to the top memos leaked out internal f.c.c. memo leaked out to make sure there were no props by the bush administration when so much of the media is in lockstep and you start asking skep question you'll likely be taken off the air general electric just sold a b.c. to comb calls leaving a couple of cable providers in one of the world's biggest countries craig room will to fix his that had comcast eighteen to you varieties in time warner. hosted leak competing with each other but in reality just dividing up territory across the country so that they can maintain incredibly high profit margins and where they don't feel that in the pressure to invest in new technologies and new service. and the result has been that americans pay far higher prices for far slower service than a lot of the rest of the world g. selling else a small move in many ways with floyd big trust comes crushing few a ship so megacorp so found a much more sinister way to get in the minds of the i'm suspecting

and i began a calm writing about phil donahue it was removed tremendous embassy although we had the highest ratings of any show in the evening. because he dares to put people on and question the rush of the iraq war look at iraq which made a fortune off course as as microsoft and they're hardly going to allow a dissident voice to impede their profits or their ratings and that's really at this point what it's all about these television personalities people like chris matthews a cheerleader for the war on amazon b.c. makes about five million dollars a year they're celebrities you know they're judged on their likeability what in the business called a q score and not on their commitment to news or to the truth now yeah it sounds like you're saying that the state of the media has become more and more of a business model these days chris when you think that this has happened or can you pinpoint an area in time or a point in time where this happened or has it been something that's been gradual. well it's been a gradual descent kind of deterioration over my own lifetime as a journalist and watched

phil donahue was pushed aside is. >> john: pushed aside--he lost his job. >> then we have trillions ofou spend that much money to create things to believe people up, you blow people up. if you're going to want-- >> let's talk about the ones who admitted they were never wrong. thomas friedman or sean hannity. >> you know, talk about the youth excuse, they're not sure that they at the time felt like they were going on the information they had so why should they apologize now. >> john: because we all had the same information. we had the access of scott ritter coming on. >> and 36 million people are standing up and saying, i'm saying what their justification might be. >> you apologize when you doing is wrong. >> john: we talked last night about the support of the war from politicians on both sides of the aisles including the two clintons. have we not heard enough mea culpas across the board on this. would an apology from mrs. clinton help or hurt her chances for 2016? >> i think it depends which war we're in in 2015. if we're sitting there looking and we're in syria or iran, i mean, it dep

lot but i think we still have to keep asking where was the mainstream corporate media besides phil donahued. >> because nbc did not want a corporate face someone who opposed the war so fired the number one rated talk show host six weeks before the war because they couldn't stand the thought of nbc being considered unpatriotic. the mainstream media were rushing to war. they were part of the problem. i wrote then, and i wrote this week, you know, president bush could not have sold this war without the mainstream media the so-called liberal hawks that the washington post, new york times essentially signing off on the war, you know, washington post publishing fine pro war editorials in the last couple months before the war, 26 in total, you know, the day after colin powell made that infamous just outlandish presentation to the u.n., four washington post-columnists cheered him saying there's no debate anymore. sadaam hussein has to be taken out. mainstream media was by far probably the worst failure of the last half century. >> war always good for ratings. i'd like to ask you about what the org

msnbc fired phil donahue because he did not back the iraq war. we're also looking at twitter in the hash tag we're using this evening is infotainment. all of that is coming up in about an hour and 15 minutes. we will open up your comments and questions from jane hall. next up we take you to los angeles and to these zoklov public affairs. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> my favorite moderator, mr. john matthews. >> thanks so much for being here. thanks to my colleagues at zoklo. this is terrific panel of three incredible journalist with incredibly different backgrounds. let's get into it. the first time i was told i would model this panel, it was great physical pain. it was in 2003 outside of the county building in norwalk where candidates must go to file papers when they run for office. the recall election has been scheduled and people were going to run for governor. i was there staking it out covering for the l.a. times when arnold schwarzenegger walked up the stairs to file papers. i was sitting from a distance trying to get a question and ar