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the national press about the effect on the finances of the regional and the local press of telephone way cfas were operating. and i recall a case which affected not my own local newspaper, which is the lancashire telegraph, but the adjacent one where for a very minor defamation where i think the payout was 3,000 pounds. and even that really wasn't justified. the newspaper had to pay out thousands and thousands by way of costs. as a citizen as well as a politician, i'm very concerned that we should not lose the regional and local press. i looked at this, whichever -- i think it was a society of editors who represents the regional and local papers. but they had made representations to me, provided a lot of data. there was also strong representations, however, from the nationals as well. and i thought they had a case, quite a strong case. to cut this short, i then followed it through and i decided that we should reduce it from 100% to 10%. i got ministerial colleagues' agreement to that without any difficulty. as it happened in the rush of legislation as we approached the general electi

and the other was the press. and they raised these concerns through representations originally to lord irvin who was handling the bill in the house of lords. it started in the house of lords, not the house of commons. lord wakeham raised them on the floor of the house and he said in his written statement that he did that not as a representative of the press but to reflect his own opinions but he happened to be chairman of the bcc. and i was very anxious to achieve a consensus on this legislation. because i have a principle, which is that major constitutional change should only go through if there is some kind of greater legitimacy, either through consensus in parliament or through a referendum. the conservatives were opposing the bill, that second reading, and i was anxious to see whether we could reach an accommodation so we could get their endorsement to it. and also i thought part of what lord wakeham and the pcc was saying was reasonable. if i may refer you to paragraph 103 where i refer to the letter lord wa

1-866-55-press.h -- may i remind you is, by far, sad to say the number one cable network number one i mean far, far, far outpaces msnbc or cnn or current tv or anybody else. so that's pretty troubling. 1-866-55-press. tell me what you think about that. but then the other question is if you're not watching fox and i hope you're not, where do people go? where do you really go for the news? where do you go? you don't want slant left or slant right. you just want the truth. you just want the news. you know what's going on. where do you go? i would like to know from you. do you read a newspaper? how many people read a newspaper anymore? i don't know. do you subscribe to one at home, peter? >> i used to. i don't anymore but i get "the new york times" on my ipad. and then i use "the washington post" app which is free on the ipad. i read a newspaper on the ipad but i don't get. >> bill: you don't pick one up. >> not anymore. >> bill: i think if you read it online, that counts. >> i'm still reading "the new y

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and welcome to the "full court press." the "bill press show."ing to you live, booming out here across the country from our studio on capitol hill in washington, d.c. booming out on satellite and radio on your local progressive talk radio station and on current tv. no way you can miss us. we're there for you in any forum whatsoever. good to see you today. we've got lots and lots to talk about. big news story with this major announcement by president obama following vice president biden's lead on same-sex marriage, of course last sunday. we'll talk about it. we've got lots of guests to talk about it. of course, you will want to talk about it and the way you do so is give us a call at 1-866-55-press. "new york times" headline this morning, obama endorses same-sex marriage taking stand on charge to social issue and the hill headline, obama shifts, backs same-sex marriage. how about it? we start off by, of course saying hello not only to all of you but to our team players here. peter ogborn and dan henning. >> we're on the team. i wouldn't say we're

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welcome to full-court press on current tv. i am bill press. liberal and proud of it. you bet.e you had a great weekend and are ready to tackle the big stories of the hour, of the day on this last hour together marco rubio says president obama -- get this -- is one-of the most divisive figures in modern american history. more divisive than george w. bush who took this country to war in iraq against a country that did not attack us first in more divisive than rush limbaugh on the hateful stuff he says about blacks, women. marco rubio is trying to practice being mitt romney's attack dog. we will talk about that and a lot more but we start out by getting all of the latest todd's current tv news update here in los angeles, jacki schechner. hi, jacki, good morning. >> hi, bill. good morning. good morning, everyone. a new poll out today shows americans trust president obama to handle healthcare better than mitt romney but they trust mitt romney more when it comes to the national deficit or federal debt. the two are tied when it comes to unemployment. a gallup survey asking the import

i was going to be press secretary. i think it was assumed we would be involved in all the kind of sensitive policy areas that tony blair was going to be taking charge of. so, for example, we were very quickly we were president of the european union. there were lots of nato issues going on. so i think there was an assumption from the word go that i would be. >> i think what i was trying to ascertain. it may be very difficult to differentiate this, whether there was a reasonable principle which caused you to be vetted or a series of obvious circumstances which rendered it desirable. i'm not sure it's possible to say which, is it? >> i think it was the former. i think it was the former. i think there was -- i think it was made clear to jonathan powell and me that we would have to go through that process. >> okay. the next is the murdoch press when you look at paragraph nine of your statement, which is our page 07 -- sorry 00795. >> yeah. >> in essence you explain that it was a neutralization strategy, but you ended up doi

this is the "bill press show."ive on your radio and current tv. >> bill: now you know, even somebody as great as i am occasionally will make a mistake. >> i refuse to believe that. >> bill: i have e-mails this morning correcting me. this one from joyce anderson. she says i do like and listen to you daily. i'm also from california. my husband and i have a house in inverness where carol and i have a house. so we have a few things in common but do not take offense at this but i shiver when you say irreconcilable instead of irreconcilable. i guess that's what it is supposed to be. >> yeah, bill, everybody knows that. >> bill: it is a small thing i know but please don't do it anymore. all right. but now i'm not sure which is right. irreconcilable. >> i don't like the way that sounds. i'm going to be honest. >> i like the way you say it. >> irreconcilable. >> i might be wrong but i prefer it. >> bill: we may be wrong but it sounds better and peter likes it better. sorry, joyce! [ growls ] lucky for me your friends showed

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this is the full court press.ood to have you on board as we tackle the big stories of the day here in our nation's capitol, around the country around the globe and give you a chance to talk about it at 866-55-press. i am liberal and proud of it. lots to talk about this morning, including what we have been focusing on our first hour together, the census bureau telling us that for the very first time here in the united states, a majority of babies are minority babies and we will be a majority minority nation by 2042. i think it's great news but they have had to put a suicide watch on pat buchanan. we will talk about that and a whole lot more but first, we start out by getting the latest, our current tv news update today, jacki schechner in los angeles. >> hello, bill. good morning, everyone. police believe trayvon martin's death was ultimately unavoidable if george zimmerman would have stayed in his vehicle. >> that's according to a report released late last night as part of a series of new evidence. the evidence in

court press." this thursday, may 17. coming in, chris van hollen will be joining us shortly. while we're waiting for him i wanted to bring you up to date on a big breaking political story you're going to hear a lot about this today. we talked about it last hour. it is on the front page of "the new york times." here's just what we need, friends and neighbors another super pac, another republican super pac aimed at defeating and destroying president obama. this one is funded again by one individual. this is still part of the obama hate machine. remember told you about my book, "the obama hate machine." it lives right? we have the koch brothers. that's what i wrote about in this book. we had sheldon adelson who poured all of his money to help newt gingrich and foster friess who put all of his money in to help rick santorum. now the latest is a guy named joe ricketts. the ricketts family owns the chicago cubs. he's the granddaddy or the papa of the ricketts family. his son tom is the chairman of the cu

the press driving the news agenda. all the matters which i know are deep interest and concern to you. can we put them sort of a one side and then the wider concerns about the culture practiced and ethics of the press, harassment, intrusion, breach of privacy. i know the two concerns overlap to some extent. but they are more concerned with the interests of individuals. was your analysis, which is what you referred to on the third line, did it embrace both those concerns, or any one of those concerns? >> both of them. and i think actually my first witness statement i set out when i talk about a summary of the debit side. news values in which -- whether something is true counts for whether it's t makes a good story. in which the weight given to coverage is not in proportion to the significance of the news matter being reported but whether it fits the agenda of the outlet. lack of anything approaching transparency with respect to the organization. and ineffectual regulation. and a culture dominated by the media themselves

every politician wants to have the best relationship they can with the press, because the press is the prism through which the work of politicians and other people in the public life is perceived or the main prism. but if you get too close, your own position becomes compromi d compromised. more likely than compromising the position of the press and can undermine your integrity. >> thank you. we'll deal with na in small details in due course. the way -- the steps you took to emeal yat those risks, paragraph 14 to paragraph 16 of your statement, these are quotes for me, words of advice we would give to others in which you sought to follow during your political career, is that right? >> i did. i mean, i suppose i -- i learn my trade in the school of hard knocks, but quite early on. in that respect i was fortunate, because the period i spent in the late '60s and early '70s when politicians did things very high profile. front page stuff. it taught me a lot about what to do in relation it the press and what not to do. and then having spent 17 years in opposition, thinking about this a lot. i

dakert would say protect freedom of the press, far from it. but the press cannot go on as they have been claiming what every other institution in the land requires external regulation which includes the legal profession, and they were right up front claiming that the legal profession could not continue to regulate itself, and it includes the city and in the front of saying that the city could not go on regulating itself, and then they say hang on a second, the press ought to be able to protect itself, and the press has failed and it has to be taken into account that the only reason that any change s in the regulation have ever been made, ever been made in terms of self-regulation have been a late response by the press to the possibility that they will at long last be subjected to the statue of regulation, and you go through all of the post war inquiries and the other ones saying they have shifted when they saw a tank coming down the road, and i think that frankly that the last 50 years of experience have shown that you have nothing external an

and bringing in necessary press performance in terms of regulation? is that the thesis with which you say might have some validity? >> i wouldn't date it as far back as 1997, but i think as time wore on, i think a view developed generally in government, certainly with the prime minister and other senior ministers, there was a real problem. and i think that if -- i certainly, as i said in my statement, if you think it's a real problem, then we should do something about it. and part of the thinking is to why not do something about it. i can think of two main reasons. one is the one that the prime minister has talked about before, that actually the public just wouldn't understand because one of the lines were being launched by the presses that we had in our pocket. not true, but that's one of the lines. the public will be confused as to why we're suddenly saying this is a problem, and the second thing is the public had elected us to do all sorts of things. press regulation wasn't one of them. so as it were, those were the points of principle. i think the

team press.dan henning. >> happy monday. >> with videographer cyprian boulding. >> hey there. >> you knew saturday night live this weekend was going to have a little skit about joe biden getting out in front of president obama on the issue of same-sex marriage. they did it last night. they did it with i forget who plays joe biden. >> jason sudekus. >> will ferrell came back. >> will ferrell was the host. everybody wanted to see because, you know, he is a former cast member and he has so many mim rabble characters from when he was on. >> including george w. >> joe biden is in his room, which looks like a kids room refusing to leave his room because he feels that daddy is mad at him. and who steps out of the closet? we won't tell you why he was in the closet. george bush who identifies with jolton joe. >> those smarty pants types are never going to understand speak-first guys like us, you know. they are all brains. you and me we are all gut and balls. >> yeah. >> every decision i ever made happened

and they believe in the press. and whatever those numbers are that, you know-- that the press is held in more disregard than carnival operators or whatever it is at a given moment, i don't worry too much about that because people-- and also if you then ask the next question, which these pollsters never ask, which is, "well, how do you know about the things you care about?" the answer, of course, is the press. so i don't worry too much about that. wasn't there a point, though, in 1960, when you walked in, and you were going to be a reporter, that a journalist-- a newsman at the time-- was kind of a heroic figure. i mean, you look at movies and television of the '50s, when superman went into civilian garb, he was a newspaperman. well, but we never knew a thing about what he did as a reporter. what we knew was he had to put on another suit to do something. that's right, but since then, i mean, i think in the wake of lou grant, how many heroic figures are there? i mean, there does seem to be some tarnishing of the imag

a press conference. based on lots of discussion and exploration with the city attorney around options, they are fairly limited in that while we do want to find a suitable, formal moment of issuing of the report, the problem is if we do it collectively, that it constitutes a meeting. once it constitutes a meeting, we are back where we started again. so our options are, a, we hold a press conference with less than a quorum present, which therefore does not constitute a meeting and we issue it, or to report its issued and a less public, less formal, less visible way and just gets distributed to committee and habitants. discussion? >> i have a suggestion. i suggest we hold a press conference with share mcdonnell and vice chair lam, and maybe a couple other task force members would be willing to participate in that so we would have at least a public presentation of the final map and the result. mr. mcdonnell: thank you. mr. alonso: or perhaps we could have john did a press conference on his own, provided he h

not at all. 1-866-55-press. "full court press." happy tuesday. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. >>the gavin newsom show is a search engine for solutions, and that's the focus. we want to focus on solutions and ways of bringing people together. that's the only way we're going to solve the world's great vexing problems. >> announcer: listen and watch the "bill press show" on your favorite radio station and now on current tv. this is the "bill press show." welcome to the spin room. >> bill: tommy christopher with media in studio with us at the top of the next hour to talk among other things, romney's prankster days in high school. he is here for the white house briefing today. so he'll be joining us. right now, still talking about mitt romney and bain capital. his record at bain capital. where he was out to make money for his investors. not, not, not to help workers or the companies stay alive. bob is calling from sand down, new hampshire. hey, bob, good morning. >> caller: i want to make

this is the "full court press." i'm bill press liberal and proud of it. good to have you with us as we tackle the big stories of the day here from our nation's capital where you'll find us right here on capitol hill, just down the street from the united states capitol building. six blocks from the capitol. six metro stops from the white house. we've got it covered, bring you the news here from washington, around the country around the globe and most importantly give you a chance to sound off on the issues of the day. let us know what it means to you, what your experiences have been, what you think about it all by giving us a call at 1-866-55-press. good to see you today. we've got lots to talk about. continuing, worsening situation in syria where more and more people including u.s. ambassador suzanne rice, ambassador to the u.n. says it looks like military intervention may end up being the only way we go with some regional conflict over there. we have continued gridlock in washington, d.c. but at the white house, president obama will be welcoming former p

welcome to the "full court press."e "bill press show" coming to you live coast-to-coast right from our radio factory and tv factory and book factory here on capitol hill in washington, d.c. where you'll find us right in the shadow of the capitol dome keeping us on eye -- well, not much going on in congress today because the house and the senate are out -- i don't know what this vacation is all about but another week break. not much going on here. down at the white house, a lot going on. we were down there yesterday. we'll tell you all about it. great to see you today. thank you so much for joining us as we tackle the big stories of the day here from our nation's capitol, around the country and around the globe. and of course invite your calls at any time on any topic. you make the show, you make the news here by giving us a call at 866-55-press. you will join our whole team press here this morning. peter ogborn. >> hey, there. >> reporting for duty, comrade. >> dan henning. >> bill, good morning. >> cyprian bolling our

the society, the press, and on the side of politicians. in particular there is -- i'll speak for them -- such as you? >> yeah, i will. but what i won't do -- what the media like to do is, until you say it's all your fault, we're not going to engage in this debate. now, this inquiry has actually finally led to it a slightly different place. i don't make any apology for the changes we made in opposition because they helped us to win. i don't make apology for the changes made in government because they helped us to communicate more effectively and i think that helped the prime minister to be -- to govern more effectively. what i do accept is that at times we probably were too controlling, that at times we did hold on to some of the techniques of opposition when we should have dumped them at door number 10. i also ask you to bear in mind just the sheer volume of issues that we were expected to deal with, be on top of. 24/7 media means just that. you're dealing with this 24 hours a day at a time when, in my case, also trying to be in charge of

"full court press."'m bill press, liberal and proud of it. and proud to bring you the only progressive morning show anywhere on cable television. lots to talk about today including the fact that as we've been talking about the first hour, "the washington post" is out today with a front page story about all the pranks that mitt romney committed when he was a high school student. but is that really fair? i mean come on, admit it. we all did stupid things when we were in high school. i think there are enough reasons to vote against mitt romney today for his policies today without having to go back to his high school pranks. no? just one of the things we'll continue to talk about here on today's "full court press." but first, we go out to los angeles and get this current tv news update from a good friend, jacki schechner. hi jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning everyone. mitt romney is trying to change the subject from his high school behavior and the economy to jobs. his schedule may make that difficu

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and it is not healthy for anybody, and least of all not for the press, so with luck, there will be that. continuing momentum for change and some of us can do the best to ensure that it takes place. >> i'm pleased to have asked you the question, because listening to mr. campbell the other day, i don't say it was very depressing, but it certainly creates a concern. >> i mean, i -- look, i'm not in any doubts, sir, that there is a concerted effort by some of the newspapers to argue against any form of more coherent regulation than you have today, and i think that mr. dayco has said he has a perfectly honorable view, but i don't share, about what he thinks will happen if there is a marked regulation. i hope and believe that even he recognizes that the landscape has changed completely even in what the public will tolerate. >> he certainly said that last september when he at the ended the seminar. >> yes. >> on other matters on page 10, you don't favor an absolute requirement, but you favor a presumption and you indicate why, and the third issue, the makeup and the underpinning of the reconst

however, this inquiry is examining the proposition that the press or a section of the press has exercised excessive influence over government. and the government or individuals within it have permitted themselves to acquire an excessive degree to news international. i'm putting this in a slightly to a delivery round about way. i could us both be much blunter. the issue is whether a minister of the crown exercising a quasi judicial role may have failed to submit, he was too close to news international or news corporation, these two companies are interchangeable in this respect. having heard all the evidence you may conclude that there is nothing to support this proposition and that the quasi judicial function exercise entirely properly. if on the other and you were to conclude otherwise, there's a range of possible finding. the least satisfying is that an appearance of bias arises in relation to the special advisors dealings with news corporation's european head of public affairs. the most serious is that the nature of the relationship is such that the secretary of state prepared expressly

it is like free press. there's no such thing as bad press.and they're bringing it up most of the time. >> bill: well, yeah. but it is interesting the way you say it, greg. because they are bringing it up all the time. and i think the effect of that is that more and more americans are reminded about what a good job obama did. because republicans are failing to take away the significance of this so it makes obama i think look better and better. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." jennifer granholm is politically direct on current tv. >>the dominoes are starting to fall. (vo) granholm is live in the war room. >> what should women be doing? >> electing women to office. (vo) she's a political trailblazer. >>republicans of course didn't let facts get in the way of spin. >>do it, for america. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." welcome to the spin room. >> bill: what do you say in it is 33 minutes after the hour. how about it. this is the "full court press." taking your calls about donald rumsfeld saying that decision by president

it was the press releases that became controversial. there was a feeling in the white house that the press releases were biased, that is to say, if unemployment went up, it was very bad thing. if it went down it was a statistical quirk that was the line. and i was called once by fred molik who was head of personnel as i recall and expressed the disquiet of the white house of recent press releases. i went over them myself and thought this was some merit the white house concern. it didn't seem fair. this was consternation about two individuals who were senior people in the bls. one of them's name was henley and you reminded me earlier the other was goldstein. and in order to get them out of the line of fire and also perhaps to resolve the problem, i arranged for one of them to go to harvard for a year as a fellow and the other transferred somewhere else. and that's all i knew at that stage. of course, subsequent events long after i left the department and indeed long after -- i'm not sure, after the nixon administration ended, we learned

anybody thought anything that appeared in the press somehow came from me. the whole thing was absurd. i said in the statement, one of the best example of sin done by journalists is the issue to which spin became an issue of the debate. my job was to advise the prime minister and other ministers. i did that job in an incredibly exposed place. there are a half a dozen, and i know you've got a couple of journalists coming later this week who no doubt will go into them in huge detail. there are a half a dozen issues that get thrown back again and again. i dealt with thousands offer toings and beefings. i would defend the accuracy of those against any journalist any day of the week. >> a rather different -- without exception? >> no, there are some terrific journalists. no, no, we made mistakes for sure. for sure we made mistakes, but i do think given the pressures we were under, there were extraordinary few in number. >> a different perspective from mr. powell, page 194. just to show that there was a need for balance. >> i did actually read marr's book over the

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good thing for the press. and i make the point that you would probably know more about this than i do but some of the regulation of the legal profession i think has probably strengthened the legal profession and it's been a mixture of statutory and non-statutory. >> if you compare the last sentence of paragraph 37 with the last sentence of paragraph 39, start with the last sentence of 39. you say, "if, for example, a paper repeatedly distorts the facts in support of a political goal -- stopping the paper from reporting that way, there's value in some respected body pointing out that's what's happening." if the facts were being distorted that would be a breach of clause one of the -- >> i haven't explained that very well. what i mean by that is for example, i talked earlier about the sun has a particular view on europe. or at the moment they have a particular view on ken clark and his fitness to be secretary of state. so you can take a fact, for example, the eurozone's in crisis. accept that's a fact. but then

more likely than the compromising the position of the press. and can undermine your integrity. >> thank you. we'll deal with that will in some more detail in due course. but the steps you took to ameliorate those risks paragraph 14 to 17 of your statement, these are cautiousry words of advice. >> yes. >> you would give to others. >> yes. >> which you sought to follow during your political career. is that right? >> i did. and i suppose -- i learned my trade in the school of hard knocks. but quite early on. and in that respect, i was fortunate because the period i spent in the late '60s early '70s as president of the national union of students when what will students were doing was high profile, front page stuff taught me a lot about what to do in release to the press and what not to do. and then having spent 17 years in opposition and having thought about this a lot i sort of came to these views over that period. and i also saw the effectses of on those colleagues and people on the other side who had got too close to the press. what it means is

is critical of the press who have the commercial problems that they have to face with the internet, and the public is quite a task. >> yes. >> and therefore, i would welcome enormously the assistance of you and as i have said to others and will continue to say to provide input. i will come up with the recommendations, and then everybody can do with them what they will, but i wouldn't want to fail to miss to take up a point for want of the humility of asking. i am humble in this area. >> yes, sir. of course, i will do that. if i may i will reflect on it, and prepare a written statement, but i was also reflecting on the experience of setting up the parliamentary standards of the authority which i felt was a need to do, and that has been a very interesting institution, because here is a body which is, has considerable power over the members of parliament which is the parliament of the land, itself, and to begin with, it caused conflict and friction between the members of the house of commons and this body, but it sort of gradually settled down, and there are mechanisms there by which t