. >> you completed it, it won a pulitzer prize. what does a pulitzer prize mean to someone like you? >> i don't worry about you let's have lunch. you have to understand, this is either a death sentence or a license to kill. and it's been both at various times i must say. but what it actually meant was, people wouldn't give me the time of day or take me seriously enough to keep me working. it is a responsibility and i don't -- i've never learned how to bear the responsibility responsibly. >> let me go deeper on your parents. what was their life like? >> i don't know how to answer that. in a way that's the story certified those 300 pages. they weren't well assimilated in america. they had made too many moves prior to that. they didn't understand quite the culture they were in. and when the kinds of displacement that involved losing a son, they lost what would have been my older brother in the war and losing most of their relatives, parents, brothers, sisters, both from large families, doesn't leave you comfortably rooted in the world

those pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges be sure to tune in for part two of his interview tomorrow. and that's our show you guys thanks for watching. this is a media leave though so we leave that maybe. the same motions your. party there's a good. news that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics only on our team. i marinate joining me. for in-depth impartial and financial commentary for news and much much. only on bombast and on. i know c.n.n. the m s m b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the mike thank. goods because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. at all or teen years we have a different pretty. good because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. i got. you guys to the jokes i will handle the stuff that i've got to. it was supposed to be just another news or of co

yesterday i spoke with pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges about the notion of crisis cults in the collapse of complex societies but we also discuss the nature of the economic machine that's responsible for this collapse this system is fueled by profit and although its nature is so blatantly unsustainable humanity appears bound to it the insatiable greed that drives the gears the machine has never been more evident than today with global inequality at a record high it's a topic i was able to explore with hedges more in depth. talk about that new oxfam study that recently came out that shows how eighty five people control their quote in the bottom half of the world's wealth what's your response to people who say that we just have to remove those eighty five people. well it's a system of corporate power which is not necessarily driven by individuals so much as driven by corporate interests exxon mobil citibank goldman sachs so you can rest and imprison the head of goldman sachs lloyd blankfein which is where he belongs but somebody will take his place. what has to happen is th

he was not a good writer, and he knew it and drove him crazy he got the pulitzer prize. it was not a favor. now, main street caught the world opposed -- post war literary disillusion with america. it's about two adults, faithful husband, suffers because her fellow citizens of gopher falls are just -- excuse me, gopher prairie, just too dull beyond words. they don't have party in pajamas or read the best new writings, and just venn issues, and she's tortured by this. the look is enormous. mark shore, one of louis' biographers, one of the best biographers, described the book as an event in american history, not just a novel, but an event in american history. he's right. it marked -- it was a demarcation point in american culture. twelve years he wrote babbit, he, too, oppressed by being successful. twelve years later in 1934 after his wife, dorothy thompson was in europe looking at the rise of fascism -- sorry, confusing -- louis writes the novel about the rise of fascism in america. it can't happen here. i'm sure most of you have read it. if you have not, it's worth readi

plus art and history, pulitzer prize winning al spiegelman. and his mouse. and we begin in ukraine tonight and are still protestors filling independence square, just as they have for the past three months. they are unhappy with the uprising, over the deal negotiated by their leader this morning. paves the way for a unity government in ten days and presidential elections by december. there was also a cautious response from the white house on the deal. with washington warning, it will keep its eye on events in kiev. opposition leaders accused of betraying their cause. nick shifrin with an update. nick. unfortunately it looks like we're having some difficulty with that report from nick. >> 50,000 people, today's historic land shake is a reason not to celebrate but to mourn. for exactly three months they filled this square that witnessed two revolutions hoping for a third. tonight their hopes are dashed. the opposition leaders came appealing for support. they argued today's agreement was a first step towards a new government. >> when we start this process, nobod

clinton biographer and pulitzer prize winner carl bernstein.ing covered? a big state full of people afraid to drink their water or even wash their hands, where are the networkshe

and it drove him crazy that he got the pulitzer prize. it wasn't a favor. now, "main street" caught the world of post-war literary disillusioned with america. it's about a young woman, carol, who's married to a dull but faithful husband and how she suffers because her fellow citizens of gopher falls are just, excuse me, gopher prairie, gopher prairie are just too dull beyond words. they don't have parties in pajamas, they don't read the best new writing. they're just provincials, and she's tortured by this. the book is an enormous success. mark shore, who's one of lewis' biographers, i think the best, lewis' best biographer, described the book as an event in american history. not just a novel, but an event in american history. and he's right. it marked, it was a demarcation point in american culture. twelve years -- he would go on to write "babbitt" who, too, was oppressed by being successful. twelve years later, in 1934, after his wife, dorothy thompson, had been in europe looking at the rise of fascism, mencken -- excuse me. i'm sorry, i'm confusing, lewi

the director of the pulitzer prize winning play is aiming for a 2015-16 season. he is in talks with winfrey but declined to give details. >> jimmy kimmel is hosting a special guest tonight. he has the cast of the monuments men on his show tonight at 11:30 . >> that includes matt damon. >> why are you looking at me like that? >> you asked me a question. >> asked me a question. what is your problem? how is that for a question? >> that is his first time act on the show since he kidnapped kimmel and hijacked the show last year. that was a funny series. see what happens tonight immediately following this newscast. [laughter] >> i am sure there are more laughs to come. what have we got to come in the weather? >> very quiet weather tomorrow, beautiful friday. clouds and light snow on the weekend but not a major snowstorm. may i repeat that? light snow, that is it. today, this is the highest temperature and lowest temperature in the country. miami, 85. this morning, west yellowstone -- it is cold, booboo. 30 -- 47 below zero. we are pretty tame compared to that. those nu

mexican photographer contreras was one of five journalists awarded a pulitzer prize. the photo was taken four months ago in the northwestern city. it shows a rebel fighter ducking for cover. the original shows a camera in the bottom left-hand corner but in the image contreras submitted, the camera had been removed. it breached ap's editorial policy. its director of photography said ap's reputation is paramount. deliberately removing elements from our photographs is completely unacceptable. contreras eventually admitted it saying he did it because he felt the camera would be a distraction. he said i took the wrong decision when i removed the camera. i feel ashamed about it. i have to assume the consequences. >> when someone says the word "drone," it is usually followed by the word "strike." given the stories we keep hearing out of pack stab and yemen, we've become conditioned to think of drones as weapons of war. they're becoming tools of the journalistic trade. whether you realize it or not, more and more news stories, particularly those on television include images s

some have even won a pulitzer prize, which is the highest compliment in the newspaper world. none except our guest tonight has ever won three pulitzer prizes, two for his reporting from the middle east and one for his commentary the tom friedman joined the "times" in 1981, was bureau chief in beirut and then jerusalem. diplomatic ef cronet and in 1983 he became the foreign affairs columnist for the paper. he does that twice a week and somehow still finds time to write six best-selling books, to host six television documentaries, numerous seminars and conferences and to be with us here tonight. so, tom, thank you. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] our subject tonight is freedom. big word. and i'd like to start, tom, by asking what is your definition of freedom. >> well, first of all, marvin, it's great to be with you. you and your brother bernie were always great path breakers for me and people i admired as a young journalist. so it's a treat to be here with you today. tell bernie i said hi. i'm not a philosophier, i'm a journalist, so let me answer your question in t

he should've won the pulitzer prize in april of that year, but he said no, he didn't have it right at all. we find that six months later he not only had it right, it underestimated the amount of dossiers. compiling thousands and thousands of dossiers on american citizens. their argument then was trying to find out about terrorist. they argue trying to find out about communism following them from europe to america and breaks is very big story. i clearly remember that story and not have my entries. in 1975 come he breaks another story. less important, but much sexier and a terrific story. here's the story. the soviet union had a submarine that was in the pacific ocean. something happened when the sub sank to the bottom of the pacific ocean, hundred sailors, russian soviet sailors were killed and decided the bottom of the ocean. the soviet technology was not good enough to know where it was. they couldn't find it, but i technology was good enough. we knew where it was in the hatch this path that we was in a huge troller in the glomar explorer would go out for the submarine was. they actu

eugene robinson is a pulitzer prize winning columnist for "washington post" and an msnbc contributor, and jonathan capehart is the opinion writer at "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. i want to go over these two big bombshells tonight. the first one of course is for once finally now the mayor, sokolich of ft. lee, the man who you can say is the victim of this whole thing has come out and said this long wooing campaign when all these little goodies, this cornucopia of goodies came from trenton, and then when they didn't buy him, according to him that. >> didn't get him bought, then they went nuts. >> right. >> and shut down his bridge. >> the suggestion was it was punishment for not giving endorsement. but we didn't know about the wooing of mayor sokolich. so it does establish, it certainly gives weight to this whole theory. >> and guess what else it does. it kills the alibi of the governor, he wasn't on my radar. >> he wasn't on my radar. who wanted an endorsement from him anyway? >> jonathan, this point, everybody wants the story to be understandable. and one of th

while a new facility can't immediately turn this school around, its message, says dunbar alum and pulitzer prize-winning columnist colber king -- >> investing in the school to tell students about how they are valued. >> reporter: this new dunbar also reminds students of what they can be, with plenty of alumni plaques left blank for students like milante patterson. milante has offers from three schools right now and also has an incredible supporting him along with that dunbar community. the alumni are a really important, huge presence at the school. they spend a lot of time there with the students. that has had an impact, and like milante, many of the other students there are determined to get their name on one of the blank achievement plaques around the school. the man who came up with the idea for black history month, carter g. woodson, noted historian and teacher, also a dunbar graduate. >> incredible legacy. >> yeah. >>> still ahead, facebook is turning 10. coming up, how the social media giant has changed the way we look at our friends. first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> facebook is turning

the reporting that exists from the freedom of information act articles that many of which are pulitzer prize winning, that the f.b.i. is paying infiltraters upwards of 15,000 paid, and 45,000 unpaid, and that was numbers used in 2009. so i don't think that, i think that the first question answered in this report, i think that the report is good and that it is answering questions, we don't have these types of reports being produced in san jose or in oakland and there are questions that all of the police departments in the area should be answering but i think that number one is asking the wrong question. because it is a good question, saying that are the police being used, but the larger question, should be what is the level of infiltration within the communities that are paid by the f.b.i. and the join terrorism task force may know of that they are aware of and i am sure that would probably produce more results in the number of zero that we see here, so thank you. >> thank you very much. >> any further public comment? >> welcome back. >> i am back. just a very brief comment, thanking you agai

back then, it earned taylor a pulitzer prize nomination. >> there was a roll of film. destroyed except for one single frame. >> reporter: it's amazing, too, what was saved is the central focus of the imannual. >> yand the best frame. >> reporter: while taylor stopped taking photos decades ago, these altered images are once again bringing him acclaim. they've been published in both italy and france and he has offers to show them in new york city galleries. what it you learn from all this? >> i think that the reson is that events happen in life, and we can't do anything about controlling the events. the only thing we can control is our reaction to the event. >> reporter: taylor says his pictures are now a mix of photo journalism and art. they always told a great story. now there's an even better one behind them. >> axelrod: can't control the events, only how you react to them. and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york, annks for joining us. and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media acce

trapping gay people through undercover police officers is highly objectionable it's still occur pulitzer prize winning correspondent chris hedges says antigay sentences on just trancing progressives across the states they now compete out for each other and the most extreme a winning dick cheney's daughter liz believes only in quote traditional marriage despite the fact mairi is gay i also don't support amending the constitution on this issue i do believe in the traditional definition of marriage but politico knows voters deserted her forcing her out of the senate race when she backed at least some same sex rights she appears on image and the she to get against the marriage and support government benefits for gay. people who are arresting the gays of sochi of the foreign journalists admits julia your feet of the new republic members of russia's gay community told her this week of foreign journalists lining up in cables and. across the country trying to find a problem any problem the two countries standing by for the most journalists they know it's all remember britain the british broadcasting c

. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> steven levy of wired magazine, facebook author david patrick, and pulitzer prize winnern markof have seen it off. here they talk candidly about everything they've seen at the revolution. >> this evening is a little bit of a retrospect itch, i

in the us and the conditions there are comparable to developing countries this is partly why pulitzer prize winning journalist and social critic chris hedges has referred to places like kind rages capitalism sacrifice sounds however the systemic subjugation is as old as civilization itself earlier today chris joins me to talk about the roots of institutionalized inequality and the reasons behind the collapse of complex societies i first asked him why places like pine ridge are so susceptible to such extreme poverty. the places where unfettered. capitalist forces backed by force. behalf of the railroad companies timber merchants. the people who profited from decimating the buffalo herds. mining concerns came in and seized the land of native americans and killed most of them and not only that but after herding them into what in essence were prisoner of war camps set out to destroy their culture their religion their language it's why indian children were taken from their parents and put in christian boarding schools where they were not allowed for instance in pine ridge to speak. and what's ha

the story the associated press did some amazing investigative journalism for which they won the pulitzer prize the judge decided that they were the ones who caused harm not the actual savan and so you know you have it in one fell swoop you have not only the justification for racial and religious profiling but it impacts on the press right in fact on the associated press and the idea that the press should be watchdogs of the government it is shocking that they would actually go as far as claiming that the harm was in the surveillance system itself it was just the press of the fact that surveillance was happening i mean what do you think about that claim well i think this is a completely specious claim i think that it's this ruling absolutely sends the wrong message it sends a green light not only to the n.y.p.d. to continue these practices of surveillance but to police agencies all over the country this week and you would absolutely you.

some had even won a pulitzer prize, which is the highest compliment in the newspaper world. and accept our guest tonight has ever won three pulitzer prizes, too for his reporting from the middle east and one for his commentary. john friedman joined the times in 1981, bureau chief in beirut and in jerusalem, he has been the paper's chief diplomatic correspondent and the paper's chief white house correspondent. in 1995 he became a columnist, foreign affairs columnist for the paper. he does that twice a week. and somehow he still finds time to write six best-selling books, rose six television documentaries, numerous and seminars, conferences, and to be with us here tonight. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] our subject tonight is freedom, a big word. and i would like to start, tom, by asking what is your definition of freedom. >> well, first of all, marvin, it is great to be with you. you and your brother, you know, always great for me. people i admired as a young journalist. it is a treat to be with you here today. tell in my said hello. you know, let me -- i am not a

stanley what was it my name was stanley martin lieber a real normal name once that sounds like a pulitzer prize winner in fact i used to write a signature stanley martin lieber as if i imagine some day it would be a famous name we have some social media questions for you on mondays stunned am tweets do you have a favorite movie version of a hero yeah one of the things i loved you wouldn't remember you're too young that was a movie called the scarlet pimpernel with blatantly howard i'm in a movie and i love the book and that movie was wonderful and that it was like the first real superhero that i read about mark was done facebook writes great artists such as jack kirby or frank frazetta a very recognizable styles how much does the art or artist style impact the writer's ability to tell the story well it isn't the artist's style as much as the artist's ability to tell the story every good comic book artist would make a good hollywood director because when they draw a panel they have to decide what is the best angle what is the most dramatic way to show it and it just depends on how they can inter

yesterday i spoke with pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges about the notion of crisis coltan the collapse of complex societies but we also discuss the nature of the economic machine that's responsible for this collapse this system is fueled by.

some have even won a pulitzer prize, which is the highest compliment in the newspaper world. none, except our guest tonight, has ever won three pulitzer prizes, two for his reporting from the middle east and one for his commentary. tom friedman joined the times in 1981. he was bureau chief in beirut and jerusalem. he has been the chief diplomatic correspondent and chief white house correspondent. columniste became a -- a foreign affairs columnist for the paper. he does that twice a week. and somehow, he still finds time to write six best-selling books, to host six television documentaries, numerous seminars, and conferences, and to be with us here tonight. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> are subject is freedom. a big word. i would like to start by asking what is your definition of freedom? >> it is granted to be with you. you and your brother, bernie, were always great. people i admire as a young journalist. a treat to be with you here today. you know, let me think. i am not a philosopher, i am a journalist. let me answer your question in the context of journalism. if