number one do you agree with the former fcc chairman reed hundt when he said the broadband is the national media? >> there is no question in my mind but broadband is so fundamental to the future of the media, how quickly and how much of the media is going to migrate to broadband is an open question and makes two years, three years, five years i am not at all ready to say we can forget about traditional media now and fast forward and just worry about the of media in the future. we do need to have that discussion. i've been calling for that for years. what happens if and when of radio television moves and newspapers or continued and diminish how to protect the public interest and that is a conversation we need to have. but for the next i think many several years the folks in the traditional media, the newspapers and broadcast stations are still going to produce overwhelming bulk of the news and information the country gets anywhere now between 80 to 95%. even the news the folks read on the internet comes from the newspaper and broadcast stations. not as much as it used to be because the cris

reed hundt recently said in a speech that he thinks broadband is the new national medium. dodo you agree with that? >> guest: i think i disagree, and the reason is because for the last 50 years and certainly going into the future a point to multipoint distribution service which is what broadcasting is licensed on a local level has provided basic news and information. the economics of news generation in this country particularly with respect to reporters on the street are all premised, and if you look at the economics, it's all local television that is driving that, a

number one, do you agree with former chairman reed hundt when he said that broadband is the new national media? >> guest: no question in my mind that broadband is so absolutely fundamental to the future of our media. now, how quickly and how much of our media is going to migrate to broadband, i think is an open question n. the next two years, three years, five years, i am not at all ready to say we can fast forward and just worry about the media of the future. we do need to have that discussion. i've been calling for that for years and years too. what happens if and when radio and television move there, and if newspapers really continue to diminish, how do you protect the public interest? that's a conversation we need to have. but for the next i think several years, the folks in the traditional media, the newspapers and the broadcast stations are still going to produce the overwhelming bulk of the news and information that this country gets. that's anywhere now between 80-95%. even the news that folks read on the internet comes from the newspaper and the broadcast stations. there are not