show represent ourselves or our content is news we are openly in the opinion business and roger ailes first pitch g.o.p. t.v. to his boss richard nixon back in seventy two or what it was seventy three he explicitly suggested that it should masquerade as news but in reality be a vehicle vehicle to pitch republican talking points isn't time for fox and drop the masquerade and simply go back to their original name g.o.p. t.v. i reject the premise of the question what i'd like to know from you is where are the news organizations is it the unbiased artier is that the unbiased c.n.n. of the unbiased n.b.c. a.b.c. c.b.s. or m.s.n. b c tell me where the news is tom it's a damn good question and this is one of the real problems and issues of our day i think sony is where is the news we used to have a rule that if you were broadcasting on the public airwaves you had to broadcast in the public interest and that's why all three networks had news divisions and they all actually lost money because they had correspondents all over the world they did their very best to provide news and that was neces

the trains ground for republican presidential candidates especially for newt gingrich who was on roger ailese at the poll puts him at or near the top of the pack. he's only two points behind mitt romney in new hampshire within the margin of error. let's turn to joan walsh, editor at large, salon.com. let's talk about newt. the "wall street journal" is reporting gingrich was paid $840,000 from 2001 to 2007. he was paid $1.6 million by freddie mac. he denied he was a lobbyist, again, last night on fox. here it is. >> i was approached to offer strategic advice. i do no lobbying of any kind. i never have. very important point i want to it make. i've never done lobbying of any kind. >> did they come to your office, did you go to them? >> i think less than maybe once a month they would drop by, we'd spend an hour. it would always start with me listening. i'd always say, what are you trying to solve, what are your concerns, what are you trying to get done? i've done this with many, many clients. >> joan walsh, can he get past this and keep surging in the polls? >> i really don't think so, ed. it wi

the name the roger and ailes and vision when he wrote a memo to richard nixon nixon's chief of staff in the release seventies suggesting the administration invest in creating a television channel to put forward republican talking points under the guise of new is a world without fox news is frankly a better world it's a world where voters will hit the polls next year without being frightened by spin doctors like frank luntz unfortunately that's not the world we live it. even if anonymous shuts down five so called is this rub site on november fifth it will only be temporary and the t.v. talking heads will continue anyway but for one day maybe just one day a fox news less world could exist and will remember what it was like before bill o'reilly told us how to think before fights and friends thought was what to be afraid of and before hannity told us what it means to be an american and will wake up on november sixth right back into a world with news that decided turn the channel some may say i'm a dreamer but i'm not the only one. a mix who wins who loses if the deficit reduction superco