not just rupert murdoch, the media. once you are in the ratings business, do are about market share, determining who is in the market, figuring out how the market to them, and in my humble opinion that distorts the news in ways that are frightening and dangerous. we have only scratched the surface of what that means for the democratic process. it has deteriorated and has enormous, real life, on the ground implications that we have not begun to scratch the surface of. >> you feel that there should be some kind of government regulation of media? >> you did not ask me that question. you asked whether the government should help to finance the media. i said that anything taken out of commercial business that allows us to market the news and engaged in a process that blurs entertainment with fact gathering, that is a frightening thing to me. if the government can step in in the name t

we are talking about the new team of apple, with its ipad platform, and rupert murdoch's newscorp. the product unveiled today is called simply "the daily." darren gersh reports on the high hopes this ipad newspaper will save the save the media business. >> new times demand new journalism. >> reporter: with that news corp's rupert murdoch announced the biggest media launch the newspaper world has seen since "usa today" introduced color three decades ago. based on the apple ipad platform, "the daily" is an interactive, multimedia innovation. but to media pros, its real promise is financial. "the daily" is not, repeat, not free-- selling for a subscription of 99 cents a week. >> one thing it may do is answer the question that everyone is asking which is "how do you pay for journalism in the future?" >> reporter: the knight foundation's john bracken says the connection between apple's itunes store and murdoch's newscorp has publishers everywhere hoping the free information lunch on the internet is coming to an end. >> because there are millions of people who have already given their cr

"the wall street journal," which rupert murdoch also owns.s are skeptical about drawing in enough readers to make "the daily" a moneymaker. people we spoke to are still getting their arms around the concept of a paperless newspaper. >> assuming it's the way everyone's going so ultimately, yeah, i guess i would pay for it. >> it's not bad. >> reporter: but murdoch has deep enough pockets to give "the daily" a chance to find an audience out there in cyberspace. alexis christoforous, cbs news, new york. >>> straight ahead your thursday morning weather. and in sports, how much do the cavaliers miss lebron? well, without him they are one game away from a record that they do not want. [ female announcer ] finally there's a new choice in high performance detergent. introducing wisk with stain spectrum technology. try new wisk. we upgraded the formula, but not the price. ♪ we upgraded the formula, but not the price. fitting into clothes is naturally satisfying. so select harvest light soups are 80 calories or less, 100% natural. and-oh-so-satisfying.

. >>> rupert murdoch unveiled a daily newspaper exclusively for the ipad. it is a new application designed to deliver news of the day. it is free for the first two weeks and then $40 for a year- long subscription. >>> authorities moved to short- circuit websites accused of pirating night tv sports broadcasts. the executable runs on 10 websites. those websites were stealing tv broadcast including nfl and nba games. the operators could be charged with copyright infringement. >>> an oakland neighborhood is a bit on edge tonight. pit bulls that attacked and killed a dog last week are due back and rob roth reports on what neighbors are doing to stay safe. >> reporter: they went to work today that the dogs are returning. >> we are very concerned and his neighbors and citizens that we have dangerous jobs a -- dangerous dogs. >> reporter: a dog was mauled to death by two pit bulls who lives nearby. they didn't need the people is -- designated the pit bulls as dangerous, that is until today when they returned. >> they are taking steps that it will not happen again.

>> rupert murdoch certainly hopes so with the launch of the first ever ipad-only newspaper.a closer look at "the daily". the bbc's rory cellan jones has a look. >> reporter: he's the man who broke the print unions and brought satellite tv to britain. now rupert murdoch has embarked on what could be an even riskier venture. >> ladies and gentlemen, "the daily." [ applause ] >> reporter: it's a newspaper only available for now on apple's ipad. "the dale" is a mixture of series serious news, celebrity gossip and high-tech tricks aimed at american readers willing to pay 99 cents a week, about 60 pence, to download it each day. >> no paper, no multimillion dollar process, no tracks, and we're passing on these savings to the reader. >> reporter: the papers are continuing to see readers just melt away. plenty of them are going online but they don't seem inclined to pay when so much news is available for free on the web. so the newspaper groups have latched onto this device in a rather desperate hope that it can provide an income for journalism. some traditional papers and magazines

. >> corporation ceo rupert murdoch announced the launch of the ipad-only newspaper "the daily" in new york on wednesday. he said it will be able to show many photos and movies due to the ipad platform. the digital newspaper will cost 99 cents a week or just under $40 a year. murdoch stressed that the innovative ideas will go into the design of the daily. he hopes the low price will attract young people who are not interested in reading conventional newspapers or watching tv news. >>> the european union is moving to diversify its sources of rare earth minerals. the move comes as china continues to restrict exports of minerals which are needed to make high tech products. on wednesday, eu industry commissioner antonio tadiani said the bloc needs to secure stable and alternative sources s of the highly sought-after minerals. he said the eu will tap greenland for rare earth. the eu wants production started by 2015. the eu also plans to support efforts to mine the minerals in africa and south america. besides exploring new sources, the eu will also step up recycling of rare earths. it may f

the media mogul rupert murdoch will take the wraps off the tablet publication called the daily, and willover general news, culture, entertainment and also include video. no word yet on what that might cost. it will certainly be interesting to see it. >> no doubt. all right. ashley, thank you so much for that, joining us live here in new york. >>> if an online report out this morning is accurate, lindsay lohan may be in trouble with the law again. celebrity website radar online says los angeles police are seeking a search warrant for lohan's home. it says lohan is suspected of stealing what's described as high-end jewelry, including a necklace. the report has not been confirmed by police. >>> this will be another day in court for roger clemens. the former major league pitcher accused of lying to congress about using steroids. clemens will appear before a washington federal judge who will decide a conflict of interest question involving one of clemens' lawyers. trial is currently set for july. >>> straight ahead, your wednesday morning weather. and in sports, a look at the silly side of th

ceo rupert murdoch will take the wraps off the tablet publication called the daily. it will cover general news, culture and entertainment. it will also include video. but no word on what news corp will charge readers. >>> the worst team in the nhl is reportedly on the auction block. the new jersey devils may be sold by owner jeffrey vanderbeek according to forbes, he bought the team in 2004 for $125 million. it's now valued at more than $200 million. and that's your moneywatch. for more, you can head to cbsmoneywatch.com. in new york, i'm alexis christoforous. >>> you can call it operation being sting. google making accusations against microsoft. at issue is the way search results are brought up on both websites. the mountain view-based company says bing was bringing up reports too close to its own especially for misspelled words. microsoft denies it saying it learns from customers like google. >>> the tablet market is heating up. t-mobile will sell a device that can shoot 3-d movies. the g slate as it's known will be out this spring. no idea how much it will cost. i

journal which itself is owned by a phantasmagorical slush peddling nincompoop and propagandist rupert murdoch where next headline goes exactly with this i've owned puts world's biggest farm up for sale i think it's i've owned could be evolved but it's the world's biggest farm and it's been put up for sale after being hit by a collapsing green prices during the. world financial crisis and then by droughts and fires that raged across the territories last summer it's a farming conglomerate which controls one point five million hectares across russia and kazakhstan right now here's a farm that is losing value due to the climate change and the equal economic disaster they're showing and to run a billion dollars or so exactly the same as the fake forests that were sold to carlyle group and meanwhile they've got a company called zynga they have a game in cyberspace call farmville and city ville they deal in virtual farming which is down raising money at a valuation of eight billion dollars so there are ninety five million people on city ville in farmville and other games as virtual farmers is worth

war in afghanistan deliberate though says forty five percent of the media is run by rupert murdoch's news corp. creators of twenty four a series designed to drum up support for the war on terror in the u.s. twenty four was also created to support the doctrine of torture much of much of eagle force propaganda inside of afghanistan is trying to mimic that trying to say that confronting insurgents and confronting terrorists and what it is is a good thing and afghans you support but what's on screen in afghanistan contrasts with the reality offscreen with little sign of afghan support with a staggering one point four trillion dollar deficit at home and propose cuts in. anything from medicaid to education some americans are saying that we should switch out of international broadcasting and let the rest of the world watch what they would be watching anyway and ford r.t. washington d.c. . you know there are about a million ways to end your marriage but a guy in britain has taken the term spiteful to an entirely new level u.k. immigration officer tried to rid himself of his wife by adding he

yeah i mean certainly domestically rupert murdoch has done this with a couple of his his newspapers in the u.k. but you know with thirty million people this is a big test i mean that said in some ways it's not as big a test a few might think because it's really only going to apply to people who are spending a ton of time on that web site and the rest of us will still get a free ride and there's all sorts of other loopholes what have you so it's going to be really big and i think other newspapers will follow it but the thing is they can't just jump in with both feet because it destroys their current revenue base so it's a really difficult problem for all skaters what if we do look specifically at you know the times of london and the experiments that they did there they lost four million on online readers because of this paywall so clearly didn't work for them so why do you think of the new york times as still taking this risk when others have failed. well i think the main thing is that they're going about it really differently and that's that they're not sort of putting the pay well as

rupert murdoch says they will rely on reporters in new york and los angeles as well as free lance journalists to produce 100-pages of coverage on everything from news and sports to entertainment. >> the opportunity is enormous and i'm convinced in the tab let era is fresh and robust new voice. >> the cost of the daily app is 99 cents a week or $40 for an annual subscription. he says they can afford the low price because they don't have to pay for printing presses for fuel for delivery. >>> the ey i pad may dominate e market for the moment but google is trying to change that. as david louie explains, the secret weapon is called on nye koom. >> the launch of the motorola zoom is two weeks away. the latest tablet to go up against the apple i-pad and aing a version of google's and ndroid operating system called honey koom. >> we have a unique characteristic and you will see that continued as well and we hope you enjoy it. >> the honeycomb is graphics so important for games. handful of developers had only two or three weeks to work with it and they are close to a launch. this could make na ndroid

by yes but i do believe in fairness and balance i wish those words were not stolen by me from rupert murdoch. fox news it does to damaging things to our political system. it makes everything malleable and negotiable. we spent a lot of time arguing whether or not barack obama was proposing death panels and 24 percent of republicans believe he is a model and a higher percentage say he may not be a muslim but looking to turn denied the states into a muslim republic. would love to know what that 10 percent of people who don't. [laughter] a significantly smaller percentage of people who believe global warming is a man-made phenomenon all the during this period the evidence increased there is the enormous effect of a bias quick her stop fox news alone made $500 million a profit and cn end loses money. also fox news is where the audience is. cnn sponsors of debate with the tea party and had them broadcasting. look at michele bock men. she gave a speech to weeks ago where she applauded the u.s. constitution for ending slavery. i am not making this up. [laughter] remember the glenn beck rally on the

. >> you had rupert murdoch announcing a new paper just for the ipad he would not do that if he did not think he could make money. you have to be willing to pay for it. that will be $40 a year. >> every model under the sun is being tested how do you make the news business profitable? >> you have had an incredible job. incredible view of history. an incredible opportunity to help shape it. as you look at our political process now, as you look in armenia and technology now, as you look at the nature of our civil discourse in this country, think about our students, many of whom would like to do what you have done. how do you define this moment in history? how should someone that is 21 years old lookit as look at how we -- look at how we are as a culture? i will let you take it whever you wanted to go. it is a great weight tolose the conversation. >> i am very optimistic about where we are going. we have a lot of dysfunction, bitterness, poisoned in the environment of our political culture. over time, i detect among young people a row pragmatism and desire tsolve problems, a real hunger for

last thursday or friday rupert rupert murdoch announced "the daily" an ipad only newspaper. a few months ago, the daily beast asobbed newsweek, or the other way around. we've seen situations in which there's now some original content that occurs only online. i mention two sources. "the fiscal times" and those that want to follow new york" the pragmatist." something exciting. one the good things has been the web panel of the web site "new york times". it had a rocky start and has caught it's stride. a lot of good content. the title of tonight's discussion. "new york times," is it good for democracy? >>a better question wouldn't hae been as provocative, on balance, is "the new york times" good for democracy? that question we can give yes, but, and no, but answers with a lot of variations in between. with that, let me introduce our two speakers. mike tomasky is editor of democracy, a journal of ideas. quarterly of journal based in washington. [applause] [applause] >> deserved of applause. [applause] [applause] >> he's also the american editor at large for the british guardian,

rupert murdoch. >> who? [laughter] >> is he good for journalism?> he is spending a lot of money and playing journalist, -- employing journalists, so i have to applaud that. i do not think he loves news of a particular kind. his personal taste is more for "the new york post" tabloid journalism. i think the most lasting affect is fox news. >> what is the effect on american journalist? >> i think it has created a level of cynicism about the news in general. it has contributed in a sense that they are all there with a political agenda, and i think that is unhealthy. i make no connection between the guy who shot those people in tucson and the national discourse, but it is true the national discourse is more polarized, and to some extent, i would lay that at the feet of rupert murdoch. >> a quick question. hughes said of bob woodward of "the washington post" -- you said of bob woodward of would be in the nation and -- "the washington post" but if they had a chance to hire him, would save? >> i have enormous admiration for bob woodward and what he has don

i just wish the words had not been stolen from by rupert murdoch and company. so, fox news does to damaging things to our political system. one is a d values truth. it makes everything valuable and negotiable. so, we spent a lot of time arguing whether or not a rock obama was proposing that panel's. 24 percent, 24 percent of republicans believe the president as a model and even higher percentage believe he might not be a muslim, but is working to the turn the united states into an islamic republic. i would love to know what that is like. and again, as i mentioned, we have a significantly smaller percentage of people who believe that global warming is a phenomenon even though during this very time the evidence increased profoundly. so there is an enormous effect of bias. successful. i think fox news alone made $500 million in profit whereas the make a little bit of profit and cnn loses money on its operation in the united states. certainly in prime time. and so cnn and to some degree a larger networks, that is where the audience is. and so you get cnn sponsoring

rupert murdoch. >> who? [laughter] >> is he good for journalism? >> he is spending a lot of money employing journalists, particularly the way the market for journalists has been over the last few years, i have to applaud that. and i think he loves news of a particular time. >> including -- >> well, his personal pace is more ""new york post" kind of journalism, but bought a wide range of journalism and invested in a wide range of journalism and that's a good thing. i think his most lasting effect in this country is fox news. >> and what is the effect of fox news on american journalism. >> i think the effect of fox news on american public life is to create a level of sin sism about the news in general. it has contributed to the sense that they're all just out there with a political agenda, whether fox is just more overt about it. and i think that's unhealthy. and i think fox has -- we have had a lot of talk since the gabby giffords attempted murder about civility and our national discourse and i make no connection between the guy who shot those peopl

. >>> in less than an hour, newscorp chairman, rupert murdoch, will launch "the daily."s exclusively for the ipad. it's expecting to sell sub descriptions for 99 cents a week. >>> toxic tap water. new steps announced to help clean up drinking water. >>> and charles manson is caught with something no prison inmate should have and it's not the first time. >>> good morning. westbound 24 traffic looks pretty good here. a little bit of slow traffic through the tunnel. more of your bay area compute and the forecast coming up. >>> a new report released ranks california near the bottom of the list in terms of delivering healthcare to children. the study by the commonwealth fund ranked california 44th out of the 50 states. the study found california especially inadequate in delivering affordable care for children from low and middle- income families. the score card was based on 20 measures, including access to care, prevention and treatment. >>> president obama's healthcare reform could go before the senate. the repeal was approved in the republican-controlled house but it's not

. >> last thursday or friday rupert murdoch announced that the daily was going to appear on the ipad, the only daily newspaper. a few months ago the daily beast exhort "newsweek" word was the other way around. and we've seen the situation in which there is now some of original content that occurs only on line. i mentioned to sources, the fiscal times, for those of you that want to follow fiscal issues, and those who want to follow new york issues, the website called the city pragmatist, something exciting has happened. one of those good things that's happened has been the web page of the new york times. it had a very rocky start, and it's really caught its stride in the last 68 months. a lot of good -- a lot of good content. the title of tonight's discussion, is "the new york times" good for democracy. a better question would have been, wouldn't have been as provocative, better question would have been on balance is "the new york times" good for democracy. and to that question, we can give yes, but and no, but and a lot of variations in between. but let me introduce the two speakers.

. >> you had rupert murdoch announcing a new paper just for the ipad.d not do that if he did not think he could make money. you have to be willing to pay for it. that will be $40 a year. >> every model under the sun is being tested. how do you make the news business profitable? >> you have had an incredible job. incredible view of history. an incredible opportunity to help shape it. as you look at our political process now, as you look in armenia and technology now, as you look at the nature of our civil discourse in this country, think about our students, many of whom would like to do what you have done. how do you define this moment in history? how should someone that is 21 years old lookit as look at how we -- look at how we are as a culture? i will let you take it wherever you wanted to go. it is a great weight to close the conversation. >> i am very optimistic about where we are going. we have a lot of dysfunction, bitterness, poisoned in the environment of our political culture. over time, i detect among young people a row pragmatism and desire to

. >> you had rupert murdoch announcing a new paper just for the ipad. he would not do that if he did not think he could make money. you have to be willing to pay for it. that will be $40 a year. >> every model under the sun is being tested. how do you make the news business profitable? >> you have had an incredible job. incredible view of history. an incredible opportunity to help shape it. as you look at our political process now, as you look in armenia and technology now, as you look at the nature of our civil discourse in this country, think about our students, many of whom would like to do what you have done. how do you define this moment in history? how should someone that is 21 years old lookit as look at how we -- look at how we are as a culture? i will let you take it wherever you wanted to go. it is a great weight to close the conversation. >> i am very optimistic about where we are going. we have a lot of dysfunction, bitterness, poisoned in the environment of our pitical culture. over time, i detect among young people a row pragmatism and des

. >> you had rupert murdoch announcing a new paper just for the ipad. he would not do that if he did not think he could make money. you have to be willing to pay for it. that will be $40 a year. >> every model under the sun is being tested. how do you make the news business profitable? >> you have had an incredible job. incredible view of history. an incredible opportunity to help shape it. as you look at our political process now, as you look in armenia and technology now, as you look at the nature of our civil discourse in this country, think about our students, many of whom would like to do what you have done. how do you define this moment in history? how should someone that is 21 years old lookit as look at how we -- look at how we are as a culture? i will let you take it wherever you wanted to go. it is a great weight to close the conversation. >> i am very optimistic about where we are going. we have a lot of dysfunction, bitterness, poisoned in the environment of our political culture. over time, i detect among young people a row pragmatism and d

[laughter] rupert murdoch -- >> who?aughter] >> well, he's spending a lot of money and leading journalists, so in that respect, particularly the way the market for journalists has been over the last few years i have to applaud that. i think he loves news of a particular kind including -- he's often said his personal pace is more for "the new york post" tabloid kind of journalism. but he has bought a wide range of journalism and invested in a wide range of journalism and i think that is a good thing. i'd think that his most lasting effect in this country is fox news. >> what is the effect of fox news on american journalism? >> the effect on fox news on american public life has been to create a level of cynicism about the news in general. it think it has contributed to the sense that they are all just out there with a political agenda whether fox is just more overt about it and i think that is on hold the i think fox also -- we have had a lot of talk since the gabrielle giffords attempted murder, about civility and nationa

. >> you had rupert murdoch announcing a new paper just for the ipad.t do that if he did not think he could make money. youave to be willing to pay for it. that will be $40 a year. >> every model under the sun is being tested. how do you make the news business profitable? >> you have had an incredible job. incredible view of history. an incredible opportunity to help shape it. as you look at our political process now, as you look in armenia and tecology now, as you look at the nature of our civil discourse in this country, think about our students, many of whom would like to do what you have done. how do you define this moment in history? how should someone that is 21 years old lookit as look at how we -- look at how we are as a culture? i will let you take it wherever you wanted to go. it is a great weight to close the conversation. >> i am very optimistic about where we are going. we have a lot of dysfunction, bitterness, poisoned in the environment of our political culture. over time, i detect among young people a row pragmatism and desire to solve p