rupert murdoch, for all the criticism he gets, is invested in the media and innovation. mike bloomberg is doing a ton of stuff through his company. they are hiring hundreds of people. i worked at bloomberg 15 years ago, and i was in europe as a foreign correspondent. there were 40 journalists, and now, there are thousands. i think it depends on the interests of certain people, but they are being tapped, and you can get them to lend to foundations and do this type of stuff. it is just creating the bridge from the journalism world into that world, and it is not as hard as you would think, in my experience. >> i would just say that a few of those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about and listened of route -- was it about. these guys are kind of villains in a sense of where we want journalism to go. fox news and the daily, who knows where that is going to go, but they are not necessarily public-interested, public radio, public tv, public press minded people. >> that is an opin

>> guest: rupert murdoch after two months of him got him. c-span: is this the first time and only time you had ever been fired? >> guest: yes. no, i filled the been justified and rupert murdoch felt so, too much because shortly after that, he asked me if i would write his annual report and i did it twice for the -- the news corporation to read the was fascinating. i got along with rupert very, very well. c-span: politically? >> guest: i don't think we agreed politically but he wasn't sticky but that he and i -- i respected him on certain important levels. he said to me one time -- he publishes the sun, the news of the world, the two barefisted newspapers in britain, and "the new york post" can be pretty racy but he also has the times of london and quite respectable publications after i'd written his report and showed the draft we went to london to devotee said to me the secret is, john, i've never been ashamed of anything i've ever published. the new york daily news had tried to go up against him. the daily news was a morning paper and the p

according to the guardian up in, the alleged hacker was working for rupert murdoch.n "world one." do stay with cnn for the latest on the day's top stories from me and the team. good-bye. thank you for watching. >>> ahead on "american morning," u.s. fighter jet and armed drone accelerating attacks on militant targets in yemen. "the new york times" reporting the obama administration is conducting a covert war in that country to keep al qaeda from rising to power. >>> there's mounting pressure on anthony weaner to step down as reports circulate the congressman's wife is pregnant. and the latest development has millions of americans cringing as explicit photo -- an explicit photo sweeping across the internet. >>> powerful testimony against accused child killer casey anthony. a computer forensic expert says he found 84 searches for chloroform on the murder suspect's computer. some are saying it's the evidence that could break the defense's case. >>> plus two high rollers who walked out of an atlantic city casino with more than $11 million in winnings between them on this

. >>> a day after rupert murdoch news corp paid thousands to siena miller for hacking her phone reports in england allege kate middleton's information was targeted by a private investigator who at the time was working for two murdoch tabloids. also targeted sarah ferguson, eric clapton and tony blair. >>> in india two wild elephants went on a rampage killing several persons and injuring several cows which are sacred there. they were captured and will be released into the forest. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,048 after dipping 21 points yesterday. the s&p shed 5 points. the nasdaq lost 26. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei inched up 17 points. in hong kong, the hang seng was down 51. >>> another dose of disappointing economic news drove stocks lower on the street for a sixth straight day. yesterday's weak data came from the fed's beige book survey. the nationwide anecdotal report seemed to confirm a recovery stall, showing an economic slowdown in several key regions so far this year. the en

there's about a half dozen corporations in the united states viacom general electric disney rupert murdoch's news corp that controlled just about everything ninety plus percent of american c watch listen to and often read and they present a range of opinion as dorothy parker used to say from a to b. any kind of real serious structural critique whether it's about health care whether it's about fossil fuels whether it is about the disastrous problem one in six american workers without work and we're talking about long term now unemployment one million people a year who go bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills six million people that have been pushed from their homes because of foreclosures or bank repossessions a number that is expected to rise to ten million next year and much of this activity we know it's transparent was fraudulent criminal activity there are only incapable of confronting the internal implosion and this will have disastrous consequences as the situation internally domestically gets worse and worse and worse we already have forty million americans the lowest. in

as soon as they're done scraping the rest of the crap off the boards in two thousand and five rupert murdoch's news corp it's the same guy who wants the biggest chunk of fox news next to that saudi prince but my space for five hundred eighty million dollars turned out to be a horrible investment you recently tried to sell it for one hundred million dollars but had to settle for thirty five from justin timberlake and specific media a california based digital advertising agency my space is that in two thousand and three and peaked in two thousand and eight was seventy six million monthly u.s. visitors currently facebook has about seven hundred million monthly users worldwide and my space is down to about thirty five million. according to relate quote there is a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers listen to music watch videos share and discover cool stuff and just connect and my space has the potential to be that place. i thought we had facebook for that anyway justin will have the resources to do it according to civic media c.e.o. tim vander hook j.t.

but the khadafi has a lot of support in tripoli there's a report today from the murdoch normal rupert murdoch x. . distributors of propaganda the wall street journal and to take a letter saying that khadafi is getting ready to flee tripoli why would he has total support from tripoli all the way to the tunisian border we had to go by car we actually encountered one impromptu pro khadafi demonstration on the main highway and we got out and sees people want to know are these you know are these deals being paid by the government as was now it's totally clear when i read this i mean i got into this as a copy of a fly in front of a bitch who is running around tripoli well getting out baskets of the biography you know faking civilian casualty and you know you say yeah it's not really a thought he know and you know that we haven't seen an information war like this a propaganda war since the you know the leading up to the war against iraq and the occupation remember the yellowcake uranium the biological mobile weapons labs you know colin powell holding up the anthrax all that all that nonsense he spen

do we in the first place collapse the system and start all over again you know how much money rupert murdoch is you know he's got all these things going on you think he's going to let a guy it's five o'clock so you bunch of stuff put this together it's completely wrong and stay on the network. yeah that's exactly what i think is that he's going to let you go out there say a bunch of things that are completely wrong and stay on the network where he did a whole story about roger ailes and how he started planning this way back in the nixon days but are you happy to see i go so i am are you sad inside i was sad when we first found out it was going off air because it was such a goldmine for us i mean our best episode in my opinion ever was how we got this out where you pretended to be him but he didn't turn out ok. he's done nothing for us you were then are you going back there ever was. going to the whole i don't remember the last six months i didn't even revisit my impersonation that i think it was worth it you know i i mean look this guy this guy has a has a show that has a certain head steady

rupert murdoch bought it for $580 million. today, specific media announced it bought my space. $35 million, 6 percent of the original price. no word on the size of timberlake's stake >> >> rescue from mens in a sáeupbing boat. it started with a may day call at midnight. the crew radios they were abandoning ship the coast guard sent a rescue boat and locatedded men one of the men said they 270 crab pots which tipped the bolt over, fortunately, no reports of any serious energy. salvage efforts are underway to recover the boat >> >> highway patrol is asking for two people to come forward. officers say they witnessed a fatal accident last thursday. forty-nine-year-old died in the wreck. the crash started a 4-acre brush fire along the shoreline. highway patrol said it needs help determining praoeg saoeusly what happened. >>> contra costa prosecutors asked a judge to charge a concorde man with murder after his three pitbulls fatally mauled a family member. last july, he was playing tennis with his step grand is grandson when he wand

that's still far less than the $580 million that the site's previous owner, rupert murdoch's corporation paid for it in 2005. specific media announced justin timberlake will take a stake in myspace and help to shape its future as an advertising platform. >>> there's a new tangible rule at apple's virtual apps store. as of today, vendors like kinld and barnes & noble are no longer allowed to guide customers from the apps store to their own websites. apple requires app users to make those payments through the app store's own payment system which gives apriling a hefty 30% cut of all sales. >>> the chinese government says ai weiwei owes almost $2 million in fines in unpaid taxes. the tax bureau officials demanded the monday from her son on monday. the artist spent three months in prison on charges of tax evasion. he's currently out on bail. >>> the hong kong billionaire yeung has been arrested and charged with laundering millions of dollars. he owns birmingham city. ramy inocencio joins us with the details of these allegations. >> carson yeung was granted bail thursday with a bond ever 7 mi

having this belief that the me was going to change because as long as it is owned by people like rupert murdoch and all the other corporatist, is going to continue to feed us garbage. if we want something real we have to create our own media. we have to start having our own kind of mutation amongst ourselves. we need to take a page out of the book of what's happening in the middle east and start doing that here. [applause] >> very quickly i would just say it's important for us to embrace the reentry movement because they hundreds of thousands of americans are coming home every year from prisons and their successful stories of reentering society in rebuilding their lives need to be shared because it's proof of its absolute proof that no one needs to spend as long in prison, if at all, as is currently happening. >> good afternoon. i'd like to thank all the panel. i have a question if any of you can respond. we for a number of drivers regarding the issue of drug our community, anything from crime to poverty. but i'd like to give mention to the 2 million veterans that served in iraq and afghanistan

maybe even owned at that time by somebody completely different like the, um, reincarnated head of rupert murdoch, right? who knows what's going to happen. but at that point google won't be the google we grew up with. the mature google is going to have different pressures, it's going to have different -- who's going to know what the worldwide web is going to be in 20 years ago, right? as we move more of our information-seeking habits and shopping-seeking habits to lock down, close devices that aren't really on the web, and the more time we spend in the gated community of facebook as opposed to the open web, the less money google's going to make in the long term unless it can keep expanding its market. so this is an interesting battle going on. google wants people to be comfortable with the web, as i said in the beginning, and it's doing everything it can to keep the internet open and free because that's good for google. it happens to be good for us, which is nice, but over time not everything that's good for google will be good for us, and we have to be prepared for that divergence. and at those

. >> rupert murdoch just wants to get this off the books. >> facebook seems to be everywhere. >> exactlyard mexico. it's making landfall this morning along the northeastern coast. >> now arlene is expected to pound mexico with heavy rains that could cause flash floods, also mudslides. it's not hitting the u.s. directly but brownsville and other cities on the southern tip of texas will see drenching rain. >> seems like a good time to transition into weather. and here is your thursday forecast. severe storms with gusty winds and hail from the dakotas and the northern rockies. rain stretches down to northern new mexico. showers in the pacific northwest. popup thunderstorms along the gulf coast. it all seems in keeping with tradition. heat advisories and warnings from oklahoma to minnesota. >> do i hear what i think i hear? "tell me more" from the movie "grease"? this is turning into a great day. 90s from minneapolis to kansas city. also, 101 in dallas. 82 here in new york. 92 in atlanta. phoenix heats up to 106. albuquerque 97. boise 78. >> you got really excited about that. i probably know

rupert murdoch and the c.e.o.'s of companies like microsoft and pfizer. the talented young people who would be eligible for the dream act call themselves dreamers. when i embarked on this mission ten years ago they used to hold back in the shadows after a meeting and whisper to me as i went by that they would be saved if the dream act is passed. now they are stepping forward so america can see who they are. every day these dreamers kapbgt my office to tell -- contact my office to tell me the stories. these stories energize me to keep up the fight. the last time we had a vote on this on the senate floor was last december. we had a majority but it takes 60 here. i want to revisit that issue and give these young people a chance. let me tell you the story of two of these dream act eligible people. herta luso was brought to the united states from albania when she was 11. she and her mother settled in gross point, michigan, a suburb of detroit. herta came here legally but shortly after arriving her mother filed an application to stay in the united states. herta

it seems everyone is talking about a phone hacking scandal and at the center of it all, rupert plur do murdoch'ssn't the first time he's been accused of involved in some hacking. >> far from it. there's already a police investigation under way in the hacking of people's cell phone voice mail and he's already settled i think it's five cases against high profile people for this. what would happen, he was having people, newspaper was having an investigator hack into people's cell phone voice mails, use information for these hugely sensational stories -- >> that's not how you're supposed to get a scoop. >> that's not journalistic. siena miller settle ford 100,000 pounds. this has become broader, big somewhere calls for the investigation to get more and more widespread. and it all centers on one private investigator, jonathan reese, accused of targeting politicians, royalty, as you mentioned, even terror informants who are informing on the i.r.a. and things like that. the list of names is amazing, er eric clapton, george michael, the prime minister, tony blair, when he was in office hacking and getti