frank. >> thanks, sonya. john, how'd she do on that magic wall there? >> she's very good. she's very, very good. i might be out of work. >> uh, back to all these different choices and all these different places. john, when you're doing television now and realizing that many of your viewers, perhaps most of your viewers will actually consume it on cnn.com or on one of these other sites, again, how does that change the way you present or what you do? do you pitch it differently, format it differently? >> doesn't change the rules any. if you think that it's not everyone's watching right now, somebody may watch this 4 hours from now, 8 hours from now, 10 hours from now, does it affect maybe the language you use? do you try to maybe hopefully have a little bit more context, something that lives, something that is worthwhile for a longer period of time? but that should be your goal anyway, so if the explosion of technology and the people can now pick when they watch a program, if that makes you think harder, makes you think, "i want something that actually has a longer shelf lif

i'm sonya gavankar filling in for frank sesno. today's guests have very different perspectives on the news media. chris matthews is long-time broadcast journalist, a best-selling author, and of course is host of "hardball" on msnbc. jan schaffer is a print journalist and a pulitzer prize winner. she is now at the american university as the executive director of the j-lab, the institute of interactive journalism. welcome to you both. let's start out with a very quick question: is there really anything wrong with 24-hour news cycle? jan? >> well, it doesn't serve all the citizens. in a democracy, people need different things than what you get on that 24-hour cycle, and i think that's become problematic, and i thk we see cizenstepping up to the plate to try to fix it. >> chris? >> well, it is what it is. i think what i do is i get in my car in the morning, and i have satellite, which is great, actually, and then you can flip it around. i don't have msnbc on my satellite. they don't have it. but i usually start off with 60s music, whi

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lisa and sonya will be before judge for allegedly going to disaster relief centers after this san bruno line explosion and fraudulently a plan for paper work and services claiming to be victims. terry giles will be in court he's a former technology network engineer convicted of failing to hand over the past or to the city's main computer network to the department supervisors and the police department when asked. the senate voted to delay a massive cuts in medicare pay for doctors' agreeing to keep current pay levels until the end of next room. if the house goes along congress will hold off 23 percent cut in doctors' pay scheduled to take place december 1st. it will buy enough time to negotiate a one-year reprieve before the session ends. the cost of the postponement will be paid for changes in medicare reimbursement. new details concerns about full body scanners and their alternatives toward pat downs have them sink about ditchingtsa agents. they can hire their own screeners one orlando airport plans on removing agents in favor of hiring private screeners. it is being allowed by of flor