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shows i do television shows where you know i come in there and. you make. so you said there are many different kinds of reality t.v. show in the one nine hundred ninety s. we had to join a new one as doc you saw in this country in britain. and we don't a lot of research on the motivations of those who participated in those programs and they often say things like i want to share my experience of you know difficulty or tragedy with others. i want to develop myself personally and so forth and many of those programs were very educational and intentionally hard what's really to call their social knowledge function so we learn about people who worked on cruise ships or in airlines or we learned about driving instructors and how they function a bit brighter and you know he's on the point very clearly a quick question i mean where we are when someone says never was. told was money the agenda and i guess you just answered it was money at the central unit because a great deal of it today is go ahead it wasn't it wasn't that and in many of the current programs i would

guest: we think most television, people prefer to watch on the television said. for a split is about the tv experience -- for us it is about the tv experience. all these movies, that are available on the internet, people do not want to watch them on the mobile device. if you have the ability to watch with all the crystal clarity of the hd set, that's how they want to watch it. having said that, we have been on the forefront of making programs they get to your iphone very easily. we have easy ways of being able to transfer a tivo recording to a mobile device. what we hear from subscribers is that they care more than viewing something on their mobile device, that the use of their devices to control what is going on on their television. their ability to pull out your phone when you are out to dinner and you hear about a new television show, but you are out for the next three hours and can not get home to report appeared to be able to punch in a code and send a signal to your tivo to record it. at the office, to be able to get on the computer and do the same period a

but there's also something else which kind of accounts for the popularity of reality television and that's a financial factor which hasn't been mentioned here and that's obviously an institutional issue which is about why actually reality television is so successful today and that's to do with the market the media market single formats being able to be cloned globally and you know production companies be able to actually really get some sort of high revenue low cost material which the public seems to be very much in favor of ok and go back to you brian i mean. if we if we program and i to repeat the question i ask you they reflect the value of society or a large proportion of society they are fabulously popular. they are popular because they clearly appeal. to human interest you know they're often it's often dismissed as just human interest. just human interest journalism but actually of course human beings are interested themselves in the societies and in the groups and before reality t.v. at least as it started off with the. brother and so on ten years ago was an opportunity prese

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. >> when news breaks, america turns on the television. for 50 years, tv news has delivered the big stories and raked in big profits. television still owns live news, but ratings have been falling for decades, and the web has changed everything. did tv news react in time? >> they didn't say, "oh, my god. this is a 5-alarm fire that's gonna transform and destruct our business. what do we do?" >> there are 25 billion video streams a month on the internet, and it's not just piano-playing cats anymore. is news on the old tube in trouble with youtube? that's our topic today on "the future of news." >> a government without a tough and vibrant media of all sorts is not an option for the united states of america. >> you know, on youtube, we liked to say that everyone is now a reporter, but everyone is not a journalist. >> curious people have a lot of choices, and we just need to be one of their choices. >> from the newseum in washington, d.c., this is "the future of news." welcome to the knight studio and our conversation about media and news in t

learning something new about a disease or how to prevent it from scripted television shows. nearly one-third of those viewers take action on what they learn. so if the information is accurate, we're doing them a service. if it's inaccurate, it's a huge disservice. we also know that over half, 52 percent of regular viewers, believe that the health content they see on television is accurate. and nearly, let's see, 26 percent of those viewers report television shows among their top three sources of health information. moving on to ron-ron, how are substance use disorders and behavioral health issues portrayed in the media? i think the addiction is portrayed accurately. i don't think the recovery of addiction is portrayed accurately. i think it's always the addiction ready for the other shoe to drop and show all the worst things about addiction and not the assets of recovery. and, of course, doug, we're dealing with so many types of media here. there's television, there is radio, there are movies, which one do you think really is one of the more larger culprits of misrepresentin

i get all of my television of the web. that is not on the -- that is not an unusual situation. >> [unintelligible] first of all, back to the question of diversity, the fact that we even have to talk about diversity and employing people who represent that range of diversity, in this day and age, is incredible to me. after 50 years of struggle we are still talking about how many women and minorities are in the workplace. that is insanity writ large. to the question posed by my colleagues with respect to community media, this is my view. again, one other point for how democracy can flourish is when the elected representatives have an opportunity to communicate directly with the constituency, unencumbered by third-party influences or interpretations. that is a major role that we must play as community television, providing a straight pathway to community so that they can hold elected officials accountable based on the reality of what they are saying, not the interpretation flowing from other levels of media. >> let's talk abou

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television production is really -- it helped change my life. if i did not get involved with the television, there is no telling what might have happened with me. what i am saying is give bay back the money, with stipulation that they would provide money for community centers to open up satellite facilities. i talked with mr. -- i am not a good speaker. i talked with mr. frazier and the department. chairperson campos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is jen gilliman. i am the director of media strategies and managed the commons program at bay bak. we have had quite a year. it has been a challenge merging these two communities and trying to start of the programs at market street, undergoing a transition, getting things up and started, and trying to welcome more people into public access. that has been our goal. i hope you will look at the cover sheet and that entire report, which chronicles an entire year of good faith efforts on our part to be more inclusive with public access, to bring more people in, to use the resources t

the committees discovered television. the partisan spirit that infected them has, for example, i think, prevented them now for the fifth year unless they make a breakthrough for the fifth year in coming to an agreement on a bill authorizing intelligence budget. the importance of that is that's one of their major powers. by not authorizing the budget they really give up a lot of their control because intelligence agencies aren't dumb. they go right to the apropose rateors. they go to committees that appropriate the money. >> warner: senator gorton, one of the key recommendations of your commission was the appointment of this director of national intelligence. now the congress did do that. do you ... but now there are all all these questions about whether they have enough authority. do you think congress bears a role in that? >> congress created the title but congress did not follow the recommendations of the 9/11 commission with respect to authority. we wanted one person in charge of the intelligence agencies of the united

you often hear that this is the golden age of television drama. ask yourself why. the answer is because not only our broadcast networks making very broad-ewing dramas that appeal to broad swaths of the public -- broad-viewing dramas that appeal to broad swaths of the public, but you have basic cable networks like fx and tnt and usa also going after very high-quality offerings. what we tried to do from an fx standpoint is occupy a unique space in the landscape. we often ask ourselves, on whatever channel, how do we get someone to change the channel and come find us? the networks are 2, 4, 7. we are 248. we have to offer something extraordinary and extremely original. we have to have a specific sensibility, a specific brand that can be communicated to the consumer over and over again, so that the people who are not aligned with us -- we program to men, women, adults of all ages from 18 to 80. people that come to our channel want something a little bit riskier and a little bit more artistically risky and original. as the space that we occupy. fortunately, we do not ha

maestros ingenuity is the envy of other television stations. only available in some districts of tbilisi and on the internet its popularity in the country grows with each passing month this media underdog attracts people's attention with its smart in an orthodox techniques. very difficult to live in one room twenty four hours a day filming your every move. very difficult. to some hard thinking project. he's confined to a small studio. with . cage to the stadium. ah. public defender of georgia parliament elected human rights. in that role he submitted many media outlets being threatened. to the parliament. now he's unemployed after they refused to extend. parliament. for a time. gave up his journalism career and worked as an assistant public defender. but he couldn't stay away from his chosen profession for long. very close relationship with. him for his investigations. were interesting. political scandals the. one of. his most sensational films examines the mysterious death of former prime minister. george and he was such. was the person whose

with the 24-hour news cycle today in the cable television and internet, is there a danger of the news media creating the news rather than just reporting on it? and if so, what can be done about it? >> sam, danger of the news media creating the news? >> i don't think we create the news, but we may take the wrong stories, in the sense that they're not the important ones, and exaggerate them and make the audience think that that's the most important thing. i mean, there are a lot of dangers that speed brings to the process. >> what can be done about it? >> what can be done about that? i don't think there's anytng tt could rely be done about that. it's happening...particularly for conservatives--and i'm not faulting the right versus the left. it's just that because republicans are out of power right now and they don't have a national leader, i do think that people like rush limbaugh, glenn beck, fox news--i think they have more power to drive a story and to get conservatives fired up than john boehner or mitch mcconnell. so i do think that that's happening. and increasingly--and this is a

the georgian television shocked the nation on march thirteenth two thousand and ten. minute story. between russia and georgia they presented a hypothetical scenario as if it was a real news event. took it at face value. the city's. hypertonic crisis and breastpin. instead of showing the real news. in the story. who's to blame for the intimidation of journalists. of minimizing opposition in the georgian media. this small. amounts it's saturday march thirteenth two thousand and ten. comes home after a day's work at a vineyard and falls asleep in a room watching the evening news on the t.v. channel. i was sleeping on the sofa. when the program began my father was sitting here. i woke up because mother was screaming about the start of. father lying on the floor to my country member clearly what happened next somebody rushed to the neighbor's to ask him for help. when. he was already dead. the ambulance came just fifteen minutes after being called the cause of death according to doctors. induced by a program on the t.v. channel. involving georgian political analysts and journalists and

confunden a un joven con una famosa presentadora de televisiÓn y algunos terminan en apuros.ación en contra del bloqueo que impuso una jueza federal a la ley 1070...que tal, les habla enrique teuteÓ..muere a manos del ejercito mexicano el narcotraficante mario carrasco- coronel alias "el gallo"; sobrino y sucesor de "nacho" coronel, abatido esta semana en guadalajara durante un operativo para detenerlo.el gobierno colombiano dijo hoy que "jaÁs" ha pensado en atacar a venezuela e insistÓ en su denuncia; que caracas les da albergue a jefes de grupos guerrilleros colombianos.adeÁs, el ex- preso poÍtico cubano, ariel sigler, habla con univisÓn sobre sus primeros dias en el exilio.y bajo estrictas medidas de seguridad, se casa hoy en nueva york chelsea clinton, la hija de bill y hillary clinton ...mas esta tarde en noticiero univisÓn fin de semana. >> el asombroso parecido entre una famosa presentadora de televisiÓn colombiana y un joven ha puesto en aprietos a varios caballeros. >> carolina cruz, una de las mujeres que roba el aliento de los colombianos, ex reina de belleza, mode

public access television was one of these. they pumped millions of dollars into a complain to negotiate cable franchises on the state level rather than the sit by -- city by city basis. the money talked and the legislators in 20 other states were hoodwinked into passing similar laws despite the importance of this very sacred first amendment right. the right of free speech by our citizens. the mantra of the phone companies was cheaper rate. the digital infrastructure and video competition act passes and once again our legislators were grossly misinformed and suckered into passing this legislation whose true goal was only saving the phone companies money, period. let's fast forward to today. we are here because the act was promised additional funds from the cable company to support san francisco comments. our new public access provider. the money is necessary simply to keep the doors opened. no one can rub a -- run a public access channel on $170,000 a year. it barely pays the rent on market street for access san francisco. our

that you have not seen anything like this on television. tom. [applause] >> i'm not an attorney.'m a director and a film maker. i actually have a ball cap to prove it. [laughter] so i will put it on. we all learned this from steven spielberg, who popularized the use of baseball caps. jeff is right. i have been a longtime fan of jets for a long time. first, i want to thank him for the opportunity to make this peace. people in my position often talk about giving back, and it is usually worth about the price of the words, and nothing more. in this case, i have known jeff for a long time, and i know the good work that he does, and i really wanted to make the contribution that i could. we talked for a long time about themes for this commercial, and we decided -- kind of mutually, i think -- that the resumption of innocence -- i heard the panelists in both panels talk about this repeatedly -- is really about the highest ground that his office to take in a broadcast television commercial. but beyond that -- i have forgotten her name -- very articulate young lady -- we were talking about