what was it that left the new journalism or enable the new journalism is to become bleak the premier genre in this country. i would argue that it virtually superseded even fiction in the national consciousness and in the literary community for about a decade or decade and a half. rollingstone was another venue, for tremendous general is him. journalism. >> so what was it that made that kind of feature writing as dominant as compelling and powerful and what has changed? >> there is also a cultural dimension to all of this. we live in an image-based society, and the decline that you mentioned is part of our transformation from a literate culture to an illiterate culture. 42 million americans are functionally illiterate. another roughly 50 million are semiliterate, meaning they read at a fourth of fifth grade level. that is almost a third of the country. and those people are technically literate, even people have college degrees off into an illiterate culture. they stop reading. and use it in terms of the decline of print-based material across the cultural spectrum. you see in the publi

a journalism degree as a new liberal arts degree and why is that? because the foundation of all journalism is curiosity. that is what keeps us going. the question of somewhat older children who say why? who said? those kids that you want to sl. so we're teaching and currie, allegiance to ct, very, very deep research skills whi is what happens we teach prioritization of events try to figure out wt is most impornt and clear succinctating so much so that i often tell my students especially the ones that i love to write i say ts is of creative writing. that is what it is. and we teach the way to funnel and present truceo identify its employment ford and defended because the only thing we have to market is our own integrity. and our own tth. those aremportant qualiti. but turning to investigative journalism which remains the:will the standard -- the gold standard i have been lucky enough be part of a pulitzer tm that was from the dney king riots in the los angeles. we have all worked on tm when you do the work you're not thinking i'm a dead day pulitzer you're think

captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> moyers: welcome to the journal. that was one fighting speech barack obama delivered wednesday night. plain spoken and clear, he spelled out details of his own plan for health care reform, rallied his side of the aisle, met his adversaries head-on, and shamed the partisan wrecking crew that spewed lies into the summer's heat. >> when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-american; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom, and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter-- that at that point we don't merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges. we lose something essential about ourselves. >> moyers: it was high political drama that would have pleased the two roosevelts. but speeches are soon forgotten, and the atmosphere they create dispelled, and the rhetoric, no matter how dramatic or effective, challenged by reality. now comes the fight to the finish, and we'll stay with the story as the weeks unfold.

that's it for this week's edition of the journal editorial report, thanks for watching. we hope to see you right here next week. >> on fox news watch, our military chief in afghanistan needs more troops to finish the job. but the commander-in-chief may be balking. >> we're not going to make a decision about any further troop deployment. >> should the press press the issue? >> he's here, he's there, he's been everywhere this week, and the media have not miss add step. but is it time for the obama-thon to end? some outrage when an elementary school make young students sing praises for the president. >> i'm so upset that my child is being use this had way. >> did the mainstream media ignore the controversy? and just when you thought you've heard it all. >> i woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. >> on the panel this week, patricia murphy, a columnist for politics daily. jim pinkerton fellow at the new american foundation and keir sten powers, analyst and new york post columnist, i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now >> i sai

because the foundation, of course, of all journalism is curiosity. that's what keeps us going. and a big question of somewhat of the older children. he was sad. the ones you want to slap. soe' teaching inquiry alleges to fact, of course teach very, very deep research skills which is what happens when a team gets going. we do prioritization of events. we've had to figure out what is the most important effort. we teach clear writing. so much so the ones i le to writ uh-huh, this is uncreative. that's kind of what is in a way. but it can be more so. so -- and we tch a way to funnel, a way to esent truth and a way to find it to identify it and to put it forrd and defend it. afterall the only thing we have it our own integrity and truth. that's it. that's pretty impornt. but turning to investigative journalism and to the public serve which remains the gold standard to use the pun again. and so it is. i also have been lucky enough to be par of a pulitzer team. and that was in los angeles from rodney king. it was - we've all worked on them. we all know how important you are. when you'r

joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor. columbiaist anastasia and bret stevens and features editor rob pollock. you predicted that the president would not have the staying power to stick it out in iraq, congratulations: why is he second guessing himself now? >> the news isn't exactly good. his commanders stan mcchrystal says things aren't going well and needs more troops. obama says i don't know if i have the support out there. he's not polling well and the latest poll, 46% approval for the war in afghanistan. it's not surprising that obama is start to go rethink, but it's certainly makes me think twice about whether he's sincere when he turned afghanistan, the good war, the war of necessity as opposed to the war in iraq. >> wait, wait, wait, because a strategy he implemented six months ago, the polls have turned against you, and you haven't given a speech in the interim, by the way on this war explaining what we're doing there and because the general that you appointed and you told to it will you what you need has come back

welcome to the journal. >> thank you. t's very n%ce to be here. >> sherr: let me start with what's going on in new york this week and around the world, which is all this focus on girls and women. why now? why girls and women? >> i think there is a growing sense that with the challenges that are facing us on climate change, on growing militarization of societies, on the security front, you simply can't address this with a sort of a business as usual strategy. and i think women and girls have moved from a place of sort of being, "there, there, dear, that's nice." on the side. to really being seen as an engine for change in other critical world areas of making a difference and making an impact in the world. and that's why i think this is our moment. >> sherr: just tick off for me, if you would, what you think the if you would, what you think the women around the world are facing right now. >> so, i think ongoing war and militarization is a huge challenge for women. the ongoing violence against women, which sort of, you know,

>>> welcome to "the "wall street journal" report." i'm maria bartiromo. once again coming to you from outside the stock exchange on wall street. the work of interpreting the jobs report. a crucially and closely watched piece of economic data. what does it mean, and what's next? a rare interview with a sitting federal reserve president. how he sees the economy, what keeps him up at night and when he thinks the recession will end. if you are facing a cash crunch, how you can save up to $500 a month making the nickels and dimes and dollars add up. "wall street journal report" begins right now. >>> this is america's number one financial news program, the ""wall street journal" report." now maria bartiromo. >>> now here's bill griffith with a look at the stories making headlines this week. bill. >> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. it is the mother of all economic data these days, and the closely watched jobs report was released on friday. it showed the economy lost 216,000 jobs in august with the unemployment rate c

"the journal editorial report" starts right now. >> paul: welcome to the "journal editorial report", i am paul should go. in a speech that has silenced the democrats healthcare incentive, president barack obama addressed a joint session of congress this week and seating. note to his opponents and promising his $900 billion plan will not add to the federal budget deficit. mac will not sign it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future area and. and to prove i'm serious, there will be a provision in this plant that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize. >> paul: joining a panel this week while straight columnist and deputy editor dan henniger. senior editorial page writer joe reiko, washington columnist kim strassel. then, the story is in the polls, a bump up in support for healthcare. and a lot of people in washington talking about new momentum. did he save the day for the democrats keep you. >> look, this was a speech to a joint session of congress. that's a big deal. and the president is doing this for a piece of leg

"the "wall street journal" report" beginning right now. the "wall street journal" report begins right now. >>> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. more signs the economy is continuing to stabilize. the federal reserve beige book, a look at the economy throughout the nation, found that a vast majority of the nation is reporting economic activity stabilizing or improving, and it appears the worst recession since the 1930s is over. the report also says that soft consumer spend and a weak jobs market continues to suggest the economy roer will be subdued. the dow jones industrial average started off the holiday shortened week on an up note rising by 50 points and continued higher on wednesday and thursday defiling expectations for a september pullback. the markets fell, though, on friday. >>> total u.s. consumer credit fell by a record $21 billion in the month of july for the sixth month in a row for a decline. that's bad news in the short-term because consumer spending could help spark the economy, but

nancy youssef, welme to the journal. >> thankou. >> moyers:efore we get to afghistan, let me ask you about is photograph of a young marine who died. and tha.p. as you know circuled the picture, even thgh the parents and robert gates, the sectary of defense, objected. what was your reaction to th? >> you know, when at photo came out, i talked ta friend of mine, she's a coloneln the my. she served in ir and many years ago, she'd lost her dauger, who was a toddler at the time to illness, so she could speak tot as a soldier and a parent. and she was real angry about the photo. shsaid, "no one has the right tell me what my last memory of my child should be." and it really stay with me. and so as i could have emphy for the familyand i felt a lot of pain, bause i can only imagine having that image ared in your mind. but m conflicted, because as a jonalist, and as someone who has to go out and sethis war day in a day out, it's hard to say that these ptos shouldn't be seen. in a way, i feel like the wa in iraq d afghanistan have been sanitized. and that photoas gruesome as it i captures the re

captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> moyers: welcome to the "journal." the envelope, please. and the winner for most influential motion picture in american politics is "hillary: the movie," a no-holds-barred attack that the producers intended for viewing during her campaign for president. >> vindictive. >> mendacious, venial, sneaky. >> ideological, intolerant. >> liar is a good one. >> scares the hell out of me. >> looks good in pantsuit. >> moyers: never heard of it? that's not surprising. very few people saw it in the first place. but "hillary: the movie" may prove to have an impact on the political scene greater than even the producers could have dreamed. that's because it got tied up in a legal battle-- a very complex legal battle over federal laws regulating certain aspects of corporate union and special interest funding for political speech in elections. the film was created by a conservative group called citizens united. they wanted to use on-demand television to distribute "hillary: the movie" and to buy commercials promoting it. but because the

then you the wall street journal had an obit for him. under his little picture it said, "lane kirkland, anti- communist." that's what the labor movement was known for. it because they were able to push out a certain segment. but then to come in with another kind of leadership. an affirmative statement that "we are going to be cooperating now with the corporations and with the corporate elite. we are going to be like a junior partner at the table." >> moyers: but do you see any green spouts of confrontation, militancy, defiance growing on the left, among unions, that we see on the right? >> yes. >> moyers: where? >> well, first of all, i think that the election of richard trumka has a great deal of potential. because... >> moyers: the new president of the afl-cio. >> the new president of the... >> moyers: why? >> because trumka comes out of a history of militancy. he you know, in terms of his vision of the united mine workers that he led. his emphasis on organizing. his clarity on the nature of the economic crisis that we've been facing. a

the "wall street journal" report. now maria bartiromo. >>> here's what's making news as we head into the new week on wall street. as expected, the federal reserve kept a key interest rate at near 0%. the fed's open market committee also released a statement saying that an economic recovery was underway, but also signalled that it was way too early to start raising interest rates. in addition, the fomc said it would continue a program designed to keep mortgage rates low. at least until march. sdmrimplts seven existing homes fell unexpectedly meanwhile in the month of august. a mild setback in the recovery from a three-year slump. analysts were expecting a slight increase rather than the 2.7% decline. it was a choppy week for the dow jones industrial average, falling 45 points on monday, but on tuesday it touched 9,900 and closed at the highest for the year. the markets tumbled on wednesday and thursday and continued down on friday. two major banks say they'll overhaul overdraft fees. bank of americas it will stop chargi

jefferson county release the thousand pages of writings of the killers, they left the journal, school assignments, eric harris wrote on his web site about what he wanted to do and they made video tapes explaining themselves but that wasn't enough. th fbi agent on the case deserves a major character in the book, underlining the impact the story, he said -- >> what ihis name? >> a special agent. who -- the famous psychologist, happened to be on the case. he said in his attire fbi career he had never seen a killer who died leaving this much material explning himself. we have an extraordinary amount of information together. i spent the last several years digging through all of this information and talking with various psychiatrists and psychologists to understand them. it is very clear cut once you get through the information, hard to make out their handwriting, took awhile to decipher what they wer doing but once you understand their psychological condition it is a lot easier to undetand them too. you have to understand what a psychopath is to understand, very classic pattern. >> did way

it is the lead story in the journal but quietly they've been putting it to the top of the 12 point. we're lulled into whether you read it there because it's eight of out of nine days, i think. that was one of the latest. we're bringing back the green shoots because that was definitely a green shoot last week. it was announced last friday, a better than expected first quarter profit of 58 cents. the prior range was 30 to 45. so you can watch cardboard, you can watch boxes, shipping, it's a very good indicator of commerce. and we're going to look for, you know, comments from the company. >> they still talked about significant overcapacity. >> well, we know -- i mean, we're still talking double dip. i saw a guy yesterday that overlayed the '30s market versus ours and the big crash is coming. we're still aware there's problems out there. so when they say something good, you know there's going to be a couple of -- anyway. cleaning up. didn't do it before you came in. dow component general electric is hosting a global research analyst meeting today. the company says it will high lie techn

the journal decided to play -- is this the lead story in the journal? >> no. cit is the lead story. front page, where are you? here is where the journal decided to run it. if you want to see it in the times, the "new york times," 8:18. 8:18. you will be able to find the story on i-18 if you're really aggressive about looking. if you need to read it and you really want to know about it. >> this is the lead on their national page. >> you can find it on a-18 if you get through the fist 17 pages of the more important news. >> shaes kind of shocking. >> were you here the other day when i -- "i did it the other day. but it was classic where the times had something. oh, korea, the general election pup weren't here for that? >> no. monday. >> oh, my god, the journal, front page, just multiple articles in the "new york times" with this deliverer on the ride, it said merkel claims that could have been sort of a win for people less progressive than they should be, basically, is what it -- all right. in corporate news, cit group is reportedly coming up with a plan to work on an exchange offer t

but "the wall street journal" says it may not be worth playing the game anymore. for starters many airlines now just give a $200 voucher if you're bumped, not enough for any long flight and may come with blackout dates around holidays. worse, the journal says vouchers may not be valid for the lowest-priced fares. my advice? ask questions before you agree to be bumped about what you will get in return. and make sure a seat is available on the next flight. >>> which brings me to this week's "doesn't that stink" file. airlines have cut so many flights there are few empty seats anymore. frequent traveler web sites warn if your flight is overbooked there's a good chance the next one is, too, which leaves me saying doesn't that stink? to so volunteers are who give up seats now sometimes have to wait to the next kay to fly. a hotel room may not be included. no flight until the next day, no meals, just a discount voucher? make sure you know what you are getting before you volunteer to be bumped so you don't waste your money. i'm john matarese. >>> the nonprofit organizati

the journal editorial report starts right now! captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> paul: women come, i'm paul gigot. after angry town halls and slipping poll numbers democrats and the president return to washington next week hoping to salvage what they can of a faultering domestic agenda. top priority health care reform. debate the president hopes to refrain -- reframe wednesday night k he make an awe dumb comeback? joining us opinion journal.com columnist, and washington columnist. kim, are we going to see a big different change of strategy tort autumn comeback or not? >> the white house is realizing it does not have the support it needs. but it also understands that it would be deadly to not have some for the of it health care legislation having campaigned and worked on this for sole. giving this address to congress you are going to see a lot of town halls and a push publicly. also groundwork being laid where they can step back a little. talking about maybe working with republicans for a smaller bill something that w

ane journalism ethics that are the essentials basis of the kind ofournalism that kind of journalism is based un and then holds aountable so it ist just a matter of a newspaper losing a few reporter what we are facing is something we need to address which is why i wrote the book is mething that can affect the whole profession of journalism as we have come to understand. the web is a wonderful thing, the digital fure, something that is unavoidable a welcome and i welcome it but it is something that we need to be solutely certain isn't going to come at the cost of values most americans i think really believe in and certainly most journalists like i believe in. >> you talk about citen journalists. are you a supporter of citizen journalists? >> iowa supporter of citizen journalism but i don't think thatitizen journalism is the antidote to what i see as the erosion of serious professional journalism. i thinkitizen journalism when i started as a reporter and this is probably true for most i used to go to school board meetings and there were always people there that w

i am sure that all of you took with you the journal of regulation. i tried to read that. i do not believe in regulation. we lived -- we live in a regulated world. we lived in communism. that is based on the mistrust in the market and the trust in regulation. we have very strong views about that. >> who is organizing? >> mr. president, i would like to ask you to comment more on this debate of communism and capitalism in the crisis. you're talking about mostly post-communist countries. according to the latest question, i would like to raise a question. in colombia, most of the people voted for socialism. socialism are going through extreme poverty. one of the things that are attractive is health care and education. i would like to ask you as a politician, and an economist, do you think that health care and education could be free in a market economy? >> was that a question for a statement? it did -- was that a question or statement? [unintelligible] these were both free. the have to pay for them. the more you pay, the real price -- [unintelligible] the more you are aware of

the "atlantic journal constitution" had a big expos 8. -- a big next possession -- expose. they said to be sure that people are treated right and get all of serviceman and leave the hospital. we did not like that because we won a more specific things. the mental-health community has really joined together. we had shared associations, all kinds of people in who are not normally involved, to be working on that. and also one center for mental health is involved, and the justice department, we got a judge that was on our side. we hope that we're going have a better system in georgia in the future. jimmy talked about the things that we did in going into bolivia. we had some really interesting times, and one of my favorite times was going the peasants and bolivia, where the beautiful outfits. we met with a woman's group, and they were really strong women. there were demanding. it was fun, because they were all chewing coca leaves, and they would put it in their mouths, and then there were tall, and there were strong. anyway, we had a good time. [laughter] they actually passed reas

. >> moyers: welcome to the journal. and to an explorion of what's happening with two perful movements american life: unions othe left, and coervatives on the right. >> you work r us! you wo for us! moyers: cservatives were out in forcen washington over the weeken they hadome to express their opposition to big governnt, to taxes and wasteful spendg, and heal care reform they fear would lead ta nightmare of burecracy. max blumenthal, thor of "replican gomorrah," waded intoheir midst to sample opinions. >> so you'reaying if the govement eliminates social securi and medicare then you'll get out of e program? >> n i said if they get out of my life. >> out of your sial security and. >> no, out of evything. >> moyers: buthey had also come to deplore and denounce president obama-in their minds a tyrant akin to stalin, mussolin hitler, and saddam hussein. i'm afraid he's going to do what hitler cod never do and that'sestroy the united states of america >> and what's the obama revoluti, what's going to ppen? >> similar to germany,

. >> reporter: featured this week in the journal of the american medical association the study compared what is called the dopamine reward pathway in the brains of 53 adults who had adhd with 44 adults who did not. using images taking from a national laboratory in new york. >> there was a lower concentration of dopamine markers in the brain of individuals with adhd, specifically in the areas of the brain that are involved with reward and motivation. >> reporter: researchers say the findings help explain adhd patients have such a hard time focusing on tasks they don't find interesting. kelly swoope, "2 your health." >>> good morning. 5:17. we're looking at the approach, instant arrival of autumn here. it will feel like it the next couple of days. 9-9-9, that's it. write a check today just to put it down. the kids will be writing it in books in school. 59 in the morning, 80 in the afternoon are typical temperatures. a year apart and you get the record high of 94 degrees in 1985. sun up at 6:43. 66 this morning. 69 philly, new york. 70 norfolk. we've got this marine layer stuck in place be

fortunately at t beginning, larry smith, who was the editor at the magazine, she comes from the journalism background and ca with me when we first went to the orleans to interview people the first time and took a lot of notes which werhelpful and also being able to have the blogs and the journals of a couple of characters themselves helped in my research, just again, to make sure i got everything right. rt of falling along on that, one of the things i ended up doing with a couple of the characters, denise and leo there were certain scenes that were critical that i felt needed to be done exactly right and not get any details wrong so i ran the ript as by then first and let them take a look at that. it isn something i normally do as a cartoonist and i don'tven think aot of journalis do that but i wanted to make sure sense of was not trying to in some way expos something about these characters the world didn't know i was trying to do thei story donner and make sure they have full approval of the script that felt like i got their dialogue right that whatever special dialect issues might come u

we were talking about the nbc wall street journal poll. ssage is we republicans don't have anything to offer. many of us have offered bold alternatives to the health care legislation and all the big issues of the day, whether it was energy or budget or the stimulus plan. we have been putting out alternativ alternatives, and they think we are criticizing for the sake of criticizing. we have offered alternative bills. >> when you have the president being attacked the way he is at the town hall meetings, you have see this wall street journal poll that came out last night. most americans if health care goes down they will blame republicans in congress. if you have an alternative, how would you get the message out. >> maybe tom coburn will put our bill on the floor in the senate, but democrats run the place. they have huge majorities in the house and senate. if this goes down, it's because the majority did not pass their bill, and they have chosen not to colab rate. the majority has to be willing to collaborate with the minority. >> well, let me

that's it for this week's edition of the "journal editorial report". fixed my panel and author for watching. we hope to see right here next week. >> on "fox news watch". the president makes a last-ditch effort to get sport for his health plan. suggesting opposing views be ignored. cynically time for bickering is over. the time for games has passed. >> in a street media cheered them on. >> an obama advisor with a checkered past quits his post after bad press. >> why did most of the press missed this? >> 9/11, the day america changed. does the press responsible for keeping the memories of that tragic day allied? ♪ o say can you see ♪ by the dawns early light. >> on the panel this week, jane hall of the american university; national review editor, rich lowry. jim pinkerton l. at the new america foundation and writer and "fox news" contributor, judy miller. i am jon scott. "fox news watch" is on right now. >> isn't worth noting that a strong majority of americans still favor a public insurance option of the sort i propose tonight. but, its impact should not

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. >> reporter: appearing this week in the journal of the american medical association their researchmined the survival rates of over 10,000 patients in a startized national -- standardized national registry who required cpr following cardiac arrest. the study found black patients had slightly more than 25% survival rate, white patients survived more than 37% of the time. however, that 12% gap substantially narrowed after researchers took into account the hospital where treatment was received. >> some hospitals are better performers when it comes to the resuscitating and providing the best possible care of the patients with cardiac arrest than other hospitals. these differences seem to disproportionately affect patients who are black. >> reporter: experts say finding ways of improving the quality of resuscitation and post-resuscitation care in these underperforming hospitals will be crucial to eliminating survival differences by race. >> the amount and aggressiveness of resuscitation attempts also measured with no evidence of significant differences by race. >>> students across the st

his dna campaign it is contain the basic ingredient essential for good journalism, curiosity. n the news, that in a democracy -- excuse me while i turn this page. it would be unfair and dishonest to say that walter and i were intimates. we were not. i got to know him when he invited me around to his house for thanksgiving. i have no idea why he did it, other than simple kindness and generosity, but i have never forgotten it. in 1980, a few months after the russians invaded afghanistan, water and i went to pakistan to report on that country's nuclear weapons program and its growing strategic significance. the night walter arrived, i went around to his room to give him a briefing. he came into the room in his boxer shorts and asked if i wanted a drink. now this was the first time i had traveled with walter on the road, and so at first, seeing old iron pants in his boxer shorts was a little shocking. the reason i am telling you this story is because i think it says something about the man. walter was comfortable in his own skin, comfortable with people, especially the people of cb

because at the end of the meal everything consumed must be oked up in the lorie dex and entered into the journal> only 140 calories.s. >> the idea is to keep campers aware of what they're eating. >> by recording it like that,t, they canan tweak things and mak adjustments as they move forward. >> today's lunch list for me was veggie burger, baked beans. half a teaspoon of mustard. about a fourth of an artichoke and gold leek soup. >> the kids are treated with stickers every time they try out a new healthy food. how many did you get? >> seven. >> it's jam-packed with sports and fitness activities. they start easy with fun games like lawn tags so the kids can get in the 10,000 steps. >> all that running can make you tired and i'm at 7,476. >> 5,596. >> later they learn about stretches and squats. and then, it's time for family aerobics. which krista avoids till collin is -- the goal is to have them try as many activities as they can so one might stick and become ingrained in their routines when they get back home. >> i think it was a lot of fun. and it gave me a really good workout. >> but for kris

the country. but his deployment first was to iraq, and his journals reveal that he was troubled by that.is war was in afghanistan. more now from bob woodruff. >> by april 2004, pat tillman was finally in afghanistan. it was where he wanted to be. >> he'd become much more disillusioned about the army by what he had seen in iraq, but he -- he was going to fulfill his commitment and he was looking forward to going to afghanistan. >> on april 22, 2004, while on mission in the mountains of afghanistan, near the pakistan border, a humvee broke down and the platoon was ordered to split into two groups. pat went with one, and his brother went with the other. >> it's really sad, this tragic cascade of decisions. >> i heard the gun fire and then i saw the tracer rounds pouring out. >> pat's group raced to support them. >> like a fireworks show, and my adrenaline just immediately spiked. and then once i got out of the vehicle, my squad leader, you know, he was like, all right, this is it. calm down, you know, this is what we trained for. i kind of, you know, came back to reality for a second. and t

welcome to the "wall street journal" report. i'm maria bartiromo. >>> the market hit new highs for the year. ben bernanke says the recession is over, and positive economic news piles up, but we may not be out of the woods just yet. are the markets getting ahead of the economy this week, or is this justified? >> well, i think it is justified, because we still have quite a few tail winds behind the economy. the problem with it, though, is a lot of the tail winds are coming from artificial stimulus from fiscal spending. >> what happens when that fiscal spending is reversed? a lot of people talking about what is the exit strategy out of the federal reserve, and what happens when the stimulus goes away? >> well, the good news, i suppose, is we still have probably another year of stem husband to keep -- to continue to push the economy in and hopefully the markets forward, but then it's like taking the patient off the respirator. we just hope that it can breathe. you can breathe once that's done. i don't think there are that many bullet

let me quote, first of all, from a "the wall street journal" peace, on september 11, and they were talking about 13 different health care delivery organizations, including the mayo clinic, which said, and i am quoting, many suffering losses from treating medicare patients, and it said it these were expended -- expanded to those who do not have medicare, it would be unsustainable for even the eight -- nation's most efficient high-quality providers, eventually driving them out of the market. this is a point that senator bingaman made earlier. secondly, just to quote the president of the mayo clinic, he said we think everybody should have insurance. when people start talking about the public plan, it was not quite -- clear what kind of public play we're talking about, and if a public plan looks like medicare, i think the country would go broke almost overnight, because medicare is already proposed to go broke between 2015 and 2017, so, mr. chairman, medicare is unsustainable under its present course, and these experts agree that a government- run option would likewise be unsustainable. i thou

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she's all over the front page of the journal smiling. >> three pictures on the journal. i know, it's almost like time lapse photography there. she's pleased. >> yes. we'll see what it means for germany and the eu. in the meantime let's go overseas and check in with adam a . >>> here in europe, the markets flat. in germany, it's too flat, but towards the positive side and back off yesterday's elections results. germany has given angela merkel, the chancellor, a clear cut reelection this time. she's going to be able to run the country in the next four years with a center right coalition so not a grand coalition anymore. not with the left and center left or green parties anymore. and that's very good news for german business since she promised she was going if she was running the country with a center right coalition she was going to cut taxes. we're going to hear more details about how she's going to do it later this week. it's also very good news for nuclear power plant operators. i'm talking about rwe and e.on, almost 3% up, and this is because the center right coalition

both studies appear in the journal of medicine. >>> a shortage of the drug being billed as the first line of treatment for h1n1 and seasonal flu. the makers of tamiflu say they are running low on the pediatric version of the drug. it is the liquid version of tamiflu. now, it still comes in pills for adults and the company says it has plenty of that. right now it is actually recommending pharmacies grind up the pills to make up smaller doses for children until more liquid tamiflu can be made. >>> big concern at schools swine flu. a big concern at this school just explain swine. it is an elementary school in north carolina. the piggies showed up on the playground on monday and they have taken the place over. every time they call the cops the pigs, and no puns intended, they managed to save the bacon by making a run for it. >> could you get one more pig pun in there? >> i could make a joke about bacon for breakfast but i'll let it go. >> wild pigs can be mean. whole pack of them. >>> also, teens taking naked pictures of themselves with their cell phones. >> from mid-thigh up. >> naked?

how about "the wall street journal"? ey get an asterisk, although they led the way a little bit on this one. the times an the post get an asterisk because they ran one article run by the associated press. they didn't even write it themselves and they ran it on-line, and the journal had sound fund who has been following this story, they had an editorial but that was on-line. what was the reaction from acorn? ready -- how many people from acorn lost their job because of this, what did they call this, a hyped up story or some sort of a smear campaign? how many people did they fire over this false story? oh, two. yeah, the two ladies we showed them to you last night, that's huge. two more acorn employees that the rathke brothers throw under the bus. let's look at numbers, number of fraudulent voter registrations acorn admitted in the 2008 election cycle. how many of them? 400,000. number of states where acorn is under investigation. 14. number of acorn workers arrested for voter fraud. 150. number of cases that resulted in gu

then they went to the journal that accepted the article's publication -- >> huessy de? >> the industry working against seeing this published and i have the details of the firm and individuals that wrote the memos in my book i will be happy to attach for the record. then the lobbyists tried to get the article on accepted in a journal in a finally the high your other scientists to do advocacy research to invalidate the science and when those scientists confirmed the work it was never published. a similar story can be told today in europe about a major multimillion-dollar supporting study called the reflex program that was a multi laboratory study in many countries that also showed evidence radiofrequency signals at precisely the level of today's phones could damage dna contrary to the assertion only ini radiation can damage dna and those researchers were subject to the same kind of attacks and have recently been exonerated by independent review by the medical university of vienna so i think it is clear the united states needs to catch up. we need to catch up with european

take a look at the front page of today's "wall street journal." turn of day traders drives rise in volume." although if i had written it i would have read day traders are back, by knight capital, nite, my favorite broker when it comes to electronic trading. they report, we make money. the retail investor is back. that's a big change. and not just as someone who pours money into mutual funds by drips and drabs through 401(k)s or i.r.a.s. i'm talking about the active trader. as the "journal" tells us, trading volume was up an amazing 14%. ♪ hallelujah >> from july to august at charles schwab, td ameritrade and etrade. knight capital posted a 7.7% increase in volume. this during august, usually one of the worst months of the year. as the people who follow the foolish sell in may, go away axiom still haven't gotten back from vacation. this year anyone who did that is kicking himself, ripping himself, or punching himself thanks to this powerhouse of a rally. now, this market is different. a lot of the trading volume is in small, speculative financial st

chris: the times and the journal, ty say wait a minute, this news like bernanke said recession over, and they look at the unemployment rate coming out again next week up around 10%. what's the disconnect? >> the pare docks is the economy is going to get better. i think it will continue to get better and the number will go up and probably go up like this for the next 12 or 24 months. chris: jobless number. >> jobless number will keep going up and the economy will seem like it's going up. the question, though, how long is that sustainable? and i think you might see the economy get better over the next 12 months. but at some point, something's got to give. i actually don't agree that we can remain in a high jobless rate and the economy will maintain. you look, there are pockets of this country, michigan, for example, number 17 plus percent. and that's -- you have to get manufacturing jobs and we're still not manufacturing. chris: here's the question, kathleen, for years, president faced high unemployment, ok, i'll cut taxes big. ok, i'll spend more money. but with the deficit already $2

we take a closer look at those questions with the hell of susan dentzer, editor in chief of the journal health affairs and an occasional analyst for the newshour. susan, good to have you back with us. >> great to be with you, judy. >> woodruff: remind us again how many americans don't have health insurance at all. the group that we're talking about. and i think roughly by a category of income. >> we have in terms of americans, that is to say, citizens without health insurance in this country by the latest census numbers probably around 36 million. there are another 10 million non-citizens. undocumented immigrants, refugees, legal permanent residents, et cetera. but to talk about americans 36 million. i think we've got a chart that shows how these break out. now if you take a look at that purple slice of that pie there, that's people at $88,000 and above in family income for a family of four. that's 400% of the federal poverty level. >> woodruff: still without health insurance. >> still without health insurance. let's take out that slice of the pie though because it's generally presumed

that also will have the effect of speeding things up, willie. >> and it's on the front page of the journalay. town hall meeting, we talked a lot about them over the summer. i understand now there's a new approach to town hall meetings, little less confrontation perhaps. >> joe will love this. for a while, members have had what they call teletown halls when you get 20,000 or more constituents on a phone line. the idea is that you could do it from here. it's like a giant conference call. and instead of having to go back to the district, they can talk to constituents at a more convenient time. but politico's erica lovely discovered, into phoning into a bunch of these, all the questions are positive, the deck is being stacked in many cases by members who don't want to have a campaign on "morning joe" from town hall meetings. they ask you very often are you for the president's plan, against the president's plan. we talked to one person who said he was undecided, thinking that would guarantee him a question. in fact, it didn't. >> it's just not the same. you don't get barney frank asking what pl

lawrence richards analyzes the opposition to unions in america. "washington journal" is next. . : >> if you have called any c-span program in the last 30 days, give others a chance to call in. we'll get your calls momentarily. the detroit free press starts with a labor story on labor day about unions. organized labor today, u.a.w.'s, new direction inspires visions of hope and disaster. on this tkhraeub day with the world of the workers so changed, one might wonder what would walter reuther think. the union faced the prospect of losing everything. instead the u.a.w. agreed to job cuts, plant closures and other changes carving out a new purpose for itself, one that if properly managed could serve the foundation of a brighter future. also from this article, while some say that reuther might be rolling in his grave over the givebacks, mike smith of wayne state university says he believes he would take a pragmatic view. some of the thoughts this morning from the "detroit free press" as we ask you the role of labor unions in the economy. first we have robert on our democra

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you read the journal and just because there are people trying to take credit for a lot of stuff that ppened is a lot better than us talking about people that are to blame for the second great depression. talking about bernanke's reappointment. we're still here, right, peter? >> for the time being. >> for the time being. thank you. >> we're not out of the woods, though. >> got any comments or questions on that this morning, drop us a note, our address is squawk@cnbc.com. >>> a lot more from peter cohen when "squawk box" continues in a moment. welcome to progressive. how may i help you? i'm looking for a deal on car insurance. i think i might have a coupon in here. there's an easier way. we've got the "name your price" option. you do? follow me. you tell us how much you want to pay, and we'll build you a policy that fits your budget. and i still get great coverage? uh-huh. go ahead. you're the boss. i'm the boss of savings. more like the c.e.o. oh, oh. no glass ceiling. the freedom to name your price. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> all right. we've got to get some --

"the wall street journal." and we will talk to jonathan karp, the editor of the late senator edward kennedy's memoir. "washington journal" is next. . host: let's take a look at some of the president's comments from yesterday's speech. >> while full recovery of the financial system will take a great deal more time and work, the growing stability resulting from these interventions means we are beginning to return to normalcy. but here is what i want to emphasize today. normalcy cannot lead to complacency. unfortunately, there are some in the financial industry who are misreading this moment. instead of learning the lessons of lehman and the crisis from which we are still recovering, they are choosing to ignore those lessons. i am convinced they do so not just at their own peril, but at our nation's. so i want everyone here to hear my words. we will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked access that was at the heart of this crisis, where too many were motivated only by the appetite for quick kil