called page 1, inside "the new york times", we talk to three people featured in the documentary, they are david car, bryan sfelter and gay toliz. >> the suggestion of people not only could "the new york times" go out of business, but that it would be a civic good that it did, i find to be fatuous and silly, because we have lost so much journalistic horsepower from the ecosystem of news that it could be regardless of the organization's faults which are, you know, we could argue about all day long, you can't aord to lose the boots on the ground, the muscle that, you know, the 1,100 women and men that, you know, make the phone calls, that go to the place. >> rose: michele bachmann's candidacy, same-sex marriage and inside the new york times when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. >> >> every storyeeds a hero we can all root for, that beats the odds and comesut on top, but th isn't just a hollywood storyline, it is happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens, or the midnight oil i

"the new york times" helene cooper and new york magazine's john heilemann. first up, barack obama won the white house as the insurgent. now he's the incumbent. he ran on the audacity of hope. where there was hope, there are now points on the scoreboard. audacity's been replaced by what, wisdom? "60 minutes" correspondent steve crop asked the president about the change. >> you ran as somebody who was going to come to washington and change it and in the end, as some of your predecessors, they've ended up changing you. >> i think it's fair to say it hasn't changed me in terms of my ideals, you know when you're campaigning. i think you're liberated to say things without thinking about ok, how am i going to actually practically implement this. >> do you think you were naive? >> no, i don't think i was naive. i just think these things are hard to do. chris: bob, you wrote a lot of inside books on our recent president, get to know him. what is the before and after with this guy? how did he change when he ran and now, how you covered him? >> we're going to spend the

time when there were not as many as there are now. that is in the 1970's and 1980's. they did have the new york times delivered to our door and also the new york post, every day. >> david carr, at some point in your life, you met him at a bar, and there was a conversation with you and your wife. tell us that story. >> we were actually at a film festival in north carolina, and i had seen david at the le cu irque opening. i went up and introduced myself and we started talking. he explained that he was a drug addict in his previous life and that he was writing an autobiography about that experience. he told kate and i, would you like to go get a drink across the street at a bar? when he said it, it is said, would you like to go get a drink, and somehow i heard "do you want to go and smoke crack in the hotel across the street, or smoke a joint or something like that?" kate heard it correctly, and she said let's go. and of course we just had a very nice conversation. i think we were talking about quentin tarantino movies. we just got along really well from the get go. i have always thought that he w

"the new york times" reporting that the u.s.from organizing and gaining power. >>> another nominee on the hot seat today, senate confirmation hearing on leon panetta's confirmation to be defense secretary. he is the president's choice to replace robert gates. >>> six house democrats are now saying it is time for congressman anthony wiener to go because of his sexting. "the new york times" now reporting that his wife is pregnant. >>> markets open in 45 minutes. right now, they are poised to bounce back slight sli following six straight days of losses. the dow, nasdaq and s&p futures are up. >>> damaging evidence against a young florida mother accused of kill her 2-year-old daughter. a computer forensics expert says he found 84 searches for chloroform. >>> a wild fire in eastern arizona, 600 square miles have already burned. calmer winds may help fire crews today, planning to make a special 747 jet to make water drops on the monster wild fire. >>> the dog days of june, the pre-summer scorcher continues today with temperatures clos

"the new york times" raved about it, a mess, does little to illuminate. so i'm thinking it must be pretty good. let's start quickly right here in new york, our state legislature the most dysfunctional in the nation raves new york university is in an extended summer session in an attempt to pass a landmark bill legalizing same-sex marriage in new york. word is the vote is now 31-4-- 31 for, 31 against. so right now they are looking to turn one vote gay, i guess. (laughter) >> jon: even for a night. (laughter) >> jon: six pack of twiquiza, let's get in there and vote. we are getting word that there has been a vote in the new york senate extended session. let's go right to it. >> the summertime favorite is now the official state vegetable. the lawmakers divided to quiv sweet corn two thumbs up over onions. >> jon: it's raining men-- wait, what? wait w what did you vote for? really? a state vegetable, corn, first of all-- first of all, don't get cocky, corn. you beat onions. (laughter) >> jon: second of all y are we talking about a state vegetable in an extend

first just on the personal level, what does it mean to you to become the executive editor of "the new york timeseans the world to me. i grew up here in manhattan and "the new york times" was worshipped in my family. and what the times said was true, was the truth. and so i became an avid reader of the paper as a young schoolkid. and it seems scarcely believable to me that i will hold the top editorial position in the newsroom. >> lehrer: did you ever find yourself longing to be the boss or dreaming about it or just, i mean, is this a fulfillment of something that you saw coming some time? you didn't know when but maybe? >> that's a great description, jim. i hoped that it would come. but felt like definitely it was a maybe. i knew because i work so closely with bill as his managing editor. i got to see his job up close and how much fulfillment he got from it. and we both working together got such a kick out of running the news report that sure, on certain days i would think boy, it would be nice to have that job. but being managing editor for news was a very sweet job itself. >> lehrer: how signi

"the new york times" reports the fbi is giving significant new search powers to its agents. they'll be given more leeway to search databases, go through household trash, and use surveillance teams to scrutinize targets. even in investigations without firm evidence for suspecting criminal or terrorist activity. >>> "the new york times" is also reporting the u.s. navy recently forced a north korean ship suspected of carrying missile technology to myanmar to return home. it happened two weeks ago, resulting in a standoff at sea for several days. following diplomatic pressure from washington and asian nations, the ship turned around. >>> although arizona's massive wildfire is only 6% contained, it has burned 700 square miles, fire crews now say they're finally turning the corner in their fight with the inferno. >>> christchurch, new zealand, has been rocked by another wave of earthquakes, including a 6.0. two people were safely pulled from the rubble of one building. this comes almost four months after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed 181 people. >>> and this weekend there was

went to the top of the "new york times" bestseller book. you ask most people who he is and they don't know. anne colters' book very successful. this seems to be in the recent past. what is changing here? >> well, i do think that part of it is some publishers -- book publishers learned there's a huge conservative audience out there willing to buy books. i remember michael kinsley had this bemused or bewildered column saying conservatives read books, we didn't know that. so i think that's part of it. and i guess a generation has come along that is finding its voice, that is willing to say, you know, for years we have been the minority and not had our views adequately expressed in the media and so now we're going to take them on and we're going to tell it our way and it's getting a reception. it's an amazing thing that whenever you put on a conservative point of view on television, you get an immediate audience. there's a huge population out there in this country that is just hungry for the conservative perspective. brian lamb: why are conserva

. >>> according to the new york times, pakistan intelligence agency has arrested some of the pakistani informants who gave information to the c.i.a. before the u.s. commando raid that killed osama bin laden. according to the newspaper, those arrested include a pakistani army major who copied the license plates of cars visiting bin laden's compound in the weeks before the raid. the fate of the informants is unclear. the arrests are the latest indication of a damaged relationship with pakistan. >>> the bay area's lock heed martin will lose 1200 jobs nationwide with most of the layoffs coming from sunny vale, colorado and pennsylvania. lock heed says it will offer voluntary layoffs to eligible middle managers first. that could ruse the number ofin voluntary job cuts. >>> social security misspent billions of dollars.

editor of vanity fair magazine and he has written a couple books like hard news which is the jason where scandal at the new york times and the ensuing meltdown of the news room at the new york times, troubles with his editor and such. he also wrote feeding the monster about the boston red sox and their rise to power after being a perennial also ran. i am familiar with his work. he has written quite a bit about the media. he wrote a terrific story about the new york times reporters serving in iraq. to his left is dr. naomi how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming". her co-author we hope will and as at some point, erik conway is stuck in traffic at this point. she is a professor of history and science studies at the university of san diego. it was cited by al gore in an inconvenience truth as the seminal book on climate change denial. more general terms where research focused on historical developments of scientific knowledge. continental drift and the invisibility of women in science. provocative. hopefully we will get eric conway in here after this. what we will do

and this group of 15, the new york times, bless them, told us all, decided eight to seven that who's fraid of virginia woolf? was too what? too controversial, too good-- something; i don't know-- to get the pulitzer prize that year. and the new york times went further and talked to some of the eight who had voted against it and found that half of them had neither seen it nor read it, which gave them a kind of objectivity. [laughter] clearly. so i don't know that whether that year, i got the pulitzer prize and they took it away from me, or i didn't get it. so since i got three later, i think i have 3 1/2. (paulson) a lot of people apparently believe art can be dangerous. it should be. and that provokes a response, though, as we know from the discussions surrounding the national endowment for the arts. what are-- i mean, if art should be dangerous, then perhaps people have a right to respond and say, "let's limit government spending." what do you think? the money that is given to support the national endowment is not government money. it's people's money. i wish the government would sto

the new poll for the key state of iowa. a political round table coming up. "the new york times" magazines, matt bai and david brooks of the new york time ms. >> "meet the press" is brought to you by the all-knew audia-7. luxury has progressed. >>> we are back, joined by our political roundtable, washington correspondent for the bbc, katty kay, columnist for "the new york times," david brooks, and chief political writer for new york agazine, matt bai has a big piece in today's "new york magazine." welcome to all of you. there's criticism mounting towards the president whether it's the debt ceiling talks, afghanistan, trying to have it always, compromising too much. you heard governor christie say, look, he can't wait for the other people to solve these problems. he's got to do it. is it a fair wrap? >> yes. christie is like a big man theory, literally. which is he wants to be in every room. he wants to be doing the town meeting and negotiating little bitty details. obama is different. convener in chief. you guys take care of that, you guys take care of that. as president, he's p

the truth. >> stephen: what about news organizations? do they lie more than they used to? we know "the new york times" is a rag. still work or you used to work from "the wall street journal". >> i'm moving from "the wall street journal" to the "new york times". >> stephen: it more research -- >> probably wouldn't allowed me on that fact. i'm in between at the moment. maybe you could say i could speak candidly. >> stephen: did you find examples of people who are startling honest to you in this research? >> yes, i did. >> stephen: who was honest that you didn't expect? >> the assistant to martha stuart's stock broker he initial ly withheld the truth. he misled and he said i cannot take the oath and then lie. i cannot cross the line. he told the toronto blueç jay t great personal cost. many people don't realize how much courage it takes and how much short-term harm comes in telling truth. as i'm sure the truth is unwelcome. >> stephen: yeah, yeah it is. [laughter] >> they have their delusions. they cling to the delusions. we have delusions about sports stars, politicians, media, home living guys -blg. >> stephen:

"the orange county register" and finally, "the washington times." we have this article from "the new yorkes" -- two articles from "the new york times" looking at this issue. "2012 pullout worries military experts." host: that is just a little bit from "the new york times" this morning. now to your reaction on president obama's speech last night. we will begin with a democrat, al, in redding, california. are you with us? all right. we will go to pennsylvania and bill on our republican line. looks like we're having trouble with our phones this morning. we will read a little bit more from some of the articles we have here and then we will try to get the phone calls working right away. this is back to "the new york times." "senior officers said their military campaign planned for 2012 -- campaign plan for 2012 envisioned building on security gains earned by troops who had already flowed into afghanistan's south and southwest." "10,000 troops out by december is more than the military wanted and quicker than the military wanted, but it is doable without any major impact on the ground plan this

read "the new york times." get a variety of opinions, so the flip side of the targeting benefit of cable is that people self-select and they don't get other points of view. >> so what helps you in paid advertising you think works against you on some stations in news, free news, free media? >> there is a constant narrative that you have to play into and you have to be conscious of and you have to try to manage and every news cycle is like four hours. >> or ten minutes! >> right. and you've got to constantly be in the mix on it, but at the same time if you're creative in a campaign, you know, releasing these, you know, videos that get played across the cable channel because of the demand for content, you know, providing free content to the cable stations and to the cable networks is a pretty eat skyway -- easy way to help shape the narrative. how you manage that is important to the way you manage your campaign. >> you have to manage what is kind of a frenetic environment every single day, and that's challenging, b

the time. you know how it is. >> oh, yeah, sure, all the time. >> ashley morrison here in new york. we're lying so much we got to keep going. thank you so much. >>> just ahead a major medical setback for one of bruce springsteen's e street band. >>> plus a glimmer of hope as firefighters battle the massive wildfire in arizona. this is the "morning news." before they can attach epels and snack on us. frontline plus kills but doesn't repel. any tick that isn't repelled or killed may attach and make a meal of us. [ male announcer ] ask your veterinarian about k9 advantix ii. this flat-out delicious -- the new $3 flatbread breakfast combo. [ moos ] a toasty 6-inch flatbread breakfast sandwich and a 16-ounce cup of freshly brewed seattle's best coffee. all for just $3. [ clucks ] build a breakfast of epic proportions, like the crispalicious bacon, egg, & cheese with everything from juicy tomatoes to zesty jalapenos, for a delicious way to start your day. the new subway $3 flatbread breakfast combo. build your better breakfast today. erika: ... my computer is the same as a new computer.a

the business of news as well. we all know these are tough economic times for newspapers. >> yes. >> and you've worked in the online edition of the "new york boss i wonder, can you tell us how much longer do you think there will be an actual paper edition of the "new york times"? >> i have studiously stayed away from the profession of prognostication which i am very bad at. but i'll answer your good question in a somewhat different way, which is, you know, there are plenty of people who still find the print edition of the "new york times" to be indispensable to their lives. and actually the number of people who have gotten home delivery subscriptions for two years or more, which is the point at which we feel they're pretty much hopelessly hooked, that number has actually increased in the past year, which is encouraging. >> really. >> there are 840,000 people who pay a lot of money for the privilege of getting the print paper every day. and i think that audience is going to survive for quite sometime. that doesn't mean that we aren't in the middle of what i see as a thrilling but very challenging transition from a print world to a digital w

just before i turn this on and i was listening to bernie goldberg and he was talking about "the new york times," and away the described the supreme court. and you were speaking to a reporter from "the new york times" at the beginning of your show. and according to bernie goldberg, in their paper they describe the conservatives as conservative and the liberals as moderates. maybe you have of the wrong caption there -- maybe it should be supreme court moderates term. it is just a typical way the liberal press sees things. host: do you consider "the wall street journal" liberal? caller: "the wall street journal? " they are right down the middle -- not like the post or "the new york times" or nbc. nbc doesn't make any pretense about their leaving. they lean left, we left. host: let us look at "the wall street journal" headline. we tried to pull from what folks in washington are reading, and what news they are digesting. this is where we got one of our inspiration's from. the report that the supreme court ended its annual term with the two decisions upholding free speech protection, capping the yea

that seemingly upside down world i spoke earlier with mark mazetti who broke the story for the no, times and -- for the "new yorkmes" and reza saya and fran townsend former bush homeland security advisor and currently a member of the department of hemland security external advisory committee. >> fran as we said before cnn has confirmed these were low-level operatives providing information on bin laden. and it seems like the u.s. can't do much about this. is this how this sort of thing normally plays out? >> reporter: anderson, now that this has become public as we've seen from the "new york times" and the report -- an american presumably these are pakistani citizens who are now in pakistani custody. and the u.s. will have precious little influence over how the pakistani government deals with their own citizens. >> mark, you broke the story late last night. pakistan's intelligence service since then has called the report "false and totally baseless" and denied that an army major had been arrested. your response. >> it was very carefully-worded statement. we're very confident in our report. we're going to have sor

army wants big score read the headline in "the new york times" that morning. it was going to be a blowout. just like the michigan played appalachian state a few years ago. [laughter] well you can probably guess the rest of the story. the little-known catholic school from the midwest was notre dame. rodney and his teammates launched football's first true airborne throwing again and again for receptions and touchdowns. day 135-14. the westerners flash the most sensational for all that has been seen in the east this year -- "the new york times" the next day. the army players were hopelessly confused and chagrined before notre dame's rate playing in their style of old-fashioned line smashing play was no match for the spectacular and highly perfected attack of the indiana collegians. a cadet named dwight eisenhower watched from the sideline. he played for the army team but he had an injury that day and couldn't perform. everything has gone wrong he wrote to his girlfriend. the football team got eaten most gloriously by notre dame. before then no one had really heard

the new state program. let's go to london. >> the top secret history of the vietnam war has finally been made public four years after part of it was leaked to the "new york times the pentagon papers, as they became known, meant a legal victory for anyone in the u.s. now anyone with an internet connection will be able to read them. >> the vietnam war may have gone on even longer if the pentagon papers had not been released. it was one of the most sensational acts of whistleblowing in u.s. history. but unlike wiki-leaks, the man responsible did not have the internet. just an old photocopier. >> 7000 pages of photocopies on very slow machines at that time. i wish i had the ones that spit them out very fast in color. but i did not have that. it was night after night for a very long time. >> the secret government report showed that presidents kennedy and johnson had escalated the conflict by bombing cambodia and laos and manipulating south vietnam into asking for u.s. combat troops and responding to phantom provocations with north vietnam with increased force, while misleading the american congress and public. eldersburg was one of a team of foreign policy analysts

that has wall street observers including the new york times asking, why just him? e times cited documents between tourre and his lawyers provided to the newspaper by an independent filmmaker with no connection to wall street. nancy cohen. according to the times, the documents allegedly show that tourre was not the only one to market the securities deal, rather that he was part of a collaborative effort at goldmans' mortgage unit. that's where the story takes a strange turn. cohen says she was given tourre's laptop by a friend who found it in the garbage. goldman sachs confirms the laptop belonged to tourre but insists it was his personal computer. after four years in her possession, cohen says she recognized tourre's name from all the news coverage. >> i didn't like the fact that one person was being blamed for everything. that never makes sense, you know? only 30, how many mistakes can you make by 30? >> reporter: you copied the hard drive and gave it to the times and said do with it what you will? >> i said, please try to look for something. i think there might be

this would be the new york times. n page saying we made a mistake and we're sorry about it, but the "wall street journal" made 21 mistakes, we're worse than us, we're good. >> in fact, chris wallace quoted you during the interview and said stewart has they ever been held accountable in his media criticism. >> yes. >> all right. hold him accountable. >> that's a case of it right there. i'll tell you another case of it. when he attacks cnn for its coverage of anthony weiner's press conference where he called the cnn producer a jackass. horrible display. day that barb a dana bash and that allower were doing exactly what they should be doing. dana bash kept saying i know you're upset, but just answer this. he calls them a jackass. and jon stewart makes fun of cnn. and a week later when weiner says this was all true, where is jon stewart? he pulls his punch t s that ps night show. >> was that an effective response and what do you make of the point that he's overly celebrated as a media critic? >> let's start with i think jo

five in all, according to "the new york times" report this morning including an army major who apparently was writing down license plates as they were going in and out of the bin laden compound. we've just gotten news this morning that a senior pakistani official says that this report is not true. he denies that they've arrested the major, but he made no comment on the other four people believed to have been arrested as informants of the cia. this was apparently discussed during secretary of defense gates' trip to islamabad. a cia official says that the relationship between the u.s. and pakistan is about a three on a scale of one to ten. since that raid, the big concern here we need pakistan's help in the war on terror to root out and fight al qaeda. here on capitol hill, though, there are still concerns about the $2 billion we're giving to that country every year. >> tracie, thank you. >>> house speaker john boehner is demanding the obama administration come up with answers soon about the ongoing u.s. military operations in libya. in a letter to the white house the republican charges the

lot more insight on what this race would look like than he had yesterday. >> jeff zeleny of the "new york timesthank you for your insights. it's fascinating sxpt speaker says he'll be with us monday night that's 8:00 in the east in new hampshire and -- >> or governor perry. >> i don't know if he meets the criteria but gets in the race we'll have great debates monday night. mr. speaker we'll see you there i hope. when we come back much more politics. mitt romney gets a frosty reception in his birth state. that's michigan. and congressman anthony weiner, more democrats say he should quit. the congressman answered emphatically today. that just ahead. business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ [ airplane engine whines ] [ grunts ] [ dog barking ] gah! [ children shouting ] [ grunts ] [ whacking piñata ] [ whacking piñata, grunting ] [ whacking piñata ] somewhere in america, a

army wants big score, read the headline in the "new york times" that morning. it was going to be a blowout. you know, just like when michigan played appalachian state a few years ago. [laughter] well, you can probably guess the rest of the story. the little known catholic school from the midwest was notre dame. the teammates launched football's true air war throwing again and again for receptions and touch downs. they won 35-14. the west inners played the most significant football seen in the east this year gushed the "new york times". the army players were confused and shy grinned with their great playing and the old-fashioned line smashing play was no match for the highly perfected attack of the i understand collegians. he played for the army team, but had an injury that day and couldn't perform. everything has gone wrong, he wrote to his girlfriend. the football team got beat most gloriously by notre dame. nobody heard of noter before then, but after that, they knew them as a power house. we think of them as a power house today, and it started with that game.

i'm the fashion editor of "the new york times." y in the closet because it was a pre-- it was the politics of the sexual revolution that has happened but this is a character that is comfortable being in the closet and likes his life and doesn't feel any need come out, and so -- i don't know, but he falls in love with ned wks. it's a beautifulove story with just unfortunate timing because i get sick and -- i never thought what the title meant either but i think it's because these people, like everybody else are, desperate to be heard, to be acknowledged and desperate not to disappear from the face of the earth which is what ned believes is happening to all of his friends. >> and what larry's life is about. >> aren't the last two lines of the poem "we must love each other other die" something like that. i'm paraphrasing poorly but i do think that is -- so sewhere in there, i think, is it larry's message. >> rose: and who is your character? >> she's based on a doctor, dr. linda lavenstein who was an oncologist at nyu in theery forefron

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from the picks and x-rated messages to the women to the political fallout to the "new york times" reportings wife is pregnant, every news outlet on the planet seemed consumed by the story, and there was no shortage of opinions. >> congressman, there is only one person who can end this story. you. you've got to take one for the team. the country. your constituents. and your party. they all deserve better. >> here he is saying that he's not going to resign. may i ask, is there no shame in america anymore? >> look, he has an illness. he has a very -- he has a sickness. it is not going to get better by him remaining in congress and digging in and just sort of basically trying to bully his way through this thing. >> but him screwing up his marriage in itself i think is more gossip than news. this is not a matter of political hypocrisy. >> joining us now on the media's frenzy, jane hall, associate professor at american university's school of communications. and dana millbank, columnist for "the washington post." amy holmes, are the media wallowing in the salacious details of the weiner story? >>

things like, "the new york times." i may rank among the worst ever made. "the washington post."nsipid, mess. what did you think? >> that's the sort of stuff we were saying backstage. i mean, seriously. >> reporter: and, so, in march, producers shut "spider-man d" dn for three weeks to rework the show. while audiences give the new version a standing ining ovatio it opened in previews, tonight was the long test. the long-awaited opening. guests like president clinton liked it. >> i thought it was fabulous. >> reporter: the first reviews came out, and they were harsh. "a bloat eed monster," said one. and "the new york times" said "no longer the ungodly mess it was in february. it's just a bore." but audiences often defy critics. and spidey's beaten many adversaries armed with more than mere opinion.

help edit npr's morning edition program. >> host: and when you were in israel you were with the "new york times"? >> guest: i was with the "new york times," that's correct. >> host: tom is back on the republican line in tampa, florida. go ahead. >> caller: yes. hi. >> host: we're listening, tom. >> caller: hi jennifer and greg. how are you doing this morning. >> guest: good, good. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: i want to ask a little question there. due to the uprising there in africa, why do you think the uprising is, you know, so severe now due to america change and status of the president and everything? give me your notation on why is the uprising there in africa, dan, when, you know, it seems to have been an uprising here in the united states? >> guest: right. i believe you're referring to the north africa countries that have sort of exploded in tunisia, libya and in egypt. and again, i have to say it's something that caught people quite by surprise, but i think what you see in places that are really frozen in time for decades where they have one autocratic leader. there's not an outlet o