we weren't willing to doublecross the new york times. we thought a deal is a deal. >> smith: the guardian shared a copy of the cables with the times. so, on the evening of november 28, 2010, the new york times, the guardian, and der spiegel published. ( news reports overlapping ) >> smith: it touched every country. it was the biggest story on the planet. of all the files manning is alleged to have leaked, this was the mother lode. >> whoever leaked that information is guilty of treason, and i think anything less than execution is too kind. >> question-- do you believe that actually capturing mr. assange and prosecuting him will send the right kind of signal? >> mr. assange has disclosed this material without regard to the risk that it does generate to real people... >> smith: is there anything good to come out of this in your view? >> no. >> smith: nothing? >> the unauthorized release of 251,000 cables that covers every relationship the united states has with countries around the world has done damage to the national interest of the unite

this week one of the still new century's brightest foodie stars, a former prolific writer for the normal times, a editor of the "new york times" magazine, the co-creator of the blog food 52 and the author of several books that pivot off of a love of cooking and eating. her latest book just published is the essential "new york times" cook boofnlgt she's amanda hesser. this is overheard. >> amanda hesser, welcome. >> thank you so much. >> hardly know where to begin. there are more than a thousand recipes in this book? >> that's right. >> and you cooked every one of them. >> oh yeah, and moore. >> are you sick of cooking at this point? >> i'm not. well, i took six years to do it. so... >> but still, even if you do the math it seems like a lot. >> it's a lot of cooking, yes, i will not deny that. but it was great. it was like how often do you get a chance to cook 1400 recipes? >> just do that, right. so this is a question i'm sure you've been asked, which is your favorite? >> well, it's like choosing your favorite children. i can't choose a favorite, but -- >> i i'm not letting you off that easily. >> i know you're not. i'm

the government did not are the "the new york times" and, in fact, no publisher has ever been prosecuted under the espionage act, and i don't think that the news media could be prosecuted under the act. when it was proposed back in 1917, the congress rejected language that made it a crime to, quote, publish defense information in the very provision that senator feinstein relies on. the law does forbid, quote, publishing in other parts of the law, for example, the part that deals with revealing military codes or photographs of military installations and so on. congress knew how to prohibit publishing and deliberately chose not to in the provision that senator feinstein relies on. but is wikileaks like "the new york times" or like ellsberg? bradley manning, if he's the leaker, is like ellsberg. he's the government employee who violated his trust, and no matter how noble his motives gave classified information to someone not entitled to have it. manning's not charged with violation of the espionage act, he's charged with a military offense, and he's facing court-martial. if he were charged

the editors of the "new york times" sit down. ey have decide what their lead story is going to be and what their above the fold headline is going to be. then they put it there. the reporter has nothing to do with it, okay? this was an intentional, without a doubt, intentional brand of a mass murderer as a christian. it is appalling. this is a serious situation, ladies. this isn't mistake or sloppiness or laziness. this is appalling. go ahead. alicia? >> i think that we can agree that it's appalling but we can also agree that there is another narrative going on here which is that this man was clearly very radical in his beliefs. this is not him just r rmly opening fire. >> bill: that's a political situation, which is different. >> my point bill is that that to me is the greater crime here. that in trying, in using the term christian they buried what was the real lead which was that he was radical in his political beliefs. >> bill: this guy was anti-muslim bigot. that's what he was. that's what the record shows. all of his rantings

both are morally reprehensible one is far worse and that's what the new york times did with weekly leaks and nobody has to comment i think you just think point what the tabloid did was awful and you should condemn it but in terms of long term consequences to the nation and because of good not only wiki leaks but new york times has published several things that were not illegal that the bush administration did that were helping in the war on terror after the bush administration begged not to because it would stop these programs from going on alert the terrorists that was far worse than an actual security problem is this is the strategy all together any time we talk about murdoch let's talk about the new york times yeah i know. more than three have to get back to your original question i think that the thing with fox news is that they've already got this sort of car compartmentalise organization where you can within fox news they draw these lines between opinion side and the news side and so i think fox news viewers are going to be able to draw the line between the good with what happened

in fact there's a long history of predicting that medicare is going to go broke any minute the new york times continued that tradition wednesday of this week by writing officials have said that the program which provides health care to people sixty five and older is not sustainable in its current form really fortunately the real economists over at the center for economic and policy research noticed that and wrote in their beat the press blog this is not true there is no as in zero none official documentation that says that the program is not sustainable its current form there are official documents that show the program will need additional revenue at some point the a c. a passed by congress last year though reduce the projected shortfall in the program by more than seventy five percent while the a c. a fixed medicare last year what's the a.c.l.u.'s but actually it's usually called obamacare by republicans the rest of the country knows it as the affordable care act. and it did largely fix medicare which is why the congressional budget office published this graph last year showing in the dotte

you write the media equation column for the "new york times." featured in the new documentary "page one: inside the "new york times"" which is in theaters now. why make a documentary about the "new york times?" is that so later it can be shown in museums so people will know what newspapers are? (laughter) >> i think the gesture was to capture a certain time in newspaper history 2009 when he covered the media desk we were all writing about all these newspapers closing. it was a time when we all kind of wondered, are we going to end up typing our own names in these layoff stories somewhere? and so there was a lot of tension. >> stephen: how are newspapers doing right now? >> we're doing better. we paid back that big mexican billionaire early and... >> stephen: that's good. because if you don't pay mexican billionaires back they come for your knees. >> i don't think we want to get into that fight so we gave them money instead. (laughter) and the... our ads have stabilized. we pulled up to our customers on the internet and if they stop by 20 times we

a couple of folks mentioned the new york times and the bias on this. s new york times they have another alleged terror case, this fellow, nasser jason abdo in texas and a whole art will in the new york times, don't mention al-qaeda, don't mention muslim not once, and even talk about his relationship with god, passive-- conscious objectors and passivist, don't mention allah, just mention god generally and no mention of muslim. >> and that story was out before i knew this guy was a muslim and that perhaps he was acting in the name of jihad. i couldn't find it anywhere in the coverage. >> jon: time for another break. if you see something that shows evidence to you of media bias, e-mail us at news watch@foxnews.com. up next, the the latest in the phone hacking scandal coverage. >> for quick action to defend her husband earns wendy some positive press. and nbc takes a shot at abc over the practice of checkbook journalism. details next on news watch. now?! [ female announcer ] crest whitestrips two hour express. in just two hours you can have a noticeably whi

those of you who are of a democratic persuasion only reading the new york times and watching msnbc andght, then you're only reading the wall street journal editorial page and watching fox news. and you know, if that's where you get your information, just from one side, if you never even have to hear another argument, then over time, you start getting more dug into your positions. >> jon: president obama at a town hall meeting on friday, talking about the debt ceiling debate. first saying that republicans are afraid to compromise because of fears they'll be voted out of office and then talking about how a split media forces people into their positions on this debate. which i'm sorry he didn't mention the national-- almost the president say the americans can't be trusted to be their own news consumers, right? >> exactly. he gets on this high horse occasionally, lecturing about the media culture and the idea that deep philosophical differences on dinner sides of the dispute and would be worked out between abc and the three big networks, it's ridiculous. >> jon: kirsten the vast majority o

i think it's disgraceful that "the new york times" -- what "the new york times" is trying to paint himy've written their articles today, as if he was some kind of rational human being, very sane, and he was reading republican blogs, and he's a fundamentalist christian. that's not the case absolutely at all. they also downplayed this and basically said, you know, tried to play up the oklahoma city bombings and make a comparison, and allege we should start to forget about the 9/11 attacks. >> how about nobody on that island had the ability to shoot back at him and stop him? >> here we go. john wayne is back in the room. >> do you have a problem with that? >> yes, i have a problem. what's amazing to me, the gun nuts in this country immediately jump on this and say, if everybody had a gun, the guy could have been shot. >> should we cut the second amendment out of the constitution? >> yes, we should. >> excuse me. last year in norway, there were 500 murders. in the united states there were 10,543. norway restricts guns. we do not. case closed. >> case closed. >> why did it take the police 9

times" has a problem with catholics. here's timothy dolan says the common casual way that "the new york times" offends catholic sensitivitydo rightly so so the jewish, black and gay communities. >> that's right. if you look at the "new york times" track record, they are more eager to publish national secrets than they are, for example, to republish the danish cartoons making fun of muhammad. these people have a deep seeded bigotry against the catholic church. it's reflected in their reporting. if you look at the way they report on art exhibits, on plays, the way they criticize the church and when timothy dolan, archbishop dolan tries to put in an op ed piece in "the new york times," they reject it. there's a bias there. there's a bigotry and very big problem with "the new york times." >> want to read jed's piece, it's called "the pinch happened" in "the american spectator." you won't read it in "the new york times." thank you very much for joining us this morning. have a great fourth of july. >> thanks. you, too, guys. >> coming up on the show, casey anthony skips the stand as the defense rests its cases. is she doomed be

news enjoy replaying that moment with the clown who threw the pie. joining us to examine the impact of the scandal, from cambridge, england, john burns with london bureau chief of "the new york times." in boston, paul fary from "the washington post" and in new york, vicky ward, contributing editor for "vanity fair." john burns, murdoch didn't say anything that particularly damaged him in that testimony, but he looked something of a detached ceo, did he not? >> he certainly did. it's one thing to say he only called the "news of the world" editor from time to time and asked him what's doing. it's another thing to say that five years into this building scandal, he just remained hands off. at some point or other, this shrewd, astute, tough guy you would have thought would have wanted to look into this more seriously or to tell his son who runs the british operations to look into it more seriously. the question arises, of course, did he just stay away because he didn't want his fingerprints on any of this? >> ha is a very good question. speaking of his son, paul farry, james murdoch who did much of the talking said he didn't know details of the evidence when he approved a $1.4 million

ordered the killing of pakistani journalist silly interest his body was found weeks ago but how the new york times actually know this oh just because several senior administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity of course told them so in that same piece the new york times and knowledge of the disclosure of the information in itself could further aggravate the badly fractured relationship between pakistan and the u.s. it as far as we know it's no investigation has been launched no grand jury has been convened in virginia no one is sitting in solitary confinement for passing on this classified information so how do we apply this to the obama administration's war on whistleblowers do they only go after you if it's the secrets that make them look bad or discuss this with me is christopher chambers lecture at georgetown university and author of the blog turner's revenge chris thanks so much for joining us tonight but he's saying other blatant example of the double standard that if somebody within the administration who is somebody that level you don't get in trouble for leaking anythin

the very opinionated new voice of "the new york times," frank bruni. from sprint. >>> in 16 years at "the new york times," frank bruni has been washington correspondent, rome bureau chief, restaurant critic, and as of last month, the new op ed columnist. he's a man of strong opinions. frank bruni joins me now. frank, come on, which of all these myriad of roles that you've had have you most enjoyed, do you think? >> this one's so new, i can't weigh in on it yet. rome bureau chief was a pretty nice gig. >> yeah, you're living in rome, beautiful italian women. what's not to love, huh? >> the women wouldn't have done so much for me. i like to look at beautiful things, period. but, you know, i had a reason, a charge to travel around one of the most beautiful countries in the world to find interesting stories. i mean, i remember at one point doing a story on water cops in venice cracking down on speeders and spending a day just riding around on speed boats through the canals of venice, and i thought, it is kind of criminal i'm getting paid for this. >> you've

the key drivers. in his new book he describes what he calls generation freedom as plentiful, plugged in and pro-active. feiler has been on "the new york times" best-seller list with five books on religion and faith. he joins me now. bruce, nice to have you. >> nice to be here. >> you spent time during the arab spring with the young people. >> yes. >> is there any simple characterization one can make of them. >> i think and you just mentioned a bit in your introducti introduction, we can look at them as being four things. they are plentiful. two-thirds of the muslim world in general are under 30. that's $100 milli $100 million alone. literacy rates are 91%.

to the new york times i despite the president's new stance against leaking classified information for some reason staffers were given the green light when it comes to this topic check out what georgetown professor christopher chambers had to say about the white house's double standard the rule here and it's been the rule probably for the last fifty sixty seventy years is the one person in the world believe. who we're true. to who it is a tool of policy it is the work of anybody else is not allowed to use it i mean that's the bottom line but these are senior. you know he's right as long as that information is considered a productive league of information then suddenly ok is not a blatant contradiction of the argument the government attorneys make against arisan it's an obvious double standard as long as obama approves of the information that's being released then suddenly it's ok you know at this point i just want to know how about asleep at night knowing that his flip flop on leakers i frankly become embarrassing. now before president obama became president when he was still campaigni

the "new york times" often went toe to toe with the career intelligence officials and there was nothingew york times," nothing, irregaaregardlf the threat it represented tore intelligence officials around the world and in this country. so this is shocking to me. that's why i asked if it worked. sometimes if a program is wildly successful, then people are protected, but this response thaw got is so stunning to me. >> and also, when anyone flying into mogadishu can see a cia base in full sight and a kid chew i chewing cud, believed they chew, there's where the cia base is you have a serious operational security problem and have to question whether or not anything you're doing there is effective when everyone, i'm just talking about guys on the street, in the market, they all know where the cia is. what kind of operational security do you have when i can walk in and with four hours of being there find two cia sites? >> fascinating, jeremy. >> thank you very much. remarkable reporting and i hope some of the journalists you talked to at major publications, win their battles inside the news r

there was a tough column in "the new york times" on this. t section of the "wall street journal" there was no news about this whatsoever. it was on the front page of other publications. fox is a different question, whether they're going to present themselves as a real news organization at all if they so badly mishandle this story. >> i feel very strongly about this. when cnn has controversy, i always cover it. otherwise, what you're signaling to viewers is there's a double standard. we're only aggressive when some other organization is in trouble. i think that can undermine your credibility. you said it's unnatural and stupid to expect -- >> i think it's unnatural and stupid to say, gees, if you listen carefully to what wolf blitzer says, it seems as though fox news is going out of its way not to give a lot of coverage to its own parent company. duh. that does not deserve a breaking news logo. that's my only point. that's why we have what the british call media plurality. that's why we have other organizations that can burrow in. if you, howa

new york is holding another round of muslim hearings in washington today. roll the tape. finally let me know certain elements of the politically correct media, most egregiously the vacuous idealogues, the "new york timesamelessly attempting to exploit the horrific tragedy in norway past friday to cause me to refocus these hearings away from muslim radicalization. if they even in a semblance of -- times and others would know and admit there was no equivalency and threat to our homelands from deranged gunman and international terror apparatus of al qaeda and affiliates such as al think bob recruiting people in this country and murdered thousands of americans in the attack. >> said pretty much like you said was insane to make the equivalency. my question to the congressman if he were here would be if you are not going to get any coverage of this. mainstream media is ignoring these hearings. do we really need to continue to do them. and you say? >> i say, yes. he is doing something because it's the right thing to do. i mean, obviously we now know that i think there are 21 people from the united states who have gone to the fight the jihad in somalia. bill, what he is saying ties in perfectly with what's ha

the automatic cuts. all this has yet to be hammered out. "new york times" columnist paul krug again said "republicans have in effect taken america hostage, yet many people in the news media can't bring themselves to acknowledge this. is there a sense that there's a false balance in these reports because we're kind of allergic to saying one side is to blame, one side is not largely to blame. >> i can't speak for all reporters. i know in my own reporting i've tried to avoid this both sides are dug in because i don't think it helps viewers understand what's really going on. it's kind of lazy. i'd rather say republicans have just walked away with the negotiations or the president is now asking for $4 billion more in cuts and republicans say he is moving the goal post. i think that helps people a lot more than just this sort of generic, nobody is willing to move. >> howie, i think in the last few days that rap has become especially unfair given what's happened in the house. reporting reflected the reality that boehner was getting a hard time getting these house

the white house. time now to take a look at the morning papers. we'll start with the new york times. once little noticed outcome of the 2010 elections, the number of women in congress, actually, declined by a small fraction for the first time in 30 years. that has prompted senator kiersten jillen brand's latest effort, to get more women in politics. she's launched a project called "off of the sidelines" she hopes will energize women across the country. >> maybe they should read your book. >> thank you, donnie. >> it's good. >> "usa today" in what will be a test of his legacy, former major league pitcher clemens begins his testimony that he lied to congress when he denied using illegal steroids and growth hormone. >> financial times condoleezza rice helped to unveil a picture of ronald reagan. former reagan's speech writer peggy noonan was there for the ceremony. the 10-foot bronze statue commemorates the 100th anniversary of reagan's birth. >> good looking statue. >> nice. surprised you weren't there, pat. >>> a little politico. with us, the chief white house correspondent is mr. mike

the united states and britain into that war. >> host: did you write this book before wikileaks started? >> yes. i began a long time ago 2003. i got a call from a man who was with "the new york times" and writing a piece for the weekend review section of the times on international wind. we had never met but he said for some reason when he thought of the subject line name popped into his head. >> host: why is that? >> guest: i am not sure. a i am somebody who is likely to believe and states ally a lot. i thought i would find evidence of leaders lying all the time but i was shocked and that was not the case that lies are told clearly i used to go around the country talking about the subject until audiences i could not find much evidence of lying it was how the most cynical people were said you cannot believe that. you're not looking hard enough. there just isn't that much evidence and he thought my subjects on the thought and didn't know literature and his idea is we have a fruitful conversation. then a few months later somebody asked to give a talk at m.i.t. and i decided to talk on this subject and a low and behold may end up with this book. >> is it a different book give wr

. >> and he also believed in -- he wrote that article at the request of the "new york times." he believed in the basis of his religion and fulton was a great preacher in the church made fun of him for that. the only mistake he made was the letter s. this is comic rather than cosmic. >> for einstein be the impersonal god was something he took from spinoza who he admired greatly and god was imminent in the universe he had made and that to discovering of laws of nature, you were getting closer to the old one, as he called them. >> here is a quote from the "new york times" speech. quote, i assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblist driving force behind scientific research. he did not believe in a personal god. >> no, he did not believe in prayer. >> he did not? >> no. he did not believe. >> this is a diaistic god? >> it goes beyond, because it's a force. >> yes. >> he thinks -- that gave him -- he condemned anyone who said he was an atheist, correct? >> right, because he thought the root of religion and science was curiosity about the world beyond the

the revolution began. syria has banned every international news organization. bbc, cnn, fox, "new york times," and al jazeera. yet every night, you have been seeing news footage coming out of dra. if you look at the bottom of your screen, it says is from smn. sham news network. sham is arabic for syria. i would bet the governors in their wallets right now have enough money in their wallets to start sham news network. they have been pumping out video and flip camera footage from dara through sham news network. that is half what the world has become. on october 30, 2010, an indian newspaper ran a small item. i happened to be there at a time. it caught my eye. it said a communications firm had just started had3g service at the summit of mount everest. it will allow thousands of climbers to access highspeed video and internet calls using their mobile phones. the bbc observed it was a far cry from 1953 when edmund hillary first climbed the summit using runners to carry messages from his expedition to the nearest telegraph office. you can imagine the phone calls being made. "hi, mom. you will neve

the new concept of which was believed that the u.s. constitution properly read would require the institution more or less the entire agenda of the "new york times" op-ed page and down to the identity politics with the notion of freezing until wall and secure transactions should be thought of as charged with ressa engender into every other personal category and it's much more successful. i trace in the book both some of the successes as with the right to the revolution and failures and other areas where they were in a practical but went on to the actual course. the story culminates at least the latest episode of this is the rise of international human rights, and i believe there is no area has stirred growing them interest in the international human rights at clinics and entities and the law schools, and if you think of it as something parley meant for the dissidents in dungeons and the newspapers, the sort of regime with a close down, newspapers are here you are much behind the times. that is part of the agenda and there is much more as you can see if you go to many of the sites or human rights watch and amnesty international you are likely to

it's in the "new york times." epublicans will all publicly say oh, "the new york times" always hates republicans. but come on, that's tough on fund-raising. >> you remember ricky bobby's dad in "talladega nights" said if you're not first you're last. and they've been fighting that storyline, that narrative for months. >> pawlenty. >> yeah. it got away from him. and it became engrained within the political conversation that he had to win ames and the iowa caucus or he was out. and so now they're fighting against that narrative and trying to lower expectations. >> chris, but one of his excuses today, and i was stunned, tim pawlenty says he hasn't been campaigning in iowa. >> it's first time i've been earnestly campaigning. >> what does that mean? look, people -- voters are smart. here's a guy -- >> he -- >> it's like saying well, i haven't been raising money all that long so, the 4.2 million i've -- you've been priming the pump to run for president for years. i mean, yes, i think to pete's point, whatever happened, e

then the following week, after i had been on this case since may and had been at this office many tim times, had many meetings, many discussions i learned for the first time by reading "the new york one of cy vance's top aides, the third in charge, the woman in charnl of the entire trial division is married to one of dominique strauss-kahn's lawyers. she's married to the man who's been in this courtroom trying to get dominique strauss-kahn off for his attack on the victim. that troubled me. because i believe that as the victim, the district attorney had an obligation to tell me that one of his top aides was married to one of dominique strauss-kahn's lawyers in this case. and so i demanded a meeting with cy vance. and i was granted a meeting with cy vance and i asked cy vance how could he ensure that his number three person would not get information from all the other prosecutors here and inadd ver tantly tell her husband when they're home at night. i said i want to make sure you have taken the necessary steps to wall off this prosecutor. i want to see the e-mail that went to every prosecutor in the office saying that karen friedman had rekuzed herself. i wanted to see the letter

generally like "the new york times" then get a specific program. you "the new york times" will slash and burn any politician for going after grandma. they will. >> as i say, i think there's a pretty well established cannon for the center. you get trashed for title reform entitlements right now. >> you will get -- i obviously have watched this very closely through the years. say, for instance, "the new york times" and social security. a commission in the early '90s talked about reforming social security. great idea. george w. bush in 2005, the second he started talking about reforming social security -- >> he didn't talk about reforming it. he talked privatizing it. >> they criticized that part. they also started saying and what a lot of liberals are saying, social security is not the problem. we have no problem with social security. social security has been here for 75 years. no, it's already in the red. i guarantee you talk about tax cuts, you get absolutely savaged. there is a default here. would you not agree, there is a default position for mos

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