the times." in particular, "the new york times" is often labeled as left wing and too liberal. >> yes. >> how do you respond to that? >> i respond to it by saying i think "the new york times" represents a kind of cosmopolitan outlook towards the world and to this country and city that may strike, you know, some readers as liberal because we have, you know, paid a lot of attention to stories like gay marriage. but these are newsworthy currents in our society, but it's not liberal in the sense of being doctrine air or tied to the democratic party in any way. i've run many investigative stories and political stories that have made liberal political figures furious. >> right. but they also -- the people read the editorial page, and you get blamed -- your news department gets blamed to r your editorial department says when they view whether "the times" is a liberal paper or not. >> there's no question that the editorial stance of "the new york times" is a liberal point of view. >> coming up, i ask jill what she thinks is missing from "the times." on techknow, our scientists bring you a sneak-peak of t

the "new york times" didn't even do a news story. they did an opinion piece. and the washington post, no news story. and one opinion column. >> well, the "new york times," jim, waited six days and did do a story that was in the metro section that led off by saying not that the governor had said something controversial, but republicans have finally found a talking point to use against them. >> i think probably the reason is the "new york times" edit editorial board saying all conservatives should be driven out of the state, isn't that a controversial idea? in a perfect world, perhaps we would like to do something like that. all of these are legitimate stories, but the ones involved in republicans get heavy coverage from cnn and particularly msnbc.

the "new york times" website is a phenomenal website. now they are looking for more video of some of the things that i cover and we have such a great video crew up in new york. any time there's something going on in washington where looks like a news maker or something that will be happening that they can use video, they'll shoot me an e-mail see doug i saw this on your early list. because every morning i send up a list to let them know what they are doing. then they can look at that and say, i really love to have a video clip of that. or can you shoot system video -- some video from this event. do you mind doing it? at first, it was a lot of pressure to do it. then, i don't know how i came up with the idea, i thought about if i can do both at the same time that would be great. the iphone quality at the time was not the video was not as good, it was a little tighter lens. a little too much focal length. i thought about trying to mount another camera on top of my digital camera below. looked around on the internet to try to come up with an

do you think that might be why snowden was resistant to approach the new york times or the washington post for that matter? >> 2006 i was. i can guarantee you the new york times would not hold a story because it would help president bush get elected. if that's your implication you're just wrong. >> it is not my implication, it is the implication drawn by edward snowden, the source of this story. >> he might have believed that. >> you clearly don't. you remain a supporter of what the nsa is doing on surveillance, though? >> broadly, yes. >> do you think that the agency and the administration have done a good enough job in explaining to the american people why it is that they're doing what they have done? >> i don't think they have done as good a job as they could, and that's partly as i said, i think the president really blames the agency for the embarrassment that he has suffered and is therefore a little disinclined to give it full support. but broadly speaking, i think the agency has been left to defend itself or the intelligence community has been left to defend itself and they hav

the obama administration initially stated. but a factor analysis of "the times" article casts grave doubt on both of those conclusions. let's look at the facts. "the new york times" rightly claims that an anti-american group was behind the attack, but "the times" says the group is not afill yalted with al qaeda. the evidence says otherwise. in august 2012, a few weeks before the attack, the pentagon, the pentagon, issued a report that said, "ann swar al sharia has increasingly embodied al qaeda's presence in libya." but "the times" does not mention, does not mention, the pentagon's assessment in its article. an amazing lapse, and a huge mistake. if the paper wants its readers to believe it is covering hard news in a fair way. simply no excuse for not including the pentagon's point of view. "the times" also says, "the attack seems to not be meticulously plans." nonsense. for hours thugs used grenades and automatic weapons to assault the u.s. missions compound in benghazi. militants were seen on video cameras chasing the mission before the attack and they hid themselves until opening fire. they also attacked a cia compound a half mile away using mortars, and

but the real arrogance to me was the editorial that came out from the "new york times" saying, well, onal person, this would be the end. even though this totally conflicts with what three "new york times" reporters had written before. what democrat and republican house intelligence members are saying. even part of the administration has said there could be al qaeda ties. and so i think this is remarkably arrogant by what looks to be a hillary clinton super pac for 2016. >> let me follow up on that. i have the editorial with me as well. "the times" said if mr. rogers has evidence of a direct al qaeda role, make it public. where's the beef? >> my understanding there is an investigation going on. second of all, in the "new york times" story, they basically say who they think is responsible. where's the administration going after the people who are responsible? what are they saying to the members of the family of these americans that died over there? >> hey, steve. i get calls on the radio to this day of people who will almost bark out benghazi as a rallying cry. i wonder, however, does t

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also ahead, the bin gauzy white washed by the new york times. re al qaeda not involved in the attacks. we are joined. just to is the new york times protecting and wall street veteran sam stovall wh his new year's outlook for both the market and the economy. and the "a-team" breaking down the clinton influence in the reshaping of the new york city mayor'sffice and the implications for 2016 to. all of that and a great deal more straight ahead. today on wall street stocks posted the worst start to a year since 2008, and we all remember 2008. the dow down 1305 points, as and the loss 16, nasdaq down 33. jobless claims unexpectedly fell to 3,309,000, with the previous week was expanded higher. it's complicated. no, it's really ptty simple. the manufacturing sector expanding. driven by a gn in orders. pork prices are expected to rise this year as the nation's hog rd is facing a deadly virus that is reducing the herd. hog and pig inventory down 1%. the first noticeable decline since the virus outbreak occurred. fatal obviously to young pigs. we're comin

one of the dark times. >> one of the more interesting answers she had was when you asked her if the times deserved to be called a liberal newspaper. let's listen to that. >> i think the new york times represents a kind of cosmopolitan look to the world and to this country and this city that may strike some readers aas liberal because we have paid a lot of attention to stories like gay marriage. but these are news worthy currents in our society. but it's not liberal in the sense of being doctrine doctrinaire or tied to the democratic party in any way. you know, i've run many investigative stories and political stories that have made liberal political figures furious. >> cost mo cosmopolitan outlook, she was on the editorial pages. >> look, there are plenty of people feel that whether it's the cosmopolitan page or the front page, new york times is liberal. news column, news stories have any political point of view, liberals complain about some stories and conservatives complain about some stories. but she is also very clear between of the wall between the editors and the news section. she says she has nothing to do with the editorials, doesn't get involved, doesn't write editor

difference between the way you write almost every week in your columns and the editorial position of the new york times? >> guest: well, first of all, the editorial position of the new york times relies a good deal on conversation and consensus. i was saying today that i wish there was a better way to let the readers know how we do what we do, because it's really fascinating. i mean, they get these 10 or 12 people around a big table and some of them know everything about certain subjects. and they bat ideas back and forth. and there's a great deal of disagreement and a great deal of two-cents thrown in, and out of this, we cobble together a series of editorials every day, which are then looked over and refined by the editorial page editor. so it's much more of a collaborative process. whereas what i do is very much, you know, the sound of one woman clapping, as it were. c-span: do you sit on the editorial board? >> guest: no, i don't. c-span: do you sit in on the meetings. >> guest: i can if i want to, but i haven't for a while. i did for the first few months that i was writing my column and i'm welcom

in fact that was being done by "the new york times" in the 1870s. he times passionately opposed abortion in its editorial pages and news coverage, calling it ends in murder and saying that the practice is frank blank and smells to heaven. one abortionist that was exposed by "the new york times" actually ended up spending seven years in prison as a result of those stories. and "the new york times" is not alone in this. between 1825 and 1845, as documented in the original version of this book, "prodigal press: confronting the anti-christian bias of the american news media", over 100 cities and towns across america had explicitly christian newspapers, including the boston reporter, edited by a man named nathaniel willis, one of the most interesting and lively publications of its era. during that same time, new york city alone posted 52 magazines and newspapers that called themselves explicitly christian. but of course that we know that "the new york times" is christian one. regularly editorializing in favor of same-sex marriage and abortion, ideas that

dianne feinstein. >> the new york times. s a conflict of interest between journalists and whistle blowers. take ellsbury and the pentagon papers. he could have gone to jail for 35 years and the new york times gets a pulitzer prize for printing this stuff. thunderstorm a conflict of interest. >> i think what daniel ellsbury was best for the country and that came out around the time water gate was emerging. >> it was the year before. it was 1971. >> the problem with edward snowden is it's kind of a mixed bag here. it's undoubtically some of his leaks about the metta leaks and internal surveillance caught the government red handed in its inability to oversee what the nsa was doing. on the other hand these revelations about some of the nsa foreign spying like spying on foreign governments did significant diplomatic disadvantage to the state department, none of that was necessarily patriotic or helpful and i think it hurts his case for some kind of clemency or plea bargain. >> what do the polls show? >> do the polls show a percent

and shoot you he's a pull potus sensually of economic commentators and it's embarrassing for the new york times i think the people who have big coin now have many hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin they should buy the new york times lou. good day to throw proud when out on the curb on his butt and say get a real job you communist you know soviet era loser you know the guy can think and feel whatever he wants the fact is calling and crypto currencies are a revolution and you cannot stop a revolution once the idea you couldn't stop the internet once it was unleashed upon the world the likes of paul krugman by the way i'll tell you what he said in one thousand nine hundred eighty just so you understand his prognostication on bitcoin the growth of the internet was slowed drastically as the flaw in met costs law which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants becomes apparent most people have nothing to say to each other by two thousand and five or so it will become clear that the internet impact on the economy ha

we have extended reporters' visas. >> in the case of the new york times? >> yeah. new applications have to be handled according to the rules and the laws according to due process. >> and the status of bloomberg? >> it is still operating in china. >> talk about the pacific region that you inhabit. there have been flashpoints there. how does china see its responsibility and its leadership within the region of its own presence in the pacific? >> we do not see ourselves as a leader in the region. rather we see ourselves as one of the important parts in the region. we know that regional stability will require the efforts of everybody to work with neighbors for regional prosperity. it requires the efforts of everyone. >> japan, obviously you have serious problems with the prime minister of japan going to a kind of site there. in a sense, you considered it an affront to china. how would you characterize that? >> i think the prime minister of japan -- he has challenge the outcome of [indiscernible] he went. they have 14 war criminals there. these criminals were tried and co

such as the new yorker, the best american science writing and i love this one, the best buddhist writing. there were 2010 essays what broke my father's heart what was published in "the new york times" magazine. there she described, and i remember the day that i read it including terms, the story of her aging parents and in particular the story of how, when and why they put a pacemaker in her father against some of the family's wishes. the piece it turns out was the fourth most email story in "the new york times" that your. that's how much attention and got and how many people needed to hear that story. knocking on heaven's door tells us more about it and katie's story, too, but painting a bigger picture indeed. it is part investigative journalism and asks us a basic question: hal modern medicine and its quest to avoid death at all costs, and i mean that literally, has also created a great deal of suffering along the way. as one viewer wrote, quote, it has become a rallying cry for the 24 million u.s. caregivers tending to elderly parents. adult children who are often overwhelmed and overlooked by the profit driven health care system that puts expensive high-tech treatment before i

the detail is exquisite, you can make out the "new york times." phenomenon. >> stephen: you can see the fork and knife. >> and see the "new york times"? he read the "new york times." >> stephen: everybody's got their flaws. (laughter) >> stephen: here's my real problem with you. it's bad enough you're being a critic but you're also trying to be some kind of critical sleuth. look at this next painting here. you have looked at some of his paintings and you've said you detect a preference for men over women in his subjects and you're projecting that in the possibility of homoerotic undertones in his work. >> well, it's true he did paint men more than women. he was a figure painter who favored men and that's unusual because most figure painters paint women. picasso, for instance, you know picasso painted women. >> stephen: and put too many of these on. (laughter) >> matisse, women. gaugin, women. >> stephen: so he painted a lot of guys -- so he painted a lot of guys you're saying it's something that might have gay tendencys? you're saying he might be h

peter becker the new york times. >> yes, mr. . >> hello. >> the question i would like to ask, is there a published comments of the soldiers from the war? is there a published. [indiscernible] of the disabled veterans from the war? is there a public accounting of the unpaid dollars of cost to the united states from the war? has that been published? >> thank you. >> well, certainly there is certainly, you know, the names of of the casualties are back on line, published, certainly there have been studies about what caused the country financially. the wars. so i think that information is certainly out there. part of any calculation of americans as stories that they will make about the cost and value. >> if we talk to dick cheney today about the iraqi war, will we say? >> i think he would feel that is the right decision. saddam hussein was a threat. even though the weapons or not there, he argues that he has the capacity to store weapons programs again. as sanctioned regime at the time. this was still the right decision. now, i think

thank you very much for stopping by this sunday. >>> up next, the "new york times" under fire for an investigative report on benghazi. but is the criticism politically motivated? >>> the "new york times" is under fire under a 7,000 word piece on benghazi. is the story fair? it says neither al qaeda or any other group played a part on the attack and that it was fueled in large part over anger by an american-made video. but cairo's chief kirkpatrick said this doesn't support the initial claim that the assault was basically spontaneous. >> there's just no chance that this was an al qaeda attack if, by al qaeda, you you mean the organization founded by osama bin laden. >> some leading republicans denounced the piece as inaccurate for all but ruling our out al qaeda's involvement and fox news challenge major portions of the story. >> sources who continue to face threats of losing their jobs and thus remain anonymous sharply challenged the times findings telling folks news, quote, it was a coordinated attack. it was completely false to say anything else. it is completely a lie and, quote, g

that was the first thing the "new york times" which has now become an extension of the democratic partyhope everybody understands that. >> glsks that paper is running the democratic paper the "new york times." they put the bully label there because they see a possible christie vs. hillary run. >> they don't want to see that bill. >> christie in a debate but, believe me, any negative about hillary clinton from governor christie's mouth is going to be portrayed. >> oh, yeah. >> as a bully attacking a woman that's the way it's going to be. >> but there are republicans who are going to let that go though let that germinate. marinate a little bit. there are a lot of republicans that don't like christie i'm not being a flack for christie here when ari fleischer is out there giving interviews about. this he has to get out there. i have to remind everybody, benghazi, irs scandal, obamacare rollout, did we have within 24 hours the president of the united states come out and say okay, we have got xy and z have been fired. i take full responsibility. this is outrage and the people don't deserve th

the occasions where they have more pull. it's one of the times i might agree with the "new york times." >> you might agree. interesting. the enormous political fallout would happen if president obama were to do such a thing. andy rosenthal was quoted as saying, sometimes you have to go beyond what is realistic in an editorial and talk about what you should should happen. >> okay. i don't know how real it is. i'm not being funny. i don't know how much influence it's ultimately going to have. i think the other things, though, in terms of mentioning fallout is we have political fallout for who exactly since president obama is not facing another election. are there going to be implications for hillary clinton and for the midterms? i think there's still a big question about how this works with voters. >> essentially condoning law breaking. >> and there are a lot of people who say that the "new york times" is doing whatever it can to protect hillary clinton in all of this and her different roles in this. >> there is still a big question mark about how voters understand the issue and who will benefit. >> there is a line betwee

>> and for the "new york times" to have a reporter, a libyan reporter working for the "new york timesand maybe that's never been reported. >> yeah. it leads to other chapters of the story. how about this? the best exclusive reporting on the tragic event, why were you using him? why weren't you utilizing him and say we have exclusive coverage from those on the ground? so that's what's going on. also the fact is really aggravating. they say it's not al-qaeda. it's islamic extremist group which declared, which was founded by this guy who might have been captured a couple days ago who said they're a branch of a militant islamist group who said publicly that the group has backing from al-qaeda. >> brian, we've had republicans and democrats both come out since this report and what they have said is there were terrorist links to al-qaeda. lynn westmoreland, republican from the great state of georgia, was on our program a couple of days ago, i believe on monday -- and he said that the "new york times" put this story out simply to lay the groundwork for hillary clinton to run for president so

the coldest they've seen in a very long time. it's started falling from ohio to new york and all of this winter weather is coming just in time for the return to work after the holiday. >>> i'll have to go out and go to work, but i'll have to leave recallier, but yeah. i'm just going to deal with it. >> all right. again, this is just the beginning. parts of new england could see up to a foot of snow when all of this is said and done tomorrow. we'll kick off team coverage this hour. nbc's sarah golf is covering the storm and our bill cairns tracking the latest updates in the studio. i want to begin with sarah in manhattan. this storm will be the first big test here for bill de blasio. how are they bracing for the potential of up to eight inches of snow? >> the key here, thomas, is getting ahead of the storm and already they've got salt spreaders out on the road. here's what they're spreading, this thick, coarse mixture that will keep the roads dry and that is expected later this evening. we've got 300 of those salt spreaders out on the road and we have about a thousand plow

last sunday "the new york times" published a reconstruction of the attack. pointed the finger away from the group that some believed were the perpetrators. here is what the reporter wrote. "months of investigation by "the new york times" centered on extensive interviews with libyans in benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack and its context turned up no evidence that al qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault." he also concluded that a youtube video ridiculing islam was one of the reasons why the attackers stormed the u.s. compound. conservative advocates have mocked that idea ever since it was first spoken aloud. i know a story like that one took months to write. it almost completely contradicted the story that conservative media outlets have told about benghazi. if you watched fox news this week, this is what you saw. segment after segment that tried to undermine "the new york times." one graphic read not fit to print. they said they had sources that al qaeda was involved. talking heads suggested the "times" is try

due think the "new york times" times" -- do you think the "new york times" is striaing to say this is the sun and we all revolve around hillary clinton and do you think she might not run? >> no, i think it is closer to the first one. they basically saying she is the center of the universe. it is a way for her to keep an eye on bill. that may be the other thing going on. >> the moon is known as being a cold, aloof place. at least there is no evidence of white water on the moon. this could be a good thing for her. >> it looks like something from the 80s that went wrong like a mad ball or like an uglier version of a garbage pale kid. he grew this face on his shoulder, like the chucky doll. it looked like everything bad from the 80sin that picture. "the last star fighter" was the background. >> sounds fantastic. gavin, you have been in magazines for a longtime. a cover like this, does it help sell the paper? is everybody going to get into it? or is this better than one of the women's magazines no doubt will do cover stories where she is air brushed and look fantastic. >> she is so hideous

david poeg on the right, "new york times." both stepped down recently. farhad stepped in at the wall street journal. but who would replace david poeg at the times? believe it or not. farhad again, he left to join "the new york times," the two biggest openings in his field and takes both of them. as one person on twitter said, all of your tech columns belong to farhad. this must have been an incredibly difficult decision to leave a very great position for another very great position. >> yeah, i described it on linked in where i wrote about this, as choosing between too delicious pieces of cake. you can't really choose wrong in this but i've been a fan of the "new york times" for forever, been getting it since i was a teenager and really wanted to work there. >> i've known you a while, you're a really nice guy. >> thanks. >> i can imagine the pressure of walking into the editor at the wall street journal and saying, i've worked here what, six weeks -- >> yeah. >> tell me about that. that must have been awful. >> it was awful. and particularly because the sh

the image from the sunday magazine cover. this week's new york times cover, hillary clinton, the producers decided to depict her like a planet. we wanted to show you a little bit of the new york times magazine cover with hillary clinton. we'll be back, with more news, after this. education continues... >> i'm a physicist, and i've gotten a whole new understanding of the meaning of inertia, from trying to get these ideas out... >> flip school, part of our week long in depth series america tonight only on al jazeera america every day, >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are tonight's top stories. fiery demonstrations in ukraine, president viktor yanukovych says he's willing to are make concessions but protestors say he needs to resign. targeted all four attacks targeted police and hilt in or near cairo. at least six people died, dozens more were injured. a critical day ahead for negotiations looking to end the bloodshed in syria. representatives from both sides have agreed to meet face to face tomorrow in geneva, it

>>> there are new calls today for president obama to let the nsa leaker edward snowden come homes. a "new york timest snowden is a whistle-blower that deserves a clemency deal. it says, quote -- considering the enormous value and the abuses he's exposed, mr. snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile. he may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done the country a great service. "the guardian" that first published snowden's information is calling for an outright pardon. snowden offered a new defense in a christmas day video message. >> the conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can play both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. >>> joining mess now is glen greenwald. he broke scoop after scoop on the nsa using information that snowden gave to him. also rules marcus, column u.s. from "the washington post," that wrote a piece calling snowden an insufferable whistle-blower. the times board also writes, when someone reveals that government officials have routinely and deliberately broken the law, that person should not fa

the big benghazi news, but how did the rest of them report it? >>> tell congressman barber. >> tell congressman, obamacare is hurting. >> some democrats are facing ad assaults so fierce that "the new york times" warns it could tip the ship. and breaking tonight, the senate intelligence committee today releasing a scathing report on the terror attack in benghazi. and the bipartisan report points the finger of blame directly at hillary clinton's state department for the failures leading up to the death of four americans. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone, a busy night tonight. the report is out and the findings are clear. a 15-month report determines not only was al-qaeda behind the attacks contrary to what the white house and "the new york times" told the world but that it could and should have been prevented. the report concludes as follows, this is a quote. the failures of benghazi can be summed up this way, the americans serving in libya were vulnerable, the state department knew they were vulnerable and no one in the state department did anything about it. the intelligence committee does not collect threats in dangerous places so it can be ignored by senior decision-makers. yet the int

--se pieces were going on they came out once from the new york times. then it was forgotten. the mainstream media pretty much never went after this issue. -- i think that the if this was the bush administration, the media would be far more aggressive on this issue. the only reason you have the washington post reporting on this and the new york times was because of snowden. snowden made the leak. before this, the washington post was not doing that much aggressive work on what the nsa was doing in terms of mastic you striving. media hask that the not been up to snuff on the whole issue. it would have been if the bush administration was in power. host: one must call in for you. gavin is waiting on the lines for republicans. caller: hi, james. thank you for coming on. paint a is, i want to scenario and get your comment. is there any chance that you that ourk -- think created these terrorists and radicals? guest: i think that all the studies that have come out agree with that. every time you have a drone attack, you're killing scores. hundreds of thousands of innocent people. they

the brink of civil war. >> and again, we top this newscast with breaking news. the "new york times" reports that the port authority official who personally oversaw the controversial lane closures in new jersey is saying that governor crest christie knew about the closings as they were happening. and he says he has the evidence to prove it in a letter his lawyer released. david wild stein says the orders to close the lanes on the george washington bridge came from the christie administration and says evidence exists, tying christie to it, temporary contemporary to what the governor has said repeatedly. john, i'm glad you are here because you have been covering this with me. and covering it for the channel. >> yeah. >> we remember -- i wish i could remember the date of the news conference off the top of my head whether you were here with me when the governor issued as flat a denial as all encompassing a denial to these allegations of involvement of knowing anything about it as we have probably heard in political life. the thing is the evidence had been building slowly against governo