that theu don't write sun came out today. >> you are right.it is true that these girls are exceptional but they are not the only once. they are home grown in terms of role models. one woman told me a great story. she was doing training with men. she was training about gender issues which she had been paid to do as part of for business consultancy. she began by reciting from the koran and told them that i am here as your sister, daughter, friend. tavis: very wise. >> after a few days, a very conservative mullah said that if my daughter would turn out like you, i would send her to school. you cannot do this from outside. i think we see this today in the middle east. we cannot impose values, this is really an evolution that women are creating for themselves and that is why i felt so strongly about bringing these stories. no one helped these women during the taliban. they created jobs and hope at a time when the world had forgotten them and they did it themselves. that is what i think their story is so powerful because it shows how much work they

do see theu consequences and pressures that tom reference of what happens to news organizations that are suddenly responsible for a bottom line. and they are still doing news, but it is a different focus again the kind of work that we tried to do on a day-to-day basis when we are constantly challenging ourselves. and on our best days it is choosing the work that no one else is doing. we were created to fulfil in pasrt, to fulfil what is in the public interest. helping us to become more commercial is not going to take us down a path that will serve the country well. >> thank you. i want to shift the subject slightly now. tom address to the question of bias, which is one of the rigid we essentially heard to arguments. one is that we are in a fiscal crisis and we cannot afford this anymore. even the president's deficit commission came out for zeroing out public broadcasting. the other argument was that public broadcasting is biased and as tom said, the bias is in the eye of the beholder. bill, i want to ask you to start us off on this. how'd you affect the perception of the public broad

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