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. >> cbs news correspondent walter cronkite. >> this indeed will be a correspondents' report. >> schieffer: when i was coming up, my favorite thing in the holiday season was when cbs news would bring together its top correspondents to talk about the news. the trouble was by the time i became senior enough to participate, the round tables had gone away. today we remedy that as we bring together chief white house correspondent chip reid, our point man on terrorism bob orr, congressional correspondent nancy cordes, national security correspondent david martin, and our chief legal correspondent jan crawford to talk about the new terrorist threat, president obama's first year, the future of health care legislation and the nation's economy. i'll have some final thoughts as usual but first the correspondents the table. on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. all things are as they were then except we no longer allow smoking i

i would be walter cronkite.for him to succeed yet to get at least a third of the population watch and appeared to succeed a cable tv now, whether it's fox news or anything else, you need to get maybe 2% of the nation washing, 3%. so what she do as you go after a hard-core audience who will be -- you know, who you can excite ideologically rather than getting a mass audience where you have this not offending of people. by offending people you can get the 5% or 10% that agree with you. you have a much more offensive anti-domestic type of media. thirdly, even when i was at cnn, if we put on -- fox is pretty non-than opinionated talk shows. o'reilly was coming on, whatever. no matter how much you pay o'reilly or hannity is a lot cheaper paying a talk show format than having chris john of import in tehran or nic robertson in baghdad and doing the reported formatting. i still try to have reported news that cnn be the core of it with anderson cooper and aaron brown and many others. it is cheaper and it's easier to get a

in media terms, michael jackson's death was bigger than ted kennedy's passing and certainly walter cronkite'she fundamental problem is we have too much time in our hands in the media, particularly cable tv. you have a lot of hours to fill. i've been with the shows and something comes along like a train derailment or a scandal. boy, you just eat it up because that fills wall to wall. then you get in the copycat thing. as long as one cable channel is still covering it, all the others will still cover it. there you go. >> the overnight ratings. my problem, chris, to finish up on this, after the first day or two, the child abuse allegations, dangling the baby over the railing, that gave way to gushing praise. >> there is definitely something macabre about michael jackson's life. the whole story worked on two demographic segments. people who were repelled by his his life and what he symbolized and people who it was part of their growing up, they listened to "thriller" 8,000 times when they were 13 years oefld and it meant so much to them. we failed in this regard. we failed because we quit talking

i want to say one thing about hillary clinton, when it comes to walter cronkite i think he's got then. and these programs were to be directed for male, blacks. to help keep the black families together and these male guys were at the post office and not able to percolate to the top. and in reality this is what happened, we had college girls come in and with six months of education, but they were called a minority -- host: we only have a minute left, do you have a question for anne kornblut? caller: i wanted to point out that i really -- host: are you still there? caller: yeah, i am here, what happened is all of these girls, the females were getting these jobs and the blacks were not getting the jobs. even though they had so much more experience. believe me when you bring in inexperienced people, no matter how smart they are. it doesn't matter where, they are going to screw it up. host: thank you gary. guest: race versus gender, obviously identity politics has been a big deal for many decades. host: one of the comments from our twitter page. guest: that is going to be one of the questi

journalists, you know, i work for cbs news, the network of walter cronkite, dan rather, katie couric, at bradley, morley favor, lesley stahl, the list goes on. steve kroft. wasn't early journalist and every journalist worth his salt on my network when the nation calls, you answer. we have a think about 60,000 of our sons and daughters in afghanistan. and the american people deserve to know what our sons and daughters are doing in our name. and so that's my job. that's what i find that to do. that's what i'm here to do. in writing this book, i have two basic guests. i have a lot of things in all of us have a why are you here. i believe because i love to tell stories and encourage people. in the book i do to encourage people and as a journalist i get to tell the stories of young people. that's why i go. and although i will read you one thing from the book about what sustains me when i go. next question? executive producer says i should go to the next question. thank you, ma'am for the question. >> i don't have a question that i would like to make a comment. i'm alice dunston and i've be

from the period, american newsreel's some of you will recognize voices like edward marone and walter cronkite but it gives a picture of the political situation which was germany was divided to for occupation zones that is american, russian, british and french and then the british, french and american sections were essentially merged at a point so that you had we can to know as east and west germany because of its symbolic importance the city of berlin was also divided into four sectors, and shortly after german berlin was rubble and it was a city of women, children and old men and wounded men and people were literally living in caves. for food they were dependent on agriculture from the eastern zone. berlin was 110 miles inside east germany. there came a point where joseph stalin was determined to drive out the american and british and french to get part of it just pride but part of it as espionage. we do not want a western window into the east and middle of his territory nor did he want a window where his people could see any of the west and decided to drive out his allies by blocking the la

television all the time in my day and that was, since our major programs, cbs evening news with walter cronkite went out at 6:30 or 7:00 in the evening and maybe in the middle of the country at 5:30 or 6:00, but roughfully that time frame, which was dinner time, so walter was always asking the question, if we had a really gorey picture do we put this on while people are having their dinner? and the answer quite often was no. now, in recent years and again i don't want to give you an old fogey vision of reality, but that's what i'm giving you, but increasingly there's more of the gore on television that is acceptable stuff. more newspapers are putting in gorey pictures because that has become the acceptable thing. more stories about the private lives of public officials are in newspapers now because that has become more the acceptable thing. is that the right thing to do? that's a separate issue these days. president almost anything goes. but i appreciate your dilemma. i thank you for the question. >> thank you. >> hi. i'm zach from texas. and yesterday my small group went to roll call and we we

i want to say one thing about hillary clinton, when it comes to walter cronkite i think he's got the his hands. and now let's get to hillary clinton. i worked in the post office in the early 80's, and there was a big push of affirmative action. and these programs were to be directed for male, blacks. to help keep the black families together and these male guys were at the post office and not able to percolate to the top. and in reality this is what happened, we had college girls come in and with six months of education, but they were called a minority -- host: we only have a minute left, do you have a question for anne kornblut? caller: i wanted to point out that i really -- host: are you still there? caller: yeah, i am here, what happened is all of these girls, the females were getting these jobs and the blacks were not getting the jobs. even though they had so much more experience. believe me when you bring in inexperienced people, no matter how smart they are. it doesn't matter where, they are going to screw it up. host: thank you gary. guest: race versus gender, it's almost impos

and that was since our major program, cbs evening news with walter cronkite went out at 630 or seven and maybe in the middle of the country at 5:30 or 6:00 neared a roughly in that timeframe which was dinnertime. so long ago she was asking the question. the really gory picture. do we put this on while people are having their dinner? and the question quite often with no. now, in recent years and again, you know, don't want to give you an old fogey visual of reality. but that's what i'm giving you. but increasingly, there's more of the gore on television that is acceptable staff. more newspapers are putting in gory pictures because that is become the acceptable thing. most stories about the private lives of public officials are in newspapers now because that is become worthy and acceptable. is that the right thing to do? that's a separate issue these days. it's almost anything goes. but appreciate and thank you for the question. >> thank you. >> i am back from texas and yesterday my small-group went to rollcall and we were in the meeting with this reporter there at rollcall and i posed

television all the time, in my day, and that was since our major programs, "cbs evening news," walter cronkite, went out at 6:30 or 7:00 in the evening and they'd be in the middle of the country at 5:30 or 6:00 which was dinner time so walter was always asking a question if we had a really gory picture do we put this on while people are having their dinner? and the answer quite often was no. now, in recent years, and again, you know, i don't want to give you an old foogy version of reality, but increasingly there's more of the gore on television that is acceptable stuff. more newspapers are putting in gory pictures because that has become the acceptable thing. more stories about the private lives of public officials are in newspapers now because that has become more the acceptable thing. is that the right thing to do? that's a separate issue these days. it's almost anything goes. but i appreciate your dilemma. i thank you for the question. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm zach from lufton, texas, and yesterday my small group went to roll call and we were in the meeting with this reporter there at roll

how many times have you heard walter cronkite cited for saying how wonderful it is to take a stand. you are always giving something. you always know where to stand and what to get your information. now it is hard to decide who is credible and who is not. people are responding to personal brands if not network once, because they want to know what they are going to get. maybe it is picking their same opinion and someone who thinks like them, or maybe it is, but i think it is going to lead to a multimedia model where it is may be scratching the surface to complement where you get more of the information flowing through more or more. i think there is going to have to be that kind of consolidation if there is going to be a media -- a viable media model, because we're all fighting for a slice of the media prior -- media pie. >> it has been very interesting to listen to the panel discussed increase in media outlets over time. the expansion of financial reporting, depending on your medium, the number of reporters themselves who are engaged in analyzing and reporting on financial issues. my

television all the time in my day and that was, since our major programs, cbs evening news with walter cronkite went out at 6:30 or 7:00 in the evening and maybe in the middle of the country at 5:30 or 6:00, but roughfully that time frame, which was dinner time, so walter was always asking the question, if we had a really gorey picture do we put this on while people are having their dinner? and the answer quite often was no. now, in recent years and again i don't want to give you an old fogey vision of reality, but that's what i'm giving you, but increasingly there's more of the gore on television that is acceptable stuff. more newspapers are putting in gorey pictures because that has become the acceptable thing. more stories about the private lives of public officials are in newspapers now because that has become more the acceptable thing. is that the right thing to do? that's a separate issue these days. president almost anything goes. but i appreciate your dilemma. i thank you for the question. >> thank you. >> hi. i'm zach from texas. and yesterday my small group went to roll call and we we