i'm in san francisco, ahead of the hearst building, once the headquarters of william randolph hearst, newspapermen extraordinary. a monster to some, but a hero in journalism because he was so pioneering. he built a great change, and to me, san francisco is not just the city where cable cars climb to the stars. it is also, for me, the center of a kind of energetic journalism pioneers in this building behind me. and in this tradition, we have the honor of talking to phil bronstein, who is an editor at large and a great crusading journalist with a reputation up and down the country for his unique jugglers. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with

i'm in san francisco, ahead of the hearst building, once the headquarters of william randolph hearst, newspapermen extraordinary. a monster to some, but a hero in journalism because he was so pioneering. he built a great change, and to me, san francisco is not just the city where cable cars climb to the stars. it is also, for me, the center of a kind of energetic journalism pioneers in this building behind me. and in this tradition, we have the honor of talking to phil bronstein, who is an editor at large and a great crusading journalist with a reputation up and down the country for his unique jugglers. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with howard university television. and now the program, hosted by national columnist llewellyn king and co-host linda gasparello. >> we are back, and i'm happy to be joined by phil bronstein, one of america's great journalists, known all around the country and especially no to the public on the west coast. he has been a journalist in the bay area, san francisco, and an editor for many years. would you like to run over what you do

i think this is the ho of -- i thinkf this as the home of william randolph arst and his nepapers that would not have be if he oris newspapers had not me on the scene at the same time as electricit to turn his psses, to make type t ofead. i think first of electricity and of this really gre arican city, sentences go. i hope we can tell our viewers and show tm something intesting about the future of th because it affects every single o of us. >> hel, i'm llewellyn king, host of "white houschronicle," whicis coming right up, but first, a few thoughts my own. >> "white house chronicle"s produced in claboration with ut howard university television. and now, the proam host, national syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-ht, linda gasparel. >> i am joine by john easton from the eson electric institute for international affairs. in my book, maybe theest job in the organizatn. wellcome. >> good to be with you. >> there are two buzzwor aroundere. one is cap and trade. the other is altertive energy. inurope, these things e rather more advancedn some ways. germany s more alternative energy.

." >> in berkeley, california, last night, the granddaughter of william randolph hearst was abductedo men and a girl in a bizarre kidnapping. >> peat hearst, a 19-year-old college student, the third daughter of randolph and katherine hearst, kidnapped. a few days later, a tape recording was dropped off as a local radio station. >> mom, dad, i'm ok. i'm with a combat unit armed with automatic weapons and there's no way that i will be released until they let me go. >> the kidnappers are members of the terrorist group that calls it southwest the s.l.a. there was another recording later that was very different. peat said she had a new name. >> i've been given the name tania. >> two weeks later, tania made her debut. a bank in san francisco had just opened when armed band disburst through the front door announcing a hold-up and shouting that they were the s.l.a. front and center, the heiress, former known as peat. >> i heard her say she would shoot the first s.o.b. that did anything out of line. >> hearst insisted peat was still a victim. look at the photos, they said. look at the guns po

rockefeller, cornelius vanderbilt or william randolph hearst could ever have dreamed of having that amount of control. but despite his confessed eagerness to divest himself of his newfound unprecedented wealth, the world's richest man, president obama, seems reluctant to relinquish his vast holdings. i'm beginning to think he actually enjoys this, what i call obamanopoly. when taxpayers pick up the yellow or orange cards from the stacks, they will have to dig deeper to find this high stakes of obamanopoly. okay i realize that our president does not really personally own all this wealth and while i'm speaking tongue-in-cheek, my remarks do point to the very real serious consequences of an ever-expanding united states government. we are moving to -- and i might add tha that i care a great dear the president and i don't want to person lail offend him, but i think the point is made. we're moving toward what i have referred to as the europeanization of america. on the spectrum between anarchy and a centralized government invested with complete power and control, our current government is so far

washington, marcus garvey and william juan wrote trotter described harrison as the foremost african-american and looked in his in iraq with the same program. philip randolphrefers to harrison as do many others as the form father of her love radicalism. author schaumburg, the porter weaken bibliophile who was a pall bearer at harrison's massive harlem funeral, said that he felt harrison was ahead of his time and i think it is relevant because again, harrisons funeral world there were several thousand at his funeral suffuse popular that his time but much of what he says and rights has relevance i think for audiences still today. as a political activist terrorism's contributions were truly extraordinary. he played uniques signal rules in the largest class radical movement socialism and the largest race radical movement, the new negro slash car fi movement of his era and some historians say in u.s. history to that time. he was a leading black organizer, agitator and theoretician of the socialist party of new york. the founder of the new negro movement and its first organization, the liberty league and first newspaper, the waste. the editor of the movement's n