as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn t. and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. back, back! cnn has assignment editors on the ground in cairo. amir ahmed joins us now. you re an egyptian, you were born in egypt. have you ever seen ever quite like this? reporter: the last time i saw anything like this was back in 1977, long before hosni mubarak took charge.
remember reagan saying to gorbachev tear down this wall. in 1989 the wall comes down, and the story behind that is an administrator announced on the radio that the wall was down, but, in fact, it wasn t yet. so you had all these people rampaging to tear down the wall. and eventually, it did come down, and then 1990 is the reunification. let s think 20 years ago. that s not a very long time ago, is it? it s the year nelson mandela was released, 1990. but up until then, you had a stark division between east and west germany, and ben brumfield, who s one of the assignment editors at cnn international, on the international desk, was saying he remembers going to east berlin and what it was like to live in this oppressive communist dictatorship. he remembers somebody who wanted a washing machine. if you wanted a washing machine, you had to apply and get the washing machine through a whole process. you had the people s police, who would spy on you.
african-americans are delivering straight news. we haven t even touched on the network newscasts where there has not been, as carole says, and she was in the anchor chair. let me tie up this by asking you, carole simpson, both of our other guests have mentioned shirley sherrod. there was the controversy over the new black panther party, the justice department case, acorn, skip gates in your city, cambridge, being arrested in his own home. how do you think blacks are covered in the age of obama? not well. and i think it s because of the lack of black input. i don t know what s happening on the assignment desks. i don t know what s happening in the producer ranks. the people that we don t see that make the decisions. and without input from black producers and from black executives and from black assignment editors you re going to get a white perspective on these stories and that s not always an accurate one. it s good to have multiple perspectives especially when it comes to
in 177 million. so jackie, congratulations. those assignment editors work so hard! that s it for the daily rundown. next, peter alexander. then at 1:00, don t miss andrea mitchell reports. an exclusive today, general george petraeus. we re on satellite radio. you can take us on the road, sirius 90, xm 120 and please follow us on twitter@chucktodd,@savannah guthrie and go to msnbc for an online version of the show. we ll see you tomorrow. good thursdays morning to you. here s your business travel forecast. i m meteorologist bill karins. rain moving through pennsylvania into new york state and all through new england later this afternoon. also, rain and snow back here in montana in the dakotas. at logan airport, a chance of