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Decades rue pursuant murdoch has taken major, major gambles. in the 70s, the times of london. in the 80s, broadcast network. in the 90s the fox news channel and 00s bought the wall street journal. for the teams this is a major bid and people who despise fox or the news corporation or for ideological reasons or rivalry reasons, wants the-- >> this is the coolest thing since the introduction of television. this is where everything is headed and the key though is whether it can be mon adverti-- mon...

Washington or new york. and then when news is performed its lack of context, its reliance on generalizations. and its lack of facts. they arrive and parachute to a story and nobody told them where the country is. a lot of it is due to budget cuts. old story. major budget cut at the three broadcast network, abc alone said to be 27%. another is a star-ridden system. like katie couric. much is made of her salary, of course. but the pretend journalists makes supposedly $300,000 a week. it doesnt eve...

Waged against you. use your twitter account. congressman charles rangel audio tweeted for 54 seconds about the accusations telling his supporters that i just wont stop fighting. rangel hopes the ethics committee process moves forward without a rush to judgment and that hes discovered some of the mistakes that hes made. well talk about this with david brody, the white house correspondent for the christian broadcast network. david, any way for rangel to rangle out of this mess? >> reporter: i love...

Trying to decide whats indecent and whats not. used to go with george carlins seven dirty words very clever, the court said new ways to say things. at some point, the problem is the problem the fcc was censoring political speech, bs in its full form is political speech not sexual no one in your audience is excited when i say it, not scatological. should be a show on this note net work called "no more bs" the slowingen of howard sterns news team. >> we will take that under leviadon council, three...

Fine and fined them and said you cant do that. well, nbc and the other broadcast network banded together. >> including fox. >> exactly. all the others said you cant do that. yesterday, the second u.s. circuit court of appeals said you know what? you cant do that. >> you cant do to that the broadcast networks because they said that the f.c.c. rule was unconstitutional and essentially was an impediment to the first amendment. >> so what does that mean for all of us? it means we might be hearing mo...

Hes been sort of sidelined by other tagiers, so i hadnt heard him as a clown but as someone who is not a major player. that is something ive heard before. >> youre a top reporter for the major broadcast network and major cable here, you should get access that no one else should get. were you amazed that "rolling stone" a countercultural magazine founded in the 60s against the war in vietnam, if you think about it, got this incredible wall-to-wall access with the top guy in afghanistan sph. >> it...

Do? at the end of the day, what is afghanistan supposed to look like? are we supposed to fight the taliban? are we supposed to build a government? are we supposed to fight corruption? all of them at the same time? whats the end state, and i think its this lack of clarity that has some people here frustrated but not -- it was still surprising to see the general quoted in such a way. >> what i was struck by back here is the attitude towards jim jones, the director of national security, a man of tr...

Flirted over the years are again talking about a possible editorial alliance, according to new york magazine and the "new york times." that would provide a cable outlet for the broadcast networks high-priced talent and perhaps give a boost to cnn, which has face deed kleining ratings, especially if prime time. time warner chairman not denike the reports, telling investors that a partnership with a news outlet which could also mean abc, is "entirely possible in the next few months." if you see ka...

Hollywood. three, it never would have happened without the blessing of george lopez. "extra" learned that lopez called conan personally and said do this deal. im okay with it. because as you just said, he currently occupies that 11:00 time slot. but its a win-win for everyone. tbs, conan and george who has a successful show but now will have the lead in of conan. >> larry: and tbs in 95% of the homes. what do you make of this? zbln paper, it doesnt look as sexy as saying youre working for a broa...

Currently occupies that 11:00 time slot. but its a win-win for everyone. tbs, conan and george who has a successful show but now will have the lead in of conan. >> larry: and tbs in 95% of the homes. lynnette, what do you make of this? >> on paper it probably doesnt say something sexy as saying youre working for a broadcast network like fox. and this deal wouldnt have been made possible had they been able to work a deal with fox. fox had the problem of trying to convince the stations to clear th...