major news outlet breathlessly reports that donald trump is on the verge of a big endorsement. we don t expect him to say he is running for president, but politico and others are saying he is ready to back newt gingrich. hours later the donald backs romney. how did the press get it so wrong? plus, facebook files for a monster public offering. is sharing information with your friends now more powerful than the mega corporations of the media? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. at a time the votes were counted in florida this week, the pundits have decided that mitt romney had all but wrapped up the republican nomination. newt gingrich might keep the race interesting, or so they hope, but have no real chance to win. romney hit the television circuit for what was supposed to be a victory lap, and the man who once said i enjoy being able to fire people, did it again. or did he? here is the exchange on cnn. by the way, i m in this race because i care about am
interesting to watch why are so many conservative commentators ganging up on gingrich? president obama s state of the union draws the usual wall to wall television coverage. good evening. while our focus in primetime here in washington tonight will be the president s state of the union address before a joint session of congress at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. to be fair, the attention hasn t been on the president, not for months. within a day the story fades. has the media s attention span grown too short? plus, the new york times reports that a former yale football star withdrew from potential road scholarship after a student filed an informal complaint accusing him of sexual assault. no charges ever filed. is that out of balance? why did the yale daily news sit on the story? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. if the final days before the primary, newt gingrich needed another strong debate performance to overtake mitt romney. the presidential debates, a
exclusive interview. then we ll go on a tour around the world with a global panel. neil ferguson, mubani and khanfar. also, how in the world did one of the world s greatest sellers in the global bazaar lose its mojo? i ll explain. but first, here s my take. president obama spoke forcefully in his state of the union about the importance of reviving manufacturing in america. if you talk with economists, they ll tell you it s a very complex problem. involving taxes, trade, regulatory policy, exchange rates, educational skills. it is all of those things. but when you move from high-level policy to specific cases, you ll often find one element that is rarely talked about, a government s role in boosting its domestic manufactur manufacturers. in a front-page story last week, the new york times detailed how apple s iphone ended up being made outside america. the times wrote about the apple executives who visited a factory in china to see if it could cut the glass precisely f
gingrich s ex-wife on the eve of the primary, reviving the issue of infidelity, and newt denounces cnn s john king for using that report to lead off a deba dein south carolina. i astounded that cnn who take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. was that a mistake by cnn? was the abc story itself a late hit, repeating charges that marianne gingrich first made long ago? we ll ask the correspondent, abc s brian ross. fox s juan williams draws flack at another debate for challenging the candidates with a series of race-related incidents including this one with gingrich. can t you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to all americans, but particularly to black americans? was he acting as a journalist, or an advocate? plus, the new york times ombudsman hit by a media firestorm after asking whether his paper should be a vigilante for truth? we ll ask art brisbane why his column touched a nerve. i m hourt kurtz, and this is reliable sourc
primary. i m fredricka whitfield. fareed zakaria gps starts right now. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. first up, private equity. the words are on everyone s lips thanks to mitt romney. we ll sit down with one of the inventors private equity, the co-pounder of the legendary carlyle group, david rubenstein. then i have a lot to talk about with an all-star panel. ariana huffington, steve rattner, david frum and mort zuckerman. next up, what do the shipyard in tahrir square have in common? a lot. first, here s my take. i spent the last few weeks working on an essay for time magazine on barack obama s foreign policy. and in association with that piece, i interviewed the president last wednesday in the oval office. let me give you a few of my thoughts and impressions. obama seemed relaxed, calm, confident. i asked him about mitt romney s attacks on him as indecisive, timid and nuance