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Every day mcdonalds helps more people go to college. its part of our commitment to being americas best first job. ♪ all right, protests happening right now in st. louis for a third day after the ea quital of an ex-police officer. last nights protests started peacefully with tensions boiled over after some demonstrators refused to disperse and confr t confronted police directly. ryan young is live in st. louis. how are things looking now? >> reporter: fredricka, you know how much a difference...

Hyper aware of the press that covers him and watching cable news. i mean, swedens a prime example, hes watching fox, got that information and went to this rally and said it. how does that stack up to past presidents and how much they consume of the media that covers them? >> thats not new. lindened johnson used to have all three networks running in the oval office so he could see how he was being covered ed on issues like vietnam. he was destroyed when walter cronkite turned against the war and ...

Journalism gets all kinds of subsidies and chris hughes was a really good guy to subsidize the new republic. >> for however long is that subsidy lasted. >> he has plenty of money for it to lose a million or two which is what it was losing when he took it over and instead it has blown up. it is very sad to me. i started my career there so i have a huge amount of noftalgia for it. it was one of the few places where people went to have their opinions challenged and confr t confront confronted. not ...

Something about the culture of think tanks. contrary to what people think especially when theyre confr t confronted with information from the other side, think tanks are not these monolithic party organ for one party or the other. they are think tanks. and they involve a lot of differences of opinion. they involve a lot of different approaches whether were talking brookings or whatever. when youre confronted with information from the other side, you tend to accuse, well, that think tank is reall...