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Advance his politics. he saw a business opportunity tla there was a market for conservative tv, this was his chance to get back of the liberals and elites that had stepped on him. roger ailes was the single most controversial person in america. if you want to understand why our politics are the way they are, roger ailes explains that. >> this is ailes bashing cnn. >> take a listen. >> cnn have a spike in the rating and thats just not good for us. now they have three times as many employees and f...

Invest in investigative reporters and foreign bureaus have been closed down and they need to be reopened. a private owner with the kind of wealth that jeff has, jeff bezos has, can really make a huge difference. >> cnn political contributor, david gergen, who once worked for the nixon white house and came to know kathryn graham and editor, ben bradley, says bezos can afford make mistakes, but the mistakes are still high. >> if it had not been ben or kay, there would have been no woodward and ber...

Their circulation is down and subscriptions are down and everything is moving to the web. as web version may need an ombudsman. >> but a shout out to margaret sullivan. she did raise questions about the kessler versus john burger coverage that we talked about last week. we need them but do we need them more than national bureaus or foreign bureaus? >> jon: good question. that is going wrap for this week. thanks to our panel. im jon scott. thanks for joining us. keep it right here on fox news cha...

Is almost intentionally trying not to put this together? >> no. i think first of all, news organizations dont have the money to staff. they have obliterated most of the foreign bureaus. so have you to rely on papers like the new york times, that can afford to put people in place. they have done a pretty good job with one piece this week, in which they sent mathew rosenberg, to a combat outpost to sort of investigate what happened because there were americans killed there, by afghan troops, that ...

These media folks who probably should be prescribed ritalin to calm them down a witness. >> well, also, i have to agree with jehmu on this. when you look at this, 147,000 votes, 137-- 147,000 people turn out, and look at news rooms covering, theyve cut back coverage of everything else, everything else, local and state legislatures, city council meetings, foreign bureaus all being slashed and everyone can find money to send more than one person to iowa. and 1500 reporters, what was this about? >>...

These media folks who probably should be prescribed ritalin to calm them down a witness. >> well, also, i have to agree with jehmu on this. when you look at this, 147,000 votes, 137-- 147,000 people turn out, and look at news rooms covering, theyve cut back coverage of everything else, everything else, local and state legislatures, city council meetings, foreign bureaus all being slashed and everyone can find money to send more than one person to iowa. and 1500 reporters, what was this about? >>...

These media folks who probably should be prescribed ritalin to calm them down a witness. >> well, also, i have to agree with jehmu on this. when you look at this, 147,000 votes, 137-- 147,000 people turn out, and look at news rooms covering, theyve cut back coverage of everything else, everything else, local and state legislatures, city council meetings, foreign bureaus all being slashed and everyone can find money to send more than one person to iowa. and 1500 reporters, what was this about? >>...

These media folks who probably should be prescribed ritalin to calm them down a witness. >> well, also, i have to agree with jehmu on this. when you look at this, 147,000 votes, 137-- 147,000 people turn out, and look at news rooms covering, theyve cut back coverage of everything else, everything else, local and state legislatures, city council meetings, foreign bureaus all being slashed and everyone can find money to send more than one person to iowa. and 1500 reporters, what was this about? >>...

Pro choice. i own four copies, one for each of my own embarassing birthmarks. and our "new york times" correspondent. good to see you, pinch. >> what is all of this bally hoo about don lemon announcing he is gay? im gay. im gay about the fact that they have foreign bureaus. i am gay over the pulitzers and peabodys. what else? oh im gay for paul krug man. >> and you hooked up with theville village boys once. >> lets not discuss that. >> in a mens room jie. he drew me in with the ads in the back. ...

To cover these stories, correct? >> yeah. very hard. in 1972 i covered the earthquake in in nick gra and a thousand people dead. a quarter of a million people homeless. and in those days she shot the story on film. we have to figure out a way to get it out of a paralyzed country. paralyzed lie the earthquake. to get the film to miami. i dont even know how we did it. maybe we gave it to a flight attendant. in those days you could do it. they bring it to miami and meet at the other end. today, bil...