bill: unresolved problem segment tonight. come to the conclusion that there will never be media fairness in the country again. it s done. just too much money to be made in the partisan precincts. i base my opinion on the decline of hard news reporting and here is a great example how the media covers the tea party as opposed to the occupy wall street folks. joining us from washington tympanogram from the media see search center a group which recently did a study comparing network news coverage of the tea party and the occupy wall street guys. what s the headline, tim? there is dramatic amount of early coverage. we have seen in the first 11 days of protests 33 stories on the morning and evening shows on abc, cbs, and nbc which auto would average out to basically each network having a story every day. you look at the tea party back in 2009, we counted 13 stories in the entire year of 2009.
impact of trillions. blogger jeff jarvis stirs up a storm by hurling an obscenity. the reporter whose story prompted david wu to resign over a sex scandal. should he have relied on unnamed sources? i m howard kurtz and this is reliable sources. it would be comical if it weren t so serious. washingtonality its worst as all of us in the news business trying to keep up with a story that changes by the hour. the senate scheduled to vote today at 1:00 p.m. to avoid a crippling default. look at the rolling news coverage suggests one inescapable conclusion, we often aren t sure what s going on either the countdown continues, american anger and anxiety keep building as the politicians let another day go by without a deal on the flash debt. it is one week and counting to august 2nd, the day the president says the government will run out of money and, among other things, will have to stop sending out social security checks. we are not yet in the end game. we are still in the bl
uncovered here. that s what we do here. let s run down the stories. you think that van jones, a man personally known to the obamas who is appointed to a job that is fairly serious, developing environmental jobs for americans, it comes out that is he a marxist and that he believes that 9/11 might have been an inside job. this is a high-ranking official in the white house. you don t think this is rates network news coverage, kirsten? no, i don t. bill: you don t? no. the world is a messy place, bill there are people all over the place who sometimes say whacky things. bill: that s true and i pointed that out. yeah. but you don t believe that the american public has a right to know who the green caesar is and what his background is? they don t have a right to know that? they shouldn t be told by the press. i suppose they have a right to go. if they want to go and look in the blagg spear it s all over the place. in terms whether it s a news story for you or for like katie co
uncovered here. that s what we do here. let s run down the stories. you think that van jones, a man personally known to the obamas who is appointed to a job that is fairly serious, developing environmental jobs for americans, it comes out that is he a marxist and that he believes that 9/11 might have been an inside job. this is a high-ranking official in the white house. you don t think this is rates network news coverage, kirsten? no, i don t. bill: you don t? no. the world is a messy place, bill there are people all over the place who sometimes say whacky things. bill: that s true and i pointed that out. yeah. but you don t believe that the american public has a right to know who the green caesar is and what his background is? they don t have a right to know that? they shouldn t be told by the press. i suppose they have a right to go. if they want to go and look in the blagg spear it s all over the place. in terms whether it s a news story for you or for like katie co
uncovered here. that s what we do here. let s run down the stories. you think that van jones, a man personally known to the obamas who is appointed to a job that is fairly serious, developing environmental jobs for americans, it comes out that is he a marxist and that he believes that 9/11 might have been an inside job. this is a high-ranking official in the white house. you don t think this is rates network news coverage, kirsten? no, i don t. bill: you don t? no. the world is a messy place, bill there are people all over the place who sometimes say whacky things. bill: that s true and i pointed that out. yeah. but you don t believe that the american public has a right to know who the green caesar is and what his background is? they don t have a right to know that? they shouldn t be told by the press. i suppose they have a right to go. if they want to go and look in the blagg spear it s all over the place. in terms whether it s a news story for you or for like katie co