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>> what? >> paladino said he wouldn't bring up cuomo's personal life again. that didn't last long. >> in weeks the media badgered me about affairs because unlike a career politician, i was honest enough to acknowledge she was my daughter when i announced my candidacy. i meant to express was the media asks the interest of questions? andrew's prowess is legendary. >> wow. paladino's next target this past week was gay people. >> i just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and i don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. >> and my question is this, what explains the enormous amount of attention the media is allotting on candidates like paul paladino
MediaKarl-paladinoHe-wouldn-tAffairsCareer-politicianLifeAndrew-cuomoDidn-tQuestionsCandidacyInterestProwess evidence. christine o'donnell said so many eye-open things she's now a "saturday night live" character. why are these candidates soaking up so much coverage? everyone seems to be arguing about the new facebook movie but is it a documentary about mark zuckerberg's creation or a cinematic concoction of fact and fiction and nasty to women to boot? we'll ask the hollywood kaetor aaron sorkin. are books becoming an endanger eed species? a conversation about technology with the founder of mit's media lab, nicholas negroponte. a sports blog accuses quarterback brett favre of sexting a new york jets staffer and the rest of the media tackled the story. is this cash or trash? we'll ask the editor of "dead spin." i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." there are about 1,000 candidates running for the house, the senate and for governor this fall but the media seem obsess i havely interested in approximately three of them. they're all republicans who said sam fairly controversy yol or pretty strange things. you know about sharron angle saying she'd take out harry reid. chris tone o'donnell's pronouncements on everything from evolution to masturbation have become video classics and the latest object of journalistic fashionist is paladino, republican nominee for new york governor, a blustery fellow who acknowledged fathering a child out of wedlock, hurled unsubstantiated challenges against opponent andrew cuomo and reacted this way when he was asked if he had any evidence. >> if you want the appropriate names you'll get it. enyour' his counterpart right there. >> i'll take you out. >> how are you going to do that? >> what? >> paladino said he wouldn't bring up cuomo's personal life again. that didn't last long. >> in weeks the media badgered me about affairs because unlike a career politician, i was honest enough to acknowledge she was my daughter when i announced my candidacy. i meant to express was the media asks the interest of questions? andrew's prowess is legendary. >> wow. paladino's next target this past week was gay people. >> i just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and i don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. >> and my question is this, what explains the enormous amount of attention the media is allotting on candidates like paul paladino and christine o'donnell. joining me is amy holmes, thomas frank and in los angeles, jonathan mark, political reporter for politico.com. start with you, jonathan, does all deserve this avalanche of media coverage, does paul paladino? for some reason we're seeing an avalanche of coverage, little chance of winning and it's staggering, it's not good for an overall coverage of the campaign pledge. we have one from the colorado senate race, much more competitive and will be pivot ol for the u.s. senate. i don't get the fixation on sort of cheapening sound bites of o'donnell and paladino but it's not good for republicans. >> an easy sound bite i think we nailed it. am amy? >> a lot of it is self-inflicted and carl paladino and christine o'donnell are all fair unjo unorthodox candidates, they're unknown and the media is fascinated with the folks. a woman said in a campaign ad she put out i am not rich. she could venl have gotten more attention if she put it out earlier about masturbation. >> it's not a viable candidate. >> i agree with that. >> many competitive races across the country, one that is not competitive, by any standard. >> it makes a lot of sense, in terms of grand cultural architects. the bullying figure and i mean here we are on cable tv, they've got personality after personality after personality that play that same sort of character. this is immensely -- whether it's good politics. >> and suggesting that we are indulging our appetite, we're not necessarily endorsing that as a method. >> i think it's awful. that's who we are. that's america. this is what we find amusing. one other thing, there is is something else both of them are doing that's unusual in american politics, that is the talk about, o'donnell specifically says the working class, this is something they're testing a nerve that we don't ordinarily see. >> you know for example on "saturday night live" reminds me of tina fey doing sarah palin. >> hi, i'm christine o'donnell and i'm not a witch. besides, if i were a witch, why wouldn't i just cast a spell making all of you forget i'm a witch? it's certainly not the case and a lack of sufficient number of votes. >> it's great but i sense you are frustrated. 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[ male announcer ] e-trade. investing unleashed. it is easily the most hotly debated movie of the year, did mark zuckerberg and harvard pals denigrate women like that? is facebook a brilliant creation or pointless time sucker by a guy with no friends. is zuckerberg really such a jerk? >> you don't think i deserve your attention? >> there's no requirement i enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. you have part of my attention. you have the minimum amount. the rest of my tension is back at the offices of facebook where my colleagues are doing things no one in my room especially your clients are intellectually capable of doing. does that adequately answer your condescending question? >> aaron sorkin is the screen writer for the social network. i spoke to him earlier from los angeles. aaron sorkin welcome. >> good to be here. >> let's start with the way women are portrayed in this movie. as you know, one woman did a posting on the blog that's run by writer/producer ken levine and says in this film in her opinion, women are sex objects or stupid groupies. you responded on that blog. what is your side. >> well as i said to you it was a very smart post that woman made and very civil and very polite and that's why i wanted to respond to it. and i'll tell you what i told her, that i was writing about a very specific group of people who are ma sogenistic, see women as prizes or objects or one or the other. it's a group of angry people and one of the reasons they're angry, the cheerleader still wants to date the quarterback and doesn't want to date them. the cheerleader doesn't understand they're the ones running the universe right now. >> let me toss you a softball before we get the specifics. >> okay. >> why has this movie, and controversy is great, why has it sparked debate about zuckerberg and facebook? >> you know i don't know. i think that's for other people to say. i'm really glad that people are leaving the theater having these kinds of conversations about it. >> is it in part because there are conflicting accounts that you had to grapple with about just what went down and who was to blame? >> yeah, sure, that's one of the reasons, but that's part of what the movie is about, is that there were two lawsuits brought against feist baacebook at roug same time. they swore an oath and came out with three different versions of the same story. instead of picking one you an deciding that's the truth or picking another and deciding that's the sexiest i wanted to tell all three versions like it was a courtroom drama. the movie makes it clear when a fact is in dispute, that that fact is in dispute. facts are always being challenged in the deposition room scenes. >> right. this movie is based in part on a book by ben meserick. i interviewed him last year and asked him one scene in the book he goes past a couple making out and steals some computer data from the servers, and this is what he said. >> zuckerberg did not cooperate? >> i go back and forth between scenes that are definite exactly the way they happen and scenes where i say this is probably what happened. it's conjecture just like any other form of non-fiction. >> if it's conjecture in the book that doesn't seem to be all that reliable, how much of a dilemma was that for you? >> right, ben's book "the accidental billionaire" was one of many sources that were used to write the movie. obviously there would be no movie without ben's book. that scene you just described isn't in the movie. we did not in the movie go back and forth between fact and imagined scenes. i dramatized everything that was testified to in the deposition scenes. so you have to remember also that this movie was vetted by countless lawyers. it was vetted to within an inch of its life. i have a legal standard to rise to. i can't say something that's not true and defamatory at the same time. >> but help me to understand this, aaron, because i've read that you also invented a couple of characters. >> yes. >> it's not quite a documentary. >> it's not a documentary at all. it's a feature film and you know, remember that people don't speak in a dialogue, life doesn't lay in self out in a series of connected scenes that form a narrative. life isn't lit and scored. there is instead of having seven lawyers asking questions in the deposition room, i have one lawyer asking a question in a deposition room. i invented a lawyer, the charkt that rashita jones plays to be a stand-in for the audience. i did things like that, that don't at all change our perception of the characters or the events or the trajectory of the story. >> let me pick up -- >> in three instances i changed people's names. >> i can understand that. let me pick up on the business about the depositions because david kirkpatrick who wrote "the facebook effect" critiqued the film and says some of the snide putdowns were invented, some of them not. he also says there's no evidence that mark zuckerberg had sex in a bathroom stall which you had some fun with. >> um-hum. i'll take the deposition room scenes first. i have first of all i don't want to be coy or cagey about this but a lot of the research that i did and it falls into three categories, available research, you can go online and get mark zuckerberg's own blog from that night that gets dram tized at the beginning of the movie, then cartons and cartons of legal documents that i had specialists, lawyers and intellectual property lawyers and corporate lawyers walk me through. finally and most importantly the first person research, people i spoke to directly who were there, who were very close to the events, very close to the subject, most of them speaking to me on a condition of anonymity. >> right you function as a reporter, took this seriously and got the facts. >> when we showed that scene that you're talking about in the men's room, it's because somebody or more than one somebody who was there says it happened. >> okay. let me ask you about -- >> and the fact, if it is in dispute we have a character say no that's not what happened. >> let me ask you about zuckerberg's character. a lot of people shea this is more subjective, arrogant jerk in the movie and people to know him say that's not quite him. i'm wondering if it was a challenge for you. you have a main character who is kind of boring and doesn't make friends easily, ironically founder of facebook do you have to punch it up so people will go see the movie? >> well, i don't. i think that there are other directors, other studios and other actors who would be less brave than the ones i got to work with like david finch or jesse eisenberg and sony who would say you better start the movie off with a flashback of a 10-year-old mark zuckerberg being beaten by his father or something so that it's easier to like him or can he just be winking at the audience from time to time. we don't do that. what i do have to have as a writer is a great affection and respect for the character that i'm writing so i find the parts of him that are like me, and what i found is that i'm shy. i'm awkward in social situations, like a lot of people, i felt like i'm on the outside looking in, that i haven't been invited to the cool kids' table. i'm not as angry as mark was about it, but mark invented something that he needed. >> right, right, but you're definitely cool just by virtue of being on this program. before we go -- >> anybody who is with howard kurtz is cool. >> clearly. i have a poll that says that people 18 to 34 more likely to like facebook after seeing this. people over 50 generally soured on it. you have had an impact on facebook's reputation. has this changed your view of facebook. you were not an enthusiast before you began the project, were you? >> i was indifferent to facebook, and frankly, i am now in spite of spending the last two years with it, playing a big part in my life. i absolutely get why so many people, 500 million people would want to be on it, facebook or a country, the third largest country, if it were, in the world. there are a lot of things that aren't my cup of tea that the rest of the world loves. i'm not a huge soccer fan. it's the most popular sport in the world. >> thanks for coming in. we can't be friends online -- >> we can be friends in real life. thanks for having me. >> thank you. page turner nicholas negroponte says paperless publications are on the way out and hypermedia on the way in. a candid conversation with a digital pioneer straight ahead. 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>> yes. >> what makes you so confident? >> because the physical medium cannot be distributed to enough people. think of the fact that -- >> worked pretty well for 500 years. >> for a limited number of people. when you go to africa and let's say half a million people want books, you can't send the physical thing. when we ship with our laptop books to a village, we put 100 books on a laptop but we also send 100 laptops in, each with 100 different books. that village now has 10,000 books. this is an african village without electricity. so that's the future. >> so here is the amazon kindle, with hold 3,000 books depending on the model and recently, more books were sold for the kindle than other paper variety. >> yes. >> you see this train leaving the station as far as the guttenberg variety? >> it's leaving the station the same way the cell phones did. cell phones were popular in cambodia, uganda because they didn't have phones. we had phones and late to the table. the developing world is going to do exactly the same thing with ebooks, they are going to adopt the ebooks faster than we do because they don't have anything else. >> do you have any whiff of nostalgia for the passing of the hardback era? >> in fact no. i find it more pleasant to read certainly newspapers, i travel actually with both the hard copy of "the wall street journal" and the ipad version, and on takeoff and landing they don't let me use the ipad so i'm using the paper one and when i get down i put the paper one down. the ipad experience is much, much better. i don't want to read the paper. >> except that when you read a newspaper, and you leaf through the sections you sometimes see stories you didn't know you were interested in that you might not search for on the screen. >> it turns out -- they happen to have done an extremely good job. your peripheral vision, which is what a big sheet of paper engages, which does have the serendipity and does indeed attract you sometimes to the stories, that peripheral vision is missing. but they've done a reasonably good job to list the concurrent stories and you get attracted by the headline. it's not as good but it's still a better experience because i can go deeper, i can get the pictures in a much richer color, turn them into videos, i can do lots of things. >> as long as your battery doesn't run out. you've seen the evolution of a personalized news product, you call the daily me. what is the daily me going to look like? >> first of all the daily meade was 30 years ago we proposed it. going to look different at 7:00 on a weekday than at 3:00 in the afternoon on a sunday, for the same reason you just brought up. on a sunday afternoon you want serendipity. 7:00 in the morning serendipity doesn't play quite as much of a role in my life. i'd like to know the news, the headline news, maybe the news about some of the people i'll see that day. >> you can tell your news diet and i can do the same. >> um-hum. >> to what, things that interest us? >> a combination, more it's not so much just things that interest us so if we're republicans we're going to get republican information or whatever. it's more relating it to where we're going, so for instance in my daily me, if you had been at the news this morning for something, it would have come up in my edition this morning, not because of anything other than the fact that i'm seeing you right now, and it would sbbeen interesting to know that. >> is there any danger as we all have more and more news feeds tailored to our blackberries, our smartphones, ipads, that we limit what we consume to, we weed out contrary opinions, we weed out things we don't think we're interested in but might be interested in if somebody wrote something interesting about it? >> the risk is much lower than the gain that you get by being more attracted to -- if you have like, think of your screen as having a knob that is to change the point of view. i want a different point of view than mine. i can actually do that. >> "the web is dead" do you agree with that, the cover of "wired" magazine? >> i've heard about that issue. no the web is not there. >> how much technology do you consume, e-mail, blogs, news alerts in your daily life? is it overwhelming? >> no, it's not overwhelming. partly because i've gotten very good at ignoring a certain amount of it. >> what do you mean ignoring? people send an e-mail want a response in ten minutes. >> they may not get one. you have to be able to sort of modulate these things and i think of the technology more as you know, liberating. a specific example, people say i want to go off for one week on my summer vacation and be completely disconnected. i say yeah but what if you could go for two weeks and be connected, and it's only sort of 30 minutes a day, or looking at headlines, maybe it's an hour a day. >> you have to control your diet or else you can be swallowed by this stuff. you can spend hours and hours and hours swimming in it. >> absolutely. >> there's times when even you disconnect briefly? 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"new york times" columnist writing "snarky, mean spirited and unbound by more rigorous principles of old line journalism." a lot of mainstream media criticism of you, over the favre story. what is your reaction? >> i don't take that as a criticism. richa richard's been very good about the adjectives described so i think that's a back-handed compliment in some way. you'll declare victory on that one. you first wrote about this story in august after conversations you had with jenn sterger. she didn't want her name attached to this, wanted the favre story out. you attached her name and published private e-mail correspondence between you and her. why? was that unfair to her? >> i would say that in some way it is probably was unfair looking back on it but you have to kind of remember this conversation did go on for a long period of time. she was at first willing to kind of release the information to us, and just but without her name attached to it and then as time went on i basically said to her, look, there are other people that do know about the story, and you've told other people about the story. i want to push ahead with the story and here's your warning, it's coming out do you want to participate or not. i got what i thought was basically you know, her approval on the fact of going ahead with that and then we did, and here we are right now. >> it sounds like you feel a little guilty though. >> well, look, i mean i had said to a couple people at the end of this, if there are two scum bags in the situation, myself and brett favre i'd be okay. jenn, i kind of forced her hand on this situation but thought it was a big enough story we needed to pursue it. >> when you got the text and the pictures allegedly from favre to jenn sterger, did you pay for that material? >> yes, i did. yes, we did. we paid for, this is the third thing we've ever paid for on our site and i had no problem paying for this. >> you didn't pay jenn sterger, you paid somebody else who provided this to you? >> we paid a third party, yes, jenn sterger had nothing to do with this. >> fair amount of money would you say? >> i would say it's more than we've ever paid for anything, but it was not a ridiculous amount of money. >> not a ridiculous amount of money? >> no. >> once you had these pictures of the male organ that may or may not belong to brett favre why was that necessary to publish that, get your traffic up? >> i don't think necessarily if you pib lished pictures of a male organ it indicates it's going to have more traffic to it. i was thinking about if this does exist and these, we had talked about it, we kind of have to show it and we did do it in a video form, where it flashes on the screen very, very quickly, but you know, we are a website that has published pictures that are kind of considered indecent before and i just thought this was kind of adding to the story and at least adding to the evidence that was out there. >> come on, you knew that would attract a lot more attention for deadspin. >> who? who would it attract. i mean, >> to who would it attract? the thing is, i don't know if there's that big a market publishing pictures of male genitalia out there. we've kind of done it before in the past like an eye rolling approach to it. and in this case, i really just think it was kind of important to the story. but it was done very, very quickly. we do have an uncensored version of the video available as well. so it is part of the story, but it's not the whole thing that drove this story and made it popular. >> let me point out that brett favre has not commented directly on these allegations. he's apologized to his current team, the minnesota vikings. the nfl investigated and that enabled a lot of other media organizations to jump on the story because they had that. were you 100% sure at the time you published this that was, in fact, brett favre? >> i was 100% confident that his involvement was in it in some ways. my concern was the myspace messages. >> that he sent to jen? >> yeah. but we did get kind of independent verification from people who do know brett favre a lot better than you or i do that that was, in fact, his voice and there are some people who have seen brett favre in the locker room and did tell us that, you know, that was brett favre. >> so i wasn't going to go there, but you just went there. a.j. dlaurio, thank you very much for joining us. >> you're quite welcome. still to come, helen thomas breaks her silence about those remarks about israel. reporters salivate over a strange twist in the chilean mining rescue. and bill o'reilly sparks a television walkout. the media monitor is next. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's luxury with fire in its veins. bold. daring. capable of moving your soul. ♪ and that's even before you drop your foot on the pedal. ♪ the new 2011 cts coupe from cadillac. the new standard of the world. 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"chicago tribune" editor gerald kern called it offense and abrams apologized, well, at least to everyone who was oftened. abrams was suspended indefinitely without pay and on friday he resigned. the company said shortly before he quit that this is the kind of serious mistake that can't be tolerated. and i would agree. but it seems like there was an atmosphere at this bankrupt corporation that led some executives to believe such sexist garbage would be tolerated. here's an interesting case study in the seemingly sincere apology. it was nearly five months ago that helen thomas resigned from her newspaper after delivering a blunt message to the israelis while being videotaped by a rabbi. >> tell them to get the hell out of palestine. >> ohh. any better comments than that? >> helen is blunt. >> remember, these people are occupied, and it's their land, not german, it's not poland. >> so where should they go? what should they do? >> go home. >> where's their home? >> poland. >> so you're saying jews should go back to poland and germany? >> and america. >> thomas said she was sorry and pretty much disappeared. this week she broke her silence with scott spears of ohio station wmrn. >> i hit the third rail. you cannot criticize israel in this country and survive. >> now, hold on. plenty of people in this country from administration officials to, yes, jewish volunteereds, criticize israel. what they don't do is tell them to abandon their own country. there was more. >> i want people to understand why you made this comment. >> because it's the truth. >> okay. tell me why it's the troous. >> because the israelis are very aggressive. they have refused to enforce or go along with some 356 u.n. resolutions condemning their cruelty to the palestinians. jewish-only roads. can you believe, in the west bank? you think any american would tolerate that? >> so if helen thomas believes she was right, why did she apologize? she said in the interview that i had to because everyone was so upset. now, i guess, she's taking it back. the saturation coverage of the chilean mining rescue was captivating. a disaster with a happy ending, even if some cable kept yammering rather than letting the pictures tell the story. the whole world seemed buoyed by the outcome. but there was one plot twist that got little attention from most of the media and huge headlines in the new york tablo tabloids. "he's all mine," it screamed. this was yonny barrios as he was embraced by his mistress as his clearly miffed wife stayed home. now the mistress says she's scared away a second girlfriend. and first, i found bill o'reilly's comment on "the view" offensive, because he did appear to be blaming all people who follow a religion for the actions of a few extremisextrem. but then, watch what happened next. >> what are you talking about?! >> muslims killed us on 9/11. >> i don't want to sit here now. i don't. i'm out. >> you're outraged about muslims killing us on 9/11? >> so whoopi goldberg and joy behar took a hike and barbara walters was the only voice of reason. >> i want to say something to all of you. you have just seen what should not happen. we should be able to have discussions without
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