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get really, really big audiences. it is still possible if you put on a great drama or an event that everybody is talking about to get an audience in the millions. and very serious programs and serious news programs still get huge audiences. so it hasnt been damaging. what i think is great is that bbc parliament is an example but there are others, there is genuinely more choice now and people can pursue their interests much more easily. before we were just telling them what to watch. >>...

side and against the other side and i thought it better not to do that. it was a private matter and i discovered another -- other journalists have the same practice and i assumed for roughly the same reason. my wife describes it as one of the dumber things that i do. she has a long list of dumb things i do. >> why does she think that? >> she thinks that you want to add a -- exercise your right as a citizen. she probably thinks that you have a bias for and against certain people and cer...

of the best campaigners in a long time. president obama is going to have $8 million to run his campaign. that is the only way they can overcome what is going to be a huge disparity. host: you write that the nominee will be sapped of financial resources. the defeated candidates will make the nominee look vulnerable at the wrong time. guest: the arguments that democrats and republicans make in washington is that a contested primary means the winner will emerge a bruised and bloodied and ...

a happy -- i visited him a few years ago. while i had seen the overhead, the contest is greater overtime. what we saw on the ground was the same thing the vitality. the sparkle, the children, it is still alive. there was a poverty of spirit. a dullness. in our hotel room, what we saw there was video, newsreels of soldiers in north korea. that is what they showed those people -- americans in north korea. that was their excuse for not having enough food for people. the americans would be...

my definition of a mid westerner. that is pushing get a little bit. [laughter] i suppose justice thomas thinks i am being rude if i interrupt and some of my colleagues do as well. it is not in a rude way. we have an important job to do. we have to get information from the lawyers. we have a short amount of time. they only have half an hour to argue. you get interrupted after the first minute. i am sure we do that as well. if you have not been to the supreme court, i encourage you to go...

i cannot tell it you how much i value the work i do in trying to bring this across to the children of south africa and all of africa. jane, you are incredible. i love you so much. thank you very much. [applause] >> i have noticed that we have ever friend on the table. people may not know the story of a girlfriend -- of our friend. he is 15 years old. he was loved so much. his home is in england in my bedroom. he was given to me by an extraordinary man, one of my many heroes. he was in ...

women to get into politics. they are out there and ready to go. this is the generation that could change this culture. half of this women are women of -- half of these women are women of different racial groups. the young women of america are out there. they are excited. they want to lead. i want to tell you some other stuff about them. if you want to change the culture, yet to build a culture. if we do not dance at this level, we do not dance. we have been using the film "fair game" t...

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we are live on the air. we have an official conversation with vladimir putin. i would like to start by thanking people for calling in and putting their questions from the prime minister, who has received a great many of them. the prime minister wants to hear firsthand about what the government is doing. todays conversation will go back to 2010. each of us will also do the same. we will never be able to forget the wild fires that raged throughout central russia. others will remember thi...

host: if you called us in the last month, put the phone down today. send us a message electroncally. our e-male address is journal @ c-span.org and on twitterc-span wj. the top stories of 2010, "the mass yiffer gulf oil spill triggered at a rig used by bp was the top news story of 2010 followed by the did i vicive health care overhaul. the oil spill received 150 ballots cast for the top 10 stories. the health care bill was next. the u.s. election was third. here is how they ranked them...