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1 in 88. i'm jamie mcmurray, and my niece has autism. learn more at autismspeaks.org/signs. >> the newtown shootings borne four months of heavy media coverage and a failed congressional effort of expanding background checks. a vote that president obama called a shameful day, but has the press been rooting for congress to pass legislation on gun control and other social issues? i spoke earlier with ross douthat a conservative columnist for the "new york times." >> ross douthat, welcome.

Let's have an honest conversation about that. when you talk about deciding who gets to be in the conversation and where it goes i think that's where you lose me. because now you are kind of using code words to say journalists are cooking the books so to speak in leading the conversation. >> on immigration. i mean, again, it is tricky, right, but because as you say there are republicans in favor of immigration reform as well as democrats. but it's also the case if you look at where it is a bipartisan push for immigration reform coming from? it is coming from the wall street wing of the republic...

You choose as the issue where you choose to crusade on, right? so press looks at newtown and says, well, this is a moment when we need to lead a national conversation on gun control. the press is less likely to look at the goznell trial and say let's have a national conversation on abortion because it's an issue that's more likely to make the press a little bit uncomfortable because i don't think it is any secret that most people who work in our profession lean pro choice and lean liberal on social issues. so again, it's not -- the issue is not that we shouldn't have a crusading press. it woul...