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washington, d.c., a discussion on the future of journalism and digital media. npr host robert see gal moderates a discussion with panelists from reuters, voice of america, google, and the academic world. this is an hour and a half. >> good morning, everyone. i'm jim duff here at the museum and it's my distinct pleasure to welcome you all here. it's an hon fornor for us to host such a wonderful event, the 50th anniversary celebration that you're all participating in at the columbia journalism review. and it just gives us all the more credibility in what we're doing here to host wonder...

and yet that is the foundational legal document, that is the equivalent of the first amendment on the global stage. and our ignorance about how to make this debate happen on a global stage i think is very troubling. >> so we're talking about debates, values, ideas, laws, all very good. but i think we have to remember it's also about vested interests. so it's not just about nicely, in clear language with good arguments explaining to the chinese why american values are correct. this is very threatening to regimes that are very powerful. and that's why they don't want it. >> what we sup...

companies of which news is only one very small part of their business. and, you know, certainly that my former employer was this way, where it sort of went from a family company to being something where the stock price was paramount and ratings were paramount. and so part of it, i think, is not necessarily only, is it public-private funding, but what kind of private funding? and is it a private funding that takes a long-term view? and that considers news to be a public trust? or is it the kind of public funding that only cares about quarterly earnings? and i think that's also part of...

people who are allowed to report the news and if you're not given a badge or a card you can't report the news and it's illegal and you're -- you know, and you can be arrested. and so we have to make sure as we're having this conversation because as lee rightly points out this is really a global context for media that we're not saying, okay, there's only certain types of people who are allowed to be journalists, who are allowed to commit journalism and any other way of conducting journalism somehow is irresponsible, bad for the public, and should be shunned. we have to be careful abou...

those budgets focused on entitlement spending. focused on discretionary spending and revenues. those the pieces that have to be part of an effective plan to reduce the deficit, and when one party decides to go after one area as opposed to others and the other parties does the same thing, that's the kind of gridlock that prevents the kind of necessary action that this country has to take to reduce the deficit. >> one follow-up. would you be one of the senior aides that would recommend that legislation be vetoed, because it's one-sided? the white house put out a staff to that effect. >...