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well, for nearly all in beijing for cnn. the bureau chief. almost raised to that task taken been taking by academic parents to beijing as child and put into public schools an went on to report at bureau chief in tokyo and now is a senior fellow at the new america foundation. her book "consent of the network" examines the very challenges that we'll be addressing here. holding a copy there. lee ballenger, you've made the most explicit proposal for how we should address journalism in the digital age. give us briefly your diagnosis of the problem and what the solution should be. >> sure....

it's the professional standards that develop. it's the ability to shift some of those resources. it's the give and take of ideas. >> we should note some other elite universities are toying awfully close with the model that you just described. as a tiny fraction. >> tiny fraction. >> you're not going to do your reading without a deadline anyway. >> let's look at one more video. this is from greece. i think you'll get the picture here. i'm beginning to see that the large crowd demonstration, maybe with security forces nearby, is to sort of viral news videos what the fire at night is fo...

happened to the media that says it's all worse than it used to be in the golden age of the '70s and '80s is very much one that comes from the news room is of "the washington post," the "l.a. times," maybe the "new york times." it's not necessarily one that comes from what people experience. and something i think about a lot, it's also i think a very coastal even sort of a corridor narrative. i grew up in a small town in northern alberta. what we could read when i was a kid was "peace river record gazette," our local paper once a week. listen to cbc. and "edmonton journal," delivered ...

honest in its attempt to present straightforward, highly edited and vetted journalism, how is that to be recognized by folks like you and particularly by the readers of the world as something different than other things you would refer to as citizen journalism? >> well, who would like to venture an answer? rebecca, you want to try? >> sure. i mean, it has to do with reputation. i think news organizations or online organizations that are doing a good job develop a reputation of being credible and straightforward and fact-based. and that's how you distinguish yourself from, you know, r...

which was something of a mirage in recent years but let's build something really worthwhile. and, yes, it will take time but it will be built to last rather than as the last recovery was, built on sand. it is difficult. and politics is not easy, obviously. when you are working in coalition, when you are dealing with difficult economic circumstances. but the most important thing is to do the right thing and to do the right thing by the people of this country who want government to think about the long term and not about tomorrow's headlines. >> just to underline that point, the latest...