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Following it. my colleagues have been doing the heavy lifting, even for us here at fox newschannel. but today, jay tapper, abc had a story and cbs news, also. so other news networks and organizations are starting to dig in. so we might see a change on this, senator. >> i hope so. i menged, how can they explain that a counter-terrorism security group, especially designed to convene and coordinate actions of government, in cases of terrorist attack, they toll them to stand down. how do we know that? people who are part of that organization are mad as hell because they weren't convened. and they ...

Anything wrong with it. >> juan: what jake said in the article, jake was clear that both sides play this game. so it wasn't just saying that the obama people. the second thing i would say here is this. i think the big journalistic sin of our time is not bias toward one candidate or another. it's equating that whatever anybody says is the equal what the other guy said. you can say the outrageous thing and you know what? the earth is flat. report it and say "a" said the earth is round. "b" said the earth is flat. two sides to the argument. >> eric: the host a show and call up the white house, ca...

And did she suffer a bias? looking back, did they get so excited, media get so excited about the possibility of a obama presidency, they hurt her in the process? >> andrea: they did. they reported on things like her tearing up at a town hall. they focused on the wrong things. forget what the clinton campaign complaints were. look at the electorate. do we feel we know who president obama is four years later? no. the media's job to do the research. a lot of sus done our own. i think jake tapper what he said was insightful, he came out and said this. it's like instead of regulatory capture, it's ...

Lead question, and does jake tapper have a point that we get wrapped up too much in day-to-day issues instead of the substantive issues. >> jake is a friend of mine. he was speaking out of frustration. as dana pointed out it is like chasing rabbits, that the media is kind of like grey hounds going after the rabbit on a stick. both campaigns do it. they try to put that rabbit out there for the day trying to steer the day's events by what each candidate or the president is doing and saying. and they throw out little tidbits, and if they are successful the grey hounds follow the rabbit and it end...

>> i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. [cheers and applause] megyn: that was newt gingrich, one of the first to challenge the media coverage of the 2012 presidential race, but he of course was not the last. now this issue is getting new attention. because abc news' white house correspondent jay tapper brought up the same concern in an interview with laura ingram on her televis...