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They have expertise and they have a very special expertise. they know how to get people on your site, on your plat form, and they know how to walk them around and make money. they actually get people to spend money. we just want them to be there long enough to look at the ads. >> i spec'd a cynical -- >> no, no, no. here is where i'm optimistic about that. these guys can do it. but i'm worried that we talk about them as if we can save us. the other thing we have to learn is we're the poor cousins now and they're the rich guys. and we need to be careful not to throw our values away in this proc...

Have a very special expertise. they know how to get people on your site, on your plat form, and they know how to walk them around and make money. they actually get people to spend money. we just want them to be there long enough to look at the ads. >> i spec'd a cynical -- >> no, no, no. here is where i'm optimistic about that. these guys can do it. but i'm worried that we talk about them as if we can save us. the other thing we have to learn is we're the poor cousins now and they're the rich guys. and we need to be careful not to throw our values away in this process. i'm very excited about w...

That's always plagued news. and there have been various ways to address that over the years. one of the reasons that the "new york times" sunday paper is so big is because people want a lot of different kinds of things. people, you know, advertisers pay for the movies section, advertisers pay for the fashion section and the "new york times" can take all that money and use it to save for the pure in iraq which not many people read, but it's important journalism that they have to do. so there's that sort of tradeoff, right? >> i think that's a -- >> provide stuff for the masses and then you fund...

Is much, are you lazy or incompetent? if i hear that idea again, i'm going to have to kill myself. after a presentation, why are you wasting my life? which i've said to ari several times. if it's true nice guys finish last, you understand why hes had a lake front mansion near gates' and worth $25 billion thanks to the everything store, which is also the title of brad stone's fascinating best selling biography out this week. brad, you talked to jeff many times for this book. there were other people doing websites selling books when amazon started. what is it about jeff basos that made him be ab...

Syrian people a way out of their crisis. >> and if you're a fan of hbo's the newsroom, you know them, obsessed with social media. but a report this week from the real world says twitter may be ruining presidential campaign coverage. we'll talk to the author of the report along with a campaign insider. and amazon's jeff basos gets a look inside his very own washington post. former executive editor lynn downey was in the room and today he's here to discuss the future of the post and the future of news. i'm frank cesno and this is "reliable source." each day the united states debates the use of...