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>> they are protesting the war, he with had veterans throwing their metals down symbolically on the ground over the weekend and they are protesting wars in iraq which has thankfully winded down and a war in afghanistan that goes on and ten years hence will be money going to that. that's among the things protested. and by the way, the protestors are often in sync with the way most of america feels about these particular issues. jon: certainly? >> -- really? >> certainly the war in afghanistan, absolutely. i don't know jon do you agree, jim? >> there's no question that the public opinion has shi...

Not everybody in a protest is going to act according to ho*eul, and i think what the right tries to do, whenever there's a liberal protes, you take the worst demonstrators and try to define the entire movement but those bad actors and that's not the way we should be covering it. >> so why do you bring up what happened in -- >> i'm simply trying to make the point that it's not true as jim suggests that conservative protests are not covered by the media. >> alan, my original suggestion was that it was specific to the right to life movement which the media despises. >> randall terry gets a lot of...

Supporters, she would say something on the facebook page, it would immediately gain traction, and the danger is of course if you hit send a little too soon and make a mistake, you can get yourself in trouble, but this is the wave. this is what's happening. jon: the pew research center, though, jim, says that twitter and facebook play very small roles in electoral polices these days and cable television is still the dominant force. >> i think that's probably true as well, and that is, look, when you go on -- as your candidate, you're sell ago personal alt and what does television thrive on? it ...

Jon: you might have heard the discussion about the supposedly huge role that social media, facebook, twitter and all the rest, played in the 2008 election. president obama used it well for fundraising purposes. some argue, though, social media are just now scratching the surface, broadcast news, tv ads and debates are still the most important way to reach voters, but that may no longer be true for voters in their 20s and the role of social media in elections will just grow from here. how important are social media and why does it matter to you? let's talk about it with jim pingerton, and alan ...

Through a facebook or twitter feed, if you can persuade people to follow you and be part of you, hopefully from your sake, your own compelling personality and issues and everything else will win the day. so it's probably a hybrid of television and social media. >> there's one other factor which is youtube. a lot of people who are not sitting in front of a television, and this is true generationally, where certainly a younger dem straf -- demographically doesn't sit in front of a cable box but they'll see clips, so what people see are condensed clips which they're seeing on the internet, not on...