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If someone southward that to me, i would be very worried about that. >> that is the biggest red flag of all. a lot of credit to the "new york times" reporter. but interestingly, the journalist of secretmy here was triggered by a little known blogger, a former editor of the magazine who had been burned by steven glass. he wrote an essay saying this doesn't seem right and that woke up the mainstream media which had run with it to say some of us need to take a second look. >> i looked at the coverage to see was the mainstream media correct in picking up the story. i concluded -- this is just an a...

People. "the new york times" and cnn don't stand a chance against something like that. the second thing, the images and ideas and propaganda of war have always been a tool that traditionally governments own and now citizens own them. citizens on all sides. and so that's what we've seen and that is a very big difference. >> but there may be a little tiny shift but a cnn orc poll shows americans clearly support israel by a large margin. take a look 57% thinks israel's action in gaza is justified. 34% say it's unjustified. do you agree with frank? >> well, yeah. i think what's interesting, you kn...

Online column. richard, those two media outlets i mentioned have focused on telling news from a different cultural perspective. what does that look like and how is it different than what we see in the mainstream news outlets? >> first thing we see is they are people of color who are the subjects of the news stories and content is of particular interest to people of color. for example, one of the biggest stories in the last couple weeks has been the affordable care act. you would not know from most of the mainstream coverage that most african americans and latinos are in favor of the affordable...

Out. nobody else was pushing on it at all. everything we've learned we've learned through them, virtually, and ely lake over at the daily beast has been doing a good job on this too. but juan suggests there has been mainstream coverage. in your piece you talk about what happened on the sunday shows this past week. i mean, the three -- not chris wallace, but the other three of the four main sunday show hosts completely blew off libya. >> yeah. look, my point isn't that it hasn't been covered by any other media outlet, it hasn't been covered very much. and if juan thinks that this just doesn't r...

Stories in four months after the election. news media can make a crusade of something if they choose and not if they don't choose. that is what is happening. >> greta: and reporter from the "washington post" the questions raised by jennifer griffin are important questions? >> i thought that was a good column. i recommend people read it. it is a sign there are people throughout the media that are taking a second look at this. mitt romney and paul ryan are not talking about this. in the third debate, romney didn't touch it there was a question and romney zoomed out to talk about other issues. th...