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Said something outrageoused, i call you a pedophile and now we will get somebody who says you aren't a pedophile. the most ridiculous thing but david said it more nicely but to nail the guy and show he is kind of an idiot. >> what evidence do you have is the question that is probably not asked enough on television. maybe it should be more than that maybe the reporters should turn on the guests and say, no that is ridiculous what you said, aren't you here to cause problems and representative of the democratic party saying doesn't that suggest the democratic party is perhaps getting too crazy? o...

Season it has always become a very different kind of media, multimedia stew. i don't get this idea it is a black and white situation like the online renegades versus the old guard print. >> not black and white at all. is it healthy that more voices can be heard, opinions on movie, theater, everything else, you don't have to be credentialed by some big media organization? >> absolutely. but i never looked -- you never had to be credentialed. everybody you know, you name, how ward, the five most interesting critics you read consistently in a given field, every one of those resumes reads complete...

Readership. one thing that's hard to find now out of that one thing the blogosphere grew up to develop is a job. a job, right where somebody pays to you do t. >> a job is nice. >> let me toss to michael. do you need, in order to get such a job, where there is a bay pay check, do you need any kind of special training in the area for cinema, for example, an a situation where anybody can do it if they can prove themselves to be an astute and also an able writer? >> both. i don't think -- i have always said, with cinema, there is a century in change to learn in terms of direct knowledge and that i...

Reporters would have been lauded on the best reporters on the planet if it didn't work, they let the terrorist go away. >> these two megastories these week, the time square bombing and the gulf oil spill we will talk about an american city was under water, the flooding in nash service horrible, at least 27 people were kill and that did not become a national story. i wonder whether it was overshadowed or because there was no political storyline, we didn't have anything to argue about so it didn't become cable and network news fodder. let me get a break. when we come back, we are seeing the same...

We have more competition. in the end, where do you get your credentials from? ultimately, you get your credentials from your readers, not for the -- the label of the institution that you carry around with you, ultimately, you know, what makes a critic worth while and, you know, gives a critic some influence or authority or impact is readers, or in our case, viewers. and i think that you know, it was very hard, they were -- it was a lot harder in the past to get your voice heard. you know, you had to go sort of up the ladder of freelancing and a lot of doors you had to pass through. now, i mean...