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Business tv, on espn, on history international, on cbs sports, on the gayle king show, on "grays anatomy," on friends outdoor channel and fox news. today a march, an 11-mile march from the northern tip of manhattan, washington heights, down to zuccotti park. on the southern tip of manhattan on wall street, marchers called the march today the end to end for the 99%. joining us now for the interview is someone who was at that march today. bishop gene robinson of the episcopal diocese of new hampshire, senior fellow for center of american progress. he's been down at zuccotti park. thank you so mu...

In the country, lebron james, away from the cleveland cavaliers. >> now to the lebron-a-thon. that is what sports fans are calling the coast-to-coast courting of basketball superstar lebron james. >> lebron james, the king, the megawatt superstar of the nba, is up for grabs. and grown men, mayors, teams, entire cities are doing anything to woo him to their town. >> on espn's rather breathless program thursday night veteran sportscaster jim gray conducted a surprisingly soft interview, killing time before popping the big question. >> have you enjoyed this recruiting process? >> so the last time...

Incredibly naive. the question is would any network have said no to that knowing -- i shouldn't say any network, but i mean television -- reality television, which i don't watch, steadfastly don't watch any of it because i just -- i don't know. i just object to a lot of it on the principle that we're talking about now. this is what -- this is the culture we live in now. and i object to a lot of it as a sort of old-fashioned news person. but you know what? i'm living in a different world from most of the people who watch television, and i don't know that people care about that as much as i do. ...

He thinks about questions. he answers exactly what you're asking normally. >> i found his responses to be pretty candid. he repeated certain talking points. were you disappointed by that? >> i thought -- i couldn't see him when i was interviewing him. >> you should have been sitting next to him. >> should have been. as far as i was concerned. i thought he was shaken. and i understand that. i thought he would be shaken. i anticipate him being shaken if his answer was not cleveland. if his answer was miami, if his answer was chicago, if his answer was new york, i thought he was going to be shake...

Now people saying kevin dufrnt, who had no special tv hour, who just sort of said i'm staying, whether they're praising him for doing it the right way and oklahoma city, this is we are, or green bay or new york or cleveland it's all the same top it's the number one way people have some sort of civic identity. >> i've got 15 seconds. will we look back a year or two from now and say boy, the media really went overboard on one free agent's decision? >> no. >> no? >> no, because we don't look back and think -- we know we're overboard. we're overboard while we're in it. >> you're saying it won't ta...