there were people shouting kill all muslims. not just anti-mosque, an i islam. there s a lot of that whipped up into there controversy. byth sang we re not going to show one nut job, they could act responsible. back in july when terry jones had tweeted he was going do this and it got attention,er most americans were aware of this, we saw the clip at the top of the show. rick sanchez putting him on cnn. should he have done that? why does terryne jos warrant any airtime? it is exciting, and that is a tabloidy show. and you hope there s a part i think of every journalist s mind that sort of hopes for a big global reactio one of the things i think we ought to be thinking a little bit about, though, is what is the friends here that is being set? t precedents here that is beinset? if there are things that are not to be discussed, solomon rushdie s book, not to be discussed, are the danish cartoons not to be shown some we can all agree in condemning pastor jones a needlessly
newscatsts. that s cllectively a hit show by any standar i think the answer is that what used to happen, is that younger people would start watching the they got to be their parents age is not happening anymore so the evening news will ve to appeal to a certain fringe of the audiee or a certain part of the audience but networks will have to find other ways to engage vwers who never intend to watch it. it s a challenging problem. and what s interesting is that katie, diane d brian are the biggest stars at their networks, but diane sawyer undoubtedly made more money for abc in the morning than she does in t news anchor chair. absolutely. the morning shows on all of the networks support the news-gathering operation, which is terribly expensive as we all know. and the evening news has always been a loss leader. and so, you know, but they ve a symbolism. ey are the evening news anchors are the face of the network. but, you know, the symbolism, pride of place, these are all
this show he not going to be spewing his own opinions. that s what made me say honestly i didn t say hot dog loosely. he said that about bill o y,trie and it proves to me he doesn t watch bill o reilly because bilu o reilly doesn t talk about the competition. bill o reillyth considers himse so far above the competition, he would never really he talks about the lunatic at n lunatics at nbc. no, he said bill talks about keith he does not talk about keith. he didn t watch him. that s what i mean about walki if front of a camera and saying stuff without doing your homework. that s exactly what drove me to that point. emily, you know, larry king to be fair interviews a lot of celebrities, so that is part of w.e job for this kind of sho but i want to close by asking you about his interviewing skills because we saw earlier him talking to gordon brown about a personal tragedy. and he also interviewed nick he klegg, n the deputy prime minister in britain, and got him to talk abo
to allow pople to see wha those are about. that seems wrong. that was information that people were entided etitle entitl to, and that was a voice of suppression. i m not calling for collusion. m calling for individual news organizations to make decisions regardless of what everyone else is doing. let me play in is tape here. on friday, and this is when terry jones was starting to waver, maybe he wouldn t do it, maybe if he saw the imam in new yorkthis guy was on every morning show. i thought the toughest was by meredith vieira on the today show. take aook. when you incite hatred and bigotry, don t you expect this kind of outcome? you ve incited this. we done. we do not feel responsible. we did not pull the trigger there are people of all face, sir, who today are calling you intolerant, bigoted, crazy, what are you? i am just a man who is trying
and we are saying today we are seeing today riots in kabul, riots in afghanistan that reaten our young men and women in uniform. lauren asurn, i was relieved that the pastor didn t dominate the news conference, it of mostly about the economy. but that became the story, what everyone wrote and talked about the next day. how wie, gosh, why didn t yo lead this show with the economics and president obama as press because it s got inshort shift from our colleagues in the media business. i m saying, here we are talking about him, and you re ha,ppy he yidn t dominate it, yt he did. yet you didn t lead with the economic policy that president obama lid out. let me protect howie for a second of the percent of the issue was i was at the presser, and the president didn t say anything new about his economic pocies. i mean, i think a should have a continuum discussion about what go ahead, david. the president also dropped a hint of a way the story a been seriously undercovered, wh