that. zero dark thirty had been the front-runner and they played it safe that year and went with argo which had inaccuracies of its own. anyone who makes a film based on history, is going to necessarily, as sort of a narrative definition is going to open themselves up to those charges. absolutely. we can have the conversation about the difference between documentary and docu-drama. but if we re going to have the conversation year after year we should understand where that conversation started. and the conversation didn t we re not having this conversation about unbroken because it s probably not going to win best picture. but we re not having it about
cost is good thing. i don t think that is entirely true. some of these you mentioned gotten rave reviews. when you have fiction or docu-drama or there are plots, then i think you re opening more up to the normal criticism because not based on a true story as this movie about these brave navy seals clearly was. martha: howard, thank you very much for being here. thank you, martha. martha: back to you, bill. bill: martha, thank you. couple minutes, happening now rolls your way. jenna lee is standing by for more on that. what is cooking there, jenna. lot to talk about today. new numbers who is signing up for obamacare. it is not the young folks the white house is hoping for. what does that mean for a quote, unquote, bail out of the insurance companies as part of the law? we ll talk more about it. dramatic new details in the benghazi terror attack getting a lot of attention. what the president was told and why the military didn t respond quicker and what could have been con diffe
and they re trying to fire up the base with the 300 viewing parties. they want to get the volunteer training going. maybe a little bit of fund raising. some of the people that can write the $200 checks. the washington post describes it as, i m talking about the docu-drama, docu-ganda. meaning part documentary with a piece of propaganda. is it smart? it is slick? it is both? is it going to fire up the base? i don t know how many people will see it at these house parties compared to the people who are seeing pieces of it right here on msnbc, and we ll be seeing pieces of it as sort of bits and pieces are broadcast on television. but it does attempt to answer, i think, a question in a lot of swing voters mind, which is why did obama do all this. why did he decide to take on this gigantic fight over health care when the rest of the economy was in so much trouble. and it s also when you talk about firing up the base, what
outrageous types of questions, and then the next question from the reporter is why are you talking so much about social issues? isn t it fair for journalists to ask the senator about his own words. the situation in syria turns deadly for more correspondents trying to cover the violent uprising there. breaking news into cnn just minutes ago. word that the two western journalists, including an american, have been killed in syria. will the dangers there choke off the flow of news from syria? plus, the sniping has already started over the movie game change even before it airs on hbo. you can actually see russia from land here in alaska. my god. what have we done? it wasn t my fault. i wasn t properly prepped. are sarah palin s people justified in going ballistic? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. the campaign debate over rick santorum and the exit tent to which he should or should not be talking about religion and social issues has quickly morphed
best selling author to get a sneak peek at his book, kill bin laden. sean: you approach this as a journalistic under taking? i saw it as a docu drama. everything i read it was 60 minutes was fun. the new yorker piece was fun. the daily coverage was fun. sometimes deadlines, but it was fun. seal book was fun. sean: why do you say that? because every one of those articles, books concentrated on one element only. the seals. the white house involvement or the c.i.a. s involvement.