columnist for the washington examiner and ryan lizza, washington correspondent for the new yorker and a cnn contributor. ryan, you broke the news this week that justice had gone after several phone lines belonging to the fox news washington bureau. let s start with the latest developments. cnn and the new york times reporting last night that justice or you should say law enforcement officials say justice did notify three years ago news korp about the subpoena for the phone regards separate from james rosen s personal g mail account and news korp executives indicating that fox news was not informed. does this change the nature of this story? i don t think it changes that much. it adds a piece of information. when i called fox this week and asked them did they know that these five fox phone lines were targeted, a spokesperson said no, and they referred me to a previous statement. of it sounds like from what fox is saying now is that there was some kind of communications gap in betw
fox s parent, three years ago, does that change the nature of the chour? well, it changes the nature of that specific story, howard. i don t think it changes the nature of the fact that i think you can t help being a member of the media and not be upset about this. that s just the reality. unfortunately we don t seem to have much backup. when i say we i mean members of the media from the rest of americans. pew just released a poll that showed in terms of news coverage, americans are following benghazi and the irs scandal more closely than they re following this scandal which we re all very concerned about. now, there s some obvious reasons for that. all americans have to pay tacks. not everyone has to report news. but i think that ultimately it doesn t change the fact that this i think could end up being a more harmful story to the administration in the long term an benghazi or irs because ultimately media helps shape the coverage of the administration, and i think there s a huge mea
the media in full purssuipursui will take on the role that s being a signature responsibility of the modern presidency, that of consoler in chief when tragedy strikes. i spoke earlier with barry trammel, a columnic for the oklahoman newspaper who has been covering the tornado s impact. gabarry, welcome. you wrote about a picture taken by one of your photographer. it was titled the hug that triumtr trioomphs over tragedy. why was that image so important? a white man and a little black boy, you wonder what s going on here and you find out it s two neighbors just happy to be reunited and, you know, the joy on the relief on the face of jim really told the story of thankfulness and togetherness.
attempt to basically scare anybody from ever leaking anything ever again. so they want to criminalize journalism. does this administration view national security reporters as potential criminals? the devastating tornado in oklahoma that cut such a swath of destruction. we re following the breaking news. indeed, a massive twister ripping through the oklahoma city area. this isn t out in the middle of nowhere. this is a densely populated area with schools, malls, homes, businesses that have been destroyed, blown apart into bits, into millions and millions of pieces. we ll talk to a local columnist about covering the heartbreaking story in his backyard. talk radio is dominated by conservatives, so is there really a place for a host that proudly proclaims highway nos labels. a conversation with michael
wanted him to be as far away as possible. instead, they put him right in the front of a destroyed house and they were pretty upset about that. so you can understand that kind of thing. i also understand that, you know, shows and television productions need good scenes and, you know, the rubble that we that is all around us is a remarkable story telling mechanism itself. so i can see both sides and what we re dealing with, people that don t typically deal with the media and, you know, those people just really don t know what they re getting into. any don t know how it works. they don t know what to look for. they don t know what to ask. soon enough they learn. it s just it s one of the unfortunate by-products of a tragedy like this.