to be great. it s cool. let it happen. six months after that what happened to al sharpton? he gets a television show every night on msnbc. and these two companies are spending $25 billion a year licensing cable networks with 100% african-american-owned media getting less than 3 million per year. why is that the not a good thing? ultimately nbc news and msnbc gave an african-american his own show and paid a lot of money for it. well that s great for al sharpton but not great for the people looking for jobs from real african-american owned cable networks. you have a problem, shame on brian roberts at comcast. he s not doing the right thing. same thing with at&t. at&t gave more money to al sharpton for his lavish birthday party than they spent advertising in ebony magazine which is 70 years old. and largest african-american magazine they deny your allegations in
to be great. it s cool. let it happen. six months after that what happened to al sharpton? he gets a television show every night on msnbc. and these two companies are spending $25 billion a year licensing cable networks with 100% african-american-owned media getting less than 3 million per year. why is that the notot a good thing? ultimately nbc news and msnbc gave an african-american his own show and paid a lot of money for it. well that s great for al sharpton but not great for the people looking for jobs from real african-american owned cable networks. you have a problem, shame on brian roberts at comcast. he s not doing the right thing. same thing with at&t. at&t gave more money to al sharpton for his lavish birthday party than they spent advertising in ebony magazine which is 70 years old. and largest african-american magazine they deny your allegations in
sharpton but not great for the people looking for jobs from real african-american owned cable networks. you have a problem, shame on brian roberts at comcast. he s not doing the right thing. same thing with at&t. at&t gave more money to al sharpton for his lavish birthday party than they spent advertising in ebony magazine which is 70 years old. and largest african-american magazine they deny your allegations in your lawsuit. but how do you think we got to the point where al sharpton has become sort of the go-to person for a company or executive being accused of discrimination like we saw in the sony case? when they got hacked and had written racial things about president obama. yeah, i joined on the national association of african-american owned media and there s a lot of information if you go to naaaom.com. it s shame on sony because at the end of the day and at&t and comcast you need to understand
our pentagon xpont barbara star has more on the air strike that killed al-awlaki. reporter: this is important. this man posed a direct threat to the united states had inspired him by all accounts ordered attacks against the u.s. now this apparently is the result of a two-year effort between the u.s. intelligence community and the people to go after him to find him, target him and take him out. very controversial as he is an american born citizen. killed for his activities in another country. by all accounts, it was a drone strike that killed al-awlaki. there were three other persons in that convoy with him. they are believed also to have been killed. this is something that the u.s. long wanted. this is a target that they were making a great effort to go after inside yemen even as that country remains in a good deal of political social and economic unrest. joe? barbara, if we know how much was yemen actually involved in this strike? and if we don t know that, typically wha
benefits. it s been really at 400 or higher since april. that s really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and that s better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this number shows it isn t technically a double dip recession right now. in the second quarter you had economic growth and economists are telling me that for the third quarter there was growth there, as well. so, you have an economy that is growing and you have fewer people than expected who filed for jobless benefits. it sounds like a couple of nonnegatives, which is, but taken together, that s positive for the market, at least this morning, kyra. we ll watch all the numbers and we ll know in 2