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Before we go, i m going to ask both of you. edward, handicap their chances of success. well, as i said before, i think one big question is how well they do. is there a history of this kind of thing working before? you look at what the uae did with its newspaper there and there s losses that have mounted. the funders have pulled back. so to some degree i think we have to wait and see what the programming is. but they will eventually even they will have pressures. michael? you know, i mean right now they re in about 45 to 50 million homes. it will be interesting to see what sort of deals they re able to keep with cable providers. the only one they have had real trouble with is time warner. time warner says they re still in negotiations so maybe the reception could impact whether they get on time warner cable, which is in more u.s. homes, or depending on the ratings just how they keep these homes. ....
As she marks one year on the job. margaret sullivan, thank you so much for joining us. thanks, joanne. great to be here. so let s dive right in. the loudest criticism that we often hear about the new york times, i don t know if it s the most frequent but certainly the loudest is that it has a liberal bias. does it? well, some of my predecessors have taken that head-on. in fact dan, the first public editor, once wrote a column and i think the headline said something like is the times a liberal newspaper and his answer in the lead was, of course it is. and he went on from there. and it got quite a bit of response. i mean that is obviously something people feel about the times and i think maybe the best way to think about it is that the times reflects its readership, its community. it s an urban paper, it s a new york city paper. i mean that s a reasonable criticism, i think. so it is a yes? it s a modified yes with a lot of nuance in it. you ve now been public editor ....
Jeff bezos has now come into the washington post. what have you learned that he should know? well, i think he could teach me a lot of things actually, mostly about distribution and tough. but he s going to have to learn to work with a serious journalistic credentials and people who are used to doing things a certain way. what i m thinking about is we ve heard so many crazy ideas that now you ll be able to read your newspaper and click on the dress and buy it. amazon gives you recommendations. maybe you ll like this book, maybe you ll like that book. can usa today, now you ve been deeply involved digitally, is it realistic to think about reen inventing the actual what the newspaper does and what digital does. absolutely. we have to reinvent almost completely how we choose stories, present stories, and offer stories to the audience. you can reinvent them and i think bezos will bring further genius to that. but for usa today would you ....