for a better paying or somewhat happier gig, others are handed a cardboard box and shown the door in mass layoffs. newspapers have just three quarters of the resources they had when jimmy carter was president. and we are about to get a president who s way more difficult to cover. he not only attacks the press as well as on his beautiful twitter but hasn t held a press conference since july. and beyond the limits of tweets, this is not a president who makes it easy to keep up with what is going on inside his administration or what is coming. excellenteporting is never easy and is often risky in multiple ways of as a business, it is literally risky. some of the best reporting on presidential politics was done by the washington post. their newsroom is a ten-nute walk fm the white house. it s worked, because the post
on other key players and voices as well. we turn to deborah feyerick who lab on thhse story for months. we askedke her to take a walk fm ground zero to the site of the proposed islamic center to give us a better, richer el for the place we re talking about, and the developments that got us here. we re here at ground zero. a lot of progress being made, buildings going up, the memorial and the museum well under way to being completed within the t ne ar for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. two blocks north of here is the site of the proposed islamic center. it is so cse that landing gear from one of the hijacked planes landed on its roof too many. we re going to begin our walk. i ll step a stopwatch. new york city s mayor michael bloomberg was very behind the project, as was the community