Andrew Tyndall

Brian Williams has chosen to step down from his nightly broadcast for several days. But David Carr, media columnist and culture reporter for the New York Times asks, is that enough?

After 7 weeks CNN remains the go-to channel for an exhaustive amount of Malaysian Flight 370 coverage. Bob talks with Andrew Tyndall of The Tyndall Report who says the network's fixation on the flight is eroding its reputation as a news network. 

Two weeks ago we talked with James Fallows about rampant false equivalency by newspapers in covering the federal government shutdown. This week, Bob speaks with Andrew Tyndall of The Tyndall Report who says broadcast news had its own weakness -- choosing anecdotal stories of real people hurt by the shutdown over informative analysis. 

Markets gave ground today, the Dow losing more than 100 points to close at 10,341. Worries about European banks and European debt dented investor confidence, causing declines in the the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 of more than 1 percent each.

The Death of Life...Magazine that is. Movie music therapy and Oscar movie promotion. Big foot journalism...Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings play Sasquatch overseas.

The fate of the President; Oxygen; checking the facts.

Your paper vs. your TV news: Who does it better?