When I was in the Middle East I think most of the time I never felt safer in the streets of Cairo or Riyadh or Damascus or Baghdad and that I felt safer there than I did in New York. I probably wouldn’t say the same thing of some of those places today and that does have to do with sentiments, anti-American sentiment that has become at least much more visible than it was 10 years ago.

Raju: I think even if in some countries there in terms of the US governments importance has gone up or gone down after 9/11. I think their desire to kind of reach out for the American people at large is still very much there and often times because of the Washington Post being where it is, it is seen as a proxy to kind of communicate what, you know ahead of state in a different country wants to communicate to the congress or to the administration. And so we haven’t seen any noticeable change in people either responding to our request or wanting to come in and talk to us it is quite common for an embassy to contact us and say you know a prime minister or vice president is coming through can he come and spend some time with [IB] oil board. That we haven’t seen much of a change.

There are some countries where just getting visas and permissions has always been hard whether you are the Post or not it hasn’t made of a difference and hasn’t made much of a difference in the last decade or so. As far as access to the white house goes I don’t think it’s been an issue of whether the Bush administration or the Obama administration I think it’s if you are at White House press office you are now dealing with double or triple the number of request you know it used to be that you dealt with the big papers and the big networks and where the occasional [IB] and you were fully covered now you have to deal with the Huffington Post, [political] and you’ve to deal with a whole bunch of request. So in trying to be fair and in trying to kind of not seem like they are partial to one set of media or the other I think it takes a lot longer to kind of get [IB] turn and they are also doing a lot more kind of group events rather than one on one as well just to deal with the number of requests. So it’s more of that the proliferation of media than anything to do with the Republican administration or Democratic administration, half my readers think we are liberal half my readers complain we are [IB] so somehow we are doing the right thing it looks like.

Ali: One more question please.

Person: Okay I’m sorry [IB]. This is a domestic question; you mentioned political in the Huffington Post and you also mentioned the special niche of the Washington Post the Washington focus the incredible networks reporters have and editors, but has not Politico particularly with Mike Allan who used to be one of your star reporters on domestic stuff hasn’t that been a competitor in some ways for reader’s interest and how now with this proliferation not to mention slate and a whole lot of other online politically focused entities, what does that mean in terms of your particular value added in your particular strengths in covering the Washington World.