a sobering look at the health of the press journalists around the world are facing threats persecution and violence online and in person from governments and other powerful actors they try to hold to account now he has called the press an enemy of the people but press freedom in the u.s. started this decline before donald trump took office why and what can be done i'm so me so misconduct in berlin this is the day. i. am talking about the fake news media they are truly an enemy of the people that shouldn't need to be sat in a room full of people who understand the power of words but fake news and enemies of the people are not names punchlines or presidential much or not that's another thing that's a task one of the the other folks that set out for me bama this president that's not the person i'd want relations between presidents and the press are notably

tough almost always adversarial but they don't need to be steeped and then i say watch c.n.n. should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are a rude terrible person you should be working for c.n.n. no i don't think the american media and the american president are good relations. but. thank you don't suppose there are. also coming up tonight as king my what did i learn corn officially a sense of thrown in thailand well introduce you to one man who was hiked four days to be part of the celebrations in bangkok i can tell you that it is absolutely sweltering here the midday sun is blazing down on us i can only imagine just hell punishing this is twelve hours a day. that was a day to honor the importance of

a free and democratic press and it's as important as ever the number of countries where it's safe for journalists to do their job without fear is falling and the number of countries where they're facing an increasingly hostile climate it is rising in april reporters without borders released their annual world press freedom index only about a fourth of the one hundred eighty countries on the slowest are considered a good atmosphere for reporters topping the list norway finland and sweden at the very bottom north korea eritrea and turkmenistan the u.s. has slipped down the slopes for the third year in a row now sitting at number forty eight reporters without borders is pointing the finger at president trump and his hostility toward the american news media as you know i'm acting attorney general not you with your current you change the leadership i'm going to be finish your point but some free medical and. no. one really gave you that there's more faith is a lot of there's

a lot of thing there's a lot of fake news out there no i did i never work for roger or you know that answer better than anybody i've ever worked for russia not only did i never work for russia i think it's a disgrace that you even have said why should the first of all big fat all. the good memories you're going to give to those who came out in the great peace and this is your mother right. where forcefully condemned hatred bigotry racial i prejudice in all of its ugly forms. but the media doesn't want you to hear your story is not my story your cure story. and that's why thirty three percent of the people in this country believe the fate doos is it fact and i hate to say this in fact the enemy of the people was. all right well let's talk about media freedom in the trump

area we're joined by angelo corazon he is the president of media matters for america liberal media watchdog group angela thank you for joining us. now we have seen past presidents complain about mainstream media in general the white house press corps is a bill to ask tough questions even to have an adversarial relationship with the president and spokespeople what is so different about this what's so different about now. so i think it's true i think that there have been complaints and i will keep with that. that's part of having a free press i think what makes this qualitatively different is the intention efforts behind it so that you know in those cases when there were complaints they were very specific so they were focused on a one story or one particular narrative that they were pushing back against and one of the things that's different now is that trump himself and his administration works it work to systematically undermine all credibility within the news media to

create hostile intentions in the public toward them while simultaneously building up their own media and that's what i think is really different about this while they're knocking down journalism they're actually reinforcing and building up their own propaganda outlets at the same time to sort of fill that void so that's uniquely different than it ever has been in the past and separately we've never seen a president or a white house send out a manipulated video or any kind of like manipulated piece of evidence of like the white house did in october when they sent when they distributed a video of that seem to show c.n.n. white house press corps spondon they had edited the video so it looked like he hit a white house intern robin it was complete was a complete and total fabrication they took an alex jones video and sent it out from the official white house twitter account all fake all fabricated but it was designed to achieve the objectives that i laid out before destroy and undermine real media while simultaneously building up their propaganda outlets all right so you think this is really brand new territory here angelo your organization has also

been critical of the way that the media covers donald trump and you compiled a study saying that major media outlets amplify false trump claims on an average of nineteen times a day what do you mean by that yeah. yes so you know that what's really interesting about this is that while one of the things that i think gets back to this idea the notion that it's all new territory is that even the basic rules of how does our lives deal with a president who's in gauging in bad faith behavior and bad faith intentions there's no way that the current rules are not designed to deal with this so you know president trump has said somewhere around ten thousand demonstrably false hood since he's been in office you know there's a longstanding policy within newsrooms that when the president of the united states says something that you quote the president in the headline which seems pretty reasonable except that when the president is a bad faith actor when he's intentionally saying falsehoods in order to inject them into the conversation that rule no longer applies and so they've been basically

using the playbook of the guidelines that have governed how they operate newsrooms for decades that are actually and turning out to be amplifiers of misinformation in the trump era and that's where that study came into effect is we looked at the application of that one policy. you know the way that these newsrooms tweet which is they tweet the headlines and on average nine thousand dollars a day made all the major publications in the united states are amplifying complete demonstrably false of dollars from one thousand times ok so what is the right way to cover donald trump right now. yes so i think it's you know when it comes to his claims one of the you know there's there's a few ways to approach it you know one thing is you don't i certainly don't to call him a liar in the headlines or anything like that that's not what we're suggesting the most effective bottle from both the north science perspective as well as what would be most honest and accurate is the truth sandwich is what they call it where you are understand the newsworthiness of if he makes

a complete fabrication why it's important to note that in the headline potentially but if you do that you actually have to start with the truth what the actual facts is so for example when donald trump says that the migrants coming in from south america are being found with a bowl of that's not true there's no evidence that's totally fabricated it's a total it was it's been completely proven false so what they should start out with is that right you start from the truth is that there's no markets coming in with a bold trump claims trump claims otherwise that would be an example as opposed to just saying president trump says migrants are coming in with a bowl there's a really big difference between those two all right so it's reframing the coverage in a way now we did hear the president changed her tune on the white house press corps at the end take your kids to work day last week let's listen to what he said. reporting your parents on our country and that's the white house press corps they report they let you know how we're doing and

oftentimes they report correctly. actually most of the time you have parents all the time right all the time or most of the what do you. agree for purposes of this speech. ok angelo that's a pretty positive message on the press corps from the president there so how much is his enemy of the people message an act really that's geared towards his base. i mean that's that but that's that's what scares me to be quite honest because i do think it's an act. i do he is somebody who grew up in media he was a creature of the tabloids that's how he's largely built his his businesses and his brand was through tabloid journalism he understands the power of the news media and it is an act but i think what scares me about it though is that it's extremely reckless when he does it because the way that he explains it and even in some of

the clips you articulated he describes the media as the enemy of the people we've seen increased attacks against journalists you know all these bomb threats that were taking place where bombs were literally being mailed to reporters. last october all of those were individuals that had been identified by by donald trump in some recent criticism of his on twitter or at a rally so you know that's the issue here is that he's actually trying to gin up his audience to an extent to attack and intimidate and scare reporters to work the refs and one of the things that does is it is it beats down one side as it beats down journalism we've seen a further division and a chasm between you know journalism and facts and then while on the other hand what his own base is willing to believe and increasingly they're only willing to believe a few sources they want even accept anything from another source unless it's fox news fox news or a few others like for

a part as even remotely legitimate and that's that's really scary and so i do have to ask you about existing media media biases now the pew research center found that the media's coverage into the trump presidency was three times more critical than the coverage of president obama in that same period so overwhelmingly negative and if you look at that you have ridge of the muller report as well you know a lot of media didn't focus necessarily on the fact that there was not proof of collusion but rather what the democrats were moving forward with does the president have a point is the mainstream media biased against him. so i think he has a point that they cover him to obsessive lee in sometimes they can engage in some character coverage i think that's correct that they are trying as as as that tends to happen when you have sort of a very rapid news cycle is these you know you simplify stories so there's always a villain and a hero i sort of take a little bit of issue and i think it's really important to think about that pew

study and other studies that look at negative verse positive because they're basically looking at. sort of key words and it's true that a lot of times some of the language and you know where things that may seem critical would be described as negative but i don't necessarily judge it that way i judge positive and negative and i think the important the best way to do it is to that is that if it's it's positive or negative depending on whether or not it reinforces the story that the president is telling about themselves or telling about the public so you know for example what is coded as negative there is a lot of the stuff around family separation for example and i don't find that or his or his his muslim band which would look at his first year in office that would be all considered all the coverage of that accord in that study would be considered negative but if you're donald trump you would actually consider that coverage to be positive because you were telling you're still you're already your base that you're going to be tough that you're going to take these hard line measures so that when the news media gets up there and reinforces this idea that you're taking these

really extreme edge of kone and positions while that may seem negative on the surface it actually is reinforcing the very story that he's telling his own supporters and i would consider that to be you know that we can said to be positive that's reinforcing so i think we also have to think about just like when it comes to headlines what we mean by positive or negative these days when you have somebody like trump in office right and the president of media matters for america that's a liberal media watchdog group he's joining us from d.c. thank you so much and. thank you. of the other part of the world where journalism is under attack the reporters at the online news website rappler have captured a lot of global attention they faced a crackdown after their critical reporting on president government did a piece on a something else has more. like most journalists. getting emails and social media messages are in boxes usually from loaded with rape

and death threats because she writes about philippine president rodrigo detective came to a point when did their the himself would. be on camera there the kind of emboldened his own supporters to do you know online so. the death threats increased exponentially it's almost as if he's saying it's better for you to not gain my attention because once i have i pay attention to you you could be humiliated. so he was like making an example out of not as critical reporting of the administration angered the president's supporters and the president in so. bad renate from covering presidential events you know you've been here news outlet rappler is threatened with closure their c.e.o. has been barraged with lawsuits arrested twice and has posted thousands of dollars in bail political harassment threats of rape the tension and unresolved media killings this kind of oppressive environment makes the philippines one of the most

dangerous places in the world for journalists to work in recently a list of journalists and human rights lawyers at legit plotting to overthrow the president was released the government has previously released similar lists of suspected drug lords some have already ended up dead now philippine journalists are fighting back. there as the supreme court to lift the reporting ban on the president forty one other journalists a part of the petition. the fact that there are reports there is still you know are are afraid are has your time with doubt. themselves when the right word for it that's all they did to the essence of the children that they're there would be pressured and forever where as journalists will always be journalists has lost the stick to their craft as long as we are they do or we will always be journalists and no one can take it away from us media and press freedom the world's fragile and the

patents for filipino journalists every day is another day to fight and uphold it. to thailand next we're talking maha what a long corn has been formally crowned this weekend he became king in two thousand and sixteen after the death of his father but he postponed the official coronation to give the country time to mourn the last time thailand crowned a new king was in one thousand nine hundred fifty and people across the country are descending on bangkok to be part of this weekend's celebrations one subject has really gone the extra distance to show his devotion to the throne. reports from thailand. the pong sachin through every step is agonizing his body aching his feet rule. thoughts now when smoking down as he enters the final stretch of his epic six hundred kilometer journey. around with yes i'm tired but what i'm doing here it doesn't compare the dedication and effort someone to

carry into carrying on acting out every nation for centuries right now no one you know. he's worked for morning until night for over a week to make it to bangkok in time for the coronation helped along the way by a constant police escort. i can tell you that it is absolutely sweltering here the midday sun is blazing down on us i can only imagine just hell punishing this is twelve hours a day. contacts journey has become a spectacle in itself. with enthusiastic welcome committee standing by to offer a helping hand in each province to pass it so it's a chance for officials to put on a public display of support for the monarchy the police came for us to film pictures of the king at every opportunity. card was a retired. i'm so happy to see him doing this if someone does

a good deed like this we should commend and support him as much as reach out down. the food chain eight years old this will be the first royal coronation impulse that's lifetime to this with just about being there on the day you have found another way to travel instead he walks every kilometer his own private times if he chooses and. i'm just proud of myself i'm proud that i can read present type people this way and do my duty to promote our nation religion and our monarchy that. the poems like this is not only bout the destination it's about the journey. now for months children around the world have been skipping school every friday to take part in demonstrations against climate change the global protests have become known as fridays for a future a young swedish activist called gretta to start of the movement by staging

a solo protest outside parliament in stockholm since then tens of thousands of students have followed her lead and taken part in the school strike for the climate and they're not the only climate activists grabbing attention a group known as extension rebellion has also carried out a series of high profile protests in recent weeks bearing their backsides in the u.k. parliament glueing themselves to the london stock exchange and occupying parts of central london and politicians are starting to take notice of these growing grassroots movements constance has become the first german city to the. clara climate emergency recognizing climate change as an acute threat other cities around the world have done the same including london los angeles and vancouver and on wednesday the british parliament did as well the motion was introduced by the opposition labor party let's listen to what their leader had to say. parliament rarely leads change it usually drags its feet it's normally the last place to pick up on the major reforms that society is demanding think about the huge

transformation in our society workers' rights women's rights gay rights the impetus has always come from outside from social movements and communities while westminster is often the last place to understand that so by becoming the first parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency we could and i hope we do see it off a wave of actions from parliaments and governments all around the world. while that decision from the british parliament makes it the first country in the world to declare a climate emergency and it was one of the key demands put forward by extinction rebellion we can talk to a member of that group being joins he joins us on the line from sheffield being the u.k. declaring climate change an emergency that must be a big victory for your organisation well yes it is not so the fact that we've moved from almost no conversation about climate change

a few weeks ago all the way to getting on a mentality and. come around with complete q two up. to town and declare an emergency and yeah it's a great start but that's a very long way to go well that's exactly the next question being in this emotion doesn't compel the government to act it only requires it to make proposals so how big of a step is this really isn't just symbolic. well it's kind of a very big start. it's. complicated. members of congress and. the government not yet. it seems very likely they will. try and changed maybe. not. just.

not far enough. this motion also urges the government to quote take steps to restore the natural environment but we know the climate change is a global issue so how much difference can individual government make the british government if big strides in the mission for example. other countries like the u.s. or china. well that sounds fantastic. this. latest report probably just. going to connect the u.k. to commandeer going twenty fifty which is roughly what the international age governmental climate change has demanded and that. all of us not european countries firstly have contributed mostly to.

carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and secondly are continuing to make things worse most so we desperately need it we take the initiative start. and ass fucked really the only logical left for us to act much faster than the global action that's required and if. your movement is starting to gain traction there as we have heard i do want to ask you about extinction rebellion and you've been arrested twice for nonviolent protest your position is based upon what you call a nonviolent civil disobedience disrupting public order blocking roads stopping trains even the entrance to the london stock exchange why have you taken this strategy. well. let's get into the media. on the general right and forget that. we completely.

by operating launch times in the streets trying to explore for nearly a whole week this was more or less on her time anything not official and then on top of that we had a vast number of people who were willing to be arrested so. it's not hundred people being arrested recently just to do so we're ready to continue these projects for a long time now we didn't want to disrupt anybody and i certainly didn't want to have to sleep on the tomah concupiscence got locked up in a print but it can be very very effective and just being ready probably remarkable and you know the last few weeks we've made such progress ok being jones from extinction rebelling and joining us on the line from sheffield thank you very much for joining us here in the w. . now star

wars fans are marking the passing of one of the brightest lights in their universe peter mayhew the actor who played fan favorite chewbacca in five of the star wars films died on monday according to a statement issued by his family on twitter may he was seventy four years old the actor became an icon after director george lucas cast him and it's a big johnson director of the twenty seventeen star wars film the last shot i wrote on twitter r.i.p. peter mayhew to create a beloved character with warmth and humor is a testament to any actor spirit to do it under a half ton of jack erik picks a true legend. i think days almost on the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter at g.w. news and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day.

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