i always start with coffee. >> doctors, thank you. >> your mom was right. >> that is it for us. >> on the "buzz beater," the media are in a polarizing debate whether president obama should step up military action against the isis terrorists in syria. >> why can't we get a straight answer on the threat level to america or american interests by isis? you have to kill their leadership and take out as many rank and file jihadists as possible. >> i don't buy into the fearmongerring i hear from the right. we are bombing the tar out of the them. president is doing a good job handling it. >> this is prompting president obama to hold a number and say we have no strategy against isis. we will examine the coverage of this extraordinary moment. and reverend al speaks at

funeral of michael brown and leaves off the show with reverend al and michael brown's funeral. why allow this charade? >> deeply americans mistreat the media. >> who believes that journalist is all spin? raise your hands. who believes that all of media in one way or another is spin? my god. >> how do we grapple with this. how did the news business sink so low. why they are outraged about burger king skipping off to canada and avoiding united states taxes and seven colbert tangles with me. again. over ferguson. >> the shooting of a young unarmed black man is something we have heard too many times. the only time we do hear it

again is to have the press stop reporting it. this is "media buzz," and i am howard kurtz. >> first the leaks, unnamed officials telling the press the american military could strike isis and then the pundits pounced for the president not doing enough or threatening to do too much forcing president obama to have a news conference. >> we don't have a strategy. yet. what i have seen in some of the news reports suggests that folks are getting a little further ahead of where who are than we currently are. >> news reports, the six words

unleashing a wave of media criticism. >> president says we don't have a strategy, say "we don't have a strategy." >> the 39 said he does not have a strategy for syria. >> we do not have a strategy. >> who wrote that? can someone get fired best end of the week? >> joining us to examine the coverage is lauren ashburn, and jim pinkerton and merrill. >> did president obama have any news to make on syria and isis? >> i don't think he called this to make news but to fill the void left over from the vacation. the problem comes when you do not have anything to say and you are on the world stage. it seems that it is just that he would prefer the golf coverage rather than this? >> what was the biggest reaction on twitter?

>> how the tan suit made imlook unpresidental. >> without thing he was wearing a jogging suit. >> that sounded bad "we don't have a strategy." and the white house said he was weighing military options in syria. any chance the media making too much of this? >> i don't think so. as was written in the "washington post" just today, this resonated so much because it is set the narrative of what people think. these events taking the obama administration by surprise, the capture of iraq and syria by isis and just this morning the news they overran the embassy in libya and the administration has been unprepared telling everyone, we have al qaeda on run and we defeated. the mainstream media plays along and the president said isis was a junior varsity and the media went along with that and now we are flummoxed by these events? when the president says there is no strategy, people say, well,

he finally admitted it. >> why did no one ask, what do you mean you have in strategy? >> i was there. he called on a handful of journalists and there were a lot of questions what he would do? would he ask congress in i think you can see his remarks in the definition of a gaffe as define ed when someone says the truth, what he meant was, why have a military strategy for isis in syria yet. they have a strategy in iraq and they have explained it. they want to divorce the iraqi government to be inclusive and they started bombing isis positions. the problem is it not only feeds the narrative of the administration caught flat flooded but it is deja vu all over. a year ago the president, and this has a context, which is, the president threatens military action or the aides say things that sound like military action is imminent like saying that isis is unlike any other

terrorist threat we have seen and it has to be defeated and you can only defeat it if you go after syria safe haven and then he pulls back. i think he pulled out the protect because the press secretaries were out of their league. >> he have had a conference call. >> clothing aside and that tan sued is there a gap define the money bits who demand action and airstrikes and a big part of the public who is not so thrilled about sliding back into war. >> there is say better rattling in the beltway and that is not happening in the country where parents have madisons and daughters and nieces and nephews going back for tour after tour after tour in afghanistan and iraq and the polls show that, that there is the disparity.

it is easy to sit in a studio and say, obama needs to do more and it is harder, though, to live it. >> the notion, jim, that the president gets no credit from the people on the right no matter when he started airstrikes against isis and was able to play a role in rescuing the ethnic folk trapped on the mountain. >> that is the issue of the results. you get elected president on the promise to make things better not just to try hard. john kerry had an op-ed in the "new york times" said we need a grand alliance against isis and that is perfectly make sense and cited bush 41 as the gold standard but it would be nice if the media reported out that he voted against the juarez in 9-1-1 and the media ignored that. >> does the press have a responsibility to point out that airstrikes are risky.

>> yes, bombing as the president says over and over and over again is not going to solve the problem. you need have a political component in iraq like getting the government to be more inclusive and in syria it is tough. what are you going to do? you do not want to help bashar al-assad. >> it is complicated. we ought to remind people with airstrikes you need ground intelligence to know where to target and pilots can be shot down. i wonder with so much with intention white house focus as there always is, what about congress? are the media giving congress a pass? >> where are they, again, on the five week vacation in that is part the problem l is in hue and cry from 9 press saying, congress, where are you? what do you need to do? they are asking as we saw in the press conference, asking the president what he is going to do

with congress and they are not targeting that. the only person i saw, or one of the only people was msnbc reporter who spent 20 minutes imploring congress to come back and debate this. >> i would like to see a journalist saying where do you stand on this, speaker boehner, nancy pelosi, harry reid, mitch mcconnell. on a lot of other issues as you know, commentators complain of the president acting unilaterally and what he will do on executive action with immigration but i don't see a lot of people on the right saying, he needs to go to congress. >> the hawks want military action so they want to start bombing someone and they do not want to slow down the president by having hearings. >> they don't want hearings also because they do not want to take a position. they do not want pro or con. no one thinks it will work out well. let the president do what he does and take the blame.

>> and there are very few voices who say you should come to congress for a vote. most members do not want to touch this with a 10' poll but they want him to decide. >> that is where the media scrutiny is falling down and president is the commander in chief with the responsibility on their showers and storms. congress complaint they are not consulted we are not holding their feet to the fire. you mentioned chemical weapons being used by syria and it was reported that congress was not willing to support military action. >> he punted it to c he did not want a humiliating defeat so he grab the russian diplomatic effort to get rid of the chemical weapons. the president made it clear that at that time last year he doesn't need we the approval of

congress to bomb. however, he would like to have congressional buy in but he has always the authorities he needs to do this. >> do you see this is "what do not have a strategy," resonance and that will echo throughout the presidency? or is it just this week's flap using a very bad choice of words. >> if he turns the tide in the middle east whether through bombing strikes or grand coalition it will be better but right now it is clear they cannot decide what they want to do. again, part of the problem is there is no one in the white house who can stand up to the president. dana perino said, you need someone to say don't go out there in that stupid suit and say nothing. that is how you communicate not only to america but to the world. >> this was good news after the brutal murder of james foley, the terrorists released another

journalist and he met with the president outside his family home, this is peter theo curtis. >> i am with my family. i cannot give you an interview. that is all i can say. but in the future i promise i will respond to your mails and i will be help you guys do your job. >> what does that say? >> he is a good journalist. he knows the journalists need information and he is just asking for time the journalists take it easier on other journalists than on the public. >> it is a reminder of the remarkable risks that people like jim foley and peter curtis take. >> especially as a freelance. there are freelance journalists who are trying to sell stories and sell video and they do not have protection of "new york times" or "usa today" or a big network to help. >> another point, i am begging the networks to stop running this picture over and over and over again of jim fowl about to

be executed. it is a video wall parent with any story of isis we show this brave guy at worst moment of his life about to end and it is time to ease up on the images. >> ahead we will unveil new footage from our focus group why people think reporting is mostly thin. >> reverend al at the funeral michael brown shares the spotlight. is this just getting out of space control? etting out of control? ♪ defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. easily absorbed calcium plus d. beauty is bone deep.

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al sharpton has been deeply involved in the ferguson tragedy as an advocate for the michael brown family and covering this story on his msnbc program. this week, it was almost surreal. reverend al delivered the eulogy at michael brown's funeral and led you have his cable show featuring the host himself. >> you've got to deal with the streets in ferguson and st. louis. the brown family asked me to give the eulogy today and i explained how i first took a call from michael's grandfather. america, it's time to deal with policing. we are not the haters, we're the healers. we can't ignore thwhat we've se. that's why we must continue to peacefully protest and get the change this country needs. >> just a small bit of it. the question came up, sort of,

when joe scarborogh) criticism. >> why was al sharpton there? he's chasing cameras. why were you there? >> first of all, i was called by the family. it's not about chasing the camera. i'm on tv every night here. >> why is msnbc so im peevus to the criticism that sharpton is clouding the basic rules of journalism? >> msnbc and nbc owe him big time because he supported the mergers when comcast bought nbc years ago. >> do you think this is a payoff? >> i do. he didn't go to the fcc and complain like ekdz have. the next thing you know, he has a tv show. believe in accountability. if you want to know who al sharpton is, google the warner browley case. >> i covered it. >> you covered it. you can google freddie fab

fashion, martin harlen. these are all cases sharpton was responsible for. there was injustice and death some some of those cases. now sharpton has walked away from all of it. >> and the rest of the press is yawning about this conflict question. doesn't this cross a bright red line? >> i don't think al sharpton is a journalist. he's a commentator with his own show and he has the high self-regard that a lot of commentators with their own show have for their own selves. he has become a story in and himself and there has been some coverage of that. glenn wrote a piece from politico where he chronicled the transformation of al sharpton from kind of a civil rights activist to somebody who has the civil rights's ear and is a conduit for them. >> but there was this fahning profile of al sharpton that didn't really address -- it

didn't raiseizññ the racially incisive or doctor. >> charged. >> yeah, racially charged way that he has gone about his life. it was almost as if this is a new person and he wasn't this track suit medallion wearing, you know, big guy who was throwing his weight around. this was moderate. >> he has every right to speak at the funeral. but when he leads his show with clips of himself at the funeral -- >> talk about butspah, right? to lead your own show withx@ fo sound bites? the first seven minutes were all sound bites of al sharpton at the funeral.9ef >> he's the story. he is becoming himself. >> he is the story. he is the story. >> sharpton fit right in. it traces back, though, to what fred siegel, a historic academic called it, which is to say if

you don't give us what we want, we'll riot. msnbc is now part of the process. >> the "new york times" got criticized for pretty balanced michael brown profile that said he had done the robbery, he had done the drugs and he wak quote, no angel. the editor said that was a regrettable mistake. was it? >> because he's dead, yes. i know exactly what they meant and i think it was a totally fair description of him, but now there are a lot of people who think he is an angel in heaven. >> the person who where he that article himself is an african-american. if you want to watch michael brown at that convenience store, you can reasonably concluded that that was no angel. >> but the problem was that article appeared on the day of his funeral. it's a characterization, but not a fact. >> i thought it was a very balanced article. those two words, not great. ahead, my critique of the

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it's not a new issue, but it's udly become a whooper of a story. burger king moving north, moving its headquarters out of the country exploring a major loophole in u.s. tax laws. >> it is a whooper of a deal. miami-based burger king is buying tim hortons. >> this news instantly sparked outrage in the united states. burger king would have joined the growing list of u.s. companies moving overseas to do what? avoid paying taxes. >> but you know what? we've got to see something in this country to keep businesses here and not have punitive taxes that prohibit people from having businesses here.

>> but why have a news organizations cared much about this issue before? joining us from new york is charlie gasparino. doesz of companies have done something like this, charlie. why did it take burger king to put this on the front page? >> well, i mean, corporate inversions have been going on for a while. i think there's a conflict of factors. number one, it's the latest one, but also the obama administration has been stepping up its rhetoric, essentially, saying that it wants to kill these things, basically make a massive penalty if you do one of these corporate inversions. i will say this. this is a fascinating story from the media standpoint for two reasons. number one, it was the outrage leading up to it, but then there was a weird justification for it right after the news broke because warren buffett, you know, everybody -- every reporter+4 favorite limousine fat cat was involved in the financing. once that happened, i noticed an interesting, more than subtle change. it was a justification. you saw i tell in the times, you saw it in usually the left of center news outlet that's

basically say here is why warren buffett is doing it. he isn't dodging taxes, unlike everybody else that was domging the taxes. so i think this is kind of a fascinating story from that standpoint. there's a political element here. warren buffett, the chief spokesman for higher taxes during the 2012 election cycle is now part of this whole effort of burger king to do a corporate inversion throws, i believe, a monkey wrench into his public relations attack on this stuff. andgñ essentially the attack he trying to -- the efforts he's trying to get these sort of penalties passed on inversions. >> well, i agree with you on the buffett angle, berkshire hath away financing part of the deal and he has been a spokesman for more tax. on the other hand, i don't think it's fair to say he should play by a different set of rules until the rules are changes. >> if you're going to be the spokesman for higher taxes, you get the criticism that you deserve. >> what about the fact that it's

burger king and everybody has had the fries and burgers, buying tim hortons and because of that a reason to move up to on tear your. >> from a purely business poi. the tax rates are lower there. this is a declining franchise. as a matter of fact, all the sort of fast food, mcdonald's, all these chains are declining, particularly with new generation, a younger gem graphic. so this makes complete sense from a financing standpoint, not just a tax standpoint. tim hort yop's apparently is vary good company overseas. but what i find more fascinating, the reason why we're reading about this stuff on the front pages is the yi politicoeconomic issue. warren buffett being for something he's against. that's the story. >> that takes the juice out of this story is that washington isn't going to do anything about this.

the democrats want to close this loophole in tems terms of companies reincorporating abroad. and the republicans say we need to lower corporate taxes. they both may be right, but no prospect of compromise. >> no prospect of compromise, but the president through some sort of executive action could go out there and impose a penalty as jack lew has threatened. but the fact that warren buffett is involved is going to make it that much more harder for jack lew and president obama to do that. >> thank you so much for the weighing in. come up, our fox news focus groups deliver a verdict on media credibility and it isn't pretty. and later, we'll call foul on espn's reporting on the showering habits of the nfl's first openly gay draft pick. dentures are very different than real teeth. they're about ten times softer and have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. polident kills 99.99% of odor-causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture everyday.

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chaos with militants controlling a compound in tripoli. no americans are in danger because the embassy was evacuate add month ago because of increasing violence. the libyan government is pleading for international help fearing the nation could fall to the militants. >> atlantic city showboat casino a victim of declining profits in the resort. two other casinos will close in the coming month costs thousands of jobs. >> san francisco 49er i.r.a. mcdonald arrested on charge of domestic violence after tougher penalties were rolled out for players accused of that claim. back to "media buzz." see you at 7:00. >> when i was in los angeles two groups were asked they thought

of the credibility of the news business. we will show you this report, it was telling. >> without standing like this there is a huge media bias they want to protect the left and assault people on the right and the truth never gets out. >> it doesn't matter if it is spin to the last or right, all journeyists are human beings so as moderate or fair as someone says they are, they are always going to have their own personal spin on things. >> most stations will not talk badly about a democrat, i will of the say that. >> that is behind the growing loss of trust? we have our critics here. the question of spin, has cable and fox and msnbc have their detractors, contributed to public perception that news is not delivered straight? >> i think it has. but they have because of the

counterattacks and the attacks on each other saying one is bias and the other isn't. here is the main problem. we have been battered, the entire media, and media is a big term we have been battered by so men forces -- technology, economics, all and live trial, we have history our sense of purpose, our sense of high purpose serving democracy and we have lost our nerve and our confidence which is even more troubling. we have let the technology overtake us. when we are on a big story especially on cable there are 10 ,000 errors that no one apologizes for, they just move. >> are people seeking out media outlets that agree and they of buying into the notion that everyone else is lying? >> look, these numbers have to do with the explosion of opinion journalism. there was a pew research study

85 percent of opinion of cnn which now is more in the opinion realm with malaysian air or ferguson, certainly, going more -- ferguson, they have gone more in that direction. how does opinion lead to mistrust? we are never more polarized than we are now as audiences are. if the host or anchor is giving an continue and half the audience agree, that is where the distrust comes in. >> you mention mistakes. i think of whether it is cnn and boston marathon bombing or news that is incomplete or inaccurate, has this ser rodded the notion that journalists have made mistake but now we are reckless. >> there is no sense of consequence. when i was on this show with someone who runs a journalism school said it is the fog of war we cannot be responsible.

move on. my head exploded, no, we have to have consequences. but we don't. we don't have a sense of shame. you used to make a mistake like that at a newspaper and you were writing one paragraphs after that. it seems twitter has made this worse because there is now a long list of examples of journalist whose tweet first, ask questions later and are suspended, lose their job or have to apologize for getting something wrong and insulting other people. joe, what about excess? the coverage of ferguson is the latest p. cable tv, in part, turns it into a nightly reality show and may have exacerbated the racial relations. >> i used this analogy, a blitzing linebacker on a quaterback and the quaterback being regular news organizations releasing the ball too soon because they are afraid they will be beat to the punch and we saw that with cnn putting out

audio that was authenticated and then they put on their experts. is the audio real? we are not sure. they should have checked with the f.b.i. first, with their own experts and held off but they were afraid they would be beat by another news organization so social media has a big effect on this and another point, for those people at whom saying, well, the public is always mistrusting of media, not true. not true. the same poll was done 40 years ago asking how many people mistrust the media, three in four americans trusted their media. why? there was less opinion and it was straight news. >> joe is so right. i tell you something else we have donees we have lost our sense of being the watchdog for the people. people are suffering in this country and they don't see us as on their side, trying to get out theness. >> ma is a good point because

the world is falling apart and that has been covered this is what i would call the miley cyrus factor and i have seen 50 segments, should the memorial miles have put sofia on the period stole? entertaining as specifics could overwhelm the watch l&g mission. >> thank you is loading our confidence but i think this goes deeper in losing our sense of mission. >> we have gone five minutes and you did not bring up chelsea clinton leaving the news. >> you look at members and you see chelsea clinton making $600,000 a year and you think you are going to trust them as a news organization and your eyes tell you she is terrible and the nbc executives tell you she is great you don't think you will trust them and say the media is in bed with the 1 percenters and is part of the game. the clintons, wall street, the medicinia, they are not on my side, i will not pay attention to the media or trust them, that

is what is wrong with chelsea clinton being on tv. >> final thought? >> how can i follow that? gallop, 60 percent of democrats have a fair or great amount of trust with the media and only 31 percent independences and 26 percent of independents going back to the krauthammer quip maybe it and because the democrats like what they hear. >> after the break, espn impose with a story on openly gay football player. diane sawyer is not slowing down. and steven colbert claims to be worried about me. he is the guy that should be worried. he's the guy that should be worried. that is next. $1,000 turbocharged reward card with a new volkswagen turbo.

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someone said michael sam is trying to not make his teammates uncomfortable so he is waiting to take a shower. >> in was called unprofessional and unethical. espn defended this but then they came to their senses and apologized. >> espn regrets the matter we presented the report. we failed collectively to need the standards we said for reporting on lgbt-related topics. a personal foul, no question. >> sam was cut bit rams yesterday. >> the indictment of rick perry to force a district torn out who was convicted of drunk driving has drawn plenty of media criticism but a key point is last. national news organizations mention that the prosecutor were acting on a complaint filed by a liberal watchdog vote, texans for political justice and "politico" ran a piece attacking perry grew is no mention that they received funding from billionaire liberal crusader

george soros fueling the notion that the charges are political. >> diane sawyer was a big time celebrity before she took over world news five years ago. what i liked about farewell she made it about her staff, not herself. >> i want you to know what a deep privilege i was to sit in the anchor chair at world news, the flagship broadcast of abc where peter jennings created curiosity can courage. >> she is staying at abc and is handing the reins to david muir. >> stephen colbert is addressing whether the media ferguson exacerbated the violence. >> i said floating the idea, what if all of the journalists in this missouri town packed up

equipment and left? difference.ple said it would it is true the presence of a camera makes people behave recklessly. why believe that howard kurtz would have fledded the idea that journalists are to blame if the violence if a camera point pointed at him. for his own safety, get this man off of television. >> i am so touched by your concern for my well-being i will respond. when you have to get in front the camera at the lake show and survive as yourself as dropping your protective close a pompous blow hard. >> ahead, the college football hero who bamboozled the media and are sexual taunts minute to intimidate female journalists in that is straight ahead.

time for our digital download. one group has an unusual i high level of abuse. >> tell me about it, men have it worse among public figures overall. but in the media business, fele journalists and anchors are three times more likely as men to be on the receiving end of abusive messages. i had a death threat and many other names that i cannot bring up here on television. you have to learn to take it in

stride, it's the neighborhood. as you said, a very rough neighborhood. it does give you pause and it makes you not want to go on twitter. i would much rather go on facebook where i choose the friends that i can have on my page, as opposed to a free for all. >> the swexual taunts, you're fat, you're ugly, here's what i want to do to you. but i also wonder if it is designed to intimidate. of course it's designed to intimidate. but intimidate by getting journalists -- female journalists not to be journalists, i don't know if that's the case, i think that it's just to get journalists to stop -- or female journalists to stop being uppity and saying what they think. >> so-called slult shaming by other men happens almost as much

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>> and the press, the spin, right away, is "it is not no strategy," as if there is no strategy that would be good. he will have to leave with this for a long-term. it is a gaffe that will stick. >> in question about it. >> the media loves stories about heroes. a february player appeared to fit the bill. >> a life saving act is keeping a college football player off the field just days before the start of the season. but josh says that he would do it again. >> josh shah of the trojans saw the seven-year-old nephew drug struggling in the pool so he jumped from a 7 story balcony

and land on concrete and badly injured his ankles and saved his uncle from drowning. >> not so incredible. josh was, well, lying. he fabricated the story and the police are looking into an incident at the apartment complex and he has been suspended. >> he has apologized. >> way back in the stone able you would use a typewriter, you put in the paper, pound on the keys. you used something called "white out," and you made carbon papers for copies and you use a speaker to broadcast the sound of reporters pounding away. how quaint. >> across the generations it could work as a tool for those in the business for a very long

time, but i am waiting. >> it is interesting, because i remember you being excited about the electric typewriters and my producers said, what? what? electric typewriters? >> this was chris wallace's typewriter and it says "abc." >> but all the pounding typewriteers would give you a headache. i don't miss the newsrooms and decks. >> me neither. >> you prefer this, i think? >> the blackberry. >> and iphone. >> that, too. >> thank you for watching this labor day weekend. hope you are having a good holiday. send us an e-mail. we hope you will "like" our facebook page where we post original videos and we spend to your comments.

we back here next sunday every sunday, 11 o'clock and 5:00 eastern. with the latest "buzz." >> president obama admits he has no plan yet to go after isis in syria. world leaders you have to confront the jihadist. >> i don't want to put the cart before the horse. we don't have a strategy yet. >> we need to tackle the ideology of extremism head on before it takes the follow of violence and terror. >> how serious is the threat? we will ask former army intelligence officer and isis expert, what should our strategy be? we will talk with the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers. and the white house struggles to get the emergency straight. >> the president was