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and top management. there is too much of a guide. >> and on tuesday, the quarter ends. so we'll start getting earnings from the corporate sector. that will do it for sunday morning futures. i'll see you tomorrow on the opening bell. on the "buzz beater," ted cruz just in to the presidential arena and media coverage ranges from skeptical to down right hostile.in to the presidential arena and media coverage ranges from skeptical to down right hostile. >> i guess i'd take it as a back handed compliment that the media has to some extent embedded a third caricature for me which is crazy. they do everything they can to paint me as a wild eyed lunatic with dine night strapynamite strapped around my chest. >> is the media focusing on legitimate criticism or largely paining him as a hot tempered extremist. the army brings desertion charges against bowe bergdahl oig. how hard does the media push back against the false
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narrative? a police investigation shows no evidence from rolling stone owing's report on the supposed gang rape at the university of virginia. and contra difficults key elements of the being a keys elements being a you could you say accuser's story. plus is mark zumerburg trying to take over the news businesslike making deals with big player sgloos? and jon stewart finally says something nice about fox. >> we think you're a whale of a network. >> well, sort of. i'm howard kurtz and this is "#mediabuzz". when ted cruz became the first candidate to join the 2016 sweepstakes, media coverage focused on his perceived short
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comings. >> in your short time in the senate, you've developed a reputation as a guy who does not back down. will you bring that brand of no compromise to the white house if you're elected? >> well, let me disagree with the premise. i've never said i won't compromise. >> along with his meager experience. >> he's 44, only been on the national scene for a couple of years. >> it's only been in the senate for two years. >> even some conservatives questioning cruz's readiness for the oval office while some liberals trashed him. >> cruz talks about you have to walk the walk rather than talk 9 talk, you have to have done something. but that's not his record in the senate. >> he's theater. >> i'm right. >> he's theater. he's completely unelectable. >> cruz is either blindly ignorant of what the country went through in the early 1950s
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or he's out there deliberately channeling mccarthy again today. >> joining us now to examine the coverage of the campaign kickoff, kathleen parker nina easton, and juan williams. kathleen parker, cruz is a controversial guy no question about it. on balance are the media painting an unfair picture of him? >> there is a way of presenting facts with an unfair attitude. yes did he force the shutdown of the government which is not a good thing for republicans. and so republicans in congress do resent him for that. they think that was a grandstand. but when you say ted cruz is the not just verse sham butcontroversial but a lack company bird, it's clear that on the left he's out of his mind crazy.ontroversial but a lack company bird, it's clear that on the left he's out of his mind crazy.ontroversial but a lack company bird, it's clear that on the left he's out of his
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mind crazy. but he's crazy like a fox if i may say that and to the extent that he's speaking to the republican bay he's saying exactly what they want to hear and yet they're proud to have someone who says it 10 wellso well. >> does he overstate things? >> here is the thing. i wrote a book on post writinge reagan conservative because my colleagues underestimated the strength of the right, evangelicals, anti-tax movement and so on and underestimated not only their ability to change the republican party, but to win locations. the peril that i think the media faces right now is underestimating ted cruz. and when you just write him off as a whacko, as a joe mccarthy you are not -- you're not understanding that there is a very powerful frankly still evangelical anti-tax base, he hit those two themes in his speech this week that this
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message resonates with. he will be a force to be reckoned with and, you know you need to take him seriously. >> juan williams, it's not all the liberal media. "wall street journal" editorial page krizcriticizing him. he has a knack for stirring up these negative reviews. >> i think he does. and i think i'll irritate kathleen and nina this sunday morning by saying i think it's conservatives who have really gone after ted cruz. peggy noonan in the "wall street journal" yesterday basically saying this guy is someone who is not only inexperienced and doesn't have much of a track record in the senate, but someone who really does not have a chance to be elected president of the united states. and if you as a republican care about beating the democrats and claiming the white house that you wouldn't be lining up with ted cruz. >> what i said is not to the exclusion of what you've just acknowledged.
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>> he said you'd be irritated. >> it takes a lot more than that to irritate me. but he's obviously not going to win the presidency. that's not going to happen. we know that. but i do think -- and by the way, i've spoken to people in the bush administration who remember a different ted cruz. he is an actor who acts alone. and he gives maverick a bad name. but he used to be much more moderate in his views. but he recognized the tea party power and he latched on to that in the same way that sarah palin did. they do share that. >> so he came into fox this week in new york, he had been bumped off some of the shows by the plane crash the morning after his big announcement which was a tremendous media show by the way. but what he basically said is he wants to claim that tea party bracket almost like a final four bracket and then move on and he wants to challenge in terms of the libertarian conservative base.
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the question is where or notther or not he can do that. >> he only has a couple years experience in the senate. hello. barack obama. and what do you make of chris matthews going on off on cruz? >> first of all, this is comment taker, it is not straight news. but is it fair, it's not fair. it's very easy to demonize him. but what is fair coverage is to what you alluded to that he does represent the split in the party. he is part of the activist wing of the party. there is a strong part of the party now that wants to prove that ththey can govern and he rubs them the wrong way. and i think that's fair game for coverage. >> it is true, though a lot of his gop colleagues in washington do not like him. but the whole thing a couple weeks ago where, oh, he frighten
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p ed a 3-year-old girl. that played into the media saying this is a scary figure. >> and that was totally unfair. i think an attempt by media to demonize him when they didn't have any evidence. but it just shows you their bias in my opinion. the other thing i'd say is that a lot of people who get to know ted cruz are surprise the at how intelligent he is and his back background of harvard law school, camphampion debater, and in personal meetings comes across better than when he's giving a speech. i think he comes off a little bit as a used car salesman. >> if you demonize him, you don't have to take him seriously. and so will you take him seriously and the base that he's speaking to seriously. >> and it could well help him in
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the republican primary. let me run through some story lines about him. he's uncompromising as evidenced by his role will in the 2 it1 hour filibuster. fair or not fair? >> i think that's a fair kragtization come being out of the government shutdown episode that ultimately led to the republican party having its lowest ratings in modern history. >> kathleen, he's a hypocrite because he spent five years criticizing obamacare and now he and his family are going on kam obamacare. >> well, i'm not sure that he's absolutely going on obamacare. >> well, he's said he will get standard insurance through his senate job. >> if what's there -- he can can go out on the free market as people do. >> with youbut is that a cause to criticize him? >> well we always say gotcha
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when they figure out that we've done something hypocritical but it's fair game to say that's hypocritical hypocritical, but he can explain it in other terms. >> i think he's doing what anybody would do to protect his family. cruz is suspect because he was born in canada says donald trump. >> i was going to say that for you, donald trump says this is an issue. i don't know the details. i understand that he claims that because his mother was an american citizen, he automatically -- >> i think generally that's the accepted view. >> i will say we'll figure it out. but that's not the point at this moment. the man has announced he's running for president. let give him some respect. i don't know that john boehner and house republicans who feel very threatened by him are also happy. and again that plays in to this media narrative. his own people have trouble with him. republican party republican
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leadership. >> right, but he's not a guy who is running as an establishment candidate. there are ways in which he's ticked people off including some of the colleagues on his side of the aisle, part of what attracted all this media attention. after all the guy has only been in the senate two years. it's not a disqualification. look what a national figure he's become. >> and when he was getting criticism over the government shutdown episode, he was getting standing room only applause people standing on their feet in texas. he was building a movement. >> and in- think this speaks to the fact that the washington media are really out of touch with real america. the rest of the country has a completely different way of seeing things. and to those who feel like this obama administration is characterized by big government programs, if you have someone like ted cruz who is a champion debater who is really very, very smart and he can articulate the opposite positions of
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republicans and conserveativeconservatives, they're delighted to have ted cruz. >> washington media out of touch. a shocking charge to make. remember to send me a message on twitter and use our e-mail. i read them all. ahead, that "rolling stone" article about the supposed gang rape at uva further crumbles after a police investigation. will the magazine apologize? but when we come back, the army charging bowe bergdahl with desertion. how the media knocked down the white house narrative. it tastes better when you grow it. it tastes even better when you share it. it's not hard, it's doable. it's growable. get going with gro-ables. miracle-gro. life starts here. not to be judgmental, but from where i'm sitting... it's your gas that's out of order in this court. the pressure. the bloating. get gas-x. it relieves all those symptoms in minutes. that's why it's the #1 gas relief brand.
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president obama met with bergdahl's parents and presented the swap as a good news story, david martin raised questions that very night. >> at some point bergdahl will have to explain the circumstances of his capture. when he disappeared in 2009, officials said he had simply wandered off his base by himself without even a weapon. >> joshua was the platoon's medic. >> he premeditated, planned out and left. >> daresix platoon members were together on the set. p. >> raise your hand if he think he deserted. raise your hand if you have some question about whether he deserted. >> when this week's charges were filed, jim picksome journalists were ready. >> reporter: josh served with bergdahl in afghanistan.
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>> i think that he's extremely lucky that they're not talking about the firing squad. >> reporter: but the celebrating was short lived. bergdahl did not want to see his parents and his fellow soldiers began to go public with their disgust. >> he knew what he was doing when he deserted us. >> how does the mainstream immediate doctor do pushing back against that initial white house narrative? >> they did great. within 24 hours they had members talk about how this guy was potentially a deserter. what shocks me was how it was just below the surface. all of the platoon leaders talking about this. how did the white house miss this? how did susan rice say he served honorably and with distinction if it was so easy to find these people to say this? >> "washington post" did a good job with the story one day later. chuck todd said white house
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aides considered this swift boating. but they were quoted by name. these were not shadowy sources. had to do with a guy they felt betrayed them. >> and you hear that term he deserted "us." and my experience with all the military people in my family and friendships, when you ask people why they're fighting, they're always fighting for their buddy. they're there for their colleagues in the trenches. and you don't leave them. to wander away, i don't think so. but to have these colleagues of his say he left us you know it's pretty clear. and i don't know why the white house wouldn't have done a little of its own vetting before they blew this up as some sort of hero's welcome home essential i ly ly. >> i think the media did a pretty aggressive job. >> i think we should be an adversarial press.
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when you saw the six of them on the megyn kelly show i think that was a real demonstration that his colleagues -- we have lots of deserters but to desert on the battlefield is another issue and that's critical here. but there is another way to view this story from a media perspective. i think the white house said we brought one of our soldiers home. and you can interpret that as spin, but i think it's a fact. and if it was my child, no matter what that child had done he put on the american uniform and went to fight for our country, he may have problem maybe psychologically unstable but to bring our soldier home is a good move. >> do you bring your people home. i don't have any argument with that. but we're basically saying the media did its job. and it's not as though that should be -- >> nobody is asking for a standing ovation for us. >> exactly. >>? january the in january the o'reilly factor
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reported they were charging bergdahl and cnn did a segment. >> especially on the report on hirm that came out. of course the white house suddenly being mum after wanting to display him with this big press conference that i think the media felt very abused and used by him. >> all right. thanks for stopping by. up next, with facebook close to teams up with the "new york times," is mark zuckerberg trying to take oeft news business? and jon stewart goes after megyn kelly and me for being right? success starts with the right connections. introducing miracle-gro liquafeed universal feeder. turn any hose connection into a clever feeding system for a well-fed garden. miracle-gro. life starts here. at old dominion, we see freight...
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without ever having to leave the social network in exchange for some share of advertising revenue. joining us now from san francisco is sarah lacy. sarah facebook also talking to buzzfeed and national geographic. but what do you make of the "new york times" on the verge of giving mark zuckerberg a fat chunk of content? >> it's fascinating. i think it's the combo of the "new york times" and buzzfeed together that is fascinating. such a market pr master stroke. these are two big giants on polar opposites of the scale. buzzfeed very new immediatemedia, highly valued, going after shares and distribution. "new york times" always aboutl about brand. one of the only publications where subscriptions seem to be kind of working. and frankly, both of these
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publications want a little bit of what the other one has. buzzfeed is trying to get more trust and respect ability for its journalism. "new york times" is trying to figure out some way to get distribution and money because a subscription along as well as it's working won't sustain several hundred people newsroom. >> what about the potential down side here. would you take this will deal and give up traffic coming to your fight? >> i would not take this deal because i live in silicon valley and i've seen this you'vemovie so many times. there was zynga, "washington post" social reader whichever time facebook changes the rules, it always tanks the traffic and shares. and they have shown over and over and over again with it's platform that the rules will stay consistent as long as they work for facebook. and there are already concerns that facebook is starting to prioritize video over news
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articles. what i would do if i was one of these public lirshers, i'd just put video content on there. it's harder to share than print. it doesn't have the same brand play. and everyone is trying to make the tv analogy that facebook is essentially now a network and if you're going to produce modern family you won't question to their producers you'll go to abc to watch it. i think that holds for video but not print. >> if you're somebody heading out with your friends on facebook and you don't care where you read the story, but i find it very troubling. i understand the tentmptation, but it gives zuckerberg all the power and could erode the traffic for these other news sites. >> right. and it's not just traffic. but it's also the relationship with advertisers. yes, facebook has one of the best advertising machines of anywhere. but building that trust with
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advertisers and building out bigger custom programs inyou're giving up that relationship which is a little bit scary and you're also giving up data on your users potentially. where are they going to, with a articles are they going to next. one of the great things about being a web publisher versus a magazine or news paper publisher is you can really understand your users and what they resonate with, how they're flowing through, what articles they are going to next. all these publishers invested all this money and tools to try to keep people moving around their sites and showing them the article they want to see next. you're giving up all of that. it is a massive massive short term gain, but i think it's scary for the long term. >> very briefly, if the "new york times" does this will there be a lot of temptation for other news organizations to throw in their lot? >> yeah. this is the master stroke of doing buzzfeed andsher is in between that pole. and you're like, okay, these guys who are the masters of
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disit friday distribution are doing it, mark zuckerberg is a great negotiator. >> all right. we'll keep an eye on it. thanks very much. ahead on "#mediabuzz"," hillary clinton talks about a more open relationship with the press. was she just joking around? but first isn't it time for those who bought the hands up don't shoot narrative in ferguson to grapple honestly with that mistake? [chorus singings:] ♪ roundup ♪ i'm the protector of my patio. killing weeds where they grow. a barrier forms so weeds can't appear - serious weed prevention up to a year. [chorus singings:] ♪ roundup max control 365 ♪ so i'm fighting weeds on opening day and preventing weeds while i get away. weeds stay dead as we carve this beast, and they still aren't back when i cook this feast. [chorus singings:] ♪ roundup max control 365 ♪ one more time let me make it clear.
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what seems to me to be a cold blooded murder. >> i don't have an answer to look at my children in the face and say there about r. people in this country who do not like african-americans, but they despise black men. there is a war on black boy there is this country. >> we want you to know that our hearts are out there marching with them. p. >> i kept warning the news business was rushing to judgment. i do think we still don't notice what the police version is exactly of what happened so a lot of the coverage up until now has been one-sided. are the ideological media in this case on the left adding to the polarization in this particular sensitive racially charged story? something else i'm concerned about, and that is some outlets creating almost a lynch mob mentality around this. . so now that two investigations have found that officer darren
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wilson acted properly in self self-defense self-defense, why aren't more news organizes examining where they wrept wrong or even apologizing? joining us, mike concha and susan ferrechio and richard fowler. joe, other than the "washington post" and a couple others, i haven't seen many journal i.s and news organizations openly grappling with the role that they played in perpetuateing a false narrative. >> nor have i. and he was under no duress and he went full "washington post" and he's now being called a race traitor for doing so. but there are real victims here as far as ferguson's concern and those are ferguson residents themselves. if you look at a report by fusion, the abc univision joint
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venture, a reporter there studied home property values before the protests in august and what they are now and they're nearly down 50%. and most of these people weren't even protesting. predominantly black community and their home values are dropping. apologies need to be made. >> initially news organizations relied on some some friends of brown who were lying. police department wasn't talking. the initial times har margaret sullyivan saying she was wrong. where is there very little soul searching on this? >> what is interesting if you look at the mea culpa in the "new york times," the comments section is fascinating. one commenter suggested that what journalists had committed was malpractice and i think that's an interesting way to term this.
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what is our responsibility as reporters? making sure boothth sides of the story are fairly presented. i think it drove a narrative that created part of the furor in ferguson that people who live there paid for dearly. there are also people who commented who were from ferguson who said they were driven from their homes and who watched the media only sbrir or tell part of the story. so i'm not as interested in apologies as i am in lessons learned. what can we do going forward if something like this happens again. >> richard fowler, is it fair to say that many in the mediaed a vert tently pursued a false narrative? >> there are two sides to the story and one side was missing. and the reason has everything to do with the fact they didn't speak up. the police were pretty much mum when it came to talking about what really took place that night. >> does that let journalists off the hook? >> not at all.
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and i think this narrative, hands up don't shoot, i get why there is not truth from it in the justice report. but it transcends just the michael brown case. i think it represents a feeling of minorities black and brown sort of the feeling they feel towards the police for mistreatment. and all throughout history you have don't overtax me, you have we shall overcome. it's become a narrative for a larger problem. >> i'm glad you brought that up. people in the media quickly pivoted to the related question of history of police department discrimination against african-americans, but never really cleaned up the mess about this particular case and the shooting of michael brown because you go to the larger question. >> i think they should have cleaned up the narrative. but i think this transcends beyond ferguson. i think the media has reported on the rally cry and that's an
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important thing. and if we're going to talk about ferguson and st. louis county, you miss the underlying story. you have 90 municipalities some a small county. and will isl s there is bad governance. a lot of journalists talked about the back story. it could have been joe lewis for that matter. could have been anybody. >> let me go back to joe. after the iraq war, there was a lot of breast beating and editors thoets editors notes about the way in which the press could have been aggressive in challenging the bush administration. and i'm seeing very little of that now. >> i think because a republican was probably in office and to say that president bush was wrong that is easy to sell particularly when his poll numbers were going down 2005, wow 6 2006 once it revealed weapons of mass destruction probably didn't resist. and finally, with opinion journalism you can just say i
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was offering an opinion and i got it wrong even though they're not saying i got the it wrong. not like news anchors were pushing that as fact. so they can hide behind that fact. hey i just made an opinion. >> but the cnn anchors who put their hands up, that was a news show, not commentary show. >> and i think media particularly television media has slanted more toward the opinions versus hard line journalism of the past. that's sort of a culmination of it. and i think what really needs to happen is for everybody in the media who considers themselves to be a nonpart san middle of the road journalist, to take a look at their behavior on this issue in particular. so that going forward, we can be more objective and retain our credibility. >> because there will be other criminal cases where all the fact asass s ss ss wouldn't be out
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there at once. >> and i agree this issue is something that transcended journalism. >> but the thing at the heart of it was false. >> i agree. i think there is a larger narrative at play here. and i think that's the bigger issue. >> richard fowler, thanks for joining us. when we come back a police investigation shows just how awful that "rolling stone" piece on a fraternity gang rape really is. and is this the beginning of the end on the network's monopoly on nfl games? it tastes better when you grow it. it tastes even better when you share it. it's not hard, it's doable. it's growable. get going with gro-ables. miracle-gro. life starts here.
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incident consistent with the facts contained in that article occurred at the phi kappa psi fraternity house or any other fraternity house for that matter. >> does the "rolling stone" story have any shred of kred credibility left? >> no. the fact that we're still clinging to the idea that something happened and rolling steen stone -- a review is being conducted and i expect they will come out with something still somewhat forgiving on "rolling stone". and what they failed to do was basic journalism 101 checks here where you just check sure, you talk to the other side, tell them you're writing the story. >> in fact "rolling stone" allowed the reporter to not even approach the alleged attackers to see what they had to say. >> this is a trend. if you look at other new media reporting there was a recent reporting scott the walker's
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budget left out any requirement for sexual assault reporting. it was wrong. nobody did the prerequisite checks that in my early days i never would have been allowed to file or write a story without those basic checks. what's happening? >> it's the run and gun culture. and the investigation by the police contradictsed in key details of jackie's account including the fact there was no fraternity party on the night is he shez says she was as taughted. >> it's over. and you would think now that their lot charlottesville has said there is no evidence "washington post" doing great work this will tearing apart this story, if you go to google and type in rape on campus the first thing that comes up with the "rolling stone" story. it's still on their website. if i got it wrong, i'd get that down in a hurry.
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there is a disclaimer that says we apologize for anybody who may have been affected by there story. but nothing about the charlottesville findings. that is a whole bowl of wrong. and then i don't have for go to columbia to ask the writer did you interview the accused. no. will day that orna or sean woods how did you vet this story in? we don't know. or the fact checker. what did you do some were you spell checking the fraternity name, what was going on there? so there's going to be lawsuits here and "rolling stone" does not have a leg to stand on here. >> the police found even that jackie didn't call her mother that night that she claimed they couldn't find the man she claimed to have been on a date with. and remember, "rolling stone"
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initially defended this story and then put out a statement that kind of blamed jackie and then took it back. so not exactly owning up to clearly we used to say the story was flawed. i think the story is just utterly blown up. >> and what i liked most about the reporting at the "washington post" was that's real reporting. they looked under every stone every corner and they really just tore that story apart. and by doing basic reporting. nothing here is rocket science. this is just going and doing your job. and why "rolling stone" feels that -- makes me question everything else that has ever been printed in that magazine. we don't want to interrupt the narrative, the narrative is more important that be the facts. p that's troubling because it underminds our credibility. >> this was a huge mistake and a long time and "rolling stone" still has not owned up to it. thanks very much for stopping by. after the break, hillary tees
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maybe at long last hillary clinton to trying to patch things up with the press or maybe she's trying to get a few laughs. she showed up and had a few things to say about what she called her complicated dealings with the media. >> i am all about new beginnings. a new grandchild, another new hair style, a new e-mail account.
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why not a new relationship with the press? no more secrecy. no more zone of privacy. after all, what good did that do me? >> very amusing. everybody laughed but she didn't take the next step which would have been answering a few questions. she took a swipe at kabing news. >> ideology trumping facts made for cable shout fests, twitter storms drowning out substantial dialogue and reporting. >> of course she has a point about cable shout fests and twitter storms but it would be nice to move beyond the jokes and engage with us media types. meanwhile one of her supporters sent a scolding all right to the new york times reporter and 100
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journalists entitled your obsessive and loathsome coverage. no you are on notice that we will be watching reading listening and protesting coded sixism this time around in words and phrases polar rising, overconfident defiant inserting snide comments on her lookings. okay. polar rising calculating, ambitious ambitious. we say that stuff about male politicians all the time. but some take the criticism personally of hillary. >> the way i feel when i see that language that's thinly vailed or overt sixism. i feel defeated. >> we'll be talking act this for a long time. cop coming up your top tweets and john stew wart admits that
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may be ready to call a digital play. announcing jacksonville facing off in london will be carried on the web. this is a big deal because the nfl is built on the billions it takes on from networks. if more games are put online, it diminishes and other people could get a slice of the pie. >> they started into him with cruel remarks. they don't give anyone a chance. >> another, it's fair. cruise is known for bombastic statements. >> gail miller. cruz bashing is something among the left. i was calling out the cruz
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bashing. steve west fairness would be that the mainstream media vet cruz as fairly as obama. >> jon stewart is determined to get in a few last licks against fox before he leaves. many bought into the false narrative of hands up don't shoot while she and i other others said let's not rush to judgment. stew art does a riff and he zeros in on a segment featuring me. >> okay. you're the caution and sober reflection network. my favorite part of the piece was after ten minutes of complaining that no one would ever thank them. this. >> you are waiting for the mainstream media to stha we were wrong in this racially charged case that resulted in so much violence in the town.
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you're going to hold your breath a long time. >> don't care about them. >> great. you don't care in the same way my mom doesn't care if i never call. the point is, you were right. to honor that time you were right, we got you a fudgy the whale. >> that's very fair and balanced of you. by the way i don't care who gives fox credit that journalists should own up on missteps. i know it really bugs you to have to celebrate fox so thanks for the cake. victory tastes sweet with chocolate sarcasm. here's to you, jon. not bad. that's it for this edition of media buzz. we hope you like our facebook page. give us a like and check out or content f. if you missed the
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show show, you can down load our pod cast. we're back here next sunday morning 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. >> today members of the arab league announced a new joint military force. this coming as a saudi arabia-led coalition vows to continue air strikes on yemen until iran rebels therewith draw. >> hello everyone. it could take months for the new arab military force to form. each of the 22 members of the arab league will have to determine if they are l participant it in it and the outline is still being worked out. it may not come together in time to help