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back to the big picture i'm starvin coming up in this half hour mideast peace talks between israelis and palestinians have taken a back seat well world what this is a revolutionary wave across arab countries tonight the coeditor of the goldstone report joins me in studio to discuss mideast peace talks and what that report calls for once in today's tough economy it seems bank of america is doing just fine making billions in this bull market but there's new concern we may be headed for another financial meltdown and i give you my take on this bubble economy and what it means for you and me it's x.p. but first it's the video sting that's making headlines across the nation.

thank you for national public radio vivian schiller resigned today she was in the middle of a controversy one day after an n.p.r. executive in charge of fundraising ronald schiller no relation by the way to vivian was caught on videotape calling some members of the tea party racists here's the video. i. think six to ten feet. recently. there are quite. scary. series. of what you just saw was the worker right where you had james o'keefe whose previous exploits include dressing up like

a pimp to bring down acorn dressing like a telephone repairman about the offices of senator mary u.s. senator mary landrieu he was arrested by the way for that one nearly ended up in federal prison by his republican cohorts in congress o'keefe decided n.p.r. was public enemy number one and set out to dress up like a potential fundraiser and see what kind of dirty could provoke with this amrit and sure enough it worked so this the new way the right is trying to bring down their political opponents organizations and they simply don't agree with the more troubling is this the new norm of journalism in america for more on this issue i'm joined by jamie weinstein deputy editor of the conservatively nealy color erica community democratic strategist welcome to both of you thank you for having us let me let me first because i don't see this is much like a left right debate thing. scott walker got point. is this is this is not. the new the the the o'keefe video so far right wing territory but there's.

if we added a new era of gotcha journalism i don't think so i mean this is how sixty minutes and twenty twenty did their consumer reporting for years and still still so doesn't like that but they usually come with a camera on their shoulder no they did hidden camera ports and. we can even remember now would which famous the b. is an n.b.c. that does those you know character editors things those are hidden camera stuff this is been done oh. all the time i left and you know two weeks ago you mentioned scott walker you know you were crying because i was on the very panel that you knew you were single working quite a bit only when only when something like this comes out and we have you know this unbelievably awful statements by the n.p.r. executive are we talking this is a new era of gotcha journalism in journalism is dying i think this happens quite a bit but it's how sixty minutes and twenty four years operated for decades i think the very first thing is that i don't i think that it shows that it doesn't say anything particular at n.p.r.

n.p.r.'s journalism is still you know top notch award winning this is a guy who's a fundraiser he was not in charge of editorial content he was not producing content for n.p.r. so n.p.r.'s coverage was not at all is not indicative of n.p.r.'s coverage but back to like the broader issues here holder's idiots on. the right have a lot of i don't i don't think that's clear i mean the video shows something very interesting answers to n.p.r. employees are usually not part of the process but they seem to agree with what they were saying national national palestine radio oh i like that i like that for a reason they seem to be mccloy jr i think you have to agree wolf you'll find it's everywhere so if i went over to his foundation you know dressed the right way to talk to the right people with cameras right are you surprised i think there's only go as there are no i'm sorry but i want to go i got a lot of that meets the. road so what's happening with journalism is that it's becoming more accessible cameras you see more expensive and larger like if you can

walk around and only something like a news organization like c.b.s. or sixty minutes was capable of having the equipment to do a hidden camera now anybody can do and i think that there needs to be you know we need to be looking at who's sending in these videos are they cropped are they how they've been butchered james o'keefe has been portraying these for a long time doubt that he released the full video so i'm not disputing that but in the past you know his methods of obtaining the videos mean he's broken several. laws and been convicted they can take a criminal now what is pretty is they get him to convict you know i mean if you're going to get us convicted in new orleans entering the question what i thought i was i was here not not for that the one part of another panel where we discussed the alleged rapists the work of the wiki leaks founder julian assange you seem to praise him as it is journalists doing a journalist work you know if he qualifies as a journalist and then james o'keefe does as well i don't know what my definition would be with these guys certainly in my mind the greatest really songes not

a journalist but under your definition i think james o'keefe would fall quite well in one in one hundred twenty eight as well spangler wrote a book called the decline of the west and it's seriously read it. because i don't know many chris hedges the only guy i've ever met who actually read also read that it was a big deal back in one hundred twenty eight but it i don't even think it's been prince in forty but in any case in it was really a milestone book and what he said was he was looking at the roaring twenty's and which was not unlike kind of the roaring last few decades and he said when a culture when the institutions of a culture of a society become caricature of themselves. and he was talking about the press when the press becomes a caricature of itself from the start taking themselves seriously so seriously that you know every guy's got to wear the snap or play you know jimmy olsen and all this comes up when one becomes a caricature of itself you know that society is collapsing that there's some kind

of rot inside it is this is it possible that everything from julian assange to to. james o'keefe is a symptom of some kind of underlying rot in our culture that we really all should be paying attention to or is this is this this whole spectrum of stuff like really healthy good conversation that we only we. can you see there's kind of two trends i mean i think that there is certainly a trend toward you know the trashier of the more salacious headlines and it's a constantly revolving highly competitive environment with the internet i mean it goes fast and you try to compete for people's clicks but i think because of that there's we're also seeing a shift in a lot of ways towards more journalism and more investigative longer form pieces and a lot of them are popping up on the web and a lot of kind of i don't necessarily blogs that are pending but really in investing further back into this i think people are looking more for that i think he see that

people want information and that they they know that what most of what they're getting is kind of. it's trash and not as insightful and that they're really trying to seek and find this. infotainment that we have the news and most of our so-called news you know no i lock the mistake you know obviously obviously there's some sensationalism in some of the news that we get but we have more sources now that we've ever had before you can go on the internet you can you go in television and have more cable news stations with different. points of view but they certainly have different lean different different way so you can if you if you're looking for knowledge and truth you have more sources to pull. through the marketplace of ideas is greater than it's ever been for before at least the access to these ideas is greater well i think it's a positive thing the axis is but but when you look at for example the big three networks you know they provide still most of the news to most americans and for

example last year you had a couple of tea party rallies where there were fewer and fewer than five thousand people i mean there were there was one or two large ones but a couple were the few that all three networks covered in the evening coverage and at the same time the u.s. social forum of twenty thousand progressives in detroit for five days march from the cold war now one single network even sent a written order so are there other than systems easy sometimes there are mistakes like that made i don't know those examples i do i do i do know these examples they portray the tea party as this research organization research group except find a sign now it is a to do it anymore it was going to the tea party has a. multimillion dollar bill of what is it and existence of social forum doesn't get here from new good job that because they portrayed the tea party as this racist forum because they found a few bigoted people but it was constant they're comparing i mean michael board loudly compared the governor to mubarak so many mubarak's i mean that's ridiculous there is comparing comparisons to hitler where there was no similar coverage of

those wackos so what the founding if you wackos of the tea party so if they do very well and anybody is there i mean there's been a lot of it hasn't actually to david moore but it's only one source and this was covered everywhere so the tea party has a tech press person who did a pretty damn bad job because the sole reason they're getting the bad press while while the protesters are a pretty good radio station i mean you're certainly seeing that corporation and you write that corporate media is having more influence and making more decisions for fewer kind of television outlets that's why i personally like the internet and i think the caller what they're doing is more and more important because it's such a high bar no just goes out and buys a t.v. station anymore you can't there's not a lot of locally owned media outlets but the internet there's more access. and so the responsibility of editors should be to be doing the sifting and winnowing of the truth and looking into and taking searching for facts but you know where corporations are kind of letting us down in our consumption in some areas and other areas technology is allowing us to kind of i cast that there's even i mean there's

concern in the world for example of a post on it well which is a fairly conservative organization steve case. is is moving away from breaking to the rest of it is t.p.m. actually seems to be stepping into that space but you know i mean the term corporate is like a book even corporates and corporations are the problem with the news corp's about well we just had this n.p.r.'s kid or this is this is you know partly governance of money the profit for profit and there was i think a lot of roles they're going to see is you know hard i live in london per year when you graduate school there this is not the epitome of non-biased journalism so n.p.r. and corporations are would support wrong with the news i think is why i don't think that's what's wrong with it from n.p.r. that you have a diversity of funding sources what makes them unique is that it's there are corporate donors there are philanthropic foundations there are listeners and viewers and then you also have the government so they don't necessarily have one particular interest with their hands and you know speaking as

a liberal i actually have a problem with that n.p.r. was they were the ones who broke the or the a.t.m. scam the price fixing scam fifteen years ago cost him three hundred million dollars guess who was their first sponsor when they started taking corporate money they're no longer doing that kind of the best occasion but in any case. you know when we had only the idea they were at a time sort of going to wrap it up i really appreciate what you're after yeah we really couldn't you know media junkies here in the media thank you both thank you and i'm sure really in times like these the line between journalism and entertainment has really been blurred and it's hard to tell this new form of gotcha journalism will stick in some ways i'd like to hope it doesn't but i think also as our panel's pointed out it's been with us for a long time. crazy alert bad hair day a connecticut man is facing charges of first degree assault after he stabbed

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you. as the middle east deals with a revolutionary wave most longstanding conflict in that region between israelis and

palestinians seems to have been forgotten after eight years of failed diplomacy under president george w. bush israel and palestine are no longer are not simply no closer to lasting peace today even under president obama peace talks have stalled settlement building in the west bank has resumed but what role if any will this revolutionary fervor sweeping across the middle east play in the ages old conflict between jews and arabs in israel here to offer some insight into this issue is adam horowitz coeditor of the book the goldstone report the legacy of a landmark investigation of the gaza conflict adam thanks for joining us from our new york studios welcome. great thanks for having me for our viewers who are not familiar with this what was the goldstone report and who was mr goldstein. sure will the goldstone report was a un investigation into the israeli attack on gaza in the winter of two thousand

and two thousand and nine. justice richard goldstone is a south african judge who was central to ending apartheid in south africa had also been involved in the tribunals in the former yugoslavia and rwanda looking at work crimes in the un i asked him the. investigation into the fighting gaza which he then led in the spring of two thousand and nine and issued a report in september of that year the report was immediately regarded as controversial because that found that both hamas and israel committed work crimes and possible crimes against humanity in their fighting. i thought that was one of the most. really extraordinary things about this is that. that's very very strong language i mean he didn't just find that they committed war crimes in my recollection the report is correct he actually or the report actually suggested that the people involved in those war crimes in those two institutions in

from israel from laws should be sitting in the hague in the in the dock and being tried for war. so would the report actually presented both israel and hamas with an opportunity to investigate themselves. and then the report said if those reports weren't up to snuff then they would recommend for the u.n. to send the cases to the international court of criminal court and that's the stage where we're at right now the un human rights council will be reviewing the israeli and palestinian investigations this month and might then send it on to the i.c.c. from there it was the un h r c the first commission the goldstone report. yes ok so i am i'm guessing that it's fairly easy to figure out why this report was politicized criticized and embraced in various parts of the world and among various political factions in the u.s. and the u.k. is there is are there any surprises in that i mean it did for example the people

putting this together and mr goldstone did they expect it to be as explosive and controversy it was a was or to expect everybody to say yeah we've got some problems and see if we can work together and are there any efforts now to work together in solving these or to do that kind of self-examination that the report is going for. well judge goldstone himself said that he was surprised what he found when he arrived in gaza i mean here's somebody who considered himself a lifelong zionist he was on the board of the board of hebrew university in jerusalem but then he arrived in gaza and was was shocked. so in that way i think he you know he was surprised by the results of the report to this point because both the israeli government and hamas to a lesser extent haven't been willing to do the investigations needed there are human rights n.g.o.s organisations in both societies that have really been pushing

this forward in addition to human rights organizations around the world amnesty international just released. a report calling on the the u.n. not to lose this opportunity that we have right now to make sure that the report is pushed forward and that those who are named in the report are held accountable if. if nothing is done and if the u.n. says ok you guys didn't do a good enough job we're going to do it for you what happens. well the report actually warns against that saying that you know when they were on the ground in gaza talking the palestinians health indians themselves had very little faith that this report would be different than any of the reports that have come before them and the authors of the report say that unless there is accountability then it not only hurts the chances for reconciliation in the region but it hurts the standing of institutions like the un for ideas like international law and human rights and

that's something that's at stake with this report too is. will we need in the world the international community allow israel to continue to operate with almost complete impunity when they after a day they're breaking breaking the laws that we say should be governing how you know nations that torture one another remarkable adam thank you very much for being with us that. this this gordian knot needs to be cut for the good not only the region but of the world. it's the good the bad of the. really ugly person the good marriage jack o'reilly

jr rallies the marriage dearborn michigan home to the largest muslim population in the united states so it seems like he should have a pretty good perspective on the threat if there is one represented by american muslims o'reilly went on the record yesterday to criticize republican peter king's investigation into radicalized muslims take a look. you know when someone goes into what is supposed to be fact finding but they've already determined the outcome then that fact finding process is flawed and you know for us we've lived for eighty years with muslims as an active part of our community we have direct experience many of our young people are fourth and fifth generation americans therefore we have a pretty good perspective on what it is that islam represents because we see it through the actions and behaviors of our neighbors and well said let's see if peter king calls up merrill riley as a witness and sham hearings somehow i doubt it's going to happen but that republican congressman denny rehberg of montana

a video released online yesterday shows raber repeated lee being asked by a man who is presumably one of his constituents to state the current minimum wage in montana first three times the guy asks for a burger means silent and then he finally comes up with this response. or you guys will end of a minimum wage for you know what is it. puts too much. to understand what's minimum which. yeah if it wasn't. is being is being out of so out of touch wasn't bad enough chording to be quark for monocle raver it is the fourteenth wealthiest member of congress and he has repeatedly voted against raising the minimum wage is for the record by the way the minimum wage montana was recently raised to seven dollars thirty five cents an hour ten cents higher than the national rate and that's very very.

top to the end the very very ugly. bill o'reilly by analyzing the potential republican nominees for president in two thousand and twelve on a show last night o'reilly let loose this little nugget of racism. rock obama the black man ok i mean it's happened but his appearance of black first black ever run it ok huge huge advantage in a campaign you norm's friends persaud jesse jackson was the first african-american to run for president second president is not a color just like you are not white bill if anything frankly you're pink and third with one out of three african-american children living in poverty it's sadly not an advantage to be an african-american in the united states today but from his pedestal bill had a hard time seen these realities and that's theory very. you

can learn a lot by eavesdropping on rich people talking to rich people like when the next bubble in the stock market is going to be made and it's going to burst on this topic i turn to today's financial times and three stories on the front page of the companies and markets section the first story the man for synthetic junk bonds gross that i just grabbed this. here's the this is the paper. and. demand grows for synthetic junk bonds right here. what this story is basically saying is the banks see a gullible being created in wall street and they want to jump right into it with whatever sort of junk they can find so they'll buy you know any kind of bonds in fact hedge fund interest reflects optimism ok what's going on here

he's banks there's a lot of the risk because they know that they're now so big bigger than when they first crash in two thousand and seven in fact that they're too big to fail they know that when their bubble bursts you and i average taxpayers through our government will bail them out and all of already stashed their billions in swiss bank accounts so for another sign that a pub was created look no further than this story on the same front page of the second section of the financial times here's carl i. thank excuse me. picture it says bank of america predicts pretax earnings of forty billion dollars after the recovery that's right a bank that's being picketed by us uncut because they paid no income taxes in the u.s. in two thousand and nine by using over one hundred offshore tax havens is already making billions in this new bull market and expects to make more at least over the

short term which is all these guys care about so invest invest invest right. not so fast because right next to both these stories on the front page of the suction is to ban grows for some to judge brands of the of a's chief bullish outlook is a picture car like those of you who don't know carl icahn he's a power player on wall street he controls a huge hedge fund he may be most well known for buying and then taking apart and selling off parts of t.w.a. twenty years ago or thereabouts run it into bankruptcy while he made out just fine thank you very much it was guys making billions for decades but today he's making headlines in the financial times because unlike in the other two stories i can foresee the market crash other. he's giving his investors the limited partners in his huge hedge fund all their money back because in his own words i do not wish to be responsible to limited partners through another possible market

crisis just like that here's your money i'm getting the hell out of here thank you very much. and he's not the only one the article goes on to give examples of other hedge fund managers who are giving their investors their money back before they lose it when the market bubble pops again. so right here folks in the financial times the real story of what's going on today's market think of it as a memo to the banks stores to invest in the market now when the bubble grows but be sure to leave as soon as possible before the bubble bursts when well nobody knows for sure but icahn is closing his fund in june three months from now it's a warning to us all that we may be heading toward another financial meltdown and you thought the monthly unemployment numbers told the real story of our economy in reality they don't tell the half of it so that you need to listen to billionaires talking to each other that's the big picture for more information on the stories we cover visit our website it's on arbonne dr archie dot com her show available for

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