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brilliance and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because when you've got something to say i do listen now of course i'd like to respond to a comment about our mainstream mis segment yesterday compare the media's obsessive focus on the weather to that completely ignoring the fact the us still won't let a us representative visit bradley manning and job d.d.t. it said on you tube weather is very important to millions of people and certainly worthy of a segment here or there it seems like every single episode a lot of complains about bradley manning you might as well change your show the bradley manning power hour now i understand the weather is an issue for people all over the country i also know that it's summer it's hot and it happens every year so there's no surprise there that's what i call a complaint but documenting the case of an american who was held in solitary confinement without being convicted of any crime that's not a complaint that's a reminder of very uncomfortable reminder perhaps to many people as to what this country has become how far the government will go to keep its dark and dirty

secrets secret they've launched an intimidation campaign against whistleblowers and it's especially contradictory considering appeal by administration was the one that promised to be the most open and the most transparent so if you think that talking about the fact that the president is a hypocrite and this government is overly secretive and that this one american out of many may have been held in conditions that amount of torture by international standards is a complaint i say change the channel until you're ready to wake up and get a taste of the truth as the government has nothing to hide about how they treated manning they should just let one go and as a visit now to the next one i want to respond to a comment on twitter from film date he tweeted i can't wait for westboro church to start picketing k.f.c. openings little league games the a loner show c.b.s. studios and card you. are ships ok now i got to be honest i'm not exactly sure what my show has in common with little league and k.f.c. but i have see is my guilty pleasure how did you know dave anyway i welcome the westboro church to give me any time i don't like ace i love them i think they

deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else i even think they make this country better so westboro bring it up now lastly i want to respond to a comment about our happy hour for monday a rediscussed a restaurant planning to ban it children from their establishment the social evolution said i'm youtube did she just give a plug to jamaican hedonism resorts l.o.l. love you alone up out people please get your mind out of the gutter i was simply saying that i prefer resources for our four adults only me and there are no kids splashing around in the pool while i'm trying to relax and jamaican heat isn't resorts or your thing that's fine but they're not mine and that's it for today's ranting i'm going to have more as usual for you next week. our earlier in the show we updated you on the continuing murdoch and news of the world saga but not only are news outlets finding themselves in the middle of a scandal right now journalists are also leaving their current positions to move on to the quote dark side of public relations so is this just another indicator the

news as we know it could be a thing of the past archies christine takes a look at where it's all headed in. the bush you know pretty good. addition to the local. newspapers like the seattle post intelligencer the rocky mountain news and hundreds more have now become relics from the past. slash budgets have stopped the presses at newsrooms nationwide. and mass layoffs drop media have meant far fewer journalists to investigate policy and procedure who are losing the sense of accountability in government and business in all our. life lives if we lose journalists who are now asking questions about what's going on and the numbers are particularly dramatic with newspapers where revenue has been cut nearly in half while the journalism industry is shrinking

a public relations industry is expanding at one time a one to one ratio between p.r. employees and journalists today that ratio is four to one with p.r. revenues jumping from three point five billion to eight point seven billion dollars journalists are simply overwhelmed by folks who are trying to spin them or trying to create their own story you have the public relations folks spin doctors if you will driving a news cycle john nichols along with robert mcchesney wrote a book about it the death and life of american journalism in a sense we are becoming one of the most propagandized countries in the world short staffed news stations often use company video news releases or vienne ours like this one appearances. report the p.r. disguised as news the newsgroup is called mimics press releases also often read on the air or posted on the web before any fact checking is done with the focus often

on getting it first rather than getting it right good evening everybody breaking news tonight we're putting into our program with the breaking news where corporate and government p.r. departments are filled with former journalists who know how to sell their message they understood how do you worked what our reporters saw those good story as opposed to hype which ward worked for nearly twenty years as a journalist with the philadelphia inquirer but after layoffs he left to work for health insurer independent blue cross before returning to work as a journalist not revolving door between france and p r. the government is causing real concern about what the long term effects could be if the influx of spin doctors take over the message machine completely when there is very little journalism being done and an awfully lot you create some dangerous circumstances

for citizenry for democracy itself on the streets questions white house spokesman jay carney worked for twenty years as a journalist for time magazine now he's president obama's spokes person former broadcaster and columnist tony snow went on to serve as a spokesperson for president bush and jamie rubin went from the state department under president clinton to executive editor at bloomberg news so common such as a common practice and no one else no one is questioning anymore in a time when how can flack are often one in the same and the spin machine works overtime as the printing presses on two homes the question becomes can a meaningful force a state actually survive. in washington christine for r.t. . so as p.r. spin masters now outnumber journalists four to one in america and we say that journalism and that is dead and we accepted this new norm and learned how to live

and work with it or is there still something that can be done maybe like looking organizations that leak rather than just spam joining me to discuss that is crisper chambers lecture at georgetown university and author of the blog at her bench press thanks so much for joining us i mean now if you think about it if you go into p.r. you probably work less and you probably make a whole lot more money than you do if you're a journalist so can we say they were really shocked that people are choosing to go to p.r. instead well not really i mean you know i mean given the market given the orientation of things but i mean journalism is more of a calling i mean i don't mean to tell you that i mean it's a profession i mean you're part of it i'm part of it i mean but p.r. is come. it's been to use that term lightly off of basic corporate communications advertising and selling and the implications of that are really dangerous i'll give you an example where the b.p. oil spill happened they had a huge press conference for the joint investigatory panel for deepwater horizon the

reporters from all the networks and newspapers start to look around and realize there were like fifty sixty seventy people in the room half of them were p.r. people from the oil companies that were there to not ask questions but to answer them for the coast guard i mean the implications of that for policy are frightening you know so it goes beyond just younger people trying to make a buck when they get out of school there but i think that the schooling part is one of the really interesting factors here is that we've seen some of the top journalism country's top journalists schools in this country start to shift their focus where they're no longer just a journalism school they also tack on communications there you know when you teach your students what do you do you tell them that this is a calling or do you tell me this is a business and that there might be some spinning and maybe involved the role of p.r. is better both i mean you know because when you look at schools like in the bill that are doing that i mean you know we have a self-contained p.r.

program at georgetown and it's definitely started out pace our program and we tell people yes this is a calling i don't want to you know call out my university but i mean we still see people kind of easing over to the p.r. thing because you know the it is a it is a rigorous discipline but is it a calling you really are involved in spin now what we try to do whether we're journalists or p.r. program or a law school is called kate ethics and the kind of the catholic kind of jesuit kind of way of looking at public service but only by doing that so you have people selling it is about selling i mean you can reporters can't even go out and do investigative journal. there are many more you saw in the report nichols is a book about video news reports i mean there was a pew research center did a study based in the baltimore market half the stories were from video news clips press releases from from government about

a third from corporations and then there was a sliver a slither that reporters dug up on their own so what does that tell you i mean we are in a propaganda society we're a market society a marketing society they are the princes and princesses of more cutting not journalists and that's what that's what newspapers that's what you know television stations that's what they prioritize writing lies that they can do this on the cheap if they just see this already prepackaged stories or videos the canal where they don't have investigative units anymore i'm just wondering so now if everybody is involved in some form of spam everybody is telling you their side of the story then you really can find both sides of the story usually i guess it just revolves or involves a lot more work on the part of the reader or the audience is that you actually have to actively seek out those you do and that's there it is the problem because we are bombarded constantly you know you can make an argument that the education system isn't teaching people how to do critical thinking and the more so when you have

that perfect storm of insanity of information bombardment of spirit and propaganda bombardment people don't have the time and sometimes even the training to be able to discern the truth so i'm just wondering if you say what do you think you think that organizations like wiki leaks are things that you know might be similar to a are kind of the next frontier there they don't necessarily have one but just i think i think you know well obviously you know julian assange and the people that run wiki leaks or wiki leaks like organizations might have a certain point of view but that is the new frontier the problem is we haven't gotten to that frontier yet we're still seeing the old paradigm disintegrate and we're in the middle of that now and god knows where that's going to go and we see that now i guess it's going to be the ride exactly the way it was president and i think you. just ahead she eats a burger and becomes a huge scandal all thanks to the newspaper this night we give that a frightful sign award and happy hour kiddo these children be taken away from their

parents puzzled why minnesota residents could soon be running out of booze and cigarettes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so foolishly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else hears you some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry because the big picture. early are really good and yet though. fuck fuck fuck. fuck.

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it's time for tonight's tools i wardens and i were giving it to the washington post the pain newspaper here in d.c. dates back to eight hundred seventy seven and it's been considered one of the most respected newspapers in the world and back in the one nine hundred seventy s. the reporting of bob woodward and carl bernstein led to the watergate scandal and the downfall of president richard nixon and the paper is most well known for all of its political coverage but oh how that might even newspaper has fallen this week of those growing major news with the following headline michelle obama orders seventeen hundred calorie meal at shake shack can you believe now it turns out it was about a fifteen hundred calorie meal but that's not the point here this is a suppose it a world class newspaper and

a leader in print journalism actually put time and effort into a story about the first lady eating a burger and fries at a d.c. restaurant i'm sorry but it's was so stupid but not to be outdone the next day they also ran an online poll asking is michelle obama hippocrates for loving burgers to be a great buy she ate a greasy burger it happens at the paper as a notice the first lady who's in excellent shape killer body she often talks about her workout routine and the post wanted to know if it was a bad example for the first lady to be eating a burger while pushing her let's move campaign to fight childhood obesity you know if the post just did a little bit of research online they would see michelle obama has often said go ahead each your favorite foods but in moderation and with exercise that's the key if you can work out think and have a burger every now and then you don't have to be miserable and you private all the time now since the washington post ran with the story it was picked up by a few other websites and most of the t.v. networks actually ignored it thankfully as

a non-story but there is one network that just couldn't resist i know you're thinking it was fox but you would. first lady michelle obama famous for her let's move campaign the first lady letting go of d.c.'s best burger joint yesterday and a.b.c. sharon alfonse he was counting the calories yesterday she didn't kill stepping into the newly opened burger stand teaching fellow diners shot so full of pics that she ordered up a burger a chocolate shake fries and wait for it a diet a diet coke little damage seventeen hundred calories one all right it's a good morning network news show doing elaine story i guess we've come to expect that from them daily but to think that all of this started with an online article in the washington post i wonder if anybody proposed even cares about their former brand of high and mighty journalism anymore judging by their coverage of michelle obama's burger for lunch i want to say no and that's why the washington post is tonight's all time winner.

all right it's time for happy hour it's night and join me this evening as our team correspondent lauren lyster and anthony rand as a director of economic research for the reason foundation thanks for joining me guys thank you for having. ok. michelle obama eating a burger obviously she's trying to fight obesity in the u.s. but there is a new harvard researcher that has their own idea of maybe how they could handle this take a look. in the extreme cases the placement just illustrated here can be the. clues before. we've just three square meals a day. access to regular gentle physical activity can sometimes lead to dramatic. you know what else foster care can sometimes lead

through i don't know how about a dramatic emotional dad and a million other things that could go wrong i just don't understand why instead of wanting to educate people about how you can eat healthy and exercise like michelle obama is trying to do which by the way conservatives try to attack why the natural instinct here is a just take the kids away and put the parents in jail no big deal yeah well he was actually giving some examples of really extreme cases where he did see it work and i can see his point in the sense that childhood obesity i feel like it's such a big epidemic in a phenomenon that parents are responsible for and i do think it shows that it is a form of neglect however when you see the amount of costs and consequences of foster care one statistic that is about forty thousand dollars per child when you kind of look at the cost of foster care i just think that you could probably find a way to have a family give that child three healthy meals for less than forty thousand dollars a year for the united states government is well equipped to take care of two

million children and make sure they put them on a good way or are you kidding me but perhaps this is absolutely ridiculous and in their way this is sort of like a next step like we do when we have the idea that the u.s. government is going to be dictating to people you know what kind of insurance they could you should have in terms of health care and what not the next step is ok well now if you're not treating your kids right we're going to tell you how you should raise them or the kind of food that you should give them sort of like a slope in the stretch but those casa do end up coming back to the government when you have an increasing number of kids that have diabetes that turn into adult that have diabetes and end up on programs like medicare or medicaid that taxed. and that's why you continue to have those programs running officially and i think that's why you don't you think i do you catering people so you don't have to create larger cost by locking parents because they can't take care of their kids i mean if you want to talk about neglect then i would say that that's a big part of that is just taking the parents away and throwing the kids out of foster family like you said there are extra costs there and i just want to be

a more reasonable more sane way to handle and also can't leave out of emotional health or it as well because you have regional past that is that is incredibly key however following that logic you could argue that a lot of times you hear where children are given food to stuff feelings because parents don't want to parent enough or they don't know how to deal with it so maybe there are when you think you know i'm not so you just want to start stuffing your face even more but if you have to tell you not to dance the only way to be straight a little monsters remember that we're safe but there's a lot of us are not what we're saying is that there's a lot of great parents in the united states nuclear yankee researchers we can only guess last around a little. gross us maybe in a way that that's ok then you lost your kid there disaster it's really how do you relate it to take some of the bad stuff. next story we've spoken to you about the government shutdowns going on in minnesota of course this is not only affecting just employees that work for the government but private businesses as well and i think this one might actually actually make people decide or at least

a lot of makers decide to really tackle the issue and solve the problem take a look. in minnesota now bars restaurants and liquor stores get their licenses from local municipalities once approved they pain annual twenty dollars fee to the state to get a card that allows them to buy alcohol from a wholesaler but right now no when in fact the department of public safety to process those cars we have a permit. and that is going to give us his liver. from my perspective i think that once you start taking people's booze away when they go to the bars anymore and there's nothing to drink then that's when you might see some protests on the street you might see some riots and that's when they're going to kick the government in the butt and say enough with the shutdown figure out your problem and this is going to affect cigarette smokers because a lot of the people that sell cigarettes and get cigarette licenses are going to be affected i think when the cigarette smokers can't smoke that's in your leg and it really really. you know it's unfortunate that it's going to be this that winds up

kicking the lawmakers are doing something right now there's a report there's a couple across the border in canada where they've just adopted a child but they can't bring the child across state lines or from came into the states without the signature of a government official so you have this can't couple that basically holed up in a motel waiting for the government to get back going so that they can then return home with their child and that story should force governor dayton for the republican side oh yeah well you know he was here that he there's a mood lately that's honestly i don't want to be coming to the alcohol issue but can we actually that would be a good thing for all of these cities and states they can come into agreement for california where we're from work which they can never cut the budget maybe we should start with holding liquor licenses and i do not find that here they are going to be my break out and they protest and government which is the real story here why do we have liquor licenses like you are jealous of course i know i have to bring that but why do we have to have statement. on the sale of the whole sell liquor. store you say there's no reason or should be said there should be some standards and you know we've seen a lot of stories where

a bad booze assault or people die there's been a lot of years of this but you know russia as well. people get poisoned because they buy some cheap vodka on the side of the road and there should be some form of regulation or license. at the venue i see where you're going to go even if you just sit even if you're just granted one liquor license license up front why do you have to keep renewing it every six months to a year you know you need those you know you see exactly what exactly and that's the real story here it's ridiculous ok this one really quickly obviously there's been a lot of anger directed towards the t.s.a. this one woman actually got herself in jail because of it because she refused to let her child get a pat down which i know is that is that a commendable for a mother to do i don't know i mean i think that she was didn't want to kids to go through the body scanner and i'd have to say i don't blame or those things right meow that even if there is radiation. you know they say they say that they're safer and i'll stay off my case i'll say if you actually read the story i want to write

i've had enough i told you so so i if you actually look at the story this woman completely lost it saying you're not going to scan or you're not checking my child i one level she knows going to the airport she's going to have to go through this and then totally snap there is something on this motherf to sort of be aware ahead of time of kind of what your ire easy going fun or yeah like i don't know. what we did we knew our life story and i was running out of time we're running out of time and i we have to do this right there is a there's a new are involved in town this is writing what he wants the investigators believe forty eight year old catherine q baker had a plan that was calculated they believe she served her husband dinner at least with drugs at their garden grow condo last night when her husband passed out she tied him to their bed allegedly caught off his penis with a ten inch kitchen knife places by part in the garbage disposal and turned it on then she called nine one one now the garbage disposal that was really gets me on

this story but you're i'm kind of surprised that we don't see more liberated bobbitt out there that we don't hear stories. like this more often i just figure that there will be more women angry angry women chopping up more peanuts why are you encouraging. the report story also about a woman scorned is no surprise there are more penis is being thrown into the business but i think one interesting stat about this story today is the amount to which men seem a lot more protected by just the men in our office they didn't really disturbed by the press attention this is gone it's absolutely horrific event frankly i just want to leave because i just don't want to talk about this it hurts me it hurts me deeper much all so i'll stop laughing you're going to have of the misery of ready but out there are guys thanks for joining me thanks for tuning in and make me you come back tomorrow behavioral economist dan ariely will be on the show to the plain of the study that finds if most americans would choose to live in a society with far less income disparity that we have right here in the u.s. now in the meantime don't forget become a fan of a longer show on facebook and all of us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's or any other nights interest you tube dot com last you want to show up

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