it does change i appreciate you for coming on and kind of getting crazy and up to that protesters actual economic claims because you know something about that that was business insider deputy editor wife. i'm not going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered at r.t. dot com slash usa and come back here in just a half hour for more news we've got a lot of new interviews for you. was created to serve the public interest. and to entertain. these days there's nothing easier than opening a new media company but there is nothing better than revoking its license in case of corruption. in trying. to get involved in

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knowledge comes from. the young lady lucky you. some of the. blue bronx is one of the. our story begins during the great depression times were hard and broadcasting was brand new it seemed like america. l.c.l. and to far into the few coil behind your radio guy who ever wherever you may be radio brought entertainment and sports and news of the world right into our own homes of on it wasn't just broadcasting retained paid it was hope. in the spirit our government made policies to make sure the media protects the public i'm simply away talking for the public property the federal communications commission the car with the responsibility of protecting the people going through the f.c.c. decided broadcasters needed to be licensed to licenses for free of charge but there

was a catch t.v. and radio owners had to serve the public if they did not people could challenge their licenses and the f.c.c. could take them away. and the f.c.c. understood that radio and t.v. should be owned locally so they passed strict rules limiting the number of stations any one person could l.a. in defending the other two states which only six are old enough rated by n.b.c. . then came the war. and radio became a lifeline. for president have. the information we were getting was vital we all knew that it's a date which will live. in infamy important to our national security important to our democracy our modern. world moral thinking for months and we learned this new

media could be used against the soviets and am i don't think they were late after day after her keep her there for her during iraq. for her. what they did of course of those fascist regimes was you just broadcast over and over again the information and the perspective the point of view and the propaganda that they wanted people to digest absorb and so the federal communications commission back in one nine hundred forty nine incorporated something called the fairness doctrine the fairness doctrine required radio and t.v. stations to provide coverage by only important controversy or issues and to provide a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasts came he points you after bring them on you have to give people the opportunity to express an alternative point of view now it was a code that served us well going through the administrations of truman eisenhower

kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter more generally like. robert reich. and then a real media mary came into power which i will faithfully execute the ronald reagan was the king of deregulation of his f.c.c. deregulated t.v. and radio of so one person could own dozens of broadcast decency nationwide and said the free market would provide fairness in broadcasting so they got rid of their stuff. anyway back then republicans and democrats passed a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine newt gingrich and trent lott were co-sponsors but ronald reagan vetoed it. the one thousand nine hundred six telecommunications act suddenly allowed big companies like clear channel to own twelve hundred stations nationwide hit the ground program them with conservative talk radio was obvious and in many years not to know this was sold to

sit the bars. and looking at the five largest operators where we found was nine to one or ten to wanted family each of conservative talk show hosts self declared conservative hosts versus folks who declared themselves liberal or progressive. advantage of roughly twenty five hundred hours of conservative talk as opposed to two hundred fifty hours of liberal or progressive talk this is an extraordinary amount but in places like houston texas for example. we found looking at monday through friday commercial radio stations one hundred percent conservative talk no progressive's no liberals represented the two thousand and seven study by free press and the center for american progress shows ninety two percent of conservative stations don't air even a single minute of the other side you want to hear a radio talk or bash republicans good luck especially if you live in the midwest

the mainstream thought that breaks the inside the beltway mystique but you might hear it schultz ed does his nationally syndicated show out of fargo north dakota and his ratings are good he's matching bill o'reilly's numbers. so let's see talkers magazine now is out the ed schultz show has got over three million listers progress of talk got its start in two thousand and four and it now seems to be having an effect many formerly red states that heard ed and nova am and air america were highly competitive poor voted glue in two thousand and eight while those that heard only conservative talk went read. as usual good base but here's the scary part since the democrats made gains in the two thousand and six election corporate radio took to get into every other progressive talker in the key swing state of ohio off the air first and. then columbus and replaced them with shows

they get half their eggs there out there greasing the skids right now in the winter of those seven with a zero point six number. when i was on there in the fall of zero five it was like a two point four brain scan it drains to me you did. mark it if you're going to have a problem it isn't just ohio since two thousand and six doesn't so well performing liberal programs have been taken off the air across the country fresno new haven san diego austin and many more i think it's political and i don't think there's any doubt you can look at the numbers this business is owned by conservatives it's managed by conservatives and it is programmed by conservatives the distorting effect of all that was causing

a problem in our democracy was causing people to act based on false information to make decisions about public policy to make decisions in the voting booth based on simply information that was wrong and that there had to be a corrective to that and so in may of two thousand and four i launched a media matters media matters is a research website which tracks conservative misinformation in the news it's a simple concept record a talk show hosts in news people say then check their facts turns out there's a lot of false it also it was david brock used to perpetrate author david brock uncovered evidence about anita hill that has been since. the right time pattern of crime sexual harassment or political radicalism most important are likely motivation for destroying the career of clarence thomas then he learned he'd been my two i came to be aware that the people around clarence thomas who

had helped me write that account. didn't believe the account themselves same with rocks troopergate story that led to the paula jones wasnt the judge dismissed that case because it had no merit. in other words that was a frivolous lawsuit and that whole thing led to president clinton's impeachment. i just couldn't do what i was doing anymore once i realized what it was he'd been working for a newspaper magnate richard mellon scaife and paid the american spectator magazine two million dollars to dig up dirt on the clintons the information didn't need to be true just been missing the conservative movement also had a hidden media agenda well they claim that the complaint is one of liberal bias i think and i look pretty carefully looked at many of the studies that claim this at the end of the day the real goal is to disable journalism from being able

to do its job independently and truly jane a creek and her husband steve wilson or an award winning investigative reporting teams working at w.t.v. t.v. news in tampa bay florida first then they uncovered a story about hormones being secretly get into more milk supply t.v. grand this promotion for the investigation to start cancer nobody else in the country covered this and then they get fired for trying to tell the story when b.t.h. manufacturer monsanto threatened to sue fox news w t v t pulled the report then tried to get the investigators to change their story. but the reporters wouldn't back down they can ask you to put things on the air broadcast to the public over the public airwaves that are untrue that are unsubstantiated or flat out on truth and that's also what they were asking us to do they crossed that line and that's an important distinction to make so

a korean wilson threatened to report the news distortion to the f.c.c. that's when did you teach he fired them very courageous they file a whistleblower suit you know they go to trial a korea tourney john chambliss most or so celebs. this. still up here and from there on him throughout the effort is made to the senate distorts the story the story in a way that we will visit monsanto diesel for you to do in this wonderful steve wilson played his own case you know what this story cost. two careers. and i want it. there was only one way or wilson could win under judge roll steinberg instructing the jury where they'd have to prove w t v t station is meant for had deliberately tried to distort the news proof of a violation requires that the planners establish that there be a t.v. tease station or news management acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or

distort plaintiff's proposed news report on b g eight wilson lost a genie one her case because she threatened to disclose to the federal communications commission on your oath the broadcast of a false distorted or slanted news report yes so eighty three proved news distortion and you wouldn't know it from the spin on the t.v. tease air fox thirteen representatives say the jury through its verdicts clearly stated that the station did not tell a korean wilson to falsify and distort the news through their b.t.h. story but we are completely vindicated on the finding of this theory that we do not to stuart is for lost wages eighty eight thousand seven hundred twenty five dollars that does not have to do with the store for the news it is not to do falsification of the us for last adding capacity one hundred twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars i think today is

a wonderful day for boxer two for other damages two hundred fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars for a killed the jury's decision which is that he and their attorneys argued there is no law against distortion you have found a stand. you haven't found a rule for regulation what we're doing is importing into that's the news distortion process and it went to the second district court of appeals in florida and they bought the fox argument that yes it is a policy of the f.c.c. but it's not technically against any law or rule of regulation and that's what they're saying is the news really belongs to the corporation that that's putting it out and that it's not a cancel water why do the public. it's an f.c.c. rule but it's not against the law where does that leave us as people who are served by the broadcast airwaves working hard for us or the general right of the socialist completely gutted if i don't really create and wilson ended up paying fox attorney fees but the road to war in iraq took some strange turn stranger than

a detour to the west african country of these year reports which do hold government accountable like this can cost a lot of money from the team of people that looks interview search and travel and production just to air would eight minutes story to build a nuclear bomb explode they've largely been replaced with coverage like this the costs very little in the polls this interview that means profits for shareholders could send a virtual extension of real days you know whatever happened to investigative reporting and i think part of what happened is corporatization of the media it's the bottom line so the first thing you do is you fire a quarter of the newsroom or half a newsroom so you don't have the reporters that go out there and take up the story it's you know how can you get it quick and i can tell you it's a lot cheaper to have two people arguing on t.v. from you know you know polarized point of views than actual reporters out there

digging up the story and saying ok america here's the facts you decide and maybe. that's. just the. media consolidation means you were reporters and those who remain too often feel pressured to play nice with government it's a nasty little game called access that is one of the biggest media manipulations is you want our guy you want our one well you better play the game you better play by our rules if you want that we call that in our field interview some real headline maker that everybody wants to get on their air and you want that person that's a valuable commodity you. again the top newsmakers in the bush administration were great cats and they were all over the airwaves as they made their case for war in iraq where were the hard questions. i think the press dropped the ball i think there when they should have been the real

watch dogs and should have let the chips fall where they may they defaulted totally and made good as they say in the run up to the war with so clear for two years we were going to war and nobody asked why but we now know that saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons high quality aluminum tubes which is what you have to have in order to build a bomb suitable for nuclear weapons production there were no weapons of mass destruction were there first the first thing to scare everyone we don't want the smoking gun that could come in the form of the mushroom cloud note. we do have solid evidence of the presence in iraq. will create a members there was a pattern relationship the one back at least a decade when iraq was a lot of obvious the sepsis at a time when it was crucial for our country which was right after nine eleven they

felt that they had to be super patriots and support the government no matter what they gave up their one weapon which was skepticism on the news shows peter the administration may. have a conflict between. the time time and dangers saddam hussein put his biological weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true awesomely talk shows instead of providing clarity on the single most around issue of our generation the press only created confusion it is smoking gun is that interesting phrase six years after the attacks on new york's. early in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans thought saddam hussein was directly terrorist attacks i don't think we ever should i know i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested get the attacks of september the eleventh were ordered by iraq no

wonder the news media has lost the public trust they want to make policy choices based on truth and what i heard is that people didn't really quite feel that the mainstream media in the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling group fairness and accuracy in reporting did a. study of two weeks around february fifth two thousand and three right before the invasion before major nightly newscasts m.t.c. a.b.c. c.b.s. and p.b.s. news hour with jim lehrer there were three hundred ninety three interviews down around war only three were that they were leaders three of almost four hundred when half the population was supposed to be invasion that is no longer in the mainstream media that's an extreme. in the drums for war a recent new york times report says the media got right in bed with the pentagon to

promote the war former military officers would get talking points directly from the pentagon than say them on the air no questions asked if. this. is the. talking point imagine in iraq ruled guys are the message yeah basically oh yes in iraq imagine iraq and a country talking point link iraq to iran i believe iran is now to everyone credit maker in iraq that's bad enough but a lot of these pentagon pundits were making big money from defense contracts pasted the t.v. on the radio. kerry analysts have ties to military contractors people who could possibly be making money or consider that a potential conflict of interest they could not even potential at the same time reporters who did ask hard questions were punished by the white house luckily their

managers stood by them reporter jonathan landay covered the speech dick cheney gave in august two thousand and two to the veterans of foreign wars many of us are convinced that saddam hussein will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon that was based on absolutely nothing it was as if it was pulled out of thin air there was absolutely no intelligence no evidence whatsoever for that assertion so randy and more and struggle began writing about forty intelligence about how there was no link between iraq and al qaeda but failed policies that series of stories one station of people in the pentagon tried to shut me out of travel with the secretary of defense i was not allowed to have not been allowed in or invited onto trips pentagon trip since. that three years. to chill with my white house correspondent. he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that the vice president

did like that we wrote. there was no. it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions of this administration's policies particularly in the run up to the war in iraq because they were afraid of losing access and having happened to them what happened to me and has happened to others an example of why media ownership matters to democracy before reporting. sheds light on the reasons why they are being asked to go and risk life and limb and health and family and everything else. then we're doing our job and if that displeases the circuit heard of defense or if it just uses the vice president so be it. still he's a bit out with we trusted as we knew he followed his account with them to stop and it's the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who

protected their access to top officials first and put their responsibility to the public last. the story really begins with ambassador joseph wilson wilson was the acting ambassador to iraq before the first gulf war when saddam hussein took more than one hundred americans as hostages joe wilson stared him down saddam hussein backed off and released the americans for that president george herbert walker bush proclaimed wilson a national hero. then that hero heard president george w. bush make this statement in the two thousand and three state of the union address the british government has learned saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa a year earlier the cia had sent wilson to investigate the uranium claim and he knew it wasn't true their level of corruption that is demonstrated from the top down is

staggering to the american people so he wrote about it in the new york times that touched off a firestorm at the white house coolness robert novak tried to discredit wilson by writing a story that wilson's wife valerie plame who worked at the cia sent him on the trip trouble was she worked as a spy for the cia nobody was supposed to know she works there the cia even told no that not to publish that information but know that did what mr harlow told me he asked me not to use your name did not say she was she was uncovered and i still don't believe she was a covert activities former president bush was not a. just human intelligence spies. is very important. it's pretty hard to get it. if somebody working clandestine service uses names to appear i'm sure that both places deputy defense secretary richard retires admitted he was

the first to leak the spies name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in the libby also sprayed the covert agents name to reporters at the same time sharing the president's own press secretary they had nothing to do with it they are good individuals that are important members of our white house team and that's why i spoke with them so that i could come back to you and say that they were not involved i went to both those individuals asked them point blank were you involved in that leaking of valerie plame identity and anyway both them told me unequivocally no but scott mcclellan now says in his new book rove and libby lied to him and it turns out a lot of reporters knew it but said nothing and scott mcclellan the white house spokesperson gets up and he says karl rove is absolutely done vall well there were at least three probably four people if not in that room that watched the live at various news organization the knew that that was

a flat out lie because they had talked to karl rove about ellery plame and who she was with were so eager to get access to the white house they allowed themselves to be used for political gain using the reporters in effect to carry out their political mission and that's different from cultivating a source to get information that's of value to you as a journalist here you are being used by the power men to fishel to carry out their political work instead of clarifying the facts in this national security breach the media just had a free for all i think allow is you know it sets up. and i said that she wasn't corporate which is just ridiculous was she in fact a covert agent was never you can prove there is no doubt that her relationship with the cia was classified if you give the identity of a classified person it doesn't mean diddly squat you to be a covert agent and i still don't believe she was in any covert. he knew whether she

was covert or not from day one and she isn't she's never been proven to be covert to endangering national security by outing a covertly cia operatives an article where she was not a covert operative the i.a.e.a. says that she was for the record valerie plame wilson was a covert agent the cia put it in writing. culture is that so much ally people are hearing all their little boring stuff takes offense to the life and soul of social democracy and the last an ideal once deemed to be part of the very foundation of democratic values of. wealthy british style. sometimes the type of. hype that.

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