market. will find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza reports on r.g.p. . bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. no withdrawal from wall street the anti-bank protesters harden their resolve as their movement grows nationwide and becomes difficult for the government to ignore heavy handed police tactics against a rally or seemed more people going the protests. the u.s. led war in afghanistan enters its second decade with the white house dashing hopes of a total pullout saying the cia and special forces may be there to say this as violence reaches out with twenty eleven becoming a dead year yet. russia and china vetoed

a u.n. resolution on syria calling for a political dialogue instead of tough sanctions on president assad regime the syrian government says terrorist groups are active in the country and targeting military leaders and intellectual. a slew of fresh credit rating cuts in europe spain italy and british banks take a huge hit from investors they're increasingly nervous that greece's debt contagion they have spread too widely for ballots to be affected. next on our part one of a special report on americans trying to take back control of the media they say is in the pocket of big business they with us. i am to have one just come. from san antonio ways and try.

to. keep the crowd. young it. is not a problem to. get. our story begins to ring the great depression times were hard and broadcasting was brand new it seemed like a miracle. l.c.l. transmitted into the few cars behind your radio dial. wherever you may be the radio brought entertainment and school explained news of the world right in her own home most of them just broadcasting retain faith it was hope. in the spirit our government make policies to make sure the media protects the public and simply airwaves arc of the book a proper big book of rule communication comically charged with the responsibility

of protecting the people before the f.c.c. decided broadcasters needed to be licensed to licenses were 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 sizes and the f.c.c. could take them away. and the f.c.c. understood that radio and t.v. you should be own hopefully so they passed strict rules limiting the number of stations any one person can elevate into and the other to stay cool which only six hours. n.b.c. . then came your. and radio became a lifeline. the president of. the information we were getting was vital and only that's a date which will live. in infamy important to more national security important to

our democracy our good at work moral thinking from russia and we learned this new media could be used against us hegemony i didn't say or after they took her a yankee girl or. her. her for her. and what they did of course of those fascist regimes was a just broadcast over and over again the information and the perspective of the point of view and the propaganda that they wanted people to digest absorb and so the federal communications commission back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine incorporated something called the furthest up their news talking with hired radio and t.v. stations to provide coverage of the fight only important one to pursue issues and provide a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrast eighteen points you ask to 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 good evening through the administrations of truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter more generally like. robert reich. and then a real media man came into power with that i will faithfully execute the office ronald reagan was the king of deregulation of his f.c.c. deregulated t.v. and radio so one person could own dozens of broadcast ations nationwide and said the free market would provide fairness and broadcasting so they got rid of the fair and stop. any way back then republicans and democrats passed a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine and newt gingrich and trent lott were co-sponsors. but ronald reagan peter. the one thousand nine hundred six telecommunications act suddenly allowed big companies like clear channel to own twelve hundred stations nationwide and brown program them with

conservative talk radio was not just an unmanned box and that's what sold it to set the bar so. they're looking at the five largest operators where we found was a nine to one or tender wanted fan to church of conservative talk show hosts self declared conservative hosts versus folks who declare 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 grounds but in places like houston texas for example. we fan looking at monday through friday consumers for radio stations one hundred percent conservative talk no progressive no liberals represented in the two thousand and seven study by free press and the center for american progress that 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 bashed republicans good luck especially if you live in the midwest mainstream thought that breaks the inside the beltway mystique but you might hear it schultz ed as his nationally syndicated show out of fargo north dakota and his ratings are good he's matching bill o'reilly's numbers. don't see talkers magazine now is out the ed schultz show has gone over three million listers progressive 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 noble and air america were highly competitive poor voted blue in two thousand and eight while those that heard only conservative top went read. as usual good mate 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 earnings while they're out there greasing the skids right now in the winter of those seven with a zero point six number. when i was on the air in the fall of zero five it was like a two point four frames got a strange to me you did it. market if you're going to have a problem it isn't just ohio since two thousand and six. for me liberal programs have been taken off the air across the country fresno new haven san diego austin and many more. 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 with talk show hosts and news can say then check their facts turns out there's a lot of false would also it was david brock used to perpetrate author david brock uncovered evidence about a new deal that has been simply by liberals the right time pattern of crime sexual harassment or political radicalism and most important are likely motivation for destroying the earth. then he learned he'd been lied to i came to be aware

that the people around clarence thomas who had helped me write that account. didn't believe the account themselves seen with rocks troopergate story that led to the politicians lawsuit the judge dismissed that case because it had no merit. in other words it was a frivolous lawsuit and that whole thing led to president clinton's impeachment. i just couldn't do what i was doing anymore and once i realized what it was he had been working for a newspaper magnate richard mellon scaife who 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've looked pretty carefully at the site i've 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 troy jane a creep and her husband steve wilson through an award winning investigative reporting teams or thing it w.t.v. t.v. news in tampa bay florida first then we uncovered a story about hormones being secretly don't just get into our milk supply t.v. team ran this promotion for the investigation to cancer nobody else in the country covered this and then they get fired for trying to tell the story when d.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 true

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 one to view t.v. keith fire them they're very courageous they file a whistleblower suit you know they go to trial a korea turny john chambliss most or some celebs. this. last year in from there on him through a mouth an effort is made to talk to scientists or to distort a story in a way that would look different nonsense to these folks refused to do it in this wonderful steves wilson played his own case you know what this story cost. two careers. and i want. there was only one way or wilson could win under judge roll steinberg instructed the jury for they'd have to prove w t v t station management had deliberately tried to distort the news the proof of

a violation requires that the planners establish that the via t.v. t.'s station or news management acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort plainness proposed a news report on d.g. eight wilson lost the janie won her case because she threatened to disclose to the federal communications commission on your oath the broadcast of a false distorted or slanted report yes so a creep proved news distortion and you wouldn't know it from the spin on that new t.v. tease their thirteen representatives say the jury through its verdicts clearly stated that the station did not tell me and wilson to falsify and distort the news through their b. g.h. story but we are going to be indicated on the finding of this theory that we do not to stuart is for lost wages eighty eight thousand seven hundred and twenty five dollars let's not have to do with the store show the news it is not true false peckish of the us for lost i mean capacity one hundred and twenty thousand seven

hundred and fifty dollars i think today is a wonderful day for parts or two for other damages two hundred fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars folks at the jury's decision point is that me and their attorneys argue that there is no law against distortion and you haven't found a stash. you haven't found a rule we haven't found a regulation what we're doing is importing into that's a news distortion false and it went to the second district court of appeals in florida and they bought the fox argument that yes the policy of the f.c.c. but it's not technically against any law or rule of regulation to distort what they're saying is the news really belongs to the corporation the putting it out and that it's not against the 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 thirty five president. completely

gutted by the rule a cretin wilson ended up paying fox attorney fees. the road to the 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 constitute a lot of money from the team of people that put lots into research and travel and production just to air one eight minute story to build a nuclear bomb explode they've largely been replaced with coverage like this the costs very little anna nicole smith's last interview but mean for her profits for shareholders of course and divert your attention real good and 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 the newsroom so you don't even have the reporters that they're all there in and to get the story it's you know how can you get a 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 view than actual reporters out there digging up the story and saying ok america here's the facts you just cited 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. the top newsmakers in the bush administration were great candidates and they were all over the airwaves as they made their case for war in iraq where were the hard questions that and have. at this moment i

think the press dropped the ball i think when they should have been the real watchdog and should have. let the chips fall where they may they defaulted totally made did this they say in the run up to the war was so clear for two years that we were going to war and nobody asked why but we know now. that saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons high quality aluminum tubes which is what you have to have an order to build a suitable for nuclear weapons production there were no weapons of mass destruction with the per se o. that the first thing to scare everyone we don't want the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud no ties to al qaeda and we do have solid evidence of the presence in iraq. will create a member there was a pattern the relationship that went back at least a decade in iraq and al qaeda was a lot of obvious the septuagint 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 out of the news terms through peter the administration will. be to have a conflict. were to time and time again saddam hussein quit his biological weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true possibly true instead of providing clarity on the single most rainham issue of our generation the press only created confusion it is smoking gun is an interesting phrase six years after the attacks on new york's. only in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed one percent of americans thought saddam hussein was directly terrorist attacks and i don't think we ever should least i know i didn't say that there was

a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of september 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 and the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling the group fairness and accuracy reporting did a. study. two weeks around february fifth two thousand and three right before the invasion the four major that we newscasts m.d.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 with antiwar leaders three or four hundred when half the population was opposed to the invasion that is no longer in 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. that is needed. talking points imagine an iraq ruled by. you guessed it yet needs to be american and iraqi maginot out on a country start talking point link iraq to iran i believe iran is now the number one credit maker in iraq that's bad enough but a lot of these pentagon pundits were making big money from defense contracts to the t.v. either way only. catalysts have ties to military contractors people could possibly be making money. most would consider that a potential conflict of interest maybe not even potential at the same time

reporters who did ask hard questions were punished by the white house. managers stood by the reporter jonathan landay covered the speech dick cheney gave in august two thousand 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 landi and more and struggle began writing about fourteen teligent 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 trying 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 sits for three years. the chill 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. did light that we wrote. there was no on the plane 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 circuitry of defense or tears we says the vice president so be it. now still he's a bit out with we trusted him as we knew. his job with the m.p.'s to stop him is

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 laughs. the story really begins with him vassar 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 student union address the british government has learned that 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 there 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 worked there the cia even told no that not to publish that information but know that they had what mr harlow told me he asked me not to use your name did not say she was a she was a cover employee and i still don't. care what he's former president bush was not. human intelligence spies. is very important. pretty hard to get it. if somebody working clandestine service. his name is going to

appear i'm sure they're both. deputy defense secretary richard retires admitted he was the first to leak this guy's name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in lewis libby also spraying the covert agents name to reporters at the same time assuring the president's own press secretary nothing to do with it they are good individuals there 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 i asked them point blank were you involved in the leaking of valerie plame identity in any way 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 can stop mcclellan the white house spokesperson gets up and he says karl rove is absolutely vaal well there were at

least three probably four people if not in that room that watched it live and various news organizations the knew that there was a flat out lied because they had talked to karl rove about hillary play and who she was were so eager for 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 public baiting a source to get information that's a value to you as a journalist here you are being used by the column or i'm an official 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 that while i always you know upsets. our innocence was uncovered which is just ridiculous was she in fact a covert agent was never even proven there is no doubt that her relationship with the cia was profit if you give the identity of

a classified person it doesn't mean diddly squat to be a covert agent and i still don't believe. 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 i offered him as an article where she was not a corrupt word a.i.a. says that she was for the record valerie plame wilson was a covert agent the cia put it in writing.

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