revolt video for your media project radio gogarty dot com. around the world millions celebrate may day and here in the u.s. the occupy wall street protesters rallied to say there's still a lot of work to do they're painted as lazy hippies in the media when they're not being ignored or could these protesters become the future leaders of the u.s. . plus while one newspaper after another fold under economic pressure on television stations lay off their staff fox news seems to have the formula to success fixing journalism with tabloid headlines a look at their business model and ask if this could be the best way to save the news. and forget drugs alcohol and sex american college students are experimenting

with something a little more dangerous these days unmanned aerial vehicles and you won't believe how far they're pushing the drone technology. well good evening it's wednesday may second seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our team. well let's take a look at what we've seen unfold on city streets over the last twenty four hours both in this country and around the world may day protests have sparked a much more than discussions about workers' rights and immigration reform here in the u.s. much of may day was organized and celebrated by those involved in the occupy wall street movement it was a day that had been planned for months deemed by many occupy activists as sort of the come back to the resurrection of the movement in a form visible to the public and to those who haven't been involved in some of that work being done behind closed doors are to correspond honest aasia chargin to was

up late into the night in new york and takes us takes a look at some of the biggest protests that took place around the country. may day workers united after winter pause the occupy movement took the streets of its birthplace new york. on a day of action protests took place in the big apple and throughout the country the divide between the. workers. to be the percent keeps rapidly growing. movement hopes to be a new stage in the battle for social and economic justice. but what started out peacefully. turned more intense as the day went on with about thirty arrested newark for an ocean of people marched through which street movement is still alive it's growing and people are taking notice and made their way towards

wall street. people released before clinton over which saw nine arrested with the new vigor with which people what is the street is this a new dawn for occupy wall street the problems are real and they persist and they're getting worse the problem. kleptocratic banking elite confiscating well. and and this is causing economic to wrest. the wealth inequality continues to be a major issue for the working and many non working americans that well be more hundred americans hold as much wealth as the bottom hundred fifty million of these protesters see the politicians turned a blind eye to the needs of the people as they promote the interests to rule. the system the demonstrators see as broken and corrupt not with the democrats and republicans but both disappear into some nasty. you know what it wanted dante

circles we're going to shut down. since the beginning of occupy wall street last september roughly twenty one hundred people have been arrested throughout the us in the tory of incidents of police brutality. were dozens more last night the question now is whether the move that took over american streets on may day will continue with the scene force to become a tangible next step with the american people taking most of them back. from space you took an hour or two. well we want to stay with the story and take a closer look at oakland california just yesterday twenty five people arrested there and several clashes between police and protesters and many ways oakland has become one of the centers of this movement especially when we talk about harsh measures taken by police he may remember u.s. marine veteran scott olsen who was seen here critically injured hospitalized for days after being hit by a tear gas canister shot by police and i want to talk about the occupy movement

since then and bring in jessica holley an occupy oakland blogger hey there jessica to start off just give us a look at describe the scene for us in oakland during yesterday's mayday events well yesterday everything started out pretty celebrate story i'd say everybody was in very high spirits and read music and there was music and there was a lot of gatherings and speeches rallies and so forth and so on but as the day it progressed and people started marching you could see the increase of police presence and it almost seemed as if the police were like. being patient with the march but then when they decided that they wanted the march to be over did they want to see you violent. in an attempt to control people who were occupying and refusing to be intimidated and we just got some video that we're showing now this video from oakland yesterday showing masses of police really out there and i also want to put up a photo that was taken yesterday we have a photo of

a sheriff's vehicle it looks to me more like a tank i don't know if he's out there jessica but i'm wondering i mean what were these armored vehicles these armored vehicles i think are called blackwater grizzlies what were they used for they all about ok will they i saw going on january twenty eighth as well and i drove past the one that you're speaking of and it seems like they usually come from somewhere else and not oakland but they usually just come out in force like a show of bravado like they even used them typically it's the officers physically in cruisers in van following around protesters and then they climb out of the van and line in riot gear and then advance on the crowd in a various way i think one of the things that was unintended in the occupy wall street movement but what really happened in a major way a was a showcasing an illustration of the treatment by police of people in this country a lot of people that i have spoken to people that live in the inner cities say you

know this is nothing new for us but when it happened at all the occupy wall street to a bunch of you know frankly white college graduates and people were getting arrested pepper sprayed in the face on the campus of berkeley a lot of people started the stand up and take notice and say oh my gosh this is a little crazy. right and this is actually a very popular topic right now some people have been talking about the fact that a lot of the issues that they've been struggling with have been issues that. had been problems way before occupy was birthed as a movement from wall street as you were just saying however the highlight is making it to where everybody is getting upset but this is a good thing because it's showing at the bottom a middle class has really been taken out in their class their arguments about the class war are coming to fruition there within that statement when you see people who have been disenfranchised for a long time legitimizing what's happening with i mean you know with the statements

of occupiers. legitimizing the statements of occupiers but. might not might maybe not even necessarily be occupiers just understanding where they're coming from because it's something that they've already lived. for sorry no that's ok back to you as from yesterday oh you were probably yelling a lot i do want to point out something that happened in your city and that is that a federal judge yesterday ordered the city of oakland and its police force to submit a plan on how they might change some of those harsh tactics that we saw they say if they don't submit a plan they could face sanctions i think a lot of people view this a lot of people in the occupy movement view this as a first step but do you think this will in fact bring about change i do not think this would be bring about change for the simple fact it's already in the crowd control policy for the oakland police department that it will not use chemical agents however they've continued to do so repeatedly and that's just one of the

very violent ways that they dance on the crowd. so you think that this is just sort of the more. you think this is just sort of the course trying to appease the masses and those who are kind of angry about what they saw with their leaders trying to. jessica we seem to be having a little bit of trouble with your audio i can't hear you right now we just lost you we will try to get jessica holly back jessica holley is an occupy oakland blogger giving us her take on exactly what happened tomorrow as me yesterday with those may day protests and just looking ahead to tomorrow in terms of what we might want to see next. well it is official newt gingrich has suspended his campaign i.e. dropped out of the race i.e. the entertainment portion of this show is largely over and mitt romney was in the neighborhood today in chantilly virginia speaking to a crowd of supporters in a state rock obama shocked people when he won in two thousand and eight he was

actually the first democrat to do so in forty four years and our correspondent abbie martin was at the rally and spoke to many of romney supporters and takes a look at what they're looking at this time around. fairfax county virginia the second richest county and us located right next to washington d.c. fairfax has a median household income of the nearly one hundred three thousand dollars and homes on average valued at over half a million. this is romney country. although the campaign event in chantilly was mostly scripted the people present gave an important insight on mitt romney's main voter demographic the taxation on small business thirty five percent top marginal rate rather than raising it to forty percent as he proposes i want to reduce it to twenty eight percent so that businesses have the capacity to grow a message well received by what will likely to the g.o.p. candidates base of support in his presidential bid he knows what it takes to run

a business and understand what really happens when you try to go out in the private sector and make money he's got a business sense and he actually ran a business and we don't need another and we need mitt romney many romney supporters who praised his economic policies are affluent business owners or government contractors what's the small business that you know government contracting business that work for the state government oh my son works was that i got my virginia is a key swing state for the republicans to win back and it's a key battleground state that could determine the outcome of the election this is definitely one county romney you can count on coming back for election day abby martin marty chantilly virginia. so at our table british panel rules rupert murdoch unfit to run the news back in the u.s. fox news is raking in record profits so what's with the disparity and has this media mogul found the secret formula to making the news a profitable business profitable business again well explore.

welcome to the capital account mr. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is your view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capital it's called sasha when nobody dares to ask we do r t question more. r

t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. let's talk now about one of the world's best known media moguls rupert murdoch the owner of fox news channel the wall street journal and so much more well he's been mohnish recently across the pond in britain months after his news of the world shut down after a phone had hacking scandal and many more company wide practices have been deemed outrageous here's a recent decision made by the british parliament. the final news corp carried out extensive coverage of its run but its rule breaking its most senior executives

repeatedly misled parliament and the two minutes of rupert and james murdoch who were in charge of the company looks no answer for that it's in the view of the majority of committee members rupert murdoch is not fit to run an international company like the sky would be all right now lots of people have opinions of murdoch and his beloved baby at least american baby fox news my love him or hate him we want to talk about this assertion that he's unfit to run a company the fox news model is arguably the most successful in this country right now i'm not saying the best but it is the most successful exclamation point take a look at this graphic it's cable profits from two thousand and two thousand and ten and as you can see fox news made eight hundred sixteen million dollars in two thousand and ten guess what online estimates say the following year he made a billion dollars next closes network c.n.n. their numbers combined with h l n taking in five hundred sixty million dollars and

then as n.b.c. collected about one hundred seventy two million in revenue now a short time ago i spoke with georgetown journalism professor chris chambers i asked him about this claim that rupert murdoch was unfit to run a business. well when you look at the profits and the operations across the pond across the atlantic and he you know that merged into this hacking scandal you know he was using they uncovered you know his reams of evidence showing that the you know news of the world a lot of the other media outlets media properties you know owns over there were doing you know you know everything from shady to out not illegal things to get that advantage so i mean you know there's a there's a history here of using shortcuts both kind of you know little sweet little tiny moral shortcuts to major crimes to get to build this empire and really what has happened is that the equivalent of our you know house judiciary committee has

basically given him and his stockholders something to think about with this decision so you know this isn't anything new for him you know he'll weather the storm because like all you know because illian airs they will but you know it's something to think about over on this side of the atlantic as well you know especially our f.c.c. needs to start thinking about it now we put up on the screen some of the profits that fox made again and again they are said to made a billion dollars but i want to also show the ratings because that's important to. we have this is just april cable news ratings of fox news their top thirteen programs are on fox news c.n.n. and imus and they stare of course battling for that number two spot but april was one of cnn's lowest rated months in total viewer since august of two thousand and one it's crazy to see those kind of numbers. even now studies have shown that people who you know adam and watch fox news are less informed than people watch no

news at all you know the question is what is a successful news model well this isn't a news model but that's what the that's it i mean this isn't a news model this is infotainment content delivery model and i know that sounds like gobbled you group but that's really what it is i mean look we have to take the news angle out of this i mean this is this is. news in that is that is crafted into political message as crafted in a marketing message that is crafted into psychological sort of commercials kind of thing i mean you know roger ailes started off as a regular t.v. producer so he knows how to reach that reptilian brain that that stuff that advertisers like to go after and he's got a nice of people i mean you know nice doesn't necessarily mean tiny these can mean a big trench of people who feel that the mainstream media has abandoned them as abandon their values you know whatever those values might be some of them legitimate some of them just kind of stupid well this is

a really difficult for you because you deal with the future journalist of america as your son you know resident evil that you can't say you have a choice you have a choice to teach the fox news model and which some would say you'd be teaching people how to be immoral millionaires or you can tease that out of the you know unemployed while entire right well it depends i mean you have to also understand i mean there are news product during the day you know while i might not agree with their editorial choices and stories and the scope is actually a pretty decent news product it's when you start shooting into the evening that's where you have the problem that's also where they have the highest exactly and that basically what you what he is given a group of people in this country is basically right wing soap opera and that gives you know that they're hitting or right up you know as. so that masks what you know some of the things in the past has been happening with with with news corp with fox

in general with their licensees and you know even now i mean this is now fodder for the f.c.c. to perhaps look at some of the broadcast licenses that he holds let me ask you i mean when you're teaching is there a model that you hold up to tell your students you know n.p.r. you tell them and b c sixty minutes i mean what do you hold up as sort of a higher journalist knowledge and it crosses into into fox properties really it's just basically doing your homework and doing it you know whether you're giving an opinion or just giving the news doing it with authority just doing it with the nuff information that you can give people what they need to really propel themselves forward either just that day or intellectually for the rest of their lives it's really not that complicated when you think the chances are. arguably again and i successful media model in this country we see how great britain feels about that and about rupert murdoch right now but even the chances are of eventually fox news going across the pond going to france going to britain going to russia going to

china well this is this is pretty much this is not good in terms of expansion he doesn't really need to he's got roger ailes he's got his newspaper properties he's got he's got it set here he's got a very friendly forum in the republican party they're not the tories in england they really do owe a lot of their success to him and a lot of them are rethinking that so susie probably but he's got a friendly forum here why kill a good thing by trying to stretch it out over chris we know how those billionaires get that i just want to make more money always good to have you on the outskirts of our chambers journalism professor at georgetown university always good to see you. we're going to take a short break let's stick around keep your eyes on the sky because coming to a college campus near you unmanned aerial vehicles and i'm just going to spy on you now you can actually. get a degree in drones that story next. just

put a picture of me when i was like nine years old and just you know with truth. i have a confession i am a total get a friend i love driving hip hop music and. i do this kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the world with its place. at first for a spring dries right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. i said much stronger than anything you'd be by our. thousands of times i'm stronger than any one of the bird you ever put your.

theory which i was. lucky to be alone at so you know there's a real headline with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and from what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. . well it's the end of the school year and for all those students graduating from high school and heading off to college i have yet. another field of study to choose from when they get there according to a new article by salon dot com several universities around this country are adding

drones to their curriculum drone use drone development and more at kansas state university for example there's now a degree offered in unmanned aviation and it's already got about thirty people signed up students they're already working with the kansas national guard and its disaster response efforts by helping to develop drones that can serve a town that have been hit by tornadoes at georgia tech students and teachers are focusing on technology to help make the drone engines more quiet and therefore less detectable by those on the ground they're also working on what's called a front flying android technology to make it so unmanned aerial vehicles will someday be controlled if they're not already by smartphones and at middle tennessee state university there are several programs offered in unmanned aircraft systems students there focus on the role of drones in civilian life and this is an all of the f. the electronic frontier foundation has been looking into this for

a while they found that the f.a.a. the federal aviation administration has already approved twenty five universities to fly drones in its airspace it also appears some universities have already purchased those drones and the u.s. may be fitting the bill earlier i asked this very question to amy's tapan of it with the electronic privacy information center and take a listen to her answer. it is actually there are grants from the department of defense the department of homeland security that are being used and being given not only to universities but the private companies into law enforcement to encourage them and enable them to purchase drones that they might not have been able to afford on their own in order to experiment to see what they can do with them to provide surveillance and to look into their capabilities and hopefully in the future i think the goal is to get them to buy their own and to proliferate the system the economy i want to for a second look at the bigger picture here i mean it was just a few decades ago that we saw you know a flurry of computer programming programs being offered at universities in the last

decade or so we've seen a lot of focuses in things like web development. do you think more drones on college campuses in college curriculum means that something is about to explode not just on our diplomas but also in our skies that we're going to see a lot more drones they're estimating thirty thousand drones in the united states national space in the next ten years so that is a lot of drones that is just an exponential amount more than what we have now i think the largest fleet currently in the country is done by the bureau of customs and border protection and a d h s they have nine drones that is the largest fleet currently if you think about going all the way up to thirty thousand these are going to be what you see when you're in your parks when you're walking down the street you're going to see these things flying over your head now on one hand you know some of these schools that we've been talking about some of the schools that have. volunteered or have decided to train people in the use of drones their agricultural based and so they're looking to use drones for things like we'd encroachment they don't want to spray pesticides on the farms on all of the areas

so they'll use a drone to sort of surveil below and do that they'll use drones for places where tornadoes hit often so they can survey the damage so those are some positive things i think that you can point to. do these programs have merit there are definitely positives to drone use like you said they can be used for many different things that are. or very good for i think the united states in fact there is one case of a drone being flown over a river and it actually detected animal abuse at a factory it found what they called a river of blood and they were able to trace it back and to find what was going on at this factory now that's a great use however drones themselves can't tell the difference between surveilling a crop for weeds and surveilling a person so we have to be careful that we're not only training these people in how to conduct drones kind of like the video game piece of it the how to operate the joystick but also what it means to surveil somebody how what privacy rights are

like where they feel like they should cross the line just morally and also you're seeing with large scale surveillance what the n.s.a. people who are controlling the surveillance have come out later years and actually have post-traumatic stress disorder because of having to spy on people and getting all that information they feel like they're encroaching on people's lives and this is actually a big issue and i think these students need to be trained in order to deal with kind of the repercussions that come with surveillance i think it's important to mention too because when it comes to drone use for spying a lot of people are saying you know there are so many good things that there use for the spying the surveillance aspect is really overhyped but the fact is if a private company or if the government is going to use drones for the purpose of surveillance they're probably not going to be talking about they're probably not going to have a whole lot of evidence or paperwork out there that's going that could be used for evidence so talk a little bit about that i mean some people say this is overhyped but is it oh i

definitely don't think it's overhyped receipt all the time where happens that a program used for one thing all of sudden becomes used for something else so for example with drones the customs and border protection has nine they're supposed to use them to monitor the border to monitor for immigration for drugs and for just different things coming over the border that aren't supposed to be here now they're not only doing that. or lending them out routinely it's coming out to local law enforcement to the f.b.i. for missions totally unrelated to where they were or why they were originally licensed so let me ask you this point amy should we expect to live in a society where it's very normal to see drones flying at us if we just walk outside in our backyards well like i said if they say it's coming in the next ten years hopefully it's coming with privacy rules and restrictions in place to protect us all and protect us in our daily lives so we're not totally being constantly surveilled and we know that that's not going on but i think under the regime as it

is if we don't confront it and put something into place and it's on its way i think it's important to talk about it no matter what because we don't want to just wake up one day and have this happen we need to let people know that this is going on right now that our future children will be could possibly be trained in using drones this is happening right now and that's why we're here that's why ethics here is where petition the f.a.a. were asking for rules for really being proactive and trying to get these restrictions put into place before they were rolled out because you find out that once the program's already in place it's hard to go back and say wait a second we should have done this before let's stop for a second and go back to our writing is to kind of it's legal counsel with the electronic privacy information center appreciate you coming on shank you so much and that's going to do it for now just because the show stops doesn't mean the news to us for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or you can check out our web site r t v dot com slash usa and we want to know what stories you want to see so don't forget to leave us your feedback your call.