really going out to the suburbs so you know tom kingsley hi folks from the urban institute spoke about this and it's good because you know you're getting these more affordable housing out there and you know strip malls are moving out there so they can get jobs that you know the wal-mart or whatever retail store but what you don't have is services services for people who need that extra help you know food pantries things like that those are located in rural areas so. you know it can go both ways really but tampa itself is really interesting because it actually has one of the highest rates of homelessness in any city there's a group called the national alliance to end homelessness and you know as you mentioned in your introduction half of those surveyed said you know this is about you know having financial problems this is about businesses that were here no longer being here that means we don't have jobs anymore and of course live as you know the problem with the foreclosure rate florida the second biggest you know the second highest rate after california a much larger state. home prices have significantly decreased there and we just

seen you know certain parts of this state you drive across and its foreclosure sign after foreclosure signs i do want to point out there are two zip codes where seventy percent or higher of homes there are underwater zip codes three three six zero five and three three six one zero those zip codes are in the highest one percent of you know the places where it's the worst and you know some of the zip codes that could be called lucky those are places in which only about thirty thirty one percent of the homes are underwater so when you look at the numbers and you see the pictures it is a really important story a really important thing that's happening that's unfolding you know as we move into this election time we were at the convention and we heard so many promises and so many ideas to to make this country better will guess what you're going to have to answer the question of foreclosures of poverty and this. housing crisis that is

still very much alive it's interesting there was so much media there and so close to this happening and really very little miss mention of the problem this huge problem in tampa well you know a lot of people who simply had to stay within the security zone a lot of people locked inside the convention center to file their stories and you know interview some of the high paula high ranking politicians but we thought it was important and we try to do this wherever we travel not only to cover the main story and to make sure that we're there witnessing that but also to see hey what else is this city about you know what kind of stories can we bring back to our viewers to show what's happening here unless i want to ask you because some reports of homeless homeless people within tampa were facing more hostility and more pressure as a result of the chaos from the r. and c. did you see that going on you know i didn't see that happening we did interview those homeless people living in you know what they called romney ville and you have

had some run ins with the police but mostly everything was peaceful but this is something that happens i certainly read about it happening here i witnessed it several years ago back in san diego where i'm from we had the r. and c. there back in the late ninety's and the rumor was that they gave all the homeless people and of course there are a lot of homeless people in san diego because if you were homeless where would you want to live somebody where it never rained and was very funny you so the rumor was that they gave a lot of those people a one way ticket to arizona i don't know if that was true but we certainly did see you know a whole bunch of homeless people in our downtown area disappear who knows where they went it's about making your city look good to all those cameras to all those tourists who are there tampa had this opportunity and you know certainly it is a popular thing to do to try to get the unsightly things out of the way interesting christine thank you so much and a great job covering the convention over there and you'll be in charlotte yes definitely i've learned of excited to head over there. that was

a party correspondent. last night former massachusetts governor mitt romney took center stage at the republican national convention officially accepting his party's nod for president but as the dust settles in tampa all eyes are on charlotte now for the democratic national convention set to kick off in just a few days but have americans really been glued to convention coverage or harshness from the resident dot net hit the streets of new york to find out. in the u.s. republicans and democrats are holding their national conventions and here the media and politicians talk about them but the most important things going on right now so who's watching and what have they seen this week let's talk about that have you been watching why not because i don't like either one of those guys. so you don't watch and you don't vote in that then no i do but i like voting for the we're.

not the worst of the two. but don't you need to watch the conventions to be informed know it's all crap have you been watching it all absolutely none of it why not i hate the republicans are you going to watch the democratic convention probably not why not i don't need to do you think there is actual information being said sad at the conventions or is that just kind of b.s. but i think it's sort of you know sounds good on camera do you think. these conventions actually do anything you know. spend money our money our money how do you feel about that i don't like that. i do we get them to stop because you know romney's going to leave town. the content is not so much the port important outside how people perform the my first impression the people are choosing the heads not the phones i think most of europeans are through obama and. and you don't

need to watch any of the bad. really want to show us that i was really i mean congress or us is smarter than that was really awful i'm sure chadwick that's what irritates me is that these people are actually really think we're stupid what are they covering up well this is a very intelligent lady but i mean she sat there for an hour striking mitt romney so you go well you know americans smarter than you know that we i mean america needs someone to stand up and take charge i think. people that are out for themselves that's it i give up on it but don't they when i mean you're not happy with the way things are going and so on you've chosen is to check out doesn't that mean they they went. yes. yes so it seems like most people aren't even watching but if you do decide to tune in remember to watch it for what it is extremely calculated very showmanship designed to influence the way you think whether or not that works to you.

as rhetoric heats up over iran the most senior u.s. military official has something to say about it general martin dempsey voicing his opposition to as well taking unilateral military action and iran he says an attack on the country what qualities clearly the latter but probably not destroy iran's nuclear program i don't want to be complicit if they choose to do it this admission comes after republican presidential nominee mitt romney criticized president obama at the r. and c. for failing to take decisive action in iraq every american was relieved the day president obama gave the order and seal team six took out osama bin laden. on another front every american is less secure today because he has failed to slow or runs nuclear threat. in his first t.v. interview as president he said we should talk to iran we're still talking and iran

centrifuges are still spinning. president obama has sown allies like israel under the bus even as he has relaxed sanctions on castro's cuba. well there's not there the latest report out of the international atomic energy agency reportedly shows iran's nuclear program is advancing now dempsey also said he didn't know what iran's intentions are because there is no intelligence that makes it clear so we want to ask why are top military leaders using caution when it comes to military action in iran while members of the g.o.p. continue to ramp up pressure and advocate hard line military intervention. which are not to the saga of julian a songe as officials from both the u.k. and aqua door continue to meet in hopes of putting an end to the difficult diplomatic still made assad remains holed up at the ecuadorian embassy and london last night the embassy embattled wiki leaks founder predicted he would have to

remain inside the embassy between six months to a year all this comes a day after foreign secretary william hague admitted seeing no solution in sight to the conflict but it looks like a sauna is remaining optimistic yesterday he told them as well in t.v. he believes that the swedish government would likely drop the case against him after a thorough investigation the ecuadorian state media grabbed an interview with julian assad where he argued that wiki leaks wasn't dangerous or deadly especially in comparison to the u.s. as wars in iraq and afghanistan and of course should stay tuned here on r t for the latest on the case of julian assad which also had an r t first the washington post now the new york times it seems the line between reporter and subject is more blurry than ever and media outlets aren't just covering the news they are part of it that story i had.

here is mitt romney trying to figure out then they claim that you have. far left the usa to defeat terrorism. carousels neighborhood. the old liberal and the christian. folk all going to hold. public services because you know the corporate media

distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells us from facials to garbage because the breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that. line of american power continues. on things in our country so.

might actually be time for a revolution. and it turns out that a popular drink at starbucks has a surprise. in greeley of. the capital account mr. munder knows and gets controversial is it time to get the cia

involved apparently that's what a new york times reporter dead times reporter mark mazetti reportedly forwarded an advance copy of maureen dowd's column to a cia spokes person the piece was about the film zero dark thirty which is about the killing of osama bin laden here's a look at the trailer. of doubts call and criticize the white house for giving hollywood inside information to make that movie while leaving the public in the dark about the operation this is all coming to light thanks to documents disclosed by the transparency group your dish all watch so more about this i was joined by jeff cohen media critic and

donaldson professor at ithaca college i first asked if sending an unpublished column to a government agency violates media ethics. well there's no doubt that it does you know the job of an independent reporter who's covering a powerful institution like the cia your job is to get leaks from honest ethical people inside that agency so you can tell the american public what's going on with that powerful agents those leaks are not supposed to go in the opposite direction where the newspaper a newspaper reporter is giving a column two days before it's in the newspaper to the cia best just not how it's supposed to work it's an example of the kind of collusion that often happens in big u.s. media outlets you know when it comes to national security stories like those involving the cia we have a media that sometimes operates more as

a fourth branch of government then as an independent for the states and i think that's that's what's reflected not only in this reporter sort of helping the cia by giving them a column and saying look you didn't get this from need to read it after you read you have nothing to worry about see there's little to worry about for the cia that's not the job of a reporter in a free society you're not supposed to assure someone had a powerful agency they have nothing to worry about if you're an independent reporter you want that powerful agency to worry about you and your news outlet and what you might be digging up about what do you think it says a balance the times are at least this reporter is a priority is that and i guess they're looking out for i mean usually your first loyalty should be to the public to this information but i mean what does this say that their priorities are there's no doubt that your your priority if you're an

independent journalist that's in a free press in a free democratic society your obligation is to the public but here. this reporter clearly was trying to show an obligation to is source the most powerful intelligence agency in the world the cia and the problem isn't just this reporter the managing editor of the new york times when asked about this kept going on about how this is much ado about nothing. and then the spokesperson for the new york times said oh this was a mistake this was a guy who was doing some fact checking no the e-mail correspondence between this reporter and they cia official shows a relationship that's completely unethical that's completely involved with collusion and i repeat believe that it's a pattern at the new york times you know the new york times bill keller one of the top people there during wiki leaks he admitted that he was taking direction from

the federal government on what wiki leaks material could be published and could not be published during the bush administration the new york times had a story before the two thousand and four of action that the bush administration had spied on many americans through warrantless wire taps which was a clear violation of federal law and the new york times was asked by the bush administration hold that story and they held it for all for more than a year it didn't come out so late in two thousand and five so it's part of this collusion you know the u.s. media like to lecture the rest of the world about the need for a free press and how the state should not control the media but when it comes to national security in our country there is all too much collusion between the elite media outlets like the new york times the washington post time magazine n.p.r. there is too much collusion between these institutions these press institutions and

the institutions of the national security state so you're saying that too often the media works with the government instead on trying to expose their wrong doing the government no doubt about it i mean what kind of what kind of reporter would do this kind of think of this sort of helpful p.r. role for the cia and then the next day turn around and try to expose possible wrongdoing. by that agency to the american public you know people it's unlikely and as i say the problem at the new york times as we saw from the reactions of the bosses here not just this reporter has not spoken but the reaction of the new york times p.r. spokesperson and the new york times managing editor that to me is more worrisome almost than what this reporter did which was outrageous enough kind of brings up this interesting relationship because it near reporters oftentimes in order to get

the inside scoop they develop these relationships with their source says it should be this professional relationship clearly mazetti has this relationship with an official within the cia want to ask you what is the line between this and unethical behavior how do you keep that relationship and check so you don't while a if the rules of journalistic ethics well clearly when you're leaking information from your newspaper to the agency you're covering that crossed all at the called lines. the problem you're getting at one of the biggest problems in u.s. media that these these reporters sit on these beats for two law whether it's wall street whether it's the white house whether it's congress whether it's the cia and they often develop a. healthy cozy relationship with their sources and the main obligation you said at the beginning of this interview should be to the american

public to the reading and viewing public but when you get that when you're too long at your beat and too cozy with your sources after a while you know you're no longer exposing things about the agency's these powerful agencies to the public who too often you're sitting on information you're so cozy with your sources that you couldn't expose them if you tried so this surely has to be embarrassing for the new york times as this. becomes public do you think that this revelation will lead to any changes nothing's changing at the new york times it seems to get worse you know at the journalism department in ithaca college there's a bunch of us that study us media history and you look back over forty years since the pentagon papers where the new york times another paper said on a national security issue no our agency is to the public we're going to stand up against the government you look from pentagon papers to today and you see forty

years of these big institutions like the new york times just getting cozier and cozier and cozier and one of the classic examples i mentioned was sitting on a story for more than a year that the bush administration was engaging in warrantless wiretapping on americans and holding out till after the two thousand and four election that's pretty telling and and asking for federal government direction on what wiki leaks material at the time should publish or not publish things are getting worse at the new york times i don't expect them to turn it around because of this incident really interesting jeff thank you so much for coming on the show appreciate it that was jeff collins journalism professor at ethical college and a media critic. and that's going to do it for this hour of the news but if you missed any part of the interviews from today you are in lockley post all of our interviews on line and follow just go to our youtube channel youtube dot com slash our team america and for the very latest information on stories we covered today and a few we didn't have time to get to check out our website r t dot com slash usa and

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playing football in the scorching july sun of the iberian peninsula is senseless torture for some of these men others see it as a simple warm up before more difficult contest on dry land they see their rivals face to face but at sea as it says on nothing more than a blip on a radar screen. wind and waves are the only tangible evidence of that it's in the nation to where.

the crew of the russian three mos sailing ship mir has little time to prepare ahead of the second phase of the two thousand and twelve top. ships race never the less they find five minutes for a brief meeting certainly. i would like to congratulate you today as we begin our voyage out to sea i hope we'll have a good start this time too i urge you all to do your best like it was. the crew success is a matter of on earth for the captain and instructor of mir he will soon be celebrating his seventy fifth birthday and has devoted a third of his life to the world's fastest sailing boat victory would be the perfect gift that the crew will need to give it their all the first phase of the two thousand and twelve told ships race ended with a discouraging result from ear. of the killer actually we were the first to come in

after the first lap but after time update we turned out to be third in our class of ships. and frederic chopin polish sailboats where head of us our sister ship from poland will be our main rival both ships have similar designs and sails according to the time correction will last about thirty minutes during the first phase i think a gain of thirty to ninety minutes will be enough for us to win can give a long blast kept. such a long one by. by noon more than thirty sailboats have left the port of lisbon the second part of the race is short little more than two hundred nautical miles they will need to make up for the time she lost in the first phase before she reaches the spanish port of kids is the crew unfurls me as sails all three thousand square metres all.

over all of the boats in this prestigious class of ships mia has the greatest claim to victory her rivals pale in comparison to the. number of wins she has racked up over the years she also boasts a skillful crew. strictly speaking these races are a side project for me the russian ship is primarily for training purposes cadets of them a car of academy a would be captains of the russian merchant fleet and they learn how to set sail climb the rigging and timing knots call them the age of nuclear vessels such skills seem as useful as speaking latin. your best out there where you. will get your any seaman must have practiced as well as theory besides they need to have certain character traits and pilots as well as sailors are sent to other sail boats because these people need to make the right decision in the nick of time the

sail boat offers the best schooling and character training. day pharrell of canada knows what the person of his mainsail wants him to do their commands are not translated into english after spending several months on may he's used to the routine and what's expected of him indeed sometimes he copes with his assignments better than his russian comrades this is not my first time on this type of vessel itself aboard a vessel called the picked out for on the around the world voyage and doing this made me realize i want to sail on tall ships for a living and so i went to school to be a navigator and this was an odd one of the opportunities for work term was to come on the show. there were about twenty trainees like dave on the ship like the sailors they keep watch and they also share courses with the crew there's only one thing that sets them apart they have to pay for the privilege is

a floating democracy even the old superstition about women on board being a bad omen is ignored right you know twenty young female cadets some trainees are taking part in the race. my name's leanne i. from hamburg germany. yeah this is my second time on the air i would say that i think i was better we tried to do our best like calling the ropes and so on it's not difficult but it hard they like it that we are right now in fighting the position in the atlantic ocean on route it is and that's i plotted every half an hour i feel great about it we all work together as a team and we help each other through it also makes it ok. the portuguese pilot steering mir leaves the bay a two pm there is less than an hour to go before the race starts tomorrow to butts

form a starting line none of the participants in the race is allowed to cross it to the moment the most difficult task is to make a careful assessment of the ship's speed and direction so that she enters the start corrido exactly on time it takes some complicated arithmetic to add up speeds and subtract minutes. yet one of the dawdling with you know still lingering on the top gallant sails your. little heart. is going to get me we need twelve knots ok that's what we've got right now sail setting aborted three minutes to go what's the distance. finally they need to shut off the engines to help the ship navigate out of port. always fail in these competitions really otherwise that they would be pointless. that's why only the engines to shut down five minutes.