i think there's a female that with us is our two international. greetings and sell you. watchers i think it's fairly easy to see the right mel there is a war taking place in newsrooms across the united states now there are many front lines to this war but at its very heart are two of journalism's biggest corruptors and greatest adversaries money and popularity. money just won another major battle

with the news that the billionaire owner of local news websites d.n.a. info and new york's the gothamist of joe ricketts was shutting the doors on the new sites in a move that looks directly motivated by as journalists having the audacity the odd death yesterday to join a union in a letter ricketts announced the end of the publication saying quote d.n.a. info is at the end of the day business and businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure and according to ricketts they also had better not be unionized in september he penned a blog a very subtly entitled why i'm against unions at businesses i create and when she waxes poetic leave that i believe unions promote a corrosive us against them dynamic that destroys the spirit decor businesses need to succeed so while more and more news outlets are failing due to the whims of

billionaires and not enough advertising dollars a journalist popularity in politics is winning the fight over truth and credibility thanks to social media platforms like twitter as glenn greenwald of the intercept points out that one of the least talked about ways social media is harming democracy is the way they are used by american journalists to endorse factually false claims that quickly spread and become viral and thus can never be adequately corrected. the quest for money and popularity are probably going to suddenly bring about the death of the first amendment long before any tyrannical government takes over which is why we are and always will be watching the hawks. as. to. what they like that.

we. welcome the world watching the hawks i am a robot and that's happened a lot less so. i have to ask how dangerous among the many things that can corrupt a good journalist soul and how dangerous is that kind of is money and popularity you know the quest for popularity and the need to make your paper money or your news outlet money how dangerous are those two well i think that in general when you're talking about something that you know we're not making ice cream it's new it's there it's really you know we're talking about getting information to people about a platform that is literally a you know intellectual x. tension of our of our democracy so when when money gets in there there's just

certain things you know now i feel like i should add to the list of things that shouldn't be for profit ventures and needs now is you know on top of prison and health care i have to put news on their news was never meant to make money it was a public good it was put on it which shows that idea of you make your little blog eventually happens the minute it's not just the obvious like unless you're a top top last in the lower middle class and i'll probably have to do it in a big city in physio living pay if i may have a certain workers in the new york office voted to join the writers' guild. which meant that management would have to you know bargain with them as part of with a union they would have to treat them like people treat them like they would see what it's meant to be a spokeswoman well as well as a spokeswoman for b. of a sudden the statement competitive obstacle making it harder for the business to be financial that's a spokeswoman how much she's making to make of something that's what i would hope that the first thing that you spend money on is that should be number one and who. having a ball you don't suppose anybody who's thinking about that is who to also who told

anybody that local news was profitable and he's a billionaire he doesn't need to what is needed profit didn't just put the people who said fifteen people out of work that unionize that chicago los angeles so that's why i find this whole why when you know kids in america now don't have a job they're getting paid a salary plus four months ever so this is the thing these are these are going by is this because it's traffic they're getting novice or satellite versions of each oh i've lost money if you were losing couldn't find a way to paypal areas to do this somebody was average size is a million ways in the kind of popularity it will be robots but you have to know those how quickly these false used journalists just kind of tweet and it's a lot of opinion based after analyst is journalists. on twitter and all that you know we've all we've all been guilty of being snarky on the person is like sometimes i get a little snarky i go you know you're right people out there are not giving journalism a good man and that scares me because it's working the bar lower there are better

definitely those that i would definitely go. with all the talk about tax codes a tax code that truly constitutes an attack on the rights of citizens comes to sexual harassment and assault for a business to deduct any expenses that commit or cover up a crime and nine hundred sixty nine the code changed and if the payment constitutes a law of the united states it's not technically illegal to pay someone a settlement for illegal be it deduct the hush money from a company's taxes and to make matters even more perplexing the victims were off if as peter j. having a professor of use for the online publication the converse a ways to end sexual harassment and assault in the workplace but making it cost more to hide this much misconduct might help make it less commonplace so do you think freeze bottom line no no no no no no well there's no this is so labor of being says this is who is out there going to defend this company breaks the law all . sexually harassed maybe even surgically assaults someone rather than to bridge

makes a subtle but with this person let's say rights of a big check fifth and we can't do anything about it or anything about it from their taxes at the cost of both in the workplace is just a cost of doing it's well you know you're the one i want to be a player that is because you didn't get that they're taxing the victim yeah and it's done and it's usually what happens when someone tried one says ok i'm going to do a law suit i'm going to take their terms not only have to pay on the pay out side of like a cork procedure going to get hit twice so they can take and get as income but even though they're separated unusual in the number a tricky thing is that only physical damage or only money given to you isn't damages are tax deductible not emotional ones however and then you can prove that you're emotional damage injury as in like you know they can be taxed for a moment just ask your inter-personal physical injuries physical something out of such physical injuries or something mary we end up paying twice as much in taxes not we need to bring these things above levo level is proposing

a secret settlement so we hear about all your victim or right you're going to the secret she told of secrecy about what to do this and remain as a first term senator also for you sions of rape in california because we're basing certain take laws in place that prohibit confit are a part of almost every business the idea is that you can't use that confidence when you know affairs so what of course right now rape assault and i don't know what it is i mean yeah don't go away it goes pretty good for the day if you're out there are salting women there to pay for horrible horrible we're going to let us know what you think of a prophet who goes r t v dot com coming up in texas the sean stone documentary on human trafficking states. earned himself the title the lo is now being put to the test during his status quo power in the asia pacific challenging chinese. prescribe us market and

a frequent everything was ashes i had actually planned for responsible and what. was his jealously alter what i did. because some things leak doesn't mean it's safe. for once there might be a dash of truth in what is usually a boilerplate talking points years and namely that what our country needs is not more gun control measures but rather just better and force one of the laws we already have there certainly wasn't much to that argument after the massacre in las vegas last month where a simple yet terribly attorneys weapons and the equivalence of latest tragic shirt church suit a shocking revelation actually as revealed by a u.s. air force spokesman this shooter who was found clude it from purchasing the weapons he used was actually able to since the air force neglected to enter his name into the f.b.i.'s background check database let's take

a look at how this attack but first let's check in with our tease natasha sweet on how the sutherland springs community has been cope. with it well good morning prayer circles popping up all over are taken from this too soon you know you just got to keep moving on and for antonia rash that also means remembering her friend pastor's daughter who was among knighted as a youth you know like a sister to wife was and it is america only the men many are calling a hero for engaging in a sham or n.r.a. instructor stephen will afford said his daughter to learn well afford says he dropped every out there foot to the church to go gear will afford shot the guy and another gunshot to his like. the prism are apparently. we represent a life. i was scared. scared or not will afford jumped into

johnny car. stranger at the time when they chased down kelly in tell his car he then called his dad said that the shooter may be gone presence and that people in the us it's quite a shock this particular sunday morning never would very little community never. and joining us now in the new year. the partner force over the handling of devon cousin twelve kelly was convicted and court martialled on two charges of domestic assault against his wife code of military justice according to air force records kelley repeated look his first wife and his step son's head with quote grievous bodily harm and preaches as part of their plea agreement with kelly including allegations that a gun at his wife kelly was now a new report so that kelly's but kelly's bad conduct is anyone convicted of a crime pony term exceeding a year is probably the same is true for any one conviction they qualify under both those have violated the brady handgun violence prevention act this investigation

will determine whether improperly entered into that national crimson sensor and that database of one of the shooter the question for the holder and not give kelly at this honorable discharge. it's a great question of time is perhaps the extent of universal ranging from the visible market receive in southeast asian countries to be grown but noticeable pattern of young eastern european women ending up in slave lot of europe or even the constants are operating with them united states but some of endeavor to shed light on the my executive producer behind the memory exposing the wide reach gina join sean stone to discuss what inspired the filled with covered go thailand just to name a couple of years that have come from all over the world the power of these women to be back also victims that have been trafficked agent kind of come to country about what it was like to try part of it while he was actually trafficked a story that is really rare that you hear today is dr john king who is

a trafficked victim himself as a kid by realizing at the age of forty what he went through and now the a male rape trial story was really rare just here in public as you don't hear men talking about being so locally and very of changes that need to happen with human trafficking so the film yeah it does really cover some really in-depth interviews with people with either the trafficking themselves or with the victims that are that are still trying to process the experience with sex slavery in the scope of this whole most eight years ago and every time somebody brings it up it's just so it gives me chills because i'm healing myself just learning that this happened in my own family so when she's a really close cousin of ours and actually my mom just adopted her and her family so she's a family member she has grown up in the house my mom has grown up in vietnam but if i send her clothing i i write her letters on one facebook opened up in vietnam where i was able to innocent little girl at the time fourteen years old and i noticed that as i started sending her some of my clothing more promiscuous lee and

just a lot more you know it is the cousin in vietnam it's changing right before my eyes as she hanging out with the device flew to vietnam to hang out with her and she just was more closed off and it wasn't. saw and i basically and in tears i was like this is a beautiful smart girl like you can a little bit and we can try to really prove that her uncle which is a family friend of ours had sold her to the brothel so that she could pay off the family debt this is the first time i've ever heard that you could to now be forced to be in this condition and you do which is and i just i did. the whole web of lies and the guilt and the shame she had now forcing me to promise not to say anything because her mother and father were at risk i just couldn't understand it so as i spoke about this more with different people i learned of the term traffic which really only came about the last ten years and i had to understand it further

so i actually then took myself to join an organisation to learn what women like my cousin were going through and i moved i lived in thailand for about three months and i disguised myself and lived in a few brothels to understand what women like my cousin were going through what the whole business is like how much money it brings in what these women are forced to do what each it starts at and that's when it opened up this whole new path that i've now stepped into and i'm not ending until i see changes starting to be made with things like stop the traffic that's. the glorification of poverty as a lifestyle brand is well nothing new when urban outfitters opens its doors in one thousand nine hundred eighteen referred to their demographic as upscale homeless after the two thousand and eight financial crisis struggling fashion used those were rebranded as wrists should be used and they made looking porcelain but only if

you did it in the right way and something tells me that the folks behind it wish recession chic in an upscale homeless with love the new every day collection from jewelry giant tiffany's think. the kiddos come home from school they can take out their four hundred thirty five dollars sterling silver an american walnut protractor to do their geometry homework while you bring them up a cup of milk into the ninety five dollar bone china version of the branded paper cups they use in their store and of little billy is struggling to sift out malcolm just give him a three hundred fifty dollars sterling silver and for meals store are those the everyday objects are just too reminiscent of the of the money class that treat yourself to a fifteen hundred dollars sterling silver off. and give the kitten a nine thousand dollar ball of twine to play with reality often as beautiful as it is ugly and expensive you know this is one of those things it's

like it's funny because it's like i'm sorry if some some really really rich goof out there is willing to spend time thousand dollars on a ball of twine but i mean if the person making that nine was so we were going to buy i would try to i mean come on like we was like you said there's a certain like there's a certain sickness out there that like oh hey i want to buy something expensive that looks. if i have a thousand or so gets a coffee can that drove me just through ever but a thousand dollars to have a can't like looks like something out of some poor we will use those revises because we don't have money i can get that can you know i can get you some candles i can spray painted sorry you're good to go any time they're all said mommy good sometimes says. you're better than i remember everybody in this world will not hold on top of the people are watching those.

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